Speak Up

i am 17 years old, and i am a addict. Grew up in a home with both my parents drug users, today there clean and doing great, completely changed there lives around. I began using crystal meth when i was 16 i struggled with addiction since i was 13 tho. i promised myself i would never do it. but one day it changed i took one hit and fell in love. to this day i still struggle tryin to stay clean from it i went to treatment got out about 5 months ago. and i still struggle tho. it changed me & my best friends, the 3 girls i grew up with my cousins are now extremly addicted to it. and it makes me sick becuz i completely lost them.. they were the girls i told everything to. meth took them away from me, Girls who use to be so funny ,we were always laughing having a good time, now look like lost souls. i have no clue who they are anymore. alot of my family struggle with this sick drug and at times i wonder why i even tryed it. In my act of using all it was, was constat fighting with my parents stealing, lieing to them, i never wanted to be home. so i ran away was using crystal every single day. staying place to place with my cousins someone was always willing to get us high because misery loves company. i hung around people i thought i never would. seen things i never thought i would. put myself in alot of scary situations. its a very sick drug and i truely believe its the devils drug. Meth makes people do things they never thought they would do. it makes people crazy i seen it first hand! I seen meth ruin families on a daily basis. mothers getting high with there daughters. i look at them and hope and pray i dont go back out because i know i would be right where they are. Stuck &Lost. and i dont wanna be like that. i hope and pray one day my cousins will change there ways so it can be like how it use to be. I know people can over come this drug i seen it in my parents. there my role models to show that i dont have to be like that i can be somebody because where i can from its hard to overcome this stuff alot the people i know use drugs. Im lucky to be graduating high school soon. thank god. people can change and i hope and pray that the younger generation doesnt think they have to use meth, just to feel cool or whatever. So everyone dealing with someone using meth your not the only one & stay strong, things will get worse before they get better. thanks for reading a lil bit of my story.