Speak Up

Meth doesn't play favorites. I have a brother-in-law who's 56 and unable to turn down his fix. He's been an addict since he was 16. His only son also died from drugs and alcoholism at the young tender age of 29. A terrible loss of a life that might have made a difference in this world, if he only had the chance. My 24 year old niece is currently in prison serving out her sentence for using meth. Like many young girls she started in high school at the age of 15 and performed unmentionable acts to obtain her 'fix'. Like I said, meth doesn't play favorites. Young, old, rich, poor, fat, skinny...it doesn't matter because it's not the drug that chooses the person, but the person who chooses the drug.

Who suffers? The addicts claim that they endure unbearable suffering. But what about the families, the friends? Their pain is every bit as great as the addict's. When a mother faces her addicted child and demands for them to leave it literally rips out her heart in agony. You see, it's even harder on those of us who don't have the 'drug' to dull our emotional pain. We have to sit there and endure the trauma and daily hell our addicted loved ones impose upon us without the dull relief of a drug to mask the horror. We can't ignore the problem, or escape the reality of what's happening to our lives because a beloved family member or friend chooses, yes, I said CHOOSES, to immerse themselves into a drug induced trance with meth. It's a choice, just like anything else. Your choice. A choice that impacts everyone in your life. When you opt to do drugs you have condemned your family and friends to a life of hell as well. You have made a decision that will impact everyone.

Meth does not play favorites, and those that use meth, like so many other sheep, have to try it because everyone else is doing it. These are individuals that only think about themselves and do not care about the consequences or the damage they are putting their family and friends through. Why is it so hard to just say, "No!"? Being cool is not being dead, and those on meth are nothing more than the living dead--zombies who exist for their next fix. If you wish you never did meth to begin with then you never should have. Like Pandora's Box, some things are better left alone, especially drugs.