Speak Up

my name is Taylor and im from Chico California my addiction started at 14 years old. i met some pretty shady people who i thought were my friends the guy i met first i thought was amazing and i loved him he was 20 yrs old. he gave me the glass pipe and said wanna try at first i refused it and he said i thought you loved me so i put the glass pipe to me lips and took my first hit, that one hit was all i needed to be hooked it was amazing to me i felt no pain i needed i wanted more. at the age of 16 i was a whole 115 lbs mind you i am 5ft 10in tall i would do anything for my drugs i was living under bridges id steal from my parents id have sex with strangers i ran away from home. then one day i was coming down and i started have hallucinations and i was sent to a mental ward where they drew my blood and they told my mom i was positive for Meth. she put me in a treatment facility where i only lasted a month before i ran away to santa cruz where i met this man who again promised to take care of me instead he pimped me out or atleast made me jack guys for there money and whatever else they had. my rock bottom came when i was 18 no where to go and alot of shady people after me people who i thought where my friends left me to die in an abandoned apartment i Overdosed idk how long i was there untill someone found me. that day i got out i promised myself i would never touch that stuff again 3 years later and im 21 and i have a wonderful family and job and i honestly couldnt be better