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MY NAME IS DANIEL AND IM 17 AND I HAVE BEEN ADDICTED TO METH FOR ABOUT A YEAR. GROWING UP LIFE WAS REALLY HARD FOR ME I WAS BORN IN THE CITY OF SAN GABRIEL. LIFE WAS GOOD AT FIRST THEN MY DAD GOT SICK HE LOST HIS JOB AND WE HAD TO MOVE WE HAD NO WHERE TO GO SO FOR ABOUT 7YRS OF MY LIFE WE MOVED FROM SHELTER TO SHELTER. EVENTUALLY THINGS GOT BETTER WHEN MY MOM GOT A JOB AS A TEACHER FOR AN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL WE FINALLY HAD OUR OWN PLACE I WAS SO HAPPY LIFE WAS GOOD. ALL OF THAT CHANGED MY FRESHMEN YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL WHEN MY DAD PASSED AWAY LOSING MY DAD WAS SO HARD TO DEAL WITH. I DIDNT KNOW HOW TO REACT I WOULD CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP. SO EVENTUALLY I STARTED HANGING OUT WITH THE WRONG CROWD AT FIRST I STARTED SMOKING POT BUT EVENTUALLY I GOT TIRED OF THAT.THEN MY FRIEND INTRODUCED ME TO METH AND I WAS HOOKED RIGHT AWAY I DID EVERYDAY AFTER SCHOOL MY JUNUIOR YEAR. I DIDNT THINK MUCH OF IT BUT I SLOWLY SAW THE CHANGE IN ME MY BEHAVIOR POOR ATTENDENCE AND ETC. SO DID MY FAMILY I WAS LOSING WEIGHT LACK OF SLEEP BEFORE USING METH I WEIGHED 140 NOW I WEIGH 80 I CONSTINTLY STEAL FROM MY MOM I USE TO HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH MY BROTHERS NOW THEY JUST TREAT ME LIKE A STRANGER. METH HAD RUINED MY LIFE BUT I I DONT KNOW HOW TO STOP MOST OF ALL MY DAD WOULD BE DISSAPOINTED.