Strung out

To whom it may concern,

about 6 years ago I was at the peak of my drug use. I started smoking pot when I was 14. By the time I was 18, I was smoking it every day.

And as it turned out, I was smoking more than just pot. A lot of the time it was laced with other things. From cocaine to heroin. I always thought these kinds of drugs were too expensive to add to something like weed.

Well, time passed and someone told me that what I was liking so much was the heroin and he set me up with a small bag for 20 bucks. I snorted it.

It felt great. But then within a week I had bought more and one morning I felt sick. I thought I had the flu.

My “friend” told me, “no you’re not sick, you’re just strung out. you just need to get more heroin.”

luckily my common sense kicked in and told me that getting more of something that made me sick was stupid as shit. I sweated out the addiction like a bad flu. I decided right there that I would not ever smoke weed or touch anything like that again. Unfortunately, something had changed in my body and I needed something to get through it. I was pretty depressed and started drinking a lot of alcohol to make up for what I needed.

About 2 years of heavy drinking later, I decided that this was going to kill me. My body felt like shit and my metabolism was wrecked.

So I quit everything. Including cigarettes. I spiraled into a really bad depression. I just wanted to shoot myself in the face for wasting so much time and money. I didn’t do many of the things I should have and my life was shit.

It took about 5 years to finally get over all of the feelings and problems drugs caused me from when I stopped – and I was luckier than most people who get into this kind of shit.

I’m only saying this because I feel so much better now and there aren’t many traces of anything from that part of my life anymore. Eventually you can wake up and be happy and feel like you did when you were young again. I never thought it could happen. So anyway, I hope that helps someone.