When I was in highschool, noone ever bothered to tell me WHY drugs were bad. Sure "You get addicted", but what does that mean to a person who has never experienced it? I can't believe the epidemic that is taking a hold on this entire area. I moved away after I graduated a few years ago, and every time I come home, I have great news of "so and sos on heroin" or "yeah, they got arrested" or even better "They've died (x) amount of times and keep being brought back". It keeps getting younger and younger, too. Kids that I remember being born (keep in mind, I'm only 22) are walking the streets pushing smack. I have younger siblings, and the stories I hear of the goings on are horrible. Is anyone telling these kids that addiction really means losing weight, horrible mental polarity shifts, throwing up constantly, not being able to eat, disease, stealing from anyone and everyone without conscience to get more, selling all of your most prized possessions (and not so prized, I've seen people try to see clothes hangers and welcome mats from their doorstep), not to mention that it makes you look like h*ll, makes a liar out of you, and makes you completely alone in most cases, with the exception of your junky friends. Someone said on here that if you weren't in a clique, you weren't shat, but the truth of the matter is, the dream of classes uniting is happening, but in a very negative way. Rich junkies and poor junkies are pals. Drop out junkies and honor roll junkies hang out together in tiny little apartments with needles lying lying everywhere. There is no boundary between the young and old...they are all on the same team. And seeing as there is absolutely NO place for anyone to go, the only option is the s**t little apartment where someone's 14 year old daughter goes to hang out with a friend of hers and ends up forming a new circle full of people that mommy and daddy will never know about cause little "Suzy" is only ever with them in private, rather than out in the public where she can be observed, at least losely monitored. Before, you know it, another innocent is lost, and baby girl is screwing 20-something year olds and using her allowance to buy dope. This is nothing new, and it happens all the time, one buy one, they all fall down. I'm sort of just venting right now, with no real point, just returned from a trip home for the holidays.
I hope that the parents of the remainder of our innocents and youth scare the living bejezus out of their kids with honest, no holds barred descriptions of what this crap does to you. Some people just can't be saved no matter how hard you try, but I KNOW that many people that have chosen this path of self destruction have regrets. If they had known that they would never get that feeling again, and what they were in for with the real definition of "addiction", they would have steered clear.
I don't know what the answer is, perhaps there is none. I hope I haven't offended anyone, and to the parents out there, the 14 year old was a VERY probably hypothetical situation, but don't worry-I'm not talking about anyone in particular.
