Drug Addiction Information

My Personal Drug History

At 13 years of age I took my first drink, by the age of 21 I checked into my first rehab. It began by the usual experimental drinking in a small rural town in Pennsylvania. Being that I was shy, alcohol was a gateway to communication for me and I felt that I was more fun when I was drunk. Soon after I was introduced to marijuana. From the moment I took the first hit I was hooked. For those who think marijuana isn't a gateway drug keep reading. LSD quickly fell into my hands and I became addicted, eating it like candy. My LSD habit escalated to using it two to three times per week for the next three years. Between the alcohol, LSD and marijuana there wasn't a moment of a day that I was actually sober.

By the time my senior year of High School rolled around my drug and alcohol problem was out of control. Three months prior to my high school graduation, I was hanging out at a friend's house smoking marijuana when someone pulled out a bag of cocaine. Snorting cocaine quickly became a daily habit. At times, I would do so much that I had to smoke marijuana to bring myself down. While other kids were concerned about their senior pictures and prom dresses, I was consumed with the worry of running out of cocaine and faling flat on my face. I was stealing money from my parent's business and from my grandparents on a daily basis to support my alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and LSD habits... to be continued...

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