May - 2010

How I said no from being asked to smoke marijuana

Northern

At my school, there are plenty of kids who smoke marijuana. I am in grade 8 and have been asked several times. How I said no was simple. All i said was no. The group started laughing and calling me down. I just walked away, and word did get around, but no one seemed to care that i dont smoke marijuana. After that episode I have not spoken to that group since.

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My choices.

Other

I have done marijuana before, and i used to do it EVERY day. It wasn't a hard thing for me to get my hands on it. I am 15 years old and i started when i was 14. I didn't do it for very long, but even the length of time that i did do it, it got pretty bad. I am a very intelligent person, and to think that all i wanted to do was smoke marijuana all day makes me think about a lot of things that could have gone wrong. I COULD have been addicted, but i got out of it at the perfect moment. I have great parents and friends that are there to help me if i need it.
 
I was always high, and really out of it. Recently i tried it again after not having any for 3 months, and had a bad experience. I threw up a lot, and i was REALLY out of it.
 
Basically i hope everyone learns SOMETHING from my story, and stays away from drugs. I've experienced it, and now i think back and say "Was i REALLY like that?". I talk to some of my old friends and they tell me "oh, i got to go, going to go get high." Its ridiculous. I'm glad i moved away from that environment and i have a better future ahead of me. I read more then i used to, i'm actually EXCITED to go to school for once and i'm happier then i would have been before. Yes i do miss my friends, just not they're choices. I wish they could have a chance like i do and get away from it all.
 
My dream has always been to sing and i will continue to follow it, and now that i an think clearly i can reach my hand out farther then i ever have been able to.
 
I am much happier then i've been in a long time.
 
This is my story. Thank you for reading :)

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Hero, to Friends

Other

Well i have never really done drugs before, but some kids that i knew have and they tried making me do them. I walked away and never came back, i told my teacher and she said dont let no one preasure you into doing something that you do not want to do, I listend and it helped not only did i save myself, I saved my friends too

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Drugs aren't your friend. Friends are.

Atlantic

A few weeks ago. I had tried extacy for the first time. Now, I've been smoking marijuana for years but, after this incident I'm not going to do any drugs anymore. That day, we were all at a friends house party. I was with another friend. He had offered us some extacy. At first, I had felt pressured but, I didn't wanna seem like a "loser" compared to everyone else so we took it.
 
About an hour later, my friend was acting weird. He kept breathing hard, he had puked everywhere. People said it was normal for first time users but, I had felt something wrong...
 
Half an hour later he broke out in a seizure. I rushed to get my cellphone to call 911 but, it was too late. My friend was dead.
 
Let this be a lesson to everyone. Please don't make the same mistake I did. If you're feeling pressured to do something you don't want to, just leave.
 
R.I.P. Friend

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help

Northern

hi i was tempted to give drugs and ues them by my own friends hers the story.........
 
i have been going out with my friends brother for 2 years now and im dec i was called to go to a party and nothing out of the ordinary they wer smoking under age 14 and 12 years old well then came my turn i looked aat it and steped on it then was told that the kids that wer doing this was aressted for 3 days in a holding cell im glad i didnt tacke this drug i dont evn no what it was i needed to share this with some one and seeing all of ur adds i deciede to do soo thanx for lissoning to my story

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A-GEE

Western

Ever since I started smoking weed, I realized that my friends stopped talking to me. They didn't want to be around people who does drugs. I never cared at first because I was always high and never paid attention to anything. Now when I think about it, I finally realized why they didn't want to be around me. I even lost my best friend because of it. At first I thought that my best friend was just being mean to me about it but then I look back, I realized that she only tried to tell me to stop because she cared about it. Everyone in my school found out and they all didn't look at me the same way. At times, I even felt isolated. This changed my mood on doing drugs so I stopped. The reason why I started smoking weed was because I got out of a bad break-up. I asked my school counsellor for some help because I didn't want this to keep happening. A few weeks later, instead of smoking weed, I smoked cigarettes. It was the only method of helping me. My other friends found out about this and had a private talk. They told me that smoking weed and cigarettes aren't going to help. In fact, it'll just make more people ignore you. Smoking weed and cigarettes around your friends doesn't make you look cool. You're just hurting yourself!

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me

Other

i go to a school were alot of drugs are dealed. My friends have all taken them. They asked me when i transfered if i wanted to try, i just explained to them my focus was my sports and i didnt want that to change because of drugs. They understood wright away. Some find it akward i dont do drugs, but thats there probleme. I know drugs are bad, and it can really affect your futur.

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Never again.

Western

The experiences I plan to never them again, from now on I am very traumatize & practically remember every part of it. I no longer do any (street) drugs. I have tried marijuana, ecstasy & shrooms. This was all in the beginning of summer time. It soon was going to be my friend's birthday party on the weekend, where everyone had planned to drink for her. The party was a camp out. This was the time where I had told myself that I would never drink like my friends or smoke marijuana. This was the night where I had first tried marijuana & alcohol. I had got peer pressured into having one drink, than I had one drink & didn't like one bit. Later on in the early AM I was intoxicated & I didn t remember until my friends had told me the horrible story's that I did. I didn't regret it because I thought I had fun on the parts that I had remember, having a good time with my friends. Also I was like my other friends & I fit in, like I always wanted to. There was a guy there who I thought was attracting. I wanted to talk to him, but I didn't have the guts to talk to him. My friends told me I was talking to that guy that I had my eye on, I didn't know I talked to him. I wanted to talk to him when I remember not when I was drunk. Back then I used to drink every weekend, after the first time I tried it. I didn't realize drugs & alcohol can change your life. Like it changed mine. Later that night my friend told me I should smoke weed with them, I rejected them. They told me I should. I had second thoughts & I had tried it for the first time. I had enjoyed smoked weed till then. I didn't think I would ever smoke it in my life. I was addicted to weed. The second weekend I decided to drink once again.. Since I started to drink I started to take birth control pills, just in case. This time there was more people & one of the guys I was drinking with, I had a crush on him. I was thinking I can have the guts to talk to him after I have a couple drinks. Later that night I did talk to him & get close to him. I didn't remember what happened when I was with him that night. I asked my friends & they told me I took off with him. Alls I remember was he was telling me to go with him, somewhere else. This night had changed my life. In the middle of summer, I had tried ecstasy & shrooms, for the first time. During this time I still drank & smoked weed. I was out of town with my bf. It was night time just me & him walking around. I told him we should leave because I was getting tired. He said do you want to try E, I promise it'll make you feel better, I trusted him. I didn't know what it was at the time. I had took it & popped it in my mouth. I said what it is anyways. He said you'll have to wait. About an hour later, I felt better. My mind felt as if it was going fast, than again I was the one who was moving constantly. We met up with his friends & drank a bit. When I was high on it, I felt happy. I liked it. Me & him were starting to get real close. We have been dating for 3 months. Summer was almost over & my bf who lived out of town. He lived 7 hours away from me. I didn t want to leave him It was heartbreaking. I liked him so much, I almost thought I was in love with him. He told me he didn't want to go out with me no more. I was sad & heartbroken. I went back to my home town & I heard rumors that he was dating my ex bestfriend. I was so mad at both of them. It was almost school time. I had smoked weed everyday & was addicted during school. I went to the doctors for a check up. They told me I was pregnant. I was pregnant for 3 & a half months. I was only 15 when I was.. I was pregnant the first time I drank.. I couldn't keep the baby because I was on birth control, I did drugs & drank, while I was pregnant. I regretted drinking in the first place. Drinking changed my life.. Today I don't drink or do drugs no longer.

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Rest of your life

Central

Think, if you take drugs all the years of your past life could go "poof " gone forever. In a split secound your life could get better or crumble. My dad's best friend in high school took just one small drug, just to try and with that one taste his life was gone! He now has no house, rags for clothes he can't remember who he is or where he is. So all you have to do is say NO! And if they keep asking you and try to make you take drugs, well I always think about about the can of peper spray that I keep in my sock. not that I would use it but it always makes me feel safer and more sturdy. So in 1 secound your life could get better or it could fall from your hands forever. So just think about it!

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drugs are bad mm kay

Western

Im currently in grade 12, and living in a small town with next to nothing to do the pressure to use drugs is huge. Ive been offerd to come use drugs numerous times and have never wanted to use them. my friends make fun of me cause of that, but it does not bother me cause they not realy my friends if they are pressuring me to do somthing. Anyways my reason for staying drug free is cause iv seen how messed up proples lives get when they become addicted to somthing. and i have goals in life to graduate high schooland to race dirt bikes, and go to collage. I dont want to loose that to somthing that will harm my body and my dreams.

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Only once

Northern

I was with a bunch of my friends and they sparked up a joint. My buddy asked me if i wanted to try it and of course i was dumb enough to say only once. That didnt happen cause after that there was another time then i was like ok only do it once a month ok once a week and then it went to my money seemed to be disapearing on dope.
 
I quit eventually and now i say no! People can smoke it infront of me and i will say no because its gonna mess my life up.
 
My dad told me pot leads to bigger drugs like coke and he was right eventually the high i was feeling was gone. thats when i knew i had to stop!
 
Only once is not good how the word that is shorter than "only once" thats no!!!

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straightedge

Northern

I follow a straightedge lifestyle which means i dont drink, i dont smoke and i dont do drugs. The reason why i chose this lifestyle is to show myself and everyone who does drugs that i can have an amazing time without any substance. And also i think it shows how much you have control over your body and that you can say no even if you have the urge.

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leaving the earth.

Central

When I started smoking pot, I thought it was cool (it was what everyone else was doing), some of my friend's that I no longer have said I didn't need to be like everyone else, but I didn't listen. So that's how it all started, one single joint and I was hooked to the great high it gave me. That's how it always starts with pot, then someone else introduces you to alcohol, or ecstacy, or some other drug, and they always say "try it, it will make you happy" or "you'll feel like you can conquer the world", which is true, you do feel that way, and that's when someone gets hurt, or ends up at a police station. Then there's something that the youth now calls it "chasing the dragon" which is chasing that first high that you ever got from smoking pot, or cocaine, or any other drug. Your always smoking your drug to try to get that first high again, which is impossible.
 
Then there's your family, when you do drugs or drink alcohol your not just hurting yourself, your hurting your peers and your family. You'll act out sometimes without even knowing it, and when you withdrawl you suffer... but so does everyone around you.
 
Peer pressure is how most kid's get into this stuff, in school, in malls, or if their just hanging around with the wrong crowd sometimes without knowing it.
 
See, like the name of my story when you start using drugs it starts to be like your not even there anymore.. like you've already left earth, which could become reality very quickly if you make the wrong decisions. Drugs are scary, their evil, they make you into say your worst enemy. Everyone's worst enemy. Some kid's think they'll get somewhere in life if they do these drugs, but the reality is they will go no where, they will lose everyone they love, and their dreams will be smashed before their very eyes.
 
So please, just read my story, know your peers and surroundings, and stay away from drugs. They will destroy your life, they destroyed four years out of my child hood. Four years that I will never get back. So think before you accept.

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Drilling Deeper

Central

I tried marijuana last year, at first, its not fun, then you try again, and the fun begins, but i got addicted. During the summer, I was constantly smoking weed, but when I got caught, i fell in a massive depression. I won't lie, the feeling of pot is great, but for what it gives to you when you stop, is it worth it? It caused more pain to my family than i ever imagined. I was already depressed before i tried it out, which is why i kept taking weed, it brings you up, but all the things you hear about it only being a temporary solution, I couldn't agree more. I now see a psychologist and I take anti-depressants. Those really help, i feel better than I've felt in years. Another thing that I tried while under depression treatment was ecstasy. That is the worst thing ever. I vomited 4 times in about 12 hours and still felt nauseous for a few more days. I'm never doing that again and I sure don't recommend it to anybody. Now, i only smoke the occasional cigarette, and I even keep that to the strict minimum. Yesterday for example, I was all energetic and happy, in fact, I've never felt more alive in my life, but when i smoked that single cigarette, I lost motivation. I advise: don't take anything. Drugs aren't worth your life. I've spent the worst months of my life getting back up from weed, and rest assured, this will never happen again.
 
Hope this helps you guys in deciding to refuse!

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There is hope

Western

My dads ex girl friend hada 14 yr old daughter and she had been doing pot and that kinda stuff and i was talking and she was saying that she wishes that she didnt and then she threw it out the window. I was proud of her and now i look up to her!

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I thought it'd take all my problems away

Atlantic

When i was 10 i started hanging in our local drug place, the pit. Its where everyone goes and drinks and gets high. I was starting to have a hard time in life and thought maybe i"d try smoking. No biggie if it took away my stress right? Well i admit i was wrong. After i started smoking i ending up figuring out it wasnt taking away my stress but i was too addicted to stop at that point. I started getting drunk and getting into even harder drugs like E, Ritalin, and Weed. I started getting behind in school barely ever going home and getting sent to the cop shop almost everyday. I even started cutting myself. By the time i was 13, my parents ended up kicking me out, i was expelled from school, living on the streets trying to find out when and where i was going to get my next hit. After about a month of living on the streets, i moved in with my friend. He was one of my best friends ever. His parents started getting worried about us and our drug use, and sent us to rehab. We were there for 6 months and now were both almost completely clean except we both still smoke. I was accepted back to school. I still live with my friend but i also talk to my parents every now and then. We became boyfriend and girlfriend while we were in Rehab and were still going strong. And i hope for as long as i live that i wont go though that difficult stage ever again. Im now 14 and living as happy and normal life as is possible now.

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Runaway Fears

Northern

hi. drugs are bad believe me. because when i got told that i didnt believe one word said. i thought drugs were cool and trippy because reading all those what effects happen to yourself i wanted to try it. so i decided to hang with one of my friends which are into drugs. i was 13 and in grade 8, i went with her to the back ally of some house, she pulled out a joint and gave it to me, said breathe in this and keep it in your lungs until you have no choice but to breathe. this is how you get high . i did it and i smoke that big fat joint to myself! i felt strange like that feeling was AMAZING i thought this isnt that bad as everyone said. after this i didnt touch for awhile.. i did it like once a month.. then my birthday came! i was 14 finally. that day i decided to smoke a little more but with my best friend! i liked it ALOT.. i did it a little more then once a month! it was an amazing feeling that i had. but when summer came around i had 3 of my friends coming down.. for those two weeks of summer i didnt know what i was doing, what was going on or about anything anymore, those two weeks i disobayed my parents and went to the houses they have told me to NEVER go! we stayed out ALL night and ALL day. drrinking and doing nothing but drugs! the only food we ate was grilled cheese sandwitchs and noodles. not very healthy and believe me i wont eat them much anymore... but when that one night i dont knopw what i was doing i tried something other then weed.. i tried Ectasy. it was so trippy i felt sick but i loved it for some odd reason i knew the effects can be really dangerous but i wanted it. i was with my boyfriend i remember making out then i blacked... i had too much i guess after it wore off and i guess i passed out.. i woke up beside him and i was naked.. i had sex! I LOST MY VIRGINITY ! AND DIDNT EVEN KNOW AOUT IT!! he told me everything that happened.. i guess i wanted it.. i do believe that E is the LOVE DRUUG! welll that whole summer i had sex with him 9 times and dont remember ! not very good! when school was around the corner he slept with my friend.. so i tried to keep EVERYTHING down by smoking more and more weed.. it was an everyday thing i was doing,, after that summer i fought with my parents, fought with my friends and made decitons i shouldnt have! i was hard into druugss! after that GRADE 9! i was feeling lonesome... i needed drugs i wasna victim to drugs and bullies... everytime i had been called something or pushed or hit. i had a joint or a smoke.. not good really. after awhile i decided to give up and fight back i got suspendent and thopught hard for what i did.. when i went back i stayed clean and clear from all them... i did drugs everynight and drank everynight it didnt matter if i had school the next day. i just didnt wanna feel any pain i had!! i wanted to be RIGHT on CLOUD 9, 24/7.. and soon i achevied that.. but summer came i did a month in XXXX seeing friends getting high and drunk! playing around and fooling... when i came home in august.. one day well... i over dosed.. HORRIBLE FEELING! i dont remeber much of that day but my friends talking.. enemys talking,, and family crying.. i couldnt hear much i passed out cold. i didnt hear the anything but i over dosed at 1pm and i woke up at midnight.. in a hospital bed.. with my Gardain beside me.. i was hooked up to alot of machines and some i didnt even know... i fell back asleep didnt wake up till 3 for a few minutes and fell back asleep i woke up and 9am!. the doctor came in and checked me out... i was fine he said i had nno heart pulse but they manged to keep me with everyone and that im fine enough to go home! i still felt kinda sick but i guess thats normal.. after days passed and all i was doing threw them wsa rest and think.. i found out the real reason why i started drugs. i heard that it was fun, my friends did it and i guess when i started my non using ones started.. i guess i was afraid of losing my friedns to drugs. that i lost myself.. after all this.. i hardly trust it. i dont touch it ANYMORE!

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Never Again...

Central

I was doing some drugs, EG: Extacy, And marijuana. I Overdosed, and almost died from a heart attack. Extacy drains your spinal fluid and kils your brain, marijuana will kill several and can also lead to depression, found that out the bad way...
 
my advice to anyone that offers you drugs, is do not do it.x

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My Life

Central

Ok so i was at a party one night with a couple of friends and they had this rolled up thing i didnt know what it was at the time...They had came over nd asked do u wanna try so i had taken a hit and i am like this is gud...then we had sat around and smoked this rolled thing...i Then went home a couple of hours later and had felt really sick and had thrown up...Next day i went to skewl and still not feeling gud i had asked wat was tht i tiredd lastnight there like weed silly...So after they had told me i had start doing it more and more maybe 3 times a week then i started to smoke cigerettes then weed like everyday maybe 4 times daily...Now i am 18 years old and lookin back at the times wen i was 14 and wondering why i even tried it...For the youth out there tht are doing this plz stop take it from me u dont wanna green out u dont wanna be sick all the time and u especially dont wanna lose ur education...

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A east side story

Central

I Grew up in a family of drinking parents and tho they never used drug's it didn't take me long to star drinking very heavily and taking drugs i started with smoking pot but it didn't take long for me to start doing chemical drug such as E, K, blow,speed,perk's and anything else i could get my hands on. It only got worse when my parents divorced I started going to raves and house party's where i would get black out drunk and wake up in strange places and would constantly meet people i didn't know because i was alway's blacked out. i was taken to the hospital multiple times and started to become horrible depressed because of my drinking around this time i dropped out of high school and worked at a bar. during this time i spent around 1000 dollars at the lcbo a month and soon started to sell drug's too i was arrested several times for trafficking. During this hole time my relationship with my family was falling apart even tho i blamed a lot of my problem's on my parents my sister's couldn't stand to see me destroying my life. I knew that i couldn't keep this up forever so i stopped selling and taking chemical drug's however breaking the pattern i had developed over the year's turned out to be one of the hardest things i have ever done in my life i still have problem's with drinking to this day. I also want to note that heavy drug use destroyed some of the most important relationships of my young life i lost friends girlfriends and alienated family members. And keep in mind this is just a small sample of the thing's I dealt with and that if there is anything that you can take away from this is that if you have if you have problem's at home or depression burring them under alcohol and dope can have very serious consequences. and remember you can't take back the things you did in the past so try to make the right choices now before you have more regret's then memory's

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the pond

Other

me and my friends were just goofing off when all of sundn these gr 9's and were gr 6's ask if we want some weed one of my friends said sure and grab the bag and me and my other friend didn't but he through the bag of weed in the trash to teach them a lesson so they thought we took it and smoked it but were just right.

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Weed addiction.

Western

When I had first tried weed, was at a friends birthday party. I never thought I would of done it in my life because I knew at the time it was bad. I didn't know anything about it, alls I knew it was bad for you. I thought it was lame, I didn't realize what it can do to you. I had made the decison on smoking up with some of my friends, when they had asked me, so I can experience it in my life. I even told them I didn't want to do it again. Than after I had got high that night, I told myself that I liked this feeling. It was only going to be 'only' a one time thing. Than it became an everyday thing to me.After I took it I thought it was amazing. I never knew it can be so addicting to me, that I couldn't last a day without it, I used to think weed was my bestfriend, that made me happy. After many months of doing it, I didn't have the money, on one day. I didn't smoke weed for one day & then I was getting very angry, because my addiction. That night it was very hard for me to go sleep. I just thought to myself. Can I quit weed, It'll be the best for my family & friends if I had.. I tried to quit weed.. I lasted two days. I think weed is very addicting. I didn't like what it done to me, it had made me gain weight, lose some friends & some relitives weren't impressed by me smoking weed. I slowed down on smoking weed I smoked it 4 times a week, than 3 & 2 until it came to one day only smoking it once a week. Than I quit weed. I also didn't know what it can do to you or what'll happen in the future if I haven't quit it. I didn't want to do any thing else more than weed when I was addicted to it, I had tried shrooms & E. The worst trip was when I tried E. I searched up symptoms on weed & read all the known facts about it. On this 'not4me' I read all the drug facts & found it very interesting.. I tell my friends the imformation on what it can do to you & what other drugs can do. Some drugs can either ruin your life or not know what your doing to yourself & others.. My friend who 'used' to smoke weed, I convinced her on telling her things & she quit couple days after me. It wasn't easy for her, I told her to slow down every week until you reach the last week till you quit. I want to tell the people who do smoke weed to quit before it'll get worse & mess things up.. I made the best decison in my life to never do drugs before it comes to worser drugs & change your life.

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Drugs are scandalous!

Central

Drugs are very wrong. I'm repelled and not able to bear them. I don't have the stomach to hang out with any of my friends if they've started drug addiction either; but thank goodness they haven't yet. I really hope they don't...
 
I don't want to shrink away from my friends who may even get me into drug addiction.
 
It also kills me that young teenage folk my age do this illegally. Everyone should just be quick-witted and just say no when people at high school, including or excluding friends, whoever they are... try to give you drugs. It's wrong.

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My Story.

Northern

I was hanging out with a couple of my friends at the park. Then a kid came he was one of the "druggies" in our school. He asked if we wanted to hang out at the "B(blazing)-section. We all agreeded to go . I had never smoked weed in my whole life. When he passed the pipe to me ,I hesitated . All my friends were like "go on" and "come'on take a hit". So I took two . I started coughing so much. They told me to cough because it made you higher. I was walking home and it just kicked in. Nothing felt real. I was so scared . I went home and thought I could take a bath and it would go away. Boy was I wrong.. I strated crying because I knew I would get in trouble. and I was scared. So after I got out , I went and told my mom what happend. She wasn't mad. She was gald I went and told her . The next time I wne tot the B-section , and was passed the pipe I said "no". They called me chicken and scared but I didn't care. I waited at the stairs for my friends. I felt sorry for them. they hand't taken a hit last time and now they were freaked out. I told them to calm down and go home. And tell there parents. They did just that. And they didn't get in trouble , and just like my mom their parents were glad they went to them. We never took another hit. And when we saw people getting high we all felt sorry for them. And prayed for them. Goodbye drugs. I will never be that stupid again.

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This is why I'm against drugs.

Western

Two summers ago me and some friends used to sneak out and get in some trouble but we didn't do drugs. Then they started bringing this new guy around. He was a drug addict and he drank a lot too. He was rude sometimes but of course he was sweet to me because I was the only girl out with them at night. So me and him starting dating. We started hanging out alone and whe he was sober he was such a nice guy, but on the night when he was high or drinking he was just mean. He would hit me, and call me names and he's done other unmentionable things to me. He eventually got in trouble with the cops but he scarred me forever. It hurts to be around people who do drugs and drink excessively because they ruin lives. Please don't do drugs, have a happy life.

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"im only gonna try it once"...or so i thought

Western

hey this is my story of my addiction to drugs. it all started when i was 13 i started dating this one girl and she smoked weed and did E, i really didnt mind it, i just didnt go around her when she got high, so this one day i decided to go and visit her, so i got to her house and she was high on E, so she was acting really weird and she offered me some and i said "no". so she started calling me a chicken and stuff so she said she was gonna break up with me if i didnt..so i though "im only gonna try this one time" so i did..i hated how it felt, but the next day i wanted to try it again so i did it and again and again, then i started smoking weed, then i started drinking, then i started smoking cigarettes, then i started getting suspended and i started stealing off of my family just to feed all my addictions, so when i reached age 15 i said "thats enough, im done with this stuff" but it wasnt that easy, it took me a while but i quit doing E, then i quit smoking weed,then i quit drinking, im still strugling with smoking cigarettes, its a really tough habit to beat, so now im sitting here writing this and thinking "wow, i never thought i would be like that" but im really thankful that i stopped before i got into those hardcore drugs, and im really happy that i didnt become a criminal, i am now 16 and im living a happy and safe life =)...my dreams are to graduate and become a social worker with kids who suffer from alcholism and drug addiction thank you for reading my story =)

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The popular and the confused

Atlantic

My story is pretty bad when i was ten my family moved into a bad neiborhood, there were some kids there they seemed cool i guess so i went along with them and hung out with them thats how i started smoking. When i was a 11 things started to get worst i was still smoking but now i had also done weed a few times :'( it was wrong very wrong. But things changed for me i moved out of the wrong neibourhood and i got new friends .. REAL friends this time, my grades went up A LOT and i stopped getting in trouble in school and out of school, my teachers actually liked me and i reallllllllly liked them they knew what i had been through and they respected the "NEW" me as my teacher called it, they supported me and they helped through a lot of crap that went on in my life, but drugs didn't just ruin MY life it ruined a few of my friends and family's life for example my moms bad drug habbit ruinned my life completely becasue i came so far and she just wou,dnt do anything, my best friend had the same problem a few years ago with her mother (But my best friend never ever ever ever did drugs), but its all cleard up everything m mothers problem her mothers problem my problem. Everything worked out espacilly after we saw how muich drugs were effected us and the people we love.

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2 days, 34 pills.

Other

I was going to the mall with a bunch of friends to meet up with some more friends and a lot of people that i didn't know, but i would probably know in due time. We all walked around in the mall in a big circle, going into random stores to look at things and such until the mall closed at 9:00, and at the point we would all chill outside of Starbucks with everyone. I saw one of my friends taking some cold pills, and i had heard some stories about some other friends taking them, and thought that it would be cool to try it. My friends had told me their stories and said that their body went numb and they couldn't feel anything, and i wanted to try cold pills. So me and my friend went into a store and stole some cold pills. It was a pack of 20, and we had 10 each, but because my friend that had took them already threw up, we thought that it would be better to take them later on at the house (since my friend who had stolen the pills lived with me). When we got home we sat on the couch and watched some T.V and took the pills. 10 each. I was feeling fine at first, but then my friend decided that we should go up town for a walk. My mom was already asleep and i thought it was a good idea. So we walked up town for a while, and didn't find anyone to chill with, or smoke some weed with, so we went back to my place. By the time we got back i was feeling really sick to my stomach, so i told her that i would sleep on the couch. She said that was fine and went upstairs to go to bed. I lay down on the couch careful not to upset my stomach any more. I fell asleep for maybe about an hour or two, and woke up only to go to the bathroom and puke. After that i was fine.
 
The next day me and my friend went uptown and i said that i wanted to do some more cold pills, and she said, alright, but you have to steal them this time. And i agreed. We went to the store and i stole 2 packs of 24 pills. 1 for me, and one for her. We went to one of the parks with a few more friends and we took 8 each at first, and smoked a joint with 2 others (shared one joint with 4 people). I was feeling perfectly fine at this point, so we decided to go to the library across the road. In the library i took 4 more (equaling up to 12 pills now) as did my friend. I was still feeling fine and went out back and shared a joint with a friend and came back, still feeling fine. It was getting later at night and me and 2 of my friends went to my house. At the house me and my one friend who had been taking the pills together took 12 more in a row. So at this point i had 24 from that day, and 10 from the day before, there-fore having 24 in my system. I wasn't feeling too peachy. But my friends wanted to walk up town to see who was there, knowing that we probably wouldn't find anyone. We went to Giant Tiger and found about 3 of our friends, and say outside and talked. I was not feeling well at all, and i didn't respond well to things, i was literally like a real live zombie. My friends didn't like it, and neither did i. We decided that we should go home and sleep, and i was definitely up to that. My one friend who was just tagging along went to her house, and me and my other friend (who lived with me at the time) went to bed. I fell asleep for about an our or two, woke up and ran to the bathroom and puked. This carried on all night. And at one point i brought the garbage can beside the couch because i was too tired to keep running up the stairs to the bathroom constantly. I was still trowing up all night until i FINALLY got it all out of my system. When my mom woke me up in the morning she asked me why i didn't go to school (because i told my friend that i couldn't go because i wasn't feeling well still) and i told her that i was puking all night, and she didn't believe me. I was really upset that she didn't believe me and cried. She looked at me and shook her head and told me to go to bed.
 
About 2 weeks later she asked me why there was a box that was SUPPOSED to have pills in it in my room empty. I told her that i had taken 24 pills the night that i threw up all night, and 10 the night before. She looked at me like she was scared to death, and it turns out i could have O.D'd and died. I am very lucky to still be breathing the fresh air that is around me today. I am never going to touch those pills again, and i officially quit smoking weed as well. I will never touch and kind of drug again, because of all my bad experiences.
 
While writing this i felt sick to my stomach like i did the night that i puked all night. That's how bad the experience was. I learned my lesson. And im never trying any kind of drug again.
 
Thank you for reading my story. :]

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Bad trip

Central

Im in gr.10 i have average grades and very athletic yet i was a party animal i would got drunk AND smoke some weed no big deal but then in the summer i was pressured to domushrooms i was terrified but i caved and i ended up loving them so then i starting to trick myself beleiving that drugs werent bad for u so then i wanted tgo try lsd i took 2 hits m first time loved it even more then the next week i was tired of being high i just wanted to be normal until my friend and me did 4 hits of acid and smoked a gram of hashish i wasnt having a bad trip at first but i had bad vibes of that whole night and i wasnt really enjoying it like before then i wanted to be sobber it went all down hill the intensity of my trip was undescribable ive seen colours what i have never seen before and my first major hallucination like i wasnt even in the room i though would be amazing it was the scariesgt thing that ever happejned it freaked me out afterwards i started to really freak out then i started to go cross eyed and i couldnt control it i was seeing doubles of everyone and could barely see someones face cuz of the patterns everywhere after that and still i am a tiny bit MENTALLY ill from my trip there was lots of details cuz u trip out for 8 hours but i triped 12 but T THE AND OF THE NIGHT I COULDNT control my leg from stop shaking and i kept leaving my body having out of body experiences i never told my parent or family or someone for help but my friends anyways i went crazy but not noticiably now i get very paranoid not as much now and i use to have bad acid flash back like u have two eyes and see as one i saw them seperately wasnt pretty after that i have only drank cuz i like drinking and cut back on weed alot but once every,monnth ill have a little bit and ive been fine so farf but i can understand how drugs could messs u up trust me kids dont do them seriously !! that was my short story bu i could talkt to u for hours my life was a living hell but i stopped and now i am ok

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home alone

Western

I was 15 when I first got into drugs, me and my brother had the house to ourselves for the weekend, he is older and had been doing drugs for a while. I was a first timer and he promised me nothing bad would happen, and that I wouldn t get addicted, I mean it was only the first time right? Well I ended up doing two tabs of ecstasy, and getting hooked. I lives for the moments while I was high and ecstasy wasn t getting me to that high point anymore. I started smoking weed all the time. I never thought I was addicted I told all my friends I could stop whenever, that summer my best friend got into drugs as well, we were out getting stoned in a park and found out her brother had been arrested. It hit me then I could go to jail? Never get married? Never have kids? It all started going threw my mind. I tried to quite on my own but that wouldn t work, all my old friends didn t want to talk to me and all my new friends told my that its fine and no body ever gets caught. Summer went by we started going back to school and I couldn t sit still, always paranoid that some creep was watching me. I went to my much older sister and talked to her, and started to cut back, one thing is you cant stop all at once. If you do you become higher risk of reoffending . I now have been clean for seven months. Trust me it was not easy but I stop and look at me now and my best friend who was never an addict and just did it very rarely when she was with her FRIENDS and she now is high 24/7. its hard. And I hope one day she will be clean and be able to move out of the whole drug scene, because of my high adventures I m 16 and have a baby girl that means everything to me. I have no clue who her daddy is, but maybe one day a true man will take his place in her life. I know it sounds corny but honestly stay away from drugs they cause you all sorts of pain and trouble

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realy dank buds

Central

this one time at school i was haning out with my chums and my one friend showed up with his cousin. A few of us went behind the local gerocerie store, my friend's cousin said it was just to chill in a new spot, so we belived him.
 
my friend and his cousin pulled out a few tiny baggies with green stuff in it, when we asked what it was, all he would say is " Its Dank Buds!" and he pulled out a pipe that made a bubbling sound when he smoked from it. So he began passing the pipe full of these "dank buds" it got to me and i nevere tired nor wanted to try it but they all forced me . and when i tried it it hit me like a tanker truck!
 
I started caughing so much i thought my lung was going to burst.!! I drpoed the pipe and i heard it smash like 20x over and over again in my head. I sketched out and ran away so fast i had no idea where i was going to go. I heard them allyelling at me and they sounds very angery!!
 
It scared me so much i had run and not even realising it. I quickly ran in the door and realised my father was home!
 
Needles to say he knew i was high. He said i smelled like i was still smoking it. I then had o explain to my father the terrible thing i had done . he grounded me to my room right away . i immeadatly ran to my side of the bed room and sat down . i was concentrating on my heart because it was beating so fast i thought i was going to have a heart attack.!
 
so let his be a warning pot is not for me so it should not be for you I still havent been breathing right sice, and it was over a week ago!

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll...Not the best combination

Central

Hey, I'm up late, its a Friday night in downtown X, and I saw the not4me commercial on TV and decided to check this out, once i got on here, i realized there was a submit your story thing on the site. Well, i'm kind of an old guy now, being a retired musician, i used to tour the world, and i got everything you could want...when you're in your 20s. Girls, booze, and drugs. Except, 30 years later,that's all caught up to me. I wanted to let all the kids in Canada know that even if you grow up to be some amazing musician, playing big shows, big cities, there's no reason to get into any kind of trouble with drugs. I've done my share. Not just the common ones...I've done everything from heroin to cocaine to ecstasy, and let me tell you. Once you become that big musician, and get into those drugs, you'll be sorry. I can hardly write my name anymore let alone play guitar. All the time I spent partying with the band and groupies, has taken its toll on my body. I'm an old man now, and to end my story, if you want to get into drugs, take it from someone who has, you're also getting into addiction, fights with your friends, constant blackouts, and...quite simply, death. Do yourself a favour, and let the highest you ever get, be flying over the ocean on your way to play that huge festival.

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running

Central

One day my friend in high school said to me ''hey want to go to my house to play'' so i called my mom and went over when i got there about 6 other people. he said ''here have some'' i looked at my hand and saw a joint and some ecstasy a quickly said no but he couldn't let that go. he it my leg hard i noticed that my leg looked a little weird it was slightly broken. he asked me again do you want some. i was so scared so out of fear i said yes we walked into the room his other friends were already smoking and taking ecstasy.
 
moments later i was high and laughing drinking,smoking, and taking ecstasy soon i passed out from the drugs and alcohol it was 3 am the other guys were asleep. i soon got up and my friend said where are you going i didn't answer i just ran. he chased after me after a few minutes i was in serious pain and my leg completely broke i knew the street i was in and i knew that there was a police station few houses down so i was screaming help help the police didn't hear me knowing my friend was going to kill me i jumped into a glass door entrance alerting the police and saving me just in time.

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She didn't know.

Western

It's was a weekend and I went to this party with my older brother and his girlfriend. That's where I met her. This girl, completely innocent in every way. He and her friends had pulled me and her away from my group and told us we were going to a special place tonight. Not knowing what was going on, I went with them to the hallway where no one was. One of the girls took out a bottle filled with what seemed to look like pills. She opened them and told us "This is E. I just bought it and I thought that it would be fun." Everyone was laughing and shouting and taking hits. They offered them to me but I said no. The, on the other hand, took three. Later that night, she O.Ded. The pills she took were triple stacked and she took three. That's equal to nine hits. I miss her every day. Now I know not to take any drugs because I don't want to end up like that girl.

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getting better

Other

Okay well, i always promised my self i would never do drug's. i wanted to die making sure that i never have even taken a hit or sniffed anything. the only drug ive done is smoke weed. i havent recently. the only time i ever do it is when im with my big-time-drug-user of a friend. my friend has done every single hard drug and ive only smoked marijuana. sometimes i have urges just to smoke it. anyways, whenever im high im always scared, and cautious if my parents are going to catch me. after i smoked with my friends i put visine in my eyes, threw a piece of gum in my mouth, and drenched myself in perfume. ive come home high almost 10-20 times. and drunk like 5 times. im done with drugs, i hope. i just have to keep telling myself, NO!

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the last time i seen him

Other

Well ever since i was 10 or 11, i could always remeber my older brother coming home drunk. or at least i thought he was always drunk. apparently not all the time he was , when he wasnt he was using cannibis. He used to laugh all the time and smile, so i thought it was a good thing. i soon reilized it wasnt. 1 year later i reilized that when he came home he was depressed, he hardly smiled unless he had his "draw". he didnt want to be depressed so he always had his draw. one night he didnt have any drugs so he tried to take some graval to get a buzz on. which lead him to get really screwed up in the head. he was all over the place, slurring his words and everything. found out he overdosed. 1 or 2 years later i used to hang around with him and his friends and they all would smoke weed in his room. i was always curious of how it felt to be high. one night he handed me a joint and asked me if i wanted any, so i took some. it felt like everything was a movie and everything was so funny. so i used to do it every now and then. until i reilized what it does to you. one night a year later my brother was on the liqour and also high. i remebered that one night he told me that he was close to shooting him self because he thought he had no reason to live. but he stopped himself. i didnt think he would this night if he thought of it so i locked the gun case and hid the key in my room. so i went to bed with my boyfriend and i heard him yelling at my mom upstairs and than i heard her scream. so i jumpped up and ran up stairs to see what had happened. i passed my brother on the way up the stairs and asked what the hell did he do to mom. he didnt say a word. i went up and when i seen mom she was shaking. i asked her what had happened. my brother was mad that mom wouldnt give him the key to the gun cabinet so he took a knife and cut his wrist, deep. i seen puddles of blood on the floor and i couldnt believe it. i ran down stairs and seen my brother hovering over my boyfriend ( which is his best friend) telling him that he had done something stupid, my boyfriend didnt know what was going on until he seen the blood on the bed. my brother stumbled out to the basement and fell to the floor. i called the hopstial and told them it was an emergancy. than mom got towels and wraped it around his wrist . he went to the hopstial all night and had to be medavacted out to XXXXX. he had to get around 20 stiches and you could only see 5 . 3 months after my brother was drinking. he got wasted and he claimed he needed some weed. so he tried so hard to get to the nearest community which was 150 km away. he couldnt take our car because he got his licence taken away for drinking and driving before and also mom hid it away so he couldnt take her anyways. before he wondered down the road i tried to convince him to stay home he could go get weed tomorrow, but he wanted it tonight , than i started yelling at him about yelling at mom and dad and doing weed. but he is so stubborn. so i went to sleep. i thought it would all be okay in the morning . my dad woke me up at 4:00 am and told me that my brother and my friend had stolen a car, with no winter tires, and got into an accident. i just about freaked. he had to go to XXXXX to get stiches in his forehead. and i never seen him until 2 months later in lock up in XXX. n now he is in XXX jail and i wont see him for a long time. i never did drugs since then. and i think he and i reilize now that drugs just tear families apart. i mss my brother :( i love you

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my sisters friend

Northern

I have a sister who is 24 and when she was in high school she had a friend who did drugs that friend kept insisting that she should try some but she stayed strong because she knows how to say no she dosen`t go near a smoke or any kind of drug.She dosen't talk to the girl any more and I am happy she dosen't.

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Here I am...

Central

It started when i was 14. One of my friends passed away. I took it really hard, I decided to change my friends rebelled against everybody who cared about me until they didnt care anymore. So i got depressed... My friends decided that they didnt like me being sad all the time they said i chnaged. so they introduced me to Extacy. Was fun in the beggining until i always wanted more i used eveyday everyday all the time no eating drinking nothing only popping pills until it wasnt good enough for me i went on to cocaine loved it never had something so good in my life. i went partying one day this guy came up to me when i was so high and drunk offered me Herion. I never thought id ever tough that stuff but i did im hooked i cant stop. Still today im getting helo slowly. my therepy gave me these web sites thats why im writing my story. Today i havnt finished my secondary 2and im 21 year old women hooked on heroin for all you kids out there please dont that to yourselfs... get help now

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Drugs Are Bad

Atlantic

So OMG, so today at school, this new girl offered me drugs, meth, and weed, and I was like, heck no girlfriend. I was outta there. I didn't want any part of that. I know the many kinds are thousands of harmful stuff in dope and go home and eat too much as it is. I walked home that day and this girl offered me weed. I told her that when she goes home either she will get in trouble or grounded. I dont know, I entered a drug prevention place and I'm trying to help. Don't Do Drugs!

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Fitting in

Central

I started at a new school this year. The only people that really understood what life was like for me was the "bad" group. No matter what I did I never really fitted in. One day I asked my new friends what they did in their spare time and they told my they got baked, drank and partied. I thought that was what I had to do to fit in. So after school one day I decided to tag along. When the leader asked me if I wanted to smoke, I thought about it for a minute, took the smoke in my hand and hesitated. In that instant, I remembered everything that happened to my mom, who died of lung-cancer from smoking, and right then I realized that that wasn't what I wanted to be. I didn't want to be my mom, or these people I called friends. I wanted to be me.

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proud of who i am.

Western

im in ninth grade, i dont smoke or drink. I've learnt to say no to people offering me drugs who like doing it, or think its cool. But still I get invited to parties because people respect my decisions, and who i want to be. I have lots of friends that drink, and im proud to say i take care of them at parties. even though they might not follow my beliefs about drugs. I have younger friends that look up to me, and i feel so proud to be a role model. making good decisions benefits yourself and others. my brother graduated high school doesnt drink or smoke. hes been a great, great role model for me. i know that i can be "cool" without any drugs in my life. You CAN say NO, and still be invited to parties. Dont let people put you down for making your own decisions. You are your own person. Say no to drugs, and be proud.

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A "Drug War" Scenario:

Other

A "Drug War" Scenario: This guy sat in a jail cell and thought about how his mother had put him there. He was twenty-two years old and had recently graduated from college with a degree in biology. All that summer he had looked for work related to his degree and found none. He had moved back into his widowed mother's house. He had no money except for what his mother would give him to cover his expenses. What she did not know was that his expenses also included money for drugs. He had spent a small part of the money she had given him for groceries on drugs. She had questioned him about it; he had confessed and she had reported him to the police. They came to his mother's home, found pot in his bedroom, and arrested him for possession. Tough love! Now he waited to meet his fate.
 
One of his jailers said to him as he entered the cell: Now you'll have some time to think. He was doing just that he knew his mother loved him and wanted only the best for him. After all it was she who had supported him through college after his father's death. He also knew that she was resolutely ignorant about drugs.
 
He knew that marijuana was probably the least harmful drug he could use. He would rather use marijuana than alcohol even though his mother had given him money for wine for herself and a six-pack of beer for him. He knew the beer would most likely stay in the fridge until he wanted some liquid refreshment. He did not use alcohol to get high. He loved to get high on marijuana and had done so for the past two years. He also knew that he would be out of jail tomorrow and would return to the family home with a new label: drug addict. That would be hard to take.
 
As he was engrossed in these thoughts his jailer called out that he had a visitor. A deputy escorted him to the visiting area. It was his mom. He sat down by the glass partition and picked-up the two way phone. His mom, usually impeccable in her appearance, looked distraught: she had been crying. This made John upset too because in spite of what she had done to him, he still loved her. She was carrying one of his college texts on drugs and addiction.
 
She had book marked a page and she opened the book to that page as she lifted the receiver. She said, I know you said marijuana is not a dangerous drug but a part of the Substance Control Act reprinted in your own college text lists marijuana alongside heroin. If you love me at all, you are going to have to promise me that you will never use pot again. Promise me..."

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love drug

Central

once opon a time there was a group of really hot powerd 14 yr old girls.there names were not important but their story was,one day at their high school they all wanted to try the ''love drug" also know as extacy.soo we all gathered in the bushes of the school and took little pink pills...some took not even a quarter but i thinking i would be cooler took a bigger than hafl pill...it was enough to kill me but i really wasnt thinking about what could have happen.after they kickied in we were all syco and really horny....one of my friends even tryed to take off her top but i stoped her,after the trip was over for most my boyfriend was still high in the sky...he was punching himself and trying to claw at his face...after we got him to clam down we had a phys ed class and was doing a beep test when i looked out the window and saw my boyfriends brother and our principal i saw an ambulance with a cop car and started to trip out like crazy but,thsat wasnt it on the strecher being pulled out with a gas mask on was my boyfriend.he was going through an over does and i was freaking out so much that i colaps to the floor crying luckley me bestiee was there to hold me but when the gym door opened and my princeipal walked in i new we were busted and in hell.we got to the office and stayed there for 5hours.until a conffesion came out of us and we were all dead!now just me typeing this is makeing me cry drugs were once a big part of my life but now i have a better one with the word NO in it and nomore lies and broken hearts.i lost 2 things that day...my botfriend and power...thanks for reading please think of drugs as the end of your story next time you do it cuz my bf didnt think that way and now his story really over forever ....R.I.P ily forever and ever a broken heart coused by the monster love drug!<3

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dead, inside

Central

one day me and my friends wanted to get high sooo badley but we didnt have weed nor anthing els for a buzzz.but my friends dealer called and said he had coke and could give it to him for free and we wanted the vuzz soo badley that we took the coke that was layced with a few other drugs and...all i remeber was that the next day i saw my mom and was in the hospital cuz of a huge overdoese that killed most of my friends and stoped me from being alb to walk or run.that was my rock bottem that i was a luckey one unlike my other friends that lost their life to free drugs.but now im dead in side

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Drugs ruin people

Atlantic

My ex-boyfriend used to be on the hockey team, be in french immersion, which is where I met him. We became very close and I knew he smoked weed every now and again, Which was not a huge deal to me. Me and Him went to a few parties together, This is where I relised he did it more then I knew of. Theses parties were during the summer, so at the end of the summer he was kicked out his house and I was not with him anymore. He started doing E and shroomz. He now does not attend school on his graduating year, and spent all those years learning french which he now threw away. he lives at a house that there are parties everynight. I still care for him, and when I see him I tell him I am glad he is still alive. One day he was at school, and got into a fight, he used to hate fighting and thought it was stupid, I truely know that drugs change who people are over time, as much as they hate to admit it.

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gateway drug

Western

I remember when there was a time that I thought I was way to smart for drugs, I promised myself i'd never touch them. That was never going to be the path i'd take. But it was an easy promise to break. At thirteen I tryed pot, and a month later, extacy. They made me feel above everyone, they took me to a place where everything was perfect. Which is why my "druggy" label, which followed me into high school, never bothered me. Soon i was okay with experimenting. I tryed acid (LSD) and pure (MDMA) and that was all it took to see what drugs were doing to me. I was high , more then i've ever been. But this time it didn't make me happy. I finally realized I was numb. I didn't feel love for anyone. I didn't care about anyone. I saw how pathetic I looked. And for the first time I didn't want it anymore. I wanted to really feel. I wanted the person I was before drugs back. I hope people learn from this. All drugs do is slowly break you. Until the day you look in the mirror and see a stranger looking back at you.

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This wasn't what I was looking for

Northern

I thought that doing drugs was good. But I was wrong.
 
I was about 16 when I started doing drugs and I stop doing drugs when I was about 18.

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Drugs leave to new lifes

Other

As a highschool student I've tried and did so many drugs just because how i was living people don't see how or why teens do drugs. For me it was the things i was getting into i felt alone and scared that's all i had. Drugs were my best friends and because I was so attached to them I only hung out with people who i thought were friends because they had access to the drugs I was addicted too. Living here In Hamilton Isn't the easiest thing to do I'm surrounded with things that bother me i have a lot of problems I faced many things, Drugs were always the answer to everything until this past summer I was arrested by the police and taken to a psychiatric Ward at a hospital in Hamilton, I met a lot people whom had problems like me I've been clean since the first week of October. Who ever is reading this there is hope and it does get better the Police really saved my life, but at the end of the day it's the decision's I made I know if I did not stop Id be in jail i wouldn't have hope. But trust me If i can do it anyone can. Believe in hope, Fate, Destiny most importantly yourself. Drugs are around us because we choose them to be

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never again

Other

I am in gr.10. My life was turned around when the first time I tried weed in gr.8. At first I thought it was really messed up and I chose not to do it again. But soon after I started taking more and more almost every day. It made me feel like no one was there for me and the only thing left in my life was that one joint or that one bong hit. Whenever I took it took me out of the world, and it was a good feeling.
 
When I got to gr.9 I introduced it to one of my closets friend, which was a really bad idea. Every lunch me and him would go out with the older kids to smoke weed and cigarettes. We thought we were cool hanging out with the older kids. But it certainly wasn t that case. I got addicted to it in gr.9 and did it almost twice everyday. My girlfriend broke up with me about two weeks of high school. Everyone in the school started calling me a druggy and trusts me that made me feel even more depressed and lonely, so then again I kept taking more.
 
In the past month or so, I have been feeling dizzy almost everyday. So I have stopped myself from doing drugs by telling my parents and my sister, who also goes to the same school as me, which has helped me because I hang out with her and don t go do drugs. When I stopped doing them, it showed me how it has affected my body. I have been bleeding from my nose and have been puking blood. I have been visiting my doctor and she told me to get a blood test. Please pray for me to have a positive blood test. I have quit drugs and cigarettes and will never touch them again please.

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They just mess you up

Western

i remeber the first time i ever did drugs grad 8 some b c budd with my brother and his best frend after that didnt do it that much tell grad nine when i did it almost every day i managed to get good grades in school and stay out of trouble but at the end of the year at a party i got offerd a couple hits of not thinking really i took them and loved it. and i started doing it more and more and getting more and more messed up. buy half way through the summer i tryed exctacy for the first time and i loved it even more than acid and i swithched i was caped all the time every single day. i even started selling it by the time school came around i tryed to clean up my act but it was to hard and started again on pot i managed school on E i failed half way through first semester i was out high on extacy and drunk and i saw a pipe i thought it was pot and was like oo well well it wasant pot it was crack and i liked it more than E i started doing that more then when i was on crack i tryed another drug meth that was a bad one. i have been clean for two weeks and am no lloonger failing out of school but if you looked at me now i was a completly diffrent than a year b4 and wished i had never smoked that pot in grad 8

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I might throw up!!!!

Central

I am 10 , people say drugs are cool on the school bus. I told my mom , we decided if I am ever in a bad situation where I feel uncomfortable I am just to say i need to call home I feel sick. I think I might throw up. Nobody is going to force somebody to stay with them and try something bad if they are going to throw up. They just want them to leave there for they can call there parents and get a ride home. Thats my best idea or a police officer in the every school.

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party madness

Central

I went to this party at my friend's place. It was fun at first then when it was time to dance, a guy said"hey this are the coolest. Why don't you try one." I knew that drugs are bad for both the mind and body so I just called my Mom to pick me up to avoid coming in contact with drugs.

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man what was i thinking ??

Central

Ok like. this is really hard for me to talk about because of my problems with drugs. even thinking about writing this letter to the public makes me me wonder what my life would be like now if I never came to my senses. I just wish things hadn't gotten so out of control before that...
 
if only my brother could have seen what i see now. i wish he was still here. Ok like, i was 12 and my brother was 14 we had stolen a pack of our father's smokes and were off for a great day of fishing at a near by lake. we smoked all of the darn things on the walk there and i had a wicked head rush. i didn't even like them but for some reason i couldn't say no when my brother kept asking me if i wanted another. it was a was great day, not to hot but still hot enough to swim. when we arrived at the spot that my brother would take me. we came across four other boys that my brother seemed to know. they were older, all standing around in a circle smoking what i thought was a cigarette. i was wrong and this would be my first mistake in changing my life forever. the tallest boy ask my brother if he wanted to take a "hit". i didn't know my brother was into drugs at that time. he gladly took the joint and took a huge hit.he looked at me and asked if i wanted some. i said no at first but they made fun of me calling me a mommas boy, so i gave in.
 
next thing i knew i was a 21 year old high school drop out, living if your could call it that, on the street with my brother. we did what we could bumming change of anyone even stealing to support our new habit, meth. we would do anything for the stuff. we had few friends and our family wouldn't even talk to us. our main dealer was a really dangerous guy and we both owed him money. he said if we didn't get him the money by the end of the week that he would kill us.
 
we got the money and went to meet him around 11. when we got there said it was to late. we didn't know what to do he said we had till the end of the week, but something didn't seem right. by brother try to reason with him but said that he wanted the money and that he was gonna shoot one of us just to prove a point. he kept asking us who it was going to be. my brother charged at him trying to get the gun from his hand but he was to far.
 
my brother was shot and died all for nothing. i will never forget that day. next time you smoke weed or do a line of blow, think about this story a know that drugs can kill you.

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THERE WAS THIS GIRL

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HERE WAS THIS GIRL IN MY CLASS WE WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL SHE USED TO LOVE DRUGS SHE COULDENT STOP SHE TREID TO MAKE ME TRY IT BUT I SAID NO SHE ALWAYS ALMOST GOT CAUGHT WHEN SHE WOULD BE SMOKIN WEED AND STUFF BUT SHED RUN OFF AND THEY WOULDENT CATCH HER BUT THEN ONE DAY WE WERE OUT TAKIN A WALK ONE OF THE POLICEMAN SPOTTED HER AND REMEMBERED HER FACE SHE SAW HIM AND TOLD ME TO RUN WITH HER I DIDENT REALIZE WAT WAS GOIN ON UNTIL POLICE MAN GOT IN THE CAR AND STARTED TO CHSE US I WAS TRYIN TO STOP BUT SHE KEPT PUSHIN ME BUT THEN SHE FINALLY STOPPED AND LEFT ME BEHIND SHE KEPT GOIN THE POLICEMAN THOUGHT I DID DRUGS TOO SO HE SEARCHED ME AND THERE YOU GO IN MY SWEATER POCKET WAS DRUGS SHE FRAMED ME THATS HOW IM GONA END IT SO DONT DO DRUGS OR BE FREINDS WITH PEOPLE WHO DO

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Still am

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im 15 right now. i started using drugs when i was 11. started with simpels stuff: weed/ciggs, shrooms, e, lsd, mdma, k nd poppers. sometimes find e with meth, sell that or once in a while even try. gets u rly f'd over tho. when i jsut started i remember htinking "o this is nothing. just a little J now nd then. all good" it rly isnt tho. yeayea its not addictive, yea it has no side effects AS IF. i got hooked pretty much right away. i smoked all day every day for MONTHS. eventually sumemr came, nd i had no dealers around me. only my parents. smoking became too risky. i started growing then. got around for a while, got some money. then started on e as soon as the new skool year came. almsot every weekend at least one pill. usually 2 or 3. i wasnt addicted. i did so much cuz i went to raves and parties, cuz get it for free from anybody. ppl gave me pills. its was easy nd wen i was on it i had no interest in skunk. after a while i realised how much it f'd up my back. i had to quit fitness. and cuz of weed my memory and attention were in such bad condition my marks went down. so then i started selling e. al lthe pills i got for free i wud sell. and thats how i stumbled upon meth with e. little red pills usually in a heart shape with a cross. i tried a few. passed out, flew all over the place. no wasnt my thing. so i moved on to shrooms. it was easy to get, a lot of ppl wanted to by. at some point i started doign them myself. but the effect wasnt good enough. so i went out nd got acid. hit me like a b---h. loved it. rly go hooked there. spend like 20$ on it every week. was lucky i had the money or i wud have lost everything. the world became a blur. i already was 13, ending gr 8 but my skool attendance was worse then a gr 12 students. my teachers started noticing. i got puleld back from all the s--t and made to go bakk to skool. i hardly graduated and went to an art skool. somehow i made it..... by then i had constant headaches, pains in the back, i cudnt run, i ran out of breath by jsut goign up the stairs. i had flash backs a lot nd a lot of nightmares. so thats wen i found poppers, and salvia. easy to get. doesnt give a long high but a good one tho. i did a s--t load of that a day, eventually ended up in a hospital. i got pulled off teh s--t again. now with a record of doing it. but i still didnt stop. it was the end of gr 9 then that i discovered K for myself. most ppl snort it but me nd my friends injected it. then smothe it with a bit of coke and a J. best combo ever.... one mistake. i drank, by then i was also an alcocholic so i ended up getting my stomach pumped, have 2 records. now i go to AA nd DA every weekend. i cant do sports. i got kicked out of my skool. i live in a house for kids whos parents dont wona take care of them. i put my family nd myself in danger cuz of my drug and alcochol abuse. if u start, even with the simplest thing liek weed, plz consider the fact that u might be making the mistake that will change ur life forever.