I’m writing you this letter because I WAS you 6 years ago. The path you are going on now will not get you anywhere. I know you’ve heard this before but take it from someone that did not take the advice given to her. It starts with weed once in a while, then it becomes [...]
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I am writing this in hopes that someone will read it and think twice about drinking and driving.
I am twenty-five years old and I have been driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol for about ten years. I was arrested twice on D.U.I charges, which resulted in me losing my licence for five years, and doing time in jail.
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Well, I have been putting this off for a while now. Not because I don’t want to tell the world the story of my success, but because there are no words to do the journey justice. I have as of today, been sober 1 year. I am a 22-year-old single mother. I left home when I was 14, because already I couldn’t face my mother in the condition I was in. I was already using PCP and Cocaine, soon after I was selling drugs. I used cocaine heavy for years and smoked crack. Because of this, and the lack of sleep I started using prescription drugs to sleep. I needed to be high night and day. I was going through withdrawals in my sleep, waking me in 2-hour intervals.
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I remember when my family first confronted me with the issue and all of the indicators they had spotted; it was Christmas Day 2005, what a Christmas!!! At that point my parents did not reach out to professionals who deal in addictions, instead they figured they knew best and kept a close eye on me, but that did nothing to stop the drug use. Over the following year I manipulated my way around any conversation that dealt with me and was critical of everyone else so no attention would be on me.
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Crack cocaine addiction is a spiral that often seems unbeatable with no way out. If you have a loved one addicted to crack cocaine, it has affected you in a lot of ways as well and the first step you should do to become cause over the situation is to learn for yourself all about that drug and how it affects the addict. Seek help through a rehabilitation center or help line and you will find yourself gaining a lot as well as helping your loved one overcome his or her cocaine addiction.
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Cocaine, like other drugs, takes little to have an affect at first. With the increasing amount of cocaine come the increasingly bad side effects. Beating cocaine addiction is not easy but many have proven that it can be done.
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During the 1970s, legendary musical artist David Bowie was heavily into drug and cocaine use. He has told of his experiences with cocaine and memory loss among other things in the hopes that he can reach young people today and deter them from getting hooked on drugs.
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Some of the following facts are shocking and some are sad but they are all a part of the statistical (and real) data concerning drug and alcohol addiction.
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