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Growing up I never thought that I would become a drug addict. I grew up in a wonderful home, and raised by a great family. That all changed when I started my first year of high school.

As a freshman, I began to meet new people. Started to hang out with a new crowd. All these guys were older than me, and one day I was offered to smoke marijuana. Now, do not get me wrong - I have nothing against marijuana. I accepted the offer and smoked my first blunt. I enjoyed the high and continued to smoke pot for months. I then started to get bored of the same high. This opened a new chapter in my life.

Second semester of my freshman year I started researching pills. I took a look in my families medicine cabnet and found Tramodol. I stole 5 from the bottle and took them, the feeling was great, so I thought. That is when a yoke clicked around my neck and would hold a burden on my shoulders for a few years. 5 turned into 10, 20, 30 a day. I suffered multiple seizures and have overdosed numerous of times on vicoden, tramodol, and morphine.

Sophomore year I was a school flunking, pill junkey. I lost all my old friends, even the new ones that got me to smoke pot. I was in to deep they said, and didn't want to be around that. By the time I was 16, I have already done marijuana, pills and even meth. My whole life started to fall apart and I met someone new, he was and still is a great friend of mine. He noticed my problem, I couldn't eat without throwing up, I would steal to get money to support my addiction. He finally told my mom. That was the best/saddest day of my life.

Junior year I was sober (most of the time), but I started to drink and when I say drink I mean I was always drunk. School, church, whereever I was I was drunk. My friend started to notice again that I had another problem and once again told my mom. Second semester of my junior year I was fully sober, started talking to Army recruiters and later swore in to the US Army. I went off to basic training at Ft. Benning, GA. but that took a turn when I severly broke my knee and got sent home on medical leave, and then later discharged (last week.) I came home and had knee surgery and as all of you know they prescribe pain medicine. I relapsed, but this time hid it from everyone. I was so tired of disappointing people. I was into deep again. When I turned 18 I decided to try cocaine. I was an everyday coke addict at the age 18, sad to say but true. Around Christmas I quit doing cocaine everyday. The withdrawals were so bad I started to do it once a week on Saturdays and to this day I still do and I am out of high school now. Drugs ruined my life but I continue to get better all the time.

I am writing this basically as a message to the younger ones who are still in high school or about to be in high school. I don't want anyone to be like me. Be careful who you hang around. Do not fall to peer pressure. It can ruin your life. I hope my story changes some lives around here.

Yours truly,
MLB.

Really touching story bro.
Hope you're getting better everyday until you're drug free again!

drugs man, nasty stuff, they also destroyed my life to but not the same way, my parents were into a lot of them really bad and it affected me and my two sisters very much.

Deep story. Thanks for the warnings of drugs, they ruin lives. I hope you're getting well each day!

OP is a phaggot srs.

All joking aside, I can relate to smoking pot and doing pills in high school. I honestly contribute the fact that I never graduated high school to my recreational drug use and chronic video game playing, no pun intended. I seldom talk to anyone about what I did in high school, mainly to save myself from the embarrassment. Granted, I had fun going to parties, smoking marijuana, and shotgunning beers, and so on. But in the end, it destroyed my youth. I disrespected what it meant to live, I lived for getting high, going to parties, and doing questionable things – never stole anything – but nonetheless I did things that I still regret.

I have nothing against marijuana, I actually support the legalization of medicinal marijuana. I’ve witnessed firsthand what it can do for people. However I have a strong stance against recreational use, solely out of personal experience. It brought the bad out of me, it changed my prioritizations in life, and lead me down a road that should be left untraveled. When I should have been studying for a test, I was out getting baked, even in school. Hell I remember going to parties that were raided and where people were busted for underage drinking, and possession of a controlled substance. I remember how people were running everywhere to get away, or hide. Hell I hid in some random tree in another person’s yard to not get arrested.

Eventually I tried doing online school because I couldn’t function normally, sleeping during the day and partying all night took a toll on me, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Even then, I couldn’t complete what I needed to do. I lacked discipline and motivation, I constantly daydreamed about the next time I was going to get high. Unfortunately for me, it was Percocets. Around that time I had just underwent surgery to get my wisdom teeth removed, and I was prescribed 10/325s which are what a lot of people want. I was even prescribed Promethazine which in retrospect aided in my pill addiction. I could take as many percs as I wanted, and pop a prometh with it and I would be nodding in no time without having to worry about puking after I passed out – which can lead to choking and death – so it was perfect. I greatly enjoyed the euphoria, the itches, the dry mouth, everything. At the time I was in love with percs. Sadly I ran out, and didn’t know anyone who sold them. So I was sick, and felt like shit for a long time. Much like people who do heroin.

Thankfully for me, running out of percs and not knowing anyone who I could cop a few from was great for me. It changed me for the better, I went and took the required test to get my GED. I’m currently enrolled into some college classes and have a 3.5 GPA. I’m also going through the enlistment process for the United States Marine Corps. I can say since I’ve overcome my recreational drug use I have done what I wanted to do, I have more motivation to be successful, and know what it’s like to fulfil a commitment and have discipline. I know now, that I never want to go down another road like that again.

Sorry about the long reply, I'm not trying to hijack the thread. I'm attempting to further the discussion by sharing some of my experiences.

I take my hat off to you sir! Must have taken some balls to post that, I've been there with the weed, then cocaine.. Ran up so much debt to fund it. Even drink, still drink daily but 4 cans rather than a bottle of spirits as it was.

I get why you've posted this and I agree. Any younger NGU users thinking it's cool to "fit in" by taking drugs, yeah at the time it's a laugh.. But it can and will fuck up your entire life.

Just be smart, it's not shameful to say no.. Saying no is a stronger/harder thing to do.

Damn, nice man

Thanks for sharing your story bro

nice to hear your story !

Hope you get over the habit. I've never and will never drink or do drugs. But, your mom and your friends can't force you to stop. Only you can push yourself to get over the drugs. Even rehab won't work, or army training, if you're not willing to give it your all. Any doubts, any absent desires will just make you want to go back to it.