Submitted Stories

March - 2010

Ever heard of 'too much' chronic?

Atlantic Canada

hello there fellow non-smokers/tokers..my story is all about marijuana and other drugs. Now i dont live in a huge city... maybe about 50 thousand people or more. i started experimenting with drugs at a young age in grade 7. now i only did it maybe once or twice a week from grade 7-8 but in grade 9 till 12 i did it everyday. i started alot earlier than most kids in this town.. most people here start around grade 10. while these other kids were focused on a new school,new teachers, etc. i was thinkin of getting high (if i wasnt already high at school) and makin money dealing. im in grade 13 now, but over the past years i have seem some messed up stuff just from the starting point: smoknig marijuana. people say that pot ISNT a gateway drug.. but i know it is. bc i used to say it wasnt a gateway drug. but only in the past year or 2 have i been doin other drugs(cocaine,e,mdma,morphine,crack, etc.) and i only did them bc weed was getting "boring". Pot just causes problems! your family might look down on you because you smoke it, so itll eventually cause family problems which can later not be fixed( which is what happened to me.i dont speak to my parents now bc of drugs) ive seen marijuana take down the best of people who were actually going somewhere in life..all it does is make u happy, sloppy, and immobile. now if youve smoked as much as me and as long as me then you deff know what im talking about. if u toke lets say a bit over an ounce everyday like i do, then it starts to catch up with you... TRUST ME. i used to deal massive amounts of weed smoke more than a oz a day, and what does the marijuana give back to me? 24/7 runny nose,head aches and the lack of confidence to do anything. and this is w/o any drugs ontop of this. im always scared for my little brother whos in grade 8 now.. cause i dont want him to end up like i did, a dope dealing,pill poppin, drug sniffing, pothead.. hes doing better than what i did so far, he hasnt even smoked a cigarette. pot is a bad influence,it Is a gateway drug and yeah.. jst bad for you.. i mean i cough up phglem with blood in it, which means i have lung cancer or a very bad throat infection.. now THINK, do you want that, or a normal healthy lifestyle makin money properly w/o putting your life on the line?

R.I.P Sis

Other

In 2008, my summer had just begun. My mum and I went to my 24 year old sister's house to pick her up to go shopping and when we got there the paramedics were there. They told us the bad news that she had passed away that day at 2 in the morning from an accidental overdose on cochaine and pills. We were devistated and miss her so much. Drugs not only took my sister's life, but ruined my life, my mothers life, my fathers life, and my nieces lives. Her daughter's are now three and four years old and talk about their mother all the time. I just hope they remember her for the rest of their lives and never forget their mother because I know that I will never forget her.

dont be like me and do drugs

well one day i was at a party and people had some pot. all my buddy somke it and i tryed it and now that pot is not doing the trick for me i have been doing mushrooms and they arent doing it for me. so i am trying to stay away from all the hard a$$ drugs ands so for it is working and now that i hav e not smoked weed in about 10 day it is starting to hit me and i dont wont to go to school i dont get up.

Stay in SCHOOL!

Atlantic Canada

dont make excuses to get high cause i did and know i work in a smoke house with no education..so stay in school!

No, because I'm straight edge

Central Canada

Hey, My name is XXXX and I'm straight edge. That's what I say when my friends offer me drugs. The real reason that I say no is because I'm suffering with mental health isssues and the medications I'm on must never be mixed with any drugs or alcohol. I take medication to stabalize my mood and most common drugs are mood stimulants or some sort of mood alterators. When I did drugs in the past it was not fun at all. I would become extremely paranoid and out of control and I thought terrible things were happening when nothing was happenig at all. So I say that I'm straight edge so that i don't have to explain that. Straight edge can mean different things for different people but for me it means not drugs not alcohol ever. And whether you believe me or not being sober has more edge than being under the influence any day because staying sober takes strength and doing drugs to escape your problems is weak. so if your not doing drugs for one reason or another that just doesn't feel like enough of a reason to say no to the people offering maybe you could say no thanks I'm straight edge because I'm my own person and that person is strong. It woroks for me.

Mari-jane brought me pain

Central Canada

I went into highschool thinking I was one of the coolest kids around. I had alot of friends and my brother was in grade 12 so I knew alot of the older kids. Pretty much everyone I was friends with smoked pot and I gradually started to smoke weed to. It was great at first because I gained more friends and the feeling of being high was kind of cool.

Then my friends and I slowly started to use more and more. We got addicted to the feeling it gave us. We would scrounge for money and lie to our parents to get money to buy it off older kids we knew. All the smoking and ''fun'' started to catch up to me as highschool went on I was getting high everyday. My relationship with my parents got pretty bad because I was always avoiding them trying to hide that I was high or burnt out and I was full of guilt. All the pot made me tired which resulted in me not doing homework or participating in class, being worse at sports (which was very important to me before I got into pot). Marijuanna led me into trying magic mushrooms and painkillers (not suscribed) a few times, doing bad in school, losing all my confidence, hating myself and having a poor relationship with my parents. I felt alone, couldn't even face my parents I felt so bad for what I did.

So all this talk about how fun, cool and harmless it is you may think is true at the start but it catches up to you and it can ruin your life like it did to mine. I wish I could re-do my first two and half years of highschool but I can't get those years back. Hopefully I can get my marks up so i can get into a good university. Also, while reading this don't think "this must be some kid living in extreme poverty or his parents must've taught him wrong" but it's not true. I have loving parents and brother and come from a middle class family. Before marijuanna I played rep hockey and had an 80% average. Now I play houseleague got cut from the school team and probably have a 65-70% average. Not good enough for any university. Mari-jane brought me pain.

Weed Isn't Just Harmless...

Western Canada

story: One night on the way over to my friends house I was walking down the alley smoking a "joint" (marijuana cigarette) with my older brother, and a group of four middle aged men were huddled together discussing something. As we passed by them, the scent of the marijuana overwhelmed the alley and caused these men to confront us.

My brother and I made no eye contact with them, and were barely noticeable in the darkness, and when one of the men looked over at us he disregarded us immediately. After noticing the smell, the men walked towards us. My brother, being older and the protective type, stepped forward to talk to the men.

The men talked with my brother, and in an attempt to find where to purchase some marijuana, they argued with my brother and engaged in a fight. They fought for what seemed like only a moment before one of the men pulled out a knife and stabbed my brother. After stabbing my brother and realizing what they had done, the four men fled. Moments before this I was in a quite enjoyable euphoric state, where I was able to escape reality, and now, as sure as the sky is blue, I will forever regret those moments I escaped reality, only to return lying in a dark and dirty alley with my brother dying in my arms.

When I think back to it, if I hadn't been smoking marijuana that evening, those men would never have confronted me, and my brother would still be alive today. Never again will I touch drugs.

Peer Pressure- Praying Helps ;)

Other

Well in my town there is this thing for kids in between 12 and 17 once a week to try and keep them out of drugs and so on. But a lot of the kids I hung out with started to bring smokes, chew, weed, and ect. to this place. They would then sneak out behind the building and light up a few smokes and pop a chunk of chew into there mouth. They offered it to me everynight we were there for about 2 monthes before they realized it wasn't my thing. But as soon as they stopped asking me I realized they moved on to another one of my friends who also was against it. My friend and I are both Christians and we knew that we were not suposed to do stuff like that. Times got really hard for the both of us. My friends began asking me again and then they started bringing alchahol and other stuff. One night i was outta town and couldn't make it to the hang out place. I hadn't realized I was the only thing truly keeping my best friend from doing drugs and drinking. Somehow that night all of my old friends had gotten there hands on a 24 of beer and a bottle of sleeping pills ect. They had convinced him into taking over 15 sleeping pills and drinking 12 beers. I recieved a phone call from one of my youth leaders the next day. My youth leader was telling me about what happened to my best friend. They weren't actually sure what happened they just found him passed out on the front step (my old friends put him there so he would be found. They knew they were going to be in trouble) and they wanted to know what happened. They wanted to know if I had heard anything about it. My youth leader then told me that my best friend was in the hospital from an overdose of some kind of pills. I instantly knew who had done it to him. So as soon as I thanked my youth leader for letting me know about it I called my old friends cell phone. He answered as though he didn't know anything about it. After he realized that he had no way of lying about it and that I knew it was him he decided to start making fun of my best friend. Saying that pretty boy ain't so pretty face down in the grass and so on. He also said that without me around the kid has a better chance of not being such a bible thumper. I was very offended by this and decided it best be my time to head home from vacation. One I needed to straighten things out with the boys who did this to my best friend. (Not hurt them or fight them just talk it over. Let them know I'm not afraid of them and they shouldn't take controll of people.) And two I needed to check on my friend and his family (his family really worried about him turning out like the boys in his class. I promised them I wouldn't let that happen. They were still worried because I was out of camp a lot with sports and I am not in his class.) I felt very bad because I had failed to keep to my promise. Well I had gotten back from my vacation and visited my friend and his family making sure to pray for them everynight. You may be surprised but I actually prayed for the kids who did this to him. I prayed for them because I wanted God to be able to help them all. Help them grow out of this time in life. About three days after I got home my friend got to go home from the hospital and after about six monthes the guys who did this to him apologized to the family, to my friend, to the youth leaders/pastor, to the communitty, and surprisingly showed up one day to our church to apologize in front of everyone who was closest to my friend. Ever since then those kids have became close friends with me and my friend and have started going to church and they have all totally cleaned up there act.

A Commitment To My Passion

Western Canada

I choose to stay drug free because of the commitment I've made to myself, my teams and my sports. I play multiple sports at a high level and my dream is to play college sports and, hopefully, one day on the Canadian National Team; I've made a promise to my teams that I will do whatever I can to be the best that I can be and not doing drugs is one of the best ways to do that. I also want to represent my sports and make sure I'm not the reason for my sports having a bad reputation. If you don't like sports, you just have to find something that you do enjoy and something that means enough to you to help you keep clear of drugs and to be able to say NO!

1 thing leads to another...

Central Canada

when i entered high school i tried smoking marijuana, started off doing it at parties, with random buddies, then began to smoke it alone/by myself. that is when i started to get sucked in.... becoming reliant on it, having the mindset that it makes things better, less boring. got my first job and that's what my pay would go towards every week, and as things went on i began to add tobacco in with it and one thing lead to another... i began smoking and would only smoke marijuana unless i had tobacco to mix with it. i've come a long way to a realization, about a year ago, when i figured how close i was to being an adult and how i was going to save for post-secondary or receive anywhere near good grades to get there. I also lost all of my best friends from elementary school who made the right choice into not doing this, an amazing girl that i began to take for granted by making "mary-jane" the number one priority in my life in which i am surprised this girl is still with me. things are fine now that i've smartened up, but will never be the same as they were before my days of being a "stoner". let this be a message to any teenager going into secondary school or in secondary school right now, trust.. it's not even near worth it, you'll only end up being someone like me with regrets, when you're supposed to live life with none.

Peer Pressure

Western Canada

Awhile ago me and my friends were hanging out and one of there friends came with money and a bag of weed. Two of my friends and I said no were not getting into that s--t and then my other friends kept saying "come on! It's not that bad!" , "Just try it!". Well we tried it we smoked some then i started stealing money from my parents becuase I wanted more. I still occasionaly do it becuase when im with my friends that what they do, and those are my friends and where I live thats what everyone basically does. So I really think no one should ever listen to there stupid friends becuase drugs not only wreck your life but the others around you to. It also interfers with school becuase you dont pay attention, and all you want is to get high but you can't so you get mad then s--t happens so yahh thats my story!

I can do much better than drugs.

Atlantic Canada

Mostly everyone I know at my school do drugs. My friends and I would hang out everyday outside and they would ask me if i would want to try marijuana. I kept saying no because I don't want to get into drugs. You never know what can happen after you first try it. You can get addicted to even more drugs so I just told them that I wasnt going to take my chances. I feel like I'm the only person at my school that has never tried drugs. I'm proud of myself for not being so stupid. I want to be smarter then the people I know. Drugs cause a lot of problems and I don't want to be involved with it. Im am honestly proud to say that I don't do drugs and I hope to never try it.

A Very Dangerous Kind of Fun.

Central Canada

Where to begin.... I started smoking marijuana in grade 9, at the time it was fun, enjoyable, and a good way to socialize, relax and spend time with friends. I didn't see anything wrong with what I was doing at the time, and for a while I think it was ok, but then I was offered my first pill of ecstasy. Let me just say, the first time I took E it was probably the most fun I've ever had, everything was great while I was on it, no matter what I was doing I had an ear to ear grin and everyone was my friend.

But this is exactly why it's dangerous, because it is so much fun that you forget about the dangers of the drug, the risks you were told vanish and all that remains is the good feelings of the drug.

Around the same time I started doing ecstasy, I started doing cocaine; which is similar to my journey through E, you don't see the risks and the old adage applies: out of sight, out of mind. I estimate that in my lifetime I've taken about 400-450 pills of ecstasy, snorted an ounce of cocaine and all the while smoking weed every single day. I would stay up for days at a time taking pills then crash and sleep for a whole day, then repeat the process again. I was doing ecstasy during school, and one time I took mushrooms the night before my final exam in grade 10 history, needless to say, I was still feeling the effects during my exam....

I think one of the biggest problems is that the real dangers of drugs are misrepresented, scare tactics are used to make youth believe things about drugs which simply are not true. The information presented has gotten better in recent year, I have to admit that, but it's still not perfect. For example, youth are often told that all it takes is one pill of ecstasy to overdose (really your odds are about 1 in 40,000 of this happening) so after you take your first pill and nothing bad happens you believe that all the dangers of E were a lie, so you end up taking hundreds like I did. I think real information should be presented, and here's the real dangerous part of drugs: they're extremely fun and chances are once you start doing them and think that it's not dangerous, you will continue for years; and that's when the real problems begin, because doing drugs is fun in the moment, but down the road it WILL catch up to you, and you will regret ever starting.

'Just Say No'. It's not as easy as it sounds...

Atlantic Canada

All my life, I heard about drugs and how bad they were. I lived in a pretty sketchy part of town, so it's not like I was sheltered from it. In elementary school, I swore I would never drink, smoke, or do drugs. But, at the end of Grade 7, everything changed.

You know, it's not always peer pressure that does it. It can be the people you hang around with and the curiosity to be experimental. When I was 12, I had started drinking a bit. A bit turned into a few times a week. Never enough to get drunk, though. A few days before I turned 13, I tried smoking. I hate to say it, but I was hooked almost instantly. In the months to come after that, I had started going to parties more and more frequently, getting extremely drunk every time.

Now, something bad usually happened at these parties. People got sick, people got into fights, people got kicked out. But, I never seemed to learn. Maybe it was a need to fit in, maybe I was just tired of the same old thing all of the time. I liked being drunk, and I liked having fun with my friends, even if there was drama.

Not long after, I smoked weed for the first time. I know some people say you can't be addicted to weed, but in the months after it, I smoked quite a bit. I started hanging around with sketchy people. Things were not looking good for me. A 13 year-old girl smoking, drinking, and smoking weed.

By the end of Grade 8, I had skipped about half of the year, and my life didn't seem too bad to me. I wanted to move out, but that's typical of any teen. I had gone through a lot that year already, although it was still only June. I was lying to myself, saying my lifestyle wasn't that bad. I had some friends that kept me from doing extremely bad things, but, as much as I hate to say it, I kept a lot from them, and they didn't know, so they couldn't help me.

In the middle of June is when everything seemed to stop for a second and then start spiraling down. My best friend passed away from cancer, and in the weeks that followed that, I made some poor choices. The day after he passed away, me and two of my friends overdosed on anti-seizure medication and sleeping pills. Our friends found out and got someone to send us to the hospital. They didn't tell my parents, but we all had to drink charcoal that night and still face our friends the next day. Everyone was so disappointed.

My life went pretty much downhill. I started drinking excessively, and at 13, I had sex for the first time. I was drunk, didn't know what I was doing, and the guy was a creep. I knew my friends were ashamed of me. I knew my family was clueless. I knew I should have stopped. But, I didn't care. My best friend that usually kept me safe had gone away for vacation, so I went down the drain without him. I started going to even more parties, and did some stuff I am not proud of.

I went to my first, and only rave about a month before my 14th birthday. That night, I got drunk, smoked weed, and tried ecstasy for the first time. I barely remember that night and still regret it to this day. I regret most of that summer. Going out every night with sketchy friends, getting drunk all the time, staying out for nights on end. Sometimes I had a place to stay, others, I just stayed uptown.

Me and my friend started going to her cousins house all the time. Because she was family, she gave us free weed, liquor, smokes, hash, anything we wanted. And, for awhile, no one would speak to us. Even my best friend who saved my life many times and stuck by with through everything would barely talk to me. My friend with the cousin ended up overdosing, but we kept going. Also, during this whole summer, I had started shoplifting excessively. Up to 10 or 20 energy drinks a day for all of my friends. I still didn't realize how far downhill I was going.

Things were not going well, and then one day, everything changed again. My parents got a call about the guy I had sex with and we got called in for a meeting. They questioned me, and instead of staying, as soon as they went to go get my parents, I ran. I grabbed my stuff and ran.

For about a week, I was couch-surfing. My parents were messaging me, trying to get me to come home, but I refused. I was so scared that they would be mad at me, or worse, disappointed. I couldn't face them. So, I stayed at different people's house, and the last night that I wasn't home, I stayed uptown all night. The next day, I went to my best friend's house because he wanted to call me. Then, his mom got a call from the cops. My parents had reported me missing. They wanted me home.

My friend and his mom are like family to me, so they took me home. On the way back, a cop recognized me and asked me where I was going. He almost took me home, but my friend and his mom stuck by me. When we got to my house, I started to panic. What was I going to say? But my friend, who is always there, told me he would come in with me and help mediate the conversation. So, together, we went in.

That night is still clear in my mind. Both of my parents were crying, me and my friend were sitting on the couch. He bought me a coffee so I wouldn't be biting my nails or fiddling with my hands. I told them about everything. The guy I had sex with, the parties, the rave, the drinking, smoking, marijuana. My best friend convinced me to tell them about the overdose and the shoplifting, which I did reluctantly. It felt so good coming clean to them. Like a huge weight had been lifted off of me. They forgave me, and really appreciated my friend being there for me.

Now, of course, I still had my punishment. I wasn't allowed anywhere unless my friend was there or said I could go. We had a joke for awhile that he was like my parole officer. My birthday was a week after I came home, and I wasn't allowed to invite a lot of people, and my parents had to be there. They didn't trust me, and I don't blame them.

So, being 14, I started Grade 9. I was positive about starting at a new school and the year to come. But, of course, it didn't stay that way for long. In the first two months of school, I had started skipping again and missed about half of my classes. I had started smoking weed excessively again, and drinking alone almost every night. A few friends helped me clue in and I quit all of that.

In the past 3 and a half months, I have only smoked weed once. I started skipping again in December, but I am done with that now that the new year had started. I still drink a little bit, but I am getting it under control. During this whole time I have smoked, and I'm not quitting any time soon, but things are definitely getting better.

So, basically, my point is that drugs ruin everything. They screw up your life, your good friends lose faith in you, and it clouds your judgment really badly. It's still really hard for me to stay away from drugs, but, my friends are here for me, and I have people I can go to for help. Just remember that you're not alone. Everybody goes through these things. Just make sure that you can get help before your life goes down the drain.

The gate-way to lonely

Central Canada

i am a grade 12 student, and when i first entered highschool i struggled with finding out who i am and just over all finding happiness. I smoked my first joint second semester grade 9. I got so caught up in the feeling. Numb and tingling. The feeling of floating and invisibility. I started smoking pot regularly in the beginning of grade 10. id wake up, get high, get to school get high, at lunch get high, after school get high, go home and get high again. I soon got bored with pot. and i tried pot laced with cocain. also known as coco puffs or juicy. again i was getting high 3 or 4 times a day. i moved into straight cocain soon after. my life was out of control, the only time i was happy was when i was high. when i was sober i hated myself. i was disgusted with the fact that i used drugs disgusted with my life style. it got to the point that i started cutting my wrists so that i could feel somthing real. I didnt have any realy friends, they were just my stoner buddies. people i would hang out with when i got high. I failed my math class almost 2 years in a row. i had extremely low grades in everything else. i was constantly in trouble and my family pretty much disowned me. My life finally turned around when i moved. I moved 3 hours away from my drugs, and my drug dealer. i finally had the strength and the will to turn my life around. although i wont be graduating this year, i plan to graduate next year and go to college to be a gym teacher.

19 and drug free

Western Canada

I'm 19 years old and I'd just like to say I have never done or touched drugs. Although all of my friends do I have remained strong throughout and trust me once you say no, and people no you're serious about it the offers stop or at least lessen and it becomes that much easier to keep up the drug free life style. Let me tell you, my life is just as fun-loving if not more so, than anyone who uses drugs, and i'm sure it's a lot more honest.

drug dealing manslaughter

Central Canada

I'm in my last year of high school but when I was in grade 10 I was juvenile and foolish, I bought marijuana off of a friend of a friend or so I thought. He did sell me the substance but it was laced with cocaine, this caused some more serious side effects, and it teached me it can happen to anyone... even you!

Dopes a Nope

Western Canada

When I was 13 I was new in highschool and trying to fit in. Being young and not knowing the world of drugs it was scary. I started dating a boy who was 3 years older then me...bad idea. When him and I started dating I felt that I was being pressured into smoking weed and drinking everynight, after pot became boring to me he introduced me into other drugs, I cant say he forced me into doing them because everything we do in life is our own choice; he just introduced it all to me, after smoking pot on a regular basis I then became addicted to extasy, when that became boring to me I was introduced to Cocain and that ruined my life. I lost all my friendships and ruined the relationships with my family I stoped showing up for school and I would minipulate everyone and anyone just to get my next fix. I wound up living downtown on the streets and staying in one room hotels after cocain became something that i had to do just to make myself feel normal i started smoking Crystal Meth. Meth made my world spiral downwards. After escaping death I found Narcotics Anonymous and it saved my life. I met so many new friends and re-built new healthy relationships with my family, today they accept me for who I am; living a sober life is a good life that no one will ever regret.

help stop teens doing drugs

Central Canada

well i have a cousin that dose drugs and i dont want him to and i keep telling him to stop but he wont so im telling this to u because i want u to help stop teens doing drugs

scared

Northern Canada

im worryed about going to high school next year because i've already been ask to try drugs (i said no) but next year i know its going to be 100% worse..

Don't do it..

Central Canada

When I was 12 years old I started smoking marijuana, and later abusing Ritalin and alcohol as well. Throughout the next few years I moved onto amphetamines, Oxycontin, and cocaine/crack- all while drinking over a litre a vodka a day during highschool and college, and smoking marijuana to get to sleep every night. I lost most of my friends, many girlfriends, started failing courses, and got myself in horrible situations because of being high on drugs or drunk. I broke a few bones, got beaten up a few times, but worst, I got myself arrested over 5 times, spent time handcuffed to a hospital bed in the psych ward, spent time in jail, ruined my chances of getting a decent job... Recently I checked into a residential detox center to get clean and get through the withdrawals. Let me tell you it was horrible. The worst flu ever, times a hundred, horrible depression, and the inablility to sleep or stay still. For 5 days straight. I've been basically clean since- about a week- with the exception of alcohol, which I feel I'll never be able to stop. So those who want to experiment with drugs or use alcohol excessivly, think hard, because you'll likely be starting a livelong commitment to chemical which will tarnish or destroy your life forever.

One world , One wrong decision

Central Canada

Hey , I would like to share my story with you guys so you can really know what we teens go trough. when i started high school lots of my friends and the poeple i knew where consuming drugs.. i was invited to my first party ... and for my hole 9th grade .. the partys i went to where filled with drugs ... i hade the opportunaty to try somme of these drogues(pot, hash, cocaine, extasy, speed...) often but i use to hade the strength to say no. by the end of this school year i went to one of the biggest party and i dicided to try pot.... was it a wrong decision.. no not at the time bacause yes i was having fun and everything seemed to be perfect... the next year drogue strated to flow even more around me and in the party so yes i try out lots of them and to be honnest i hade fun but after a while i got addicted to them ... you think it wont happen to you cause your strong enough.. but drogues really take over your body and you stop thinking about everything and every single problems you have so you kinda get addicted to it because it brings you a certain satisfaction... im now in grade 11 and i decided to top completly abusing drogues ... i use to be athletic and now i have a hard time running without nerly loosing my breath or passing out.. i want to be a paramedic so ...yes it is hard to resiste but you all can ... it aint that hard when really hold on to something you really want and then you ll see the world is way better once you see it from the clean side.. i dont get mood swings anymore.. and i can now enjoy family times and sports again !!! :P if ever you feel alone are like you have no where to go well take sometime to talk with yourself and straight things out!!

My one day experience turned into a two week experience.

Western Canada

One day a bunch of friends and I decided to try mdma. I was told that it was a great feeling once you are on it, so I got excited. An hour into the drug, I did not feel "right."

My body temperature was very irregular. I was wearing 3 layers of jogging pants and 2 sweaters'; it was freezing cold when my friends said it was burning hot.

I could not walk or lift my body out of the bed.

I could not talk, I could not even tell my friends how I was feeling and that I should get help.

I could not open my eyes, I didn't even know where in the world I was. When I was dropped at home, I had hallucinations. I was sitting in a dark room, thinking I was with 2 other people... but I was actually alone.

After that day, I felt unusually depressed about my life; this lasted a week and a half.

I hated everything and everyone around me and I wanted to be alone filled with hate and angry.

My one day experience turned into two week experience...

I never thought it would happen to me....

Central Canada

I thought i would never get addicted to weed, when i tried it the first couple of times. And now when someone sparks up a joint i got to take a toke. From smoking weed i started to do mushrooms then i heard about E and thought of doing it and this all started in gr. 8 at high school. I loved writing music but now i can't think of the right words and i keep zoning out at times because of the effects. i have slowly been coming clean with the help of my friends thanks to those who have been supporting me. :)

My Mistake

Atlantic Canada

I can tell anyone who wants to try drugs. I have done marijuana, and when my parents found out, it wasn't pretty. I had always told my mother i wouldn't do those things, but I just wanted to try. My mother cried, and that made me feel guilty, and I regret my decision to do that stuff. I just hope that people will decide not to do drugs.

It all started when I was thirteen.

Central Canada

It all started when I was thirteen.

Thirteen, a new teenager, naive and stubborn. And, of course, curious. Very curious. I smoked marijuana for the first time at that age, while I spent the weekend at a friends house. All it took were those 2 days, and I thought, "I want to do that again."

I didn't think it was a big deal. It was just pot, right? I didn't think anything terrible could happen-- but it did.

I smoked my first laced joint without knowing it. It was laced with a hallucinagen. A friend told me if I really liked it, I should try something started. I willingly and eagerly took 2 hits of LSD. I ended up scratching the skin off my arm and almost jumping off of a three-storey building.

Drugs became a fascination to me. After the LSD trip, I didn't find smoking marijuana to be enough to 'satisfy' me. I began experimenting heavily with harder drugs, anything I could find. I was addicted to a perscription pill, which I would steal from my mother, for over a year. I didn't think I was doing anything terrible. I was only 14.

I soon realized the heavy drugs were taking a toll on me. I would find myself going throwugh withdrawal, and craving any kind of high I could find. My hair was falling out, I had lost too much weight, and I didn't find myself hungry-- only craving.

I managed to quit the hard drugs. However, I was still smoking mariujana, very heavily. I got high every day, even during school. Even after a year of sobriety from chemical drugs, I still found myself craving and succumbing to the perscription pills every once in a while. These binges became more frequent as the time went on.

The relapse ruined everything I had. My grades were dropping from 80's to 40's. My friends only cared about getting high. I had lost all self-respect, resorting to doing anything I could for a drug. Any drug. I was always angry, craving, and very distant from my parents.

I had been doing drugs for 4 years. I relied on them more than I did on food, so I thought. Finally, I cut them out of my life completely, after having a mental breakdown when I lost my stash.

My life in sobriety is nothing like I thought it would be. I thought quitting drugs--especially smoking marijuana--was going to be terrible. While it was one of the hardest things I have ever done, the reward is so worth it. I love being able to be alert and aware of everything around me, I love reliving events that I an actually remember. I feel happier. Mostly, there is an overwhelming sense of freedom. I no longer have to rely on a hit to get me through the day.

My life is still not as great as it could have been. My schoolwork has never fully recovered, and the emotional dependency I had with drugs has left me with many problems. However, I am moving forward, away from drugs and into the future. I'm excited and looking forward to every breakthrough I will make. Finally, after 4 years, my life is my own again.

He just Wont.

Western Canada

I had a Friend, my moms friend's son. He used to babysit me and play with me on his trampoline when I was 4.

The thing I remeber about him was when he was playing with me oone day when I was at his house and we were playing peek-a-boo behind his moms couch. I didnt think I would be an important part to his life. He was smart and fun and had a promising career ahead of him. He was an actor and a singer and had just singned a record deal in XXXX, Canada with his band. When he babysat me we didnt just sit around and playgames. He bought me a kite and he tought me how to fly it on a beach...

Then he died....

He had commited suicide when he was in his 20's. he had jumped from his 17th level apartment window. Beause of drugs. He had tried to stop and I wasnt allowed to see him anymore. I was never told what type of drugs he was using, but it was still drugs.

This has hurt his mother and brother and me...and many other people. The tears are falling on my keyboard as I write this because I always feel likeIi have lost a older brother. The one that was always supposed to be there for you.

But hes not anymore.

He will never see his younger brothers wedding this summer.

He will never see me Graduate from high school.

He wont be there for his family.

He just wont.

waste of money and time.

Northern Canada

Oh ya sure ir might sound cool but really think of the risks. its illegal. a lot of my friends went to jail for it. after you start doing drugs too much you get addicted and after a couple months of it you will relize all the money wasted on them.

Marijuana

Northern Canada

when i was walking home from school, i walked though the bush like always some dudes asked if i wanted a hit? and they said it was really good for your body and you feel like you can do anything.. and i said no and i walked away becuase befor i said anything i thought of the things that i might do because i might get addicted..

Regret

Western Canada

I had moved to a new town a few weeks before hand and finally found a good friend. The guy I met I had spent a lot time with recently and he had introduced me to a few new friends. Soon after,we met up again one night and ended up going to party. I was'nt much of a partier, more of an adrenaline junkie, but i figured it was a good chance to meet some girls. I was just having a couple casual beer and noticed there was some Ecstacy going around. I had never tried the drug and never even really thought about it. I had no intention of trying it however did get offered. After changing the subject a few times trying to indirectly say no I did'nt see any harm in trying it. It seemed that if they could enjoy it so much that I could just try it once and get it out of my system. It must have had something to do with the beers but I still tried just ONE pill. Within minutes I had a dreadful feeling like I had done something seriously wrong. It crossed my mind maybe I should go throw it up and pretend.. Regretfully I did'nt and half hour later I had an odd pain in my neck. I called the night early, not enjoying my trip at all, and figured If I went to bed I would wake up normal again.

The next morning I still had that odd feeling in my neck and felt scared in a way. A couple nights later I checked into the hospital because my breathing was off, had tightness in my chest and I felt out of place for past couple days. They kept asking me if I had any big life changes recently and I kept saying no, like i was embarassed of trying the drug. I suffered with the odd and anxious feeling for almost 2 months, and at times i thought I was dying making me to scared to tell anyone. Finding out way down the road I had severe anxiety and that time period triggered from just One pill of the dreadful ecstacy.

Regret, regret....

not for me

Atlantic Canada

i was in middle school when i first got offered drugs they looked harless but i new they were more harmfull then rat poison i said no and saved my life mabye even some of my friends

why i don't do drugs!

Northern Canada

i don't do drugs because i've seen what the effact it has on people even people i love so i chose to stay clean because i don't want to end up like them and if i did do drugs then i could end up getting arressted because its illegal and i don't want to have my life on the wrong path so i choose to stay clean and keep my life on the right path. but if poeple offer me drugs or even a smoke i just say "sorry but no, i'm not like that, i wanna be alive tommorrow and live for a very long time"! because drugs can kill you and i wanna live because i wanna have kids when i grow up so thats my story on why i chose to say no to drugs.

peer pressured

Western Canada

They tried peer pressureing me in doing somthing i did not wanna do i took a look back and thought for a sec and said NO i knew wat could happen i lost a loved one for drugs and alcohol she got beet to death my family r drunks my granpa beeted on my gradma i seen wat happend me and my cousin get made fun of at school cuz we dont do drug but when i am asked i walk away and say no way man thats not how i roll so you kids these days dont do drug cause u think they would make u cool they dont drug free is the way to be so rember no drugs is safe drugs

Drugs

Western Canada

I started doing drugs when i was in grade 8 and now im in grade nine and i just stoped doing weed, E, cocain ect about a month ago. when i was doing all these drugs i spent alot of time in the hospital and lost alot of really great friends and my marks in class went down a great deal and my family was starting to hate me. and i loved doing drugs cause it made me feel good but then weed wasnt enough for me i had to turn to harder drugs and thats when it all went down hill and i cant stand doing them anymore they didnt just hurt me but they hurt everyone around me and now im drug free and i made alot of really great friends.

Pot smokers, please read...

Western Canada

Hi everyone, sorry if this story has some grammatical mistakes, my english isn't well. I came to Canada about 5 years ago. I was only 16. Since then, I've been living by myself. After finishing high school, I got into university. I was doing very well in it with an average above 80%. However, I couldn't attend school because I couldn't pass one exam. It's a requirement for first year University literature. My school didn't let me take any courses because I didn't pass the exam. I tried 8 times. each time I had to spend money. I paid for tutors. I did anything. I was just sitting at home, going through a terrible depression. Nothing seemed important to me. became careless. And that's when I tried weed. I felt really good for the first couple of times. I never realized what future i was thriving for myself. I eventually passed that exam and was allowed to take courses next year. However, I still smoke pot. I feel that I can't communicate well with people. My social life is shrinking and I can't do anything about it unless I quit it. My marks are very low, and my average is reduce to 65%. This is not me. I'm not that 16-17 year old little boy who was determined. Friends, I'm saying this from bottom of my heart. I wish I had never tried it. If I never stop smoking pot, I'll destroy my dream of becoming a school teacher.

Maybe some of you out there can't observe the side effects of it. But as soon as you commence your career( what you really really want to do with your life), you'll realize that weed is without a doubt, a huge obstacle.

Please don't try it.

Please quit it.

Ways to avoid it, well of course you can find out ways to prevent smoking pot all over the media. But non of them can treat better than your consciences. You know your self better than anyone. You can quit it. I know it. you know it.

Why?

Western Canada

I was only 12 when someone asked me to try drugs. I didn't want to try they sai it was good for me. I said ok and went to try it. I got rwally scared and put it in my pocket. When i got home i forgot to take it out. I got dressed in my p.j's ans threw my pants in the hamper. The next day my mom came up to me with my jeans in her hands, she held out her other hand and asked me what it was. I only replied 'huh' in a little whisper as to say (oh im busted...) i was grounded for 3 months just because i took that little ciaritte, but people do't relize that one little cigratte will lwad to dozens more which will sometimes end in death. Aftermy three months of being grounded were up my teacher had me enter a contest for drug prevention out of all my province. 2 months later they had the results. I won. My picture i drew was chosen to go on a calender and i won $500. I am now one of the spokes model for my province's drug prevention comercails i speak about how i got into the contest which gave me the opitonity to help teens all over Canada.

Right now i am only 13 but this is my story.

Marijuana

Central Canada

the sun was gone... it was all black, i didnt know what was happening! My friends were all laughing and screaming....I dont remember where i was!

It was horrible! It felt good for a little while... but later on it was horrible i felt like throwing up! I had a headache, my stomach hurt, and i cried when my mom and sister were sleeping..... I got some advice.... dont try it.. its horrible youll never feel good on the aftermath.... you dont know where you are... all I remember I was outside behind the school with my friends at a dance..... then i felt dizzy, i couldnt walk straight, I felt like falling over, My head was spinning.. i kept laughing for no reason, my eyes were just about closed! NEVER TRY IT!THE AFTERMATH IS HORRIBLE!im never trying it again.........................................:(

The New Girl.....

Other

I was in grade 7 and was top of my class. Then I started talking to the new girl at school and of course she was nice to me. She asked me to try drugs and I tryed it because I didnt see the harm in just one time. Well I was wrong. I got hooked after one try. My grades dropped and my attitude completly changed. I wasnt doing any of my work and I just had a horible attitude in general. To this very day we are still getting high. I know that I was doing something wrong but just couldnt stop. So that just goes to show you that one time can make a differance.

Blocked

Western Canada

I had heard stories about people doing drugs when they went to highschool and how peer pressure may take us over but I told myself that I would say no and NEVER do drugs! But when I went into grade 8 it was more overwhelming that you can believe! It felt like I was being offered pot left and right and I was:( One day my friend called me up and said "hey you wanna go out for a walk?" "Were going to meet up with some other people" Of course I had no idea who these people were and they had brought along some pot they asked me if I wanted some? I felt like I had to because everyone else was doing it! so I took the pipe and smoked it:( It was the worst mistake I have ever made! It was amazing the taste, the smell THE RUSH!!! I felt like I was walking on air and I was hooked I started smoking it everyday and being careless I got caught by my parents! Suddenly nobody but the people I used to smoke with were talking to me?! I wasn't allowed 2 hang out with people nobody wanted me to sleep over and I asked them? Do you have a problem with me and they answered no I dont have a problem with you its just you do drugs! And drugs have basically ruined my social life:(

my dream came true

Western Canada

One day i was at the park with my cousin we were just chillan on the swings when some teenagers came and started to talk to use we quickly tried to leave and then they stoped us and asked " hey before you leave you want a smoke" we looked at each other and I said " no" as we walked away they tryed to convince use so my cousin said to me " hey come on i mean how bad could it be? cause these guys will start to follow us". So aperantly she wanted to try it she really dident care about them following us she just really wanted to try it and she told me " my mom and dad smoke so whats the big problem plus it's only once" I said " you know what? i dont care do what ever you want but im leaving" so i left as my cousin stayed.

And thats my story of saying NOT4ME
thanks bye

How It Came To Be.

Western Canada

It all started when I was 12 four months before my 13th birthday; I always wondered how my first time would be, what I would do, who would I be with etc.

I never expected how it happened though.

My friend liked this older guy, he was 15 and two years above us but they talked on the internet quite often and even though she thought he liked her back, I knew she didn't.

So my friend were sitting in class side by side when she pitched the idea of smoking weed with the boy she liked, She had already did it the day before with him and told me it was fun and fine.

I agreed full of curiosity and other things I can't even start to explain.

Two days later, we were out ten dollars, and I was in the forest before school with them and of course the famouse XXX; the one who got me started.

We smoked, laughed, giggled and made googly faces at the boys. Of course it came to end we had to get to class and we were already late for first period.

Two days later, I had smoked again with just one friend this time. And so on, we continued to smoke and have fun we did what we wanted; lived in the moment.

And thats how it started, horribly.

It ended on even worst terms, even though I stuck with pot and didn't try other things I did try a different kind of weed.

And here is where I tell you my story, You were probably watching MuchMusic and saw the add on TV got bored and decided to check it out for kicks.

I was still only 12 though, and a druggie slut. lunch time, wensday I had bought the weed, got it rolled thursday since I never learnt and Friday by the entrance of the church by the school I was smoking.

I smoked with two friends, It started out fine, I was laughing joking and smoked more than I ever had. it kicked in 10 minutes later we were at the bottom of the staires getting ready to walk up when I lost feeling in my legs. They ran away laughing probably hooked up somewhere and there I was at the bottom of the steps.

Crazy s--t happened that lunch, s--t I can't even say because I am so ashamed, Horrible things happened that day.

But I learnt from my mistakes and am now on the road to recovery.

Make the right friends

Central Canada

I'm only in grade 7, but i heard many stories about drugs. But I lost a friend who was in grade 10 due to the pressure from her "friends."

She was popular and smart in her school. SHe had many friends and everyone wanted to be friends with her. She was friendly. but she made a horrible choice. She went to a group of "friends" who told her that drugs will make your life better. Since she didn't want to loose her friends she did. She skipped class and took drugs all the time. There was nothing I could do about this because she took it everyday. Until one night she took ecstasy. She overdoes it and fainted. She went to the hospital and was in a horrible condition. About a month ago, she was relased, but she can't think right any more. She still smokes but there's nothing I can do about it. I miss the way she was before, but she took her life the wrong turn because of the friends she made. She gets weaker everyday, but there's nothing I can do about it. I lost a friend, because of drugs.

peer pressure

Other

I'm 14 years old. This one time, it was meet the teacher night. It was also my friend s birthday. I liked her but she was really rude and can be very mean to me and everyone around her. Anyways she invited me over with 4 other girls. My best friend and I went to her house at like 8pm it was dark out, and I told my parents I was going to her house just to have a movie night for her birthday, so they would let me go. My best friend and I biked to her house. When we got there, it was crazy because her parents weren't home and all the girls were being insane. I called the birthday girl. The school was opened and we went in for the book fair. When we got back after, two girls and the birthday girl said "hey, why don't all of us go do some drugs."But they also said that they will since I was there. I thought about it for a while and same with my best friend. Then the birthday girl was like "well, just get the f-out of here if u don't want to go do drugs with us." I didn't want to at all because my mom and I always talk of how important it is to respect yourself and stay healthy. My mom also showed me the part in Vancouver where all of the drug addicts do drugs and stuff like that. And that made me understand the meaning of this. It just ruins your life and I seen it before. So I was under ALOT of pressure! And same with my friend because she wasn't that kind of person. Some of the girls were like "come ON lets go" "just do it, u wont get caught." or "your a whip." and "wow, your retarded and such a chicken" then they started to do the chicken sound in my face. I HATED it! It felt like I was a loser and I didn't fit into the "cool crowd" anymore. So I just left knowing that I was a better person then they are. I regretted it because I thought that they wouldn't like me anymore. So my friend and I went back to my house. That night I learned that don't do what you don't want to do. If someone says your not a cool kid because u didn't do what they were doing. Then just say at least I was smart on not making that decision that could have ruined my life. It only takes one try and you re gone for good and it's hard to come back. It freighted me because they also said they will do it again and force me. But I have way better friends then them. They are still my friends but I will always know when to say no. And same with that person, that was being smart! That could be you, if you think first.

I'm going to stay drug free for my whole life, because I want to live a life full of new opportunities and experiences. I also want to become a role model for my friends and younger siblings. Staying drug free will get, you that opportunity to share to your community and be a better person to our world. If I try then someone else will follow my footsteps of becoming a person that lived their life happily and safe. Don't you want a safe place to live and be the person you want to become? Well a good way is to stay drug free!

weed is wack

Central Canada

Weed made me lazy and unmotivated. I lost all my friends and nearly died in a car accident driving high. Now I am still recovering from a back injury and I will probably never play sports again.

PEACE

Western Canada

when u really think why do stuff to harm yourself, i think why not? people tell others how horrible one eachothers all day. 90% of the time people talk sxxt. The way i saw it was as the cowards way out of just sucking it up, and living a clean life. The more and more u get into it, its like a blackhole, u may get out, or not. Once u step into the light and see life is a gift, u breath, u run, u can love. u are like the sun, no longer a black but light, and happy. pease easy

my brother

Northern Canada

my brother was with his friend hes only 14 and he had so weed and omost got caught at shool but i got in trouble so i explaned and i dident do any time i wazent old enough so i go spended for 2 monts and finley after my prents to to me i burtled out it was my brother and he got in sooooo much trouble and i was off the hook but the asked me why and i said i dident want him to go so every thing worked out so i made him promise never do i again.SO DON'T DO DRUGS it wont end in a good day a refuse and think befor u do please :) think

my addiction

Western Canada

i was addicted to meth and cocaine but my phsyciatrist convinced me that drugs are bad mmmmkay.

friend of a drug

Other

I have a friend in high school that i've known since grade nine where both in grade ten know she told me back in grade nine she would never smoke, drink ,or do drugs know that where in grade ten she started doing all three and shes out of controle.I'm getting really worried but i dont know how to help her ..she says that shes fine and she hasnt changed a bit when she really has !!Shes smoking up every morning before school and during lunch time she says it to calm her down but what really happenes is she gets hiper i mean really hiper,and i'm lost on what to do she losing all her friend and im the only one left that stiking by her everyone esle has left because they all just couldnt take it anymore...what should i do to help my friend !!

-emo scream giirl!!!

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No, for me and her!

Central Canada

I'm not typically a party girl. I prefer to stay home and watch movies or just hang with my friends at the pizza place, but even when I do go to parties I realize theres things you cant avoid. No matter what there will be drugs. Almost always. I can happily say I'm pretty immune to peer pressure and if I really don't want to do anything I won't. But my friend isn't really like that. She will do whatever avoids a negative confrontation with somebody. But I don't think she realized it.

Now, she has never done drugs. Mostly because we avoid situations where there would be. But recently we went to a new years party with a couple of our friends. I knew that these friends did pot, and I knew there was going to be some there. Well, there was a lot more than I thought and despite our friends promising us they wouldn't, they tried to pressure.

Me and my boyfriend both know what we don't want so it was easy for us to say no. And my friend was able to say no too, but after a couple of drinks, both of our walls began to crumble. So the next time they came to offer it to us my friend turned to me and said I will if you do.

And to be honest, I sat there for about 15 minutes thinking about it. About what could happen, about the guilt I would face, and about what could happen to my friend if I let her.

The proudest moment for me was what came right after. I looked up at the guy who was offering it and told him that neither one of us smoke, we never will, and that he better get out of our faces with the joint.

After standing up to him like that they didn't bother us the rest of the night, and now I know what kind of friends they are. Definetly not the ones we thought.

Friends dont try to make you do things you dont want to do. And we know that now.

Pressure free

Other

In high school, peer pressure is everywhere, but it will only affect you if you let it. If you're somehow given the choice to try out a drug and you know what it'll do to you (because drugs are ineffective in many ways for you), refuse the offer. Keep your cool though, many of your friends may be doing minor drugs and you have to be fine with that. I am, for many of the people I am around with everyday has either done drugs or are commonly doing it. I have never found trouble of being forced into the use of smoking or drug intake because.. I don't feel like it. My advice, if you're offered (or forced) to use a drug, refuse it, even if you think you're connecting with the people in a friendly way, because in fact, you're not (you don't need to, you can still talk with them). I have asked the people that smoke marijuana frequently if they know the consequences for their body. Some of them refuse the facts and others know but don't mind. I am fine with this as long as they do not affect my life in a significant way. I'm in high school, marijuana smoking is common, and I don't feel pressured. Do you?

stupid guy!

Other

so I fell for this guy, and I found out that he smoked weed. so I thought that he would like me if I did to . it started out with just once a day , then everyday. until it became a different drug. extacy! when wouldn't do that he left me, and doesn't talk to me .

I changed who I was for a guy I loved for four years when he never loved me.

NOTforME! :)

Northern Canada

Drugs are a big thing for teens , you wanna fit in , you wanna be just like the "cool" people , but they aren't cool , they are risking their health for themselves ! , i had friends that smoked , and also did drugs , but i didn't do them , the way i ignored the drung was :
1: walking away
2: ignoring it
3: just going home ! .

You will also feel very proud of yourself , you took the right path , most of the "drugies" "crackheads" make it nowhere in life! . you just dont wanna be one of them! .

Just one hit..

Atlantic Canada

It started with wanting to fit in. I was told pot was safe and harmless...a natural plant. I was 14 when I started smoking weed. It started with smoking casually with friends, but within a month or two, smoking weed became an everyday habit for me. Everyday at lunch I was going behind the gas station near my school with a group of friends smoking as much as we could in the hour. I was going to class everyday high and my marks started to show it. Before I started smoking I was a B student, and after I started smoking everyday they started to slip down to C's or D's. I even failed 2 classes that year because when I would be high in class, so I couldn't pay attention. I stopped caring about school or anything else. All my attention went to figuring out when I would get high next, or who I was going to go buy off of.

I didn't think that I was addicted to pot. I just thought it was something that I do. Like it was part of who I was now. If I didn't smoke for a few days I would become irritable or depressed. And when I ran out of pot or couldn't get any I would be pretty mad. My friends at school got used to me being high all the time and said they were just used to me being like that everyday now. Once you get high, you just want to do everything high and be under the influence all the time. The craving never ends.

I wouldn't say that pot is a gateway drug for everyone. But if you're with people that smoke weed, eventually you will get offered something else. If I had never smoked pot I would never have done any of the other drugs that ive done (alcohol, cigarettes, ecstasy, LSD, mushrooms) because I wouldn t have known what a high even feels like.

Smoking and the other drugs that I did eventually caused me to drift away from old friends and even my family. All the people I hung around with I stopped hanging out with once I started using, and I was spending all my time partying and away from home. I spent so much time away from home that my parents eventually stopped calling me on the weekends because they knew I wasn't going to come home that night.

Eventually all of this partying and drug use was starting to worsen my depression. I started to become emotionless. By then, I was using these drugs just to raise my mood. I was trying to fix the problem, with the problem. Even after all that had happened since I started using drugs, I still thought that they were the answer to my problems. I would want to get high all the time. Even as soon as I woke up, I was sad and automatically thought that drugs would help me.

I was suspended from my high school a few times for drugs and alcohol. Once for having weed in my locker, that time I was suspended for a week. The second time for greening out (smoking so much more weed then your body can handle that you throw up from dizziness your body can just shut down and you pass out), in the bathroom at school one day and another time for being wasted at school. Both of those suspensions were for two weeks.

At a house party the first time I tried ecstasy, when I was 15, I almost killed myself. The pills that me and my friends took were laced with something and we all for really paranoid. I locked myself in a closet that night and kept hitting my head against the wall. If I hade taken one more pill then I would have been so paranoid that I probably would have killed myself.

I don t know why but for some reason the world of drugs fascinated me. Everything about the lifestyle seemed fun. I thought that with every drug I used was just going to use it once. Everything was just one big party, until I got hooked. Then it turned into the exact opposite. At first it was something I did once in a while, but if you keep taking drugs, it gets worse until you're addicted. Its like taking chance with your life, you don t know what you're getting into. Nobody groes up thinking that they want to end up in rehab, but the truth is, drugs can shange who you are. You could be that homeless person under the bridge shooting up. That one joint you smoke or that one pill you take could be your last one.

If I had known what could happen with drugs I would never have touched them. Ever. Once you try get high, everything changes.

it was just one hit .... at first

Central Canada

im a teenage girl 14 years old, when i was 5 i came home to my father stoned all the time; he was arrested when i was 7 it was one of the more awful experiences i have ever had. over a years later i told myself over and over again that i wasn't going to do drugs after all my father was gone in prison for 4 years with out me and my mom and sister. the effects of this was that i had to grow up fast of be on my own at a young age with no one to love me. at the age of 12 i was experiencing with alcohol and smokes; i kept saying no to weed but eventually i wanted to know what was so great about it that my dad gave up me, my sister and mom for it. so at age 13 i was sitting in a run down house with a pipe in my hand and older guys sitting around me saying nothing bad will happen to you, so i took my first hit and then 5 more now i am 14 and the pipes still in my hand...it was one hit of weed that hooked me so much that i fell in love with a simple plant. the people that i spend most my time with are greasy, and they just always look like they just got off blow or had sex in a dumpster. only a few months ago ive been trying to stop weed and so far its not working i keep getting a craveing but its one of the things that turned my family,friends and boyfriend against me... i cant handle being alone anymore.... for anyone reading this know when to stop because i know that if you have to much your going to loose so much respect and your friends will say "why hang out with her, shes nothing but a druggie" and eventually you start hateing your life

It's hard to pick the right words...

Central Canada

It's hard to pick the right words to explain how drugs and drinking affected my life. No matter how I word it, it always seems like I'm leaving something out and that how I felt during that horrible time isn't getting across to the people who are reading it.

It started out simple enough, just drinking with my friends on weekends. Then i tried pot, then cigarettes, then moved on to experimenting with pretty much anything that came my way. My drinking got slowly worse and worse til i was drinking everyday just to feel normal. I couldn't function without at least a small amount of alcohol in my system. I was dependent. Physically and emotionally. I used it to cope with things that were going on, and just to stop the shakes I would get from withdrawal.

I would wake up from drinking binges in houses I didn't recognize on a nearly weekly basis. Days would go by in a blur, most of these days I still can't remember even today. I don't know what I did, or who I was with.. I hated myself and every time I would wake up from a binge I would just lay there wondering to myself "why couldn't I have just died this time?" I went through a 3 month period at one point where I couldn't even stand to look at in the mirror because I hated who I had become so much.

But I had a fantastic social life, and was extremely popular amongst many groups of people in my school and just around town. That made it even harder to do what I knew I had to...

September 2008 I signed myself up for a youth drug rehabilitation center. I lost everything during that time, but slowly gained a life I could be proud of. I realized all those people I thought were important weren't there for me when I truly needed their support, they ditched me once I wouldn't use drugs with them anymore.

Looking back on it, I can't believe I ever wasted my time on those people. People so unworthy of my friendship.. Now I couldn't be happier with my life, I'm engaged, expecting a beautiful baby boy in a few weeks and I'm over 13 months sober. My life is so much fuller than it was before. I just hope you never have to go through anything like that in order to realize how precious your life is.

Me v.s Drugs.

Western Canada

A lot of peoplethat I know is doing some sort of drug.. I don't want to do it, and everyone says "You're guna do it! At least once!"
Well, no, I'm not.
I don't want to, and I'm goingto keep it that way.
I know people who've either messedup their lives, or have died from it.

I don't want that in my life. Ever.

One time leads to one big mistake

Other

Heyy, My story all starts 3 years ago. Im 12 and my life is always bad so far. I have an older sister and this is how the problem begins. My sister started to play a simple game of truth and dare with some friends.But that simple game turned into her new life and my life. One of the dares was to bring alcohol to school. Everyone thought it would be funny, so she agreed to go along with it. The day when she brought it she didn't just get drunk, she got her bestfriend and 2 other kids drunk also. This exact day she slapped my best friend in her face with her shoue. A week later i lost friends because my friends parents found out through the Citys paper. They thought my parents let her do that things so they would let me and i would be a bad influence on there cildren. She got suspended but when she was back, of course all the kids who were into that kind of stuff, thought she was cool. They were the ones that interdouced her next step of disater. She started drugs, such as weed and execy and perhaps mushrooms.( we weren't sure.) These things of course confused and convinced her mind to drop out of school. To this day she is still not in school. Also she is doing harder drugs. Weed, excecy, mushrooms, and has tried crystal meth. Even though that doesnt sound that bad she is actually now more agressive towards friends, family and others. Ive heard fighting going on with her and family because of those drugs. To tell you the truth i dont know when shr is not high. She is always under the conditions of drugs or alcohol. People in my school, people i dont even know well or at all, judge me. Not just saying some stuff, they herass me and say i'll be just like her, but I know in my heart i wont i know what drungs and such as does to someone. Yes i do have to live with it and i do hope she is going to get some help. But im going to say no to it all. I'll be saying no to the people who herass me and yes at the end i will be saying no to drugs, and proving every one wrong by not doing those things. I love my sister and i love this world i just want to say no right now to those substances and i wanted to share my story to let everyone else know how one time and be one little mistake to a huge mistake.

Just One Time

Central Canada

It all started with my one friend, one joint and one idea that it was cool to smoke it. My best friend hung out with her sister a lot, and her sister had a thing for trouble. So eventually they both went out behind the school and smoked. She was never really the same after that in my eyes. Especially because she never really stopped smoking joints all together. She thought it was fun getting high, when really, weed smells discusting, burns your eyes, and is vulgar. But if you told her that... you would get screamed at... and if that wasn't the case she would just say that it was just one time. Thats how I figured out drugs were not for me.

Can quit , but dont want to?

Central Canada

Have you ever felt as if you are trapped within one million bubbles and just want to pop all of them because you feel as if each and every one of them are thoughts churning inside your head but yet out of all of those one million bubbles, they all have four things in common: questions, anger, misery and strength. Questions about everything and anything that makes you wonder so much, that it angers you to the point that you think no one is sane any more especially not you. Yet you are left there to fret about how miserable you are and how alone you are. Sure every one says I will be there for you, you aren t alone no mater what. but what they don t realize is friends come and go and that every one is really alone in the end. Society is a cruel place and it can back hand you right in the face when you lease expect it. But then you are so caught up with everyone s expectations that you just want to get away from all these bubbles and the only way how is one simple answer to too many peoples thoughts : DRUGS, and yet somehow you find the way to have strength to pull through of thease temptations and you say NO to drugs , because that s the only thing that keeps you alive is your strength through out so many choices, paths, lectures, mistakes, relationships and life.

Trust me, i've done drugs and all it has done for me was add more bubbles, and my friend ( best friend ) was going through the same thing as I , but she says she has the streaght to stop all of it , but she doesn't want to. I thought the same till i accualy stopped, and now i feel clean, not the need to be around all thease bubbles and not having the need to hide anny thing. It feels good. So, dont do drugs and dont go through the same things I did;stay clean and problem free.

Not EVER

Northern Canada

As a yong kid entering grade 7 I get out at the same time as some of the high school kids. I was walking home from school and I was offered drugs I turned it down. But when I got home my older brother was doing the same durg I was offered. He yelled at me for not taking it from his friends.Being his younger sister I grabbed the drug and well. I put it where he would never think to look. He hasnt done drugs ever sience. Just think if I hadnt taken it what would have happened??????

my life with drugs

Northern Canada

basically im 16 years old. grade 11. it all started in grade 8 when i tryed out weed. from there i started to use it as my getaway from life. in grade 9 i fell into severe depression and severeeeeee anger an i needed money for my drug habits. i used to break into houses an rob cars and people an get drunk alot to get a buzz and get money to support my habits. at this point im smoking pot every single day an drinkin weekendly. after that i quit the breakins an car hopped the odd time. then in grade 10 i was smokin pot every second day near the end of the year. i also got into harder drugs like snorting my adhd pills an doing oxycottons an perkasets an hash an oil and kronik an so on. gr 11 came by an i was still doing hard drugs but then got into doin drugs with meth,speed and mdma in them. i was also doing chemicals an ecstacy. after running away from my house for 3days an f'ing my whole family up to no end i came home. i have gone to counselling which sorry to say but it doesnt do anything. i had to teach myself to quit for me my friends an my family. i dont regret what i have done but it wasnt easy to quit either. it took me timeee an i slipped on the way. but im safe to say now it wasnt my counselling that helped me but my friends who were there for me an my drug addictions 100% of the way. i have been clean now an i dont plan on going back to my old ways. since ive been clean my family notices i actually can talk to them and have a conversation without spacing out cause i was so high without them knowing. we are actually a family now an we get along. although like any family we do argue the odd time. but i have my friends and family again an life isnt bad an i am not depressed anymore.

never

Western Canada

i never have tryed drugs and i never will i do not want to end my life it is awsome just the way it is there is no need to reck my life for a stupid adiction

Some Things Are More Important

Central Canada

I've never tried drugs before and I never will!Do YOU know why?'Cause some things are more important then drugs like school,life,friends,and family.For example,if you took drugs and you didn't think then you would turn out like a person who would be addicted to drugs.But if your 'friends' take drugs then there are NOT your real friends,their your peers who put YOU under pressure,which is also called 'peer pressure' and if they put you under peer pressure then I guess their not your real friends,their just drug addicts.Like say for example,your REAL friends would say "Hey,come and play hockey with us" or "Wanna come over and play video games?" but your so called 'friends' would either say "Wanna do crystal meth?" or "Lets do cocaine!" or "C'mon,lets get high!".But,you don't have to listen to me and live your life but remember,if their doing drugs,their just drug addicts.So learn how to say no and remember this:SOME THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT!

a broken family <`3

Northern Canada

When I was little, my mom and dad always fought because my dad was a drug adict and my mom was an alcaholic. After 3 months, my mom kicked me dad out. I was six. My mom was very abusive, and then four months later my dad came back and beat my mom and me. I was tookin away to go live with a foster family. The people I lived with had an older son. i was 9 years old when I explained to him why I was living there. I failed to know that he was also into drugs. He made me try Marijuana. After that, I became an adict. I did Marijuana, heroin, cocain. Bassicly anything I could get my hands on. I did it every two hours, everyday. When I was 12, I went back home with my parents. My dad had stoped the drugs, and my mom was a recovering alacholic. What they didn't know, was that I had became both of them put together. We always fought, I was never home. I didn't go to school. I lost friends. Drugs and alcahole ruined my life. I checked myself into rehab. I spent 6 months, in rehab. I went through alot of tough times. I apoligized to my parents, my family, and my friends and all the people I had hurt in the past. I'm now 14, have an average of %80 in school, have the best boyfriend in the world, have the best friends ever. I learned alot in a very short time. Don't even bother trying Drugs, don't get into peer presure. It's not worth it. You lose everything you ever had and more. It's not worth risking.

lone wolf

Other

not gunna lie .... im prtty baked right now ! The room is spinning and memory is lacking... 5 minutes ago my mom came home and caught me with girl friend .. she was very disapointed in me and called the police i had locked myself inside my room when i saw your commercial .... this is my last hope... i wish things were diferent i wish that i was five again and my mom would love me like her child but it cant be like that... reality had to set in some time... this is a warning to everyone that thinks drugs are cool or anything like that .. i am addicted to weed and i really wish i had touched the stuff! please dont make the same mistakess i have ...

i got a problem!!

Central Canada

i started doing marijuana and now i can't stop i think of myself as a loser! it all started when my friend introduced me to it she's evil... i think of her as an evil influence, even though she's my age she's the biggest stoner i know...! i smoke weed almost everyday, it's so addictive i even skip my classes to get high to the sky..! i think i need help... even my friend needs help just kidding she says she can stop anytime, but i think she can't because she has bad friends which i don't know about.. she's saying "don't bulls--t a stoner if yer a stoner" i think she needs more help than i do... can u help us PLEASE!!!

National Kids Help Phone

She lost everything.

Atlantic Canada

Me and my best friend were closer than anyone else we knew. We had grown up together, hung out together, did everything together - she was the one person I trusted with everything. One Summer my friend started getting into the wrong crowd, skipping school and smoking weed with her new friends. I tried telling her that she was making a huge mistake, that she should turn back while she still could - but she didn't want to hear it. She told me she'd be able to quit whenever she felt like it, not realizing things were just getting progressively worse. Before I knew it, my best friend had completely dissappeared from school. We began fighting more and more and soon we were no longer friends. I heard stories about her all the time, how she was always drunk or high, how she'd do anything to get more drugs. I loved her so much that I tried unsuccessfully for a full year to bring back my best friend; and it took me that long to realize the person I'd once shared everything with was gone. I recently transferred to a different school, but the last I heard my friend dropped out of school, was disowned by her family, and ditched by all her "friends". And it all started with just one joint.

One night!

Other

It was my first year in high school when I first started smoking weed. all my friends were doing it so I thought i would do the cool thing and join them but one night at a friends place someone pulled out some pills I was very hesitant and wouldn't take them at first, after about an hour of drinking and smoking I had made the choice to take one of those pills along with 2 other friends.

The next thing I knew there was some one asking if I could here them and telling me to stay awake.

I woke up in the hospital the next morning they had pumped my stomach i had alcohol poisoning, but to make matters worse the pills we had taken were someones heart meds and they should have never been taken with alcohol witch caused my body to shut down.

I will never take something again. I was also charged with underaged drinking. BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. and it was all in one night !

the only person that can ruin your life, is yourself.

Central Canada

In grade 6 it was the biggest reality check of my life, i got molested while on a field trip by a father. My life just went down hill from there. I began to start smoking cigarettes and hanging out with much older people. In grade 8 I was introduced to marijuana, than began to start smoking it once a week, every other day to everyday multiple times. I got very distracted skipped and started failing a lot of my classes in high school. I started to become distant from my true friends who wanted me to stop and try to focus on my life ahead, many regretful things came out of my situation. I was arrested for assault and public mischief, ending up getting used by a lot of people, lashed out on my parents several times. Than I got a job where it was mainly all teenagers and we'd all get high and drunk on the job. One night I tried E and i overdosed. That was a reality check. Ever since that experience I have never done E again, stopped smoking weed and drinking and I couldn't be happier now. I look back now and realize that's all I can do is look back and learn. You may blame others for your downfalls in life, as a human being we all rather put the blame on someone else for your own failure but i have learnt that the only person who can ruin or can continue negativity in your life is yourself. You must reflect on the past, analysis it, learn from it and never look back.

Never Ever!

Atlantic Canada

I'm 20 years old and I have never tried any type of drugs. I never had much peer pressure but it was always there. I have seen many people I know do it right in front of me. I had the brains to say no to any drugs. Still today, I have people asking me if I do it and I'm very proud to say that I don't.

What happend when drugs enterd my family

Northern Canada

It all starts when my sister went to highschool, all of her friends were doing pot. So she decided it was cool and started to do it. She has become so mean and always telling off my paretns, started to hit me and my parents. I hated to see her suffer. She brought it in our house.. and she became addicted. it was so sad.

We finally got her some help. But i still feel like i dont know who she is, & who she has become.

Long journey, Not over yet

Northern Canada

When i first met her i thought she was cool, i thought i could have been her friend so when she asked me if i wanted some, she said "You dont have to, i mean im not forcing anything on you." Yet i could have said no, but did i? No, i didnt i know i should have. I still have very bad cravings i just wish i would of had a story like i have now that i could have read instead of lived. I was hooked, still fighting now on the monster that ruined my mom, now i guess the apple doesnt fall far from the tree. WRONG! I love my mom sooo very much, but i dont want to be like her, i want to be unuiqe. No drugs or achohal/ smokes. I hope to be free from drugs, achohal, and smokes very soon but its a long journey, i love my dad very much he has been such a good influence and he has been with me so far and i am grateful. My only wish is that i would have said no, some of my friends have been very understanding and comforting on my journey. I wish i would have not made the mistake, so my advice is, 'Just Say No!'

It's Painful to watch her

Other

I have a cousin and she is addicted to drugs she is in grade 7 and im in grade 10 ...i used to look out for her until we lost contact for a while ... A few days ago i started to talk to her again and i found out she was smoking and taking cocain and marawona and myth... Yesterday i went to her house and she was smoking a cigar and it was very painful to watch...her parents dont mind it and i couldnt help but yell at her telling her how bad it was for her body...she didnt listen to me so i had to take it away from her...i dont talk to her anymore bcause i cannot stand her only 12 doing drugs... please people do not do drugs it is bad and u could die

Me? or The Drugs?

Western Canada

I started dating this guy, who I knew had a past with drugs, and had been trying to quit smoking for quite some time. We got along, had a good thing going, untill i started suspecting him doing these drugs. He denied it. People had been coming up to me, people i didn't even know, telling me he was doing these. I confronted him time after time and finally, he told me the truth. He had a choice to make: either stay with me and let me get him help, or to leave me and continue his addiction, feeding it everytime he could. Guess what he chose-not me, that's for sure. He likes me again, and regrets ever chosing what he did. To make a long story short, you make your choices in life. You will make the wrong ones, but that wrong one could change you in many ways. Choose wisely.

DON"T DO IT!! a.k.a A PUFF can equal a place in HEAVEN

Central Canada

me being only 12 years old its hard to imagin wat some of my friends may turn out too be, i have a friend who lives with her mother and 2 brothers. her mom smokes in the house and im worried one day when she gets older that she'll take up the same habbit even though she saise she won't. for my father he has bin a long journey of hospital visits and one of the some what minor reasons is because he would smoke but he would hide it. we found out he had bin smoking a month before his first major hospital visit and where devistated. other than that after all this stuff has happend i wrote speech 2 years ago in grd 5 about smoking and i think it helped some of my friends since that speech 3-6 of my friends parents have quit. marawaona and coke are worse but if just normal tabacoo can put some one in the hospital don't TRY the other to thingd, marawana and coke, it can lead to far more worsre especially when it comes too injury. i also want to dedicate this to all the people in this world that are addicted to stay calm be brave and they'll find a way out of there habbity some day. p.s. don't do it even if it means getting into a "cool" club.

how stupid can you be?

Central Canada

a lot of my friends do drugs. Even kids I just met this year. Like it's ridiculous. Last year in grade eight me and some of my non-druggie friends over heard some of the guys in our class talking about drugs, when and where they were going to do them and how much they each had. All of us girls talked about it saying how bad it was and how some of our good guy friends were not doing drugs. Well I decided to tell my mom who eventually told the school and stopped those boys from doing drugs and possibly over-dosing and dying. Don't be afraid about telling someone if you have a friend who's into drugs because you may end up saving their lives. Many kids are pressured into taking more drugs than they can handle and over dose. Be and hero.

Not a crack in the pavment

Other

One day me and my freinds were talking about crack, as we conversed more we thought we ought to try it.

Soo a couple days later one of are freinds hooked us up, but i backed down. The next week at school i noticed 2 of my freinds were not there, well i was kindof worried and after ahwile it was on the news.

They got addicted and they got in a fight over it with some dealers, and were found decapatated in a car with a large amount of crack on them

my addiction since grade 9.

Other

i am now 19 years old and just got out of highschool. highschool was very rough for me seeing as i kept being offered drugs. it was very hard to say no. i tried them one time and it messed up my whole life. i am still smoking marijana and i need to stop. i am going to be going to rehab soon to quit my obsession to marijana. i think that it is going to be very hard for me, because when i smoked it once, it took over my life and i got an addiction to it. i started smoking when i was in grade 9.

How Bad I am with DRUGS

Northern Canada

Every day befor i go to school i sniff a line of coke it feels good but i no its bad for me i also do E acid smoke weed i hate doin these drugs but there so addicting its not worth it to get started i prolly spend over 100 bucks a week on these drugs and im surprised im even in school right now. On my 14 birthday i sniffed 2 lines of coke and took a pill of E i felt like i was goin to die people say its not a big deal to have a hoot every once in awhile but it is so dont even start doin drugs

High High school

Central Canada

When I was in Grade 6 my whole class to the D.A.R.E program as most on you know that is the Drug and Abuse Resistance Education, at the end we to a pledge to never use drugs. When I went into grade 9 it seemed all normal nothing really changed till the end of grade 10 begging of grade 11 when i started smoking weed, i used to love doing it i would go to party's and peoples houses and smoke up after a couple of months my grades plummeted and i started failing and i even found my self sleeping through classes. Weed started to control my life then one day my dad found a home made pipe in my room that my friend had given to me way back in grade 10 i never actually used it and my dad freaked and i got in so much trouble that was the day i was sent for a drug test and failed now i want to be a police officer and try to help kids who do this kinda stuff cause in the end weed can ruin your life.

just cool it, but why?

Central Canada

when I was in grade nine my best friend and I sometimes hung out with this girl that we had a few classes with, we could tell that she'd come from a rough place and was still dealing with that but we never really knew why. sometimes we would smoke some pot and just chill, never at school and never at our parents house and never before we had to be somewhere important, but that wasn't enough for this girl. she always needed to smoke a little more or a little more often and soon that became smoking something stronger we were watching her slowly starting to head down hill and we knew that pretty soon it wouldn't be happening so slowly but we still couldn't figure out why. one thing about this girl was that she was always talking about cool this was cool and that was cool do this or do that because it was cool and you had to be cool to get boys and you weren't cool without boys and being cool meant having lots of friends and you had to be cool for people to want to be friends with you, cool ruled every decision she made, one day she said to us hey guys you know what would be cool if we smoked heroin and that's when we knew what was the rough that she was dealing with she didn't care what was right or wrong as long as it was cool and we didn't want to be like that so we said no and slowly drifted away from her, now she so much worse we didn't even know that someone so young could get so bad so quickly and its sad to look at but we're happy that we said no because we're still doing fine

pressured into piff.

Central Canada

As a fourteen year old girl, i get offers for all sorts of drugs all the time. My friends and i started to get into weed, and well, we never really got out. It's hard to stay clean when you're pressured everyday around the clock. Getting clean for me meant dropping all my friends and starting new, which hasnt been easy. Even now, its hard to resist temptation, but its worth it.

everyone feels it and only some do it...but you don't have to!

Northern Canada

Every single teen these days are pressured to smoke, drink or take drugs to fit in and be cool...tell me if you think THIS is cool. Being atticted to something or the rest of your life, dying at anytime at any age, taking off 10 years of your life with each cigarret, brain damage,and there is tons more i can list! Sometimes, it's the littlest things that pressure you to do things and if you are taking drugs please consider this and think about your families life, your friends lives, and YOUR life. A life without drugs would be so much funner,exciting,loving,normal and EASY than actually giving into the pressure and addiction of drugs and alcohal and having a stressful,hard,confusing,and HORRIBLE life. Think about it...read more...AND STAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT WORRIES YOU ABOUT DRUGS AND ALCOHAL!

it was a sign.

Central Canada

Most of my friends, are or have been heavily involved in drugs, and I know how hard it can be to say no when everyone around you is doing it.

A friend of mines parents were out of town at their cottage, they thought that she was spending the weekend at my house, and my parents thought that I was spending the weekend at hers. I got there and it was just me and her, I thought that this weekend was going to be some mad good times between me and her.

We started talking and somehow weed came up as a topic. I'm sort of a push over, and she talked me in to trying it this weekend, her and I went to a friends house and got some weed from him. Later on we were trying to smoke it and my lighter broke, I took it as a sign, a sign to say no.

Every since that weekend I have never considered doing any type of drug.

How I said no..

Western Canada

One puff won't hurt... I've heard that line throughout my preteen and teenage years. I am now seventeen, I have never been drunk or smoked a cigarette or done any illegal drug, although many teens may say marijuana is not.. Well news for you is, it is illegal. I've seen tons of kids go from being innocent with high grades and all of a sudden things go for a slide. At least 80% of the kids I know in my school are into drugs, thats just drugs alone. I've never wasted a day having to recover from a hangover, I still go to parties, but I don't drink.. Occasionally my fathers friends offers me a joint, his excuse is at least you have parental guidance, but I always kindly say no, that I'm not into that kind of thing... Usually he just says that's all good and passes it on to whomever. Really, I think peer pressure is an excuse, its our curiosity... Learn from others mistakes and don't make them yourself.. Your life starts when your an adult, college, work... Do yourself a favor and say no...

she can't help her self.

Atlantic Canada

kay so my bestfriend, is like the biggest pot head iv'e ever met. her boyfriend is a jerk, she make him give her money, if not hell freak on her, they have sex to much, but when there have sex shes always high out of her mind, i dont know what shell do. her mom and her dad cant control her, i dont even know if i wanna stay friends with her, like i mean i love her. but like truths she does to much drugs.

bad time

Western Canada

i was skateboarding at the park theese guys i didnt even know asked me if i wanted weed i said no they sais are you sure i said yes im sure i dont wanty any but they were saying how fun it would be but then i just ran because i was scared what might happen if i still said no because they were high

I should've known.

Western Canada

When I started my second year of high school I had just spent the summer at my cottage, and like many people, I just wanted to see my friends again. At first everything seemed the same, but by the second week or so, I noticed that one of my friends was acting different.

It started with her asking me for money, when i said no, she would just flip. She skipped some classes. Then she started getting really moody. She would get mad over little things, or jokes, and she would pick fights with anyone. She let her grades drop, she dropped all her elective courses (art, band, cooking, ect) and she got really distant. Soon she didn't talk to us anymore. I just thought, 'it happens, I can't help it.'

One day her mom came to my house telling me that she had found drugs in my friends room. She asked if I knew anything about it. I said no, because I honesetly didn't notice the signs. My friend is now at a rehabilitation center. She lost pretty much all her friends, her mom is spending a lot of money, she is a year behind in school now, she already has a police record, and she still hasn't quit completely.

I wish I paid more attention, then maybe she could've stopped. That year pretty much ruined her life. It's too late for me to help her, but now I make sure that I pay more attention.

one times all it takes

Atlantic Canada

one of my friends old friends move back from the 'ghetto' of a city, so now he smokes weed like every day, even during school, i hang out with him some times, i'm just worried one of these days he going to snap! or try to convince me to try that kinda stuff, when ever you feel presured to try anything like that, leave firmly say 'NO!'

My friend

Other

Well this isnt about me its about one of my guy friends we are some what close. But he dose drugs sometimes he told me that he dose them cuz of him family andall the stress he has but I dont know what to do I want to help him I just dont know how.

So I thought that this would be a good way to get some answers???

National Kids Help Phone

Weed is a gateway drug to worse events, and to a future of bad things

Man, im probably the biggest stoner ever, im only 14 and its recking my life. DONT DO IT!

First you start forgetting things, then your grades drop, then your famley rejects you. By now you are completely out of money. You start to find yourself in strange places. You start to need it. You crave it. Then, your friends change. you find yourself sloping to another level. I cant stop, and i dont think i will ever stop.

Peopple have a whole conseptionized it. They tell you man its ok, and it is. For a while. Honestly, save yourself.

Meh, it'sz only one time...

Central Canada

I had never done anything other weed and always told myself I wouldn't but when all of my other friends starting getting into E I was really scared but eventually I made myself try it. It would only be one time right?

I'll be telling my story in a poem I wrote. It's called Frienemy.

I met you not too long ago. . . at first I was scared, not sure what to expect but everyone kept telling me "No, its fine, dont worry about it, its fun". Its not like it would be an every weekend thing, Im only gonna do it once. . . If only I knew what that first try would do. I loved you from the start, you had the power to take me away to another unknown world inside my head, the way you could make me feel was so unreal. You filled me with loving feelings made me feel right, content and so happy, a wonderful hazy place that could never be wrong until that one night. . . I took your powers for granted, used you too much. I can't find you anymore no matter how much I try instead I find evil, I think terrible things, I sweat and sweat. Find myself immobile, uncomfortable, tongue tied, confused, just totally lost in a box of you. So much anger, hurting people I love so much, stealing hundreds of dollars from my mother just to try and find you even if just a little taste but it never satisfies, I still want more. I loved you so much, you were my good friend now Im not so sure. . . Ecstasy, friend or enemy? <3

Some how I found my way out of that place with no help, I got lucky. But it's not worth it, not one bit. I did so many horrible things that I can never forgive myself for. Also since I tried E I have done coke, shrooms, and numerous kinds of prescribed medications and I ended up with an alcohol problem as well, because when I couldn't have E, I needed something and alcohol was the easiest to get my hands on. I did things with guys that Im not one bitproud of, just because I was so messed up.

It hasn't even been a year since I first tried it... I wish I would have said no.

Dope over friends.

Central Canada

it all started when my 2 best friends and i went to a concert on a friday night.we had fun, danced, and later went home. the next week there was a another concert but this time only this time my 1 "bestfriend" went. she was always the inoccent one, the one that said she would never try drugs even if she wanted to. we didnt hear from her for a couple of days so we called, she acted normall.when school started the three of us all went to different school. my friend that went to the concert went to a High school that diidnt have a great reputation, we were all entering high school so it was hard for all of us. a couple of months passed and we hadn't seen eachother for a while. we all desided to hang out on halloween. after a night of catchin up over pizza, my friend and i had to leave but my other friend stayed there with the reast of our friends.

the next morning i went to school only to discover from a different person that my friend had been smoking dope and doing other shit behind mine and my friends back. i wasnt mad at the fact that she was doing drugs. i was only made to find out from other people and not her. after i confronted her she denied it, but later admited that it was true, she had been doing this since the the last concert. she eventually got kicked out of her school and then came to mine. she was with me for a while then the ditched me for the doper od the school. after a while she her parents moved her to alberta, she now likes girls and has been sober for 8 months so she says, i dodnt belive her i dont think i can ever belive her. i still feel like crap fro letting her go to the concert alone, if i was there i know she was still ganna be my best friend and we woul dhave no problems but now i think about it and its sad when you think your best friend chose dope over her friend that she has know since grade 2. really sad.

Bad way!!

Northern Canada

I live in a small place and we have Pot and other druges! My friends had pot on them so we went to smoke it and i over dosed on pot. I was in a bad condishion for a week and when I got better i had to got to Juvie (jail for kids) for 2 years because they mixed Cocane in with the pot!

Not Done.

Other

Not even in highschool yet, into the scene, not done. I think I'm in control, I guess we'll see.

drugs

i went blind at a corner store and i had to be carryied out (on weed) all i heard was old ladies this just shows bad things happen soo watch out

my only friend is differnt now

Western Canada

My best friend since ever had been away for quite awhile. As she came home from her trip from the USA, she came back with different experiences because of different friends she had made. She is the only friend i have because we are very depent of each other and very different from others. One night, a few days ago, she was sleeping over and pulled out this white power like stuff and sniffed it. She offered me some, but i turned it down, thinking it was a drug. We didnt talk that night and i was very ackward. I do not want to be with other friends because i just dont fit in with them because they do alchol abuse. I am in 8th grade and i do not want to destroy my friendship with my one friend that i have. i want things to be like before. but it also seems that she is hanging out with new friends. i think she now might forget about me since i turned down the drug. any suggestions on what i should do.

what

the first time i herd about drugs i said that,s stupid

freinds and weed.

Western Canada

my freinds always go behind the school and smoke weed i dont why they always tell me to, but i dont like it that there doing that stuff where still little kids.

WEed

Central Canada

i started smoke weed when i was 8 yrs old , because i was in a gang . & now that im 14 my friends still incerage me to do it , this type of drug doent help me at all it just makes me feel worse . i am in a foster home to , i have many problems in my life but this anit making it any better ! . and i aslo tried extacy, when i went to a rave even tho i wasent old enough to go but i got in , i do regreet it , but im still into the drugs i really need help ,. i even got high at school , and it made me look like a fool. im just wasting my life and my money . if your like me i feel bad 4 you!

Behind closed doors

Western Canada

My Uncle on my dad's side is a drug addict. I just recently found out. When we let him come stay at our house, he was taking drugs behind my back. This upsets me because he was my favorite uncle. He was so nice, but always excited or jumpy, even if nothing exciting was happening. My dad told me that he found needles in our garage, and since this time, he cant stay at our house.

Its my life

Western Canada

I'm 16 and other than drinking alchohol, drug free. I wish I could say that my whole family is drug free. My mother did shrooms as a teenager, my father used to drink and my older brother, smoked weed. My older brother, is now almost 20. He moved out at the age of 18 before he finished school. Luckily, he stayed in school and ended up graduating. Unfortunatly, he found the wrong crowd once he started work. My brother smelled like weed wherever he went and his house reeked. For almost a year, my brother smoked weed... The only friends he had, were the ones that were willing to smoke with him. Eventually, my brother lost all his money and is now in great debt. My brother got majorly addicted to weed and eventually lost everything. He refused to listen to anyone and got fired from his job. My brother was coming to our house and checking our couches for loose change so he could feed himself. My brother finally found a girl. by now he was smoking weed, cigaretts and cigars. his new girlfriend didn't agree with that. his words slurred and he had random sores everywhere. he went to the doctor and they told him it was the weed taking over his body and he had to stop or he would die within a year. it was hard on my brother, but he is now clean, a year later. He still craves weed, but because his girlfriend refuses to talk or see him if he smokes anything, he holds himself back. I seen what drugs did to my brother, and i refuse to go through the same thing. One of my friends is currently trying to get mushrooms and trying to get me to join when they do them. they continously tell me nothing will happen, but i still refuse. I don't care what will happen. I care what i will be doing. I made a promise to myself and pledge that i will try to stay drug free. I have even stopped drinking even tho i only drank a few times in my life, i still managed to get drunk. i refuse to ruin my body the way my brother ruined his.

parents need to wake up

Northern Canada

hello, I wish to share a story with you, I am 15 years old and my parents have been heavy into drugs all my life, they drink and smoke all the time too, and are really violent when whacked out of their minds, I am sharing this with you for 2 reasons, #1 is so you know how lucky you are to have parents who aren't like mine, and #2 so you know how not to grow up to be, I myself have only tried smoking once and i promised myself I would never do it or would ever do drugs or drink as to not end up like my parents, they never have money for necesseties but instead they like to blow it on commodoties, and therefore my family doesn't have much money, money which would be useful for buying me clothes without holes in them for school so kids can stop bullying me. Thank you for reading my story and please promise yourself to never end up like this.

one night could change your life.

Northern Canada

I have 3 stories to share with you.

One night 3 of my friends decided to go out partying, they took extacy, drank too much and decided to steal there friends mustang convertible and take it out for a spin, there were two boys and 1 girl in the car, they were driving too fast in the winter time and they flipped the car and rolled down a bank, sending one of the passengers flying out of the car and leaving two in the car on impact, one of the people's legs was crushed by the scrunching of the car, and the other one had a broken arm. The one whos leg was pinned squished by the car tried to get out of the car and when he did he thought he was fine, until he stood on his leg, he couldn't feel it and it gave out. The aftermath for him was that he had to get his leg amputated... and he got lucky, the guy who was thrown from the car landed on his neck and broke 2 rotator disks in his spine and is now crippled from the waist down.

Story #2) One night a girl and her friend got really drunk in the wintertime and decided to go quadding in the snow, the girl wasn't wearing a helmet, they hit a tree and she was flung off, she landed on her head and was put into a coma, the sad part is she is only 16, she lives to tell the tale, and yet she still parties on, some people just never learn.

Story #3 is the saddest) one late evening 2 boys who were only 18 decided to get really drunk, and they went out quadding in the snow, they lost control and went off a bank, the driver of the quad was crushed by the quad and died on the way to the hospital, his friend was thrown from the quad and hit a tree head first breaking his neck and killing him instantly.

These 3 stories are why i refuse to drink, or do drugs.

Night Prowler

Central Canada

When I began grade 9 I also began dating my ex boyfriend from gr8. Yes it sounded childish. As he began school, he got into drugs. I've always went to a differnt school then him but we live on the same street. He asked me if I had wanted to smoke so me not wanting to be the lame girlfriend tried it. I smoked between three and nine times a week. I never did homework but instead went out and hung out with friends. I failed an exam. Ddnt do ad good in courses as I could have and my parents still ne'er suspected a thing. I got caught during the summer and my parents list all trust. It took me five monthes to regain it while having a boyfriend who has ne'er done drugs to support me. I've been tempted and so close but I realize it's a better life by far. I used to go out in blizzards just to drink and smoke. I'd freeze and be blue when I came in. What was the point? There was none. I just wish I ne'er started. All those monthes and money wasted

The EBO

Atlantic Canada

As the oldest child in my family I started off Junior High School Nervous and Afraid because my parents and my older friends told me what happens in Junior High at my school. They told me about this thing called the EBO (easy bake oven.) The EBO is behind our school in the woods where people do drugs. And I know alot of the people who go to the EBO. Even my friends go there.... I got so Nervous and afraid because of the pressure that was happening to me! The first time I was offered drugs was Heart Pounding to me.. Even though I said no.. I still was scared... My friends were talking about going back to the EBO and smoke cigs and weed and various things... I kept telling them to stop and not to kill themselves... but yet they continue to do drugs... i couldnt handle the pressure of them asking and offering me ab=nymore so I left them and i havent talked to them since... I now know how to handle these situations and to deal with the pressure. In 2 years time my little sister is going to be at the same school... and Ive told her all the things that she needs to know to say NO to drugs... The most i can do now is hope and pray for her that she dosent to drugs.... I cant force her not too.... because its her choice.. but she should be smart enough to know what to do. And so should everyone!

i said no

Western Canada

i was out with my friends one summer afternoon when one of them offered me cocaine i sais NO!

Say no the first time.

Western Canada

You know how somtimes you parents say stuff, Like say no to drugs, everyone hears that. Cops, Ads, Role models, Everyone says it... But who listens? I wouldnt doubt over half of the people dont even hear those words, When they see a good time to do somthing stupid, They take that oportunity.. Why wouldnt they. Me personally only have herd bad things, But good things sound better then the bad ones, Like people saying it gets rid of anger, Rage, Stress, All thoser things. Well i decided to take road two:Do the drugs, It sunk in , it felt great, And you know what... i liked it.. But the consequenses are diar, And i know you herd that millions of times, but coming from somone your age, To protect you from stuff. Stuff like Cocain, And weed. Listen... Weeds bad. But its better than cocain... Either way. Dont do it... Please.. i did it... I made a horrible mistace. Protect your life.. Please. Say no... <\3 -Anomynous.

party and drug problem

Hi I am 9 years old ,going on 10. I went to this party of my friend's. My friend had beer, at his party. His friend had drugs at the party. He asked me if I wanted a sigaret? but, I said no way jose.

My life

Central Canada

I got involved with my friends smoking weed and my dad caught me. i am out of the house searching for a place to live and i'm posting this in case people are wondering from library i actually stole a library card from a little kid makes me feel guilty but it had to be done because i got no body on my side.my friends left me and i have a stone in my chest which is beating without a proper rhythm i feel scared and hurt. what should i do.

on day after school

Northern Canada

One day me and my friend were waiting at our school for out other friend to get out of the office , and we were just waiting arund when finally she came out and the first thing she said was is lets do sum meth weed e and ever thing else and i didnt know what to say so mii and my friend we did that becuz we were pissed off but then after tht wierd things started happing i didnt know wat to do after tht so after tht we started getting into more bad things tht i wasnt proud of but wat could i do i thought id be cool if i did these things and turns out i only ruined myself and the people who loved me all they did was try and help me but i never wanted them to bcuz i got soo caught on i never wanted to stop so i started smoking and stuff i really hoped tht i would never be into tht stuff but i did and it was a bad mistake and i have been going to this place i dont really know what its called but i know now tht its not good to do tht stuff and i hope tht no1 does what i did

stop drugs

Northern Canada

if you don't stop drugs now you can die and it is no joke even if you take to much medicne a day you can die so talk to the person that is taking drugs and stop them if you don't stop them they will die and it will hurt you to see that happen so if they try to give you some to say no not for me i don't want to die at a young age it is up to you to die but stop anyway.

My love affair with weed

Hi, my name is XXXX.

Sorry i can not tell you my age but the story will help.

I have been smoking marijuana for the past 2 years and every day it has been a strugle trying to hide it from my parents. At first i thought my dad and mother wouldnt know what it was. I was wrong.

One day i smoked alot and came home and my father realized.But he didnt say anything.

Then after a while coming home high he decided to confront me and we had a long talk, at the end i said i would quit. Things actually started getting worse. I started doing more crime such as theift and fraud. Also i would waste a large amount of money on my weed. My group of friends started to change to people who are in gangs and also people who do very bad things. My parents have cought me many times high and I have reapetedly said i have quit but its not as easy as that. Some people say that smoking weed is better than ciggarettes and also because god has put it on the earth as a plant. God has put this plant on earth to test us and too see if were good or bad, depending on how we use it ( my belives ). I have been sober for the past 3 weeks and still hang out with the same people but the fight has just begone. One night i told my father i was going to take the dog out for a walk at night and he knew something was up so he followed me downstairs. I was actually going to go smoke. He caught me red handed. But this time was different, I truly saw the emotion in my dads eyes as he started to tear. then he told me a story about my uncle who started off with weed like I did, but ended up a major drug abuser such as opium, crystal meth and many other drugs he can get his hands on. My uncle has passed away on an overdose. And i realized if smoking a such a small drug would get the pain away from my parents divorce but in the end i would lose my life to drugs. I would rather feel the pain then become it.

bad times

Atlantic Canada

i remember when i first started high school, there was a lot of pressure to be "cool" and my friend fell into it and lets just say that i don't know were he is right now.

Death Scare

Western Canada

When my best friend and I entered high school we agreed to never become involved with anything more then drinking and smoking pot. In grade 9 she switched schools and began dating an older guy who was using her for sex and getting her involved with pills, coke and mushrooms. She reached a point where she was doing these harsher drugs regularly and was facing addiction. She constantly assured me that she would stop soon and meanwhile started sleeping around with all of her boyfriends friends. When her boyfriend became bored and broke up with her she heart broken and used drugs to help her through the pain. A few days later at a party another girl challenged her to a suicidal game where you have to consume more pills and snort more coke then the other. My friend ended up unconscious in the hospital. All of the doctors were certain that she would die and it was a big surprise when she didn't. This new years she has promised to quit her old habits and focus on school. Her actions have not only harmed herself but also everybody around her. It is a miracle that she is still alive and as a result of her drug use she has lost all of her friends and family's trust.

Bad Changes to Good

Other

Last year in grade 10, I started doing weed because I had a broken wrist that was not healing, I was loosing friends left and right,and lastly to get a guy to notice me. Eventually he used me and I got hurt which made me wanna get higher to keep all my pain out of my head. Eventually I just did it and I started loosing more friends. Then my realizeation walked onto my life. I had changed for my current boyfriend because he made me realize that drugs aren't the answer for anything. You can't change just to get noticed by someone. Change for yourself and for someone you love not for the worst but for the better.

I'm High on Life

Western Canada

Hey kidzzzz,

this is my own personal story of my present day life in high school. When you enter grade 10 all you really want to do is fit in... and I did. I thought I had a great life of going to parties smokin the dope and drinkin the booze, its the cool thing right??? Wrong. Just with some will power and a want to be more respectful to myself, I have been sober for a year and I feel great. In my school I consider myself to be one of the more socialized kids. I know how to control myself and I try my hardest to help those who can't.

Addicted !

Other

All day befor i go to school , lunch , and on my way home i been doing weed for almsot three years now and im only 13 ! I first started weed at my friends party in gr 6 i didnt think i was going to get into it and i was hopeing i wouldnt like it but i did. Ever since that night i been doing everything ! Getting suspended at school , shop lifting and gettin cought twice , telling off my parents once in a while , fighting with people , and alot more like write know while im writing this know im smokeing ! I need help i have an addiction ! What should i do ?

National Kids Help Phone

Stuff happens

Western Canada

Well one night I was at a partie with my best friend and a girl I really liked I walked out side and seen some people who are the cool guys in the school they said here hit this you'll get her for sure after this ... So being stupid about it I took a hit ... One led to 2 then that got me high being an older brother it was not a good example for my kid brother but smoking pot that night led me into doing more and more drugs witch led to acid and MDMA witch compleatly f'ed over my life at home and around town ... It wasent until I got clean was when I got the girl and fixed every thing with my friends now almost a year clean I made my self a better example for my brother and other people around me

pressure pressure pressure

Western Canada

my coisin did it my dad did it my sister did it my mom did it my best friends did it ive tryed it but then my older sister got kicked out of school thats wats happens when you even do just weed not talking about the bigger stuff thats why now i chose to be drug free

Stranger Danger

Northern Canada

One night, me and a few friends went out and partied. After walking out of the bar we were at, a man in a leather jacket and dark clothing asked if we wanted a joint of marijuana. My friend and I at the time were into pot and my friend was so drunk that she said "yeah yeah i know him, lets go" so i trusted her and we went with him and smoked. The place we smoked was a 2 minute walk from the bar we were at. When the joint was done, the man left and i can't remember much of the rest of the night. But I remember the "2 minute walk" to the bar, had taken us 2 hours. I felt as though I could see time passing by me and everything was an intense feeling, and i felt very anxious and angry. The next morning I woke up and i still felt high, my heart felt like it beated a million beats per minute and my head felt weird the entire day...

Do not take drugs from strangers, only the ones prescribed by your doctor.

To Much

Western Canada

I'm in middle school and during lunch I remmembered that I left my jacket out by the football feild were we had gym.So when I went back to find it I saw some kids from my class smoking meth and I told them that meth is a bad drug.After I told them that one of them said "Do you want to try I thought about what would happen to me if I did say yes,but I said no,but when I looked over at one of the other kids there eyes were closed.Right away I pointed it out and the kids that were smoking right away started to run I went to go get a teacher to help and the teacher called 911.The people at the hospital told me that the boy has done crack before and did alot of it a day.And that kid was my best friend for nine years.I was so sad and after that day I swore to never do drugs because of what happened to my friend.Now my school does a locker exam to make shur no one has drugs,so no kids will die just because of them.

family and friends

Western Canada

My older sister does drugs and she got me in it.. then one day when i was on weed I lost two of my best friends and after I stop and think said to myself "why am I doing this when I have better things to do a job, a family and friends?

I miss my friends every day for 3 years now...it sucks a$$ because they always tried to stop me but I never listen and I'm still doing it...

I can handle it.. so i thought...

Other

I told myself i could handle it, it was only once in a while. But I was wrong. I was only 13 when i tried drinking and it was fine, once in a while. As I got older, I starting drinking much more and much more often. By the time I was 15, my drinking had gotten so bad that i was drinking, almost everyday, at school. Deep inside I knew it had gotten out of control. While in grade 9, i got kicked out of my high school because I was drinking so much at school that i kept blacking out. I went into another school, promised my family that i was going to get it under control and take a break from alcohol. Not only a week in my new school, I got into drugs. So now, not only was I doing drugs at school.. but eventually began drinking again. Grade 9, i noticed my life spinning out of control. But i just saw it as i was getting a ton of friends, doing my drugs and my drinking. However, within a year, my life was completely changed for the worst. My relationship with my family and my long-time positive friends was ruined. I was in trouble with the police and doing things I never imagined I'd do. I didn't know who i was anymore. I got back into the school i got kicked out of, and things were the same there, using a lot! While I was in grade 10, my school hired an addictions counsellor, who i began seeing, I entered rehab. I didnt know what to expect, not being able to see my old friends, not seeing my family for a month and then only every two weeks. It definetly wasnt easy at all. I had many ups and downs. Even though I was in rehab at 16 and giving up alcohol and drugs, I had many good times while living there. I changed how I thought, felt and learnt how to live without substances. I built true friendships there. With the help of all the caseworkers and residents, most, my friends, I made it through. I completed the rehab program. My relationship with my family is rebuilt, I am confident and happy. i will be 10 months sober.

This is my story.

I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic.

I am finally free.

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