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I'm making this a public entry. It deserves to be a public entry.
I have admittedly never done drugs before. Never felt the urge to do so. I've seen what they do to people. How they change people. I've seen how it affects family and friends.
So because of that and because two kids died of heroin overdoses in my town in the past couple of weeks, I have something to say to everybody who is currently doing drugs (especially those who are addicts) and anybody who stumbles upon this who is thinking of doing drugs:
Drugs can kill you. Don't think you're invincible because you aren't. It doesn't matter how young or old you are, you can die. Somebody can put poisonous shit in your drugs just as easily as somebody else's. You can decide to use more today and end up killing yourself. You can drive while high on whatever you're currently using and die in a car crash. Then your family and friends will be the ones crying over your dead body when you're found.
Think nobody cares about you? Think again. Your death will affect more people than you think. You doing drugs affects more people than you think. If people are avoiding you or acting like they don't give a shit? It's probably because they're trying to think of you as dead so when you actually are it won't hurt as much. Please note, they'll hurt anyway because they love you no matter what you did while you were on drugs.
Yeah, life sucks a lot of the time. But you miss out on even the good times when you're on drugs constantly. And as good as the drugs will make you feel, the repurcussions of doing them will be a billion times worse. How does it feel to have nobody trust you anymore? How does it feel to have your friends turn their backs on you because they don't want to deal with you anymore...because they don't know how to deal with you anymore? How good does that withdrawal feel when you do try to stop? How does it feel to know that your family has nightmares in which you appear dead? How does it feel to know that you had a good job you enjoyed but you lost it because of the drugs? How does it feel to get kicked out of your house because your family can't trust you not to steal all their possessions when their backs are turned? Keep telling yourself that things like that won't happen to you. If you become an addict, they will.
With all of that said, if you are an addict, you can't stop on your own. I've seen people try and fail time and time again. Go get help. If you can't afford rehab then go apply for Medicaid. There are places out there who will take you just based on the fact that you APPLIED for Medicaid. If you don't get Medicaid then there are places which will take you on a sliding payment scale usually based on whether or not you're working (and, if you are, how much you make). Call around. Ask questions. Because people love you and they don't want you to fuck up your life so completely or, worse, die.
http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/treatment/index.cfm#
I have admittedly never done drugs before. Never felt the urge to do so. I've seen what they do to people. How they change people. I've seen how it affects family and friends.
So because of that and because two kids died of heroin overdoses in my town in the past couple of weeks, I have something to say to everybody who is currently doing drugs (especially those who are addicts) and anybody who stumbles upon this who is thinking of doing drugs:
Drugs can kill you. Don't think you're invincible because you aren't. It doesn't matter how young or old you are, you can die. Somebody can put poisonous shit in your drugs just as easily as somebody else's. You can decide to use more today and end up killing yourself. You can drive while high on whatever you're currently using and die in a car crash. Then your family and friends will be the ones crying over your dead body when you're found.
Think nobody cares about you? Think again. Your death will affect more people than you think. You doing drugs affects more people than you think. If people are avoiding you or acting like they don't give a shit? It's probably because they're trying to think of you as dead so when you actually are it won't hurt as much. Please note, they'll hurt anyway because they love you no matter what you did while you were on drugs.
Yeah, life sucks a lot of the time. But you miss out on even the good times when you're on drugs constantly. And as good as the drugs will make you feel, the repurcussions of doing them will be a billion times worse. How does it feel to have nobody trust you anymore? How does it feel to have your friends turn their backs on you because they don't want to deal with you anymore...because they don't know how to deal with you anymore? How good does that withdrawal feel when you do try to stop? How does it feel to know that your family has nightmares in which you appear dead? How does it feel to know that you had a good job you enjoyed but you lost it because of the drugs? How does it feel to get kicked out of your house because your family can't trust you not to steal all their possessions when their backs are turned? Keep telling yourself that things like that won't happen to you. If you become an addict, they will.
With all of that said, if you are an addict, you can't stop on your own. I've seen people try and fail time and time again. Go get help. If you can't afford rehab then go apply for Medicaid. There are places out there who will take you just based on the fact that you APPLIED for Medicaid. If you don't get Medicaid then there are places which will take you on a sliding payment scale usually based on whether or not you're working (and, if you are, how much you make). Call around. Ask questions. Because people love you and they don't want you to fuck up your life so completely or, worse, die.
http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/treatment/index.cfm#