Posted by Sheila on April 02, 2002 at 15:52:30:
In Reply to: Re: Stay clean, Sheila. posted by MH on April 01, 2002 at 14:27:23:
> > 22 yrs old-I live/grew up in RV. Drugs are all over the place here in this little place like you wouldn't believe. Some of the kids from my hs got into this stuff-started out w/ marijuana and branched out into the hard stuff, heroin, speed. One of my girl friends has been thru the ARC manor programs twice & still trying to get herself straightened out. I mean you don't see junkies staggering up Market street but just go some of the parties around town with kids 20-30 yrs old. I quit hanging around some of my hs friends. One person would go to Pitsbrg, or New Ken & buy heroin to sell, use etc. Bad news all the way around.
> If you lose friends over it, they weren't worth it to begin with. Keep your head up, drugs ARE bad news.
MH-thanks. I wish i could get thru to my cousin about this stuff. 34 yrs old. Involved with coke crowd. Says her addiction is not an addiction. According to her she has an "illness". I say nothing to her but on the inside I scream "Bull***" IMO, That's part of the problem. It's dressing up the real issue. Calling cocaine use an "illness"and they are sick and in need of treatment. like they have the flu or something. Please. Let's deal with the real issue here-these people made a choice to do drugs-not woke up one morn with an illness. Take care, got to go.