My Drug Addiction Stories

Maybe someone will read them and it may be a step in the right direction for them. My drug addiction stories may not seem so awful to many but I understand the pain today, and only wish I could wake up. It is not a dream, they are reality in my life as well as in the lives of others that suffer from them today.

I became addicted to prescription drugs that I received for my gun shot wound. After a few months the doctor had enough and realized I was lying to keep the drugs coming. He slowly stopped prescribing them, like he should have.

This was the start of my craving for opiate drugs. It was a few years before I really got involved with them.

I never had a bad trip on hallucinogens, but took a friend to a mental hospital that did. The next day would be just that, more drugs.

My thoughts often were those who had bad trips could not handle that type drug. Like all street drugs, these drugs were made by people like us. Some may contain more of the hallucinogenic than the next dose. Plus they often laced these drugs with a poison called strychnine, to make the effects more intense. Strychnine was or is used in rat poisoning.

Remember all drug addiction stories start with a yes to drugs. Many end in death. Heroin deaths and drug overdoses are common for thousands of young kids.

Again I want to remind you these are my drug addiction stories. Anything that is in this content is a fact in my addiction life. I will not add drama to make it more intense, the truth is drama enough to me.

Eventually I was introduced to injecting the drug

Once this becomes a part of an addicts life, it's like adding another addiction.

No different than wanting something fast such as speed on computers. If you use a computer often you may be aware of dial up. It can be nerve racking, slow, slow, slow. It is great when you can get where you want to go, now. Multiply that speed at your finger tips by hundreds for convenience, compared that to an addict who injects their drug.

Here is a story from another former heroin addict I found very compelling. It is called Smuggling With Jesus to visit Hank's adventure click here

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There were several amphetamines that were popular back then. One which is methamphetamine "Meth" it's still extremely popular today.

Preludin was a popular drug for some time especially for injecting.

I would write prescriptions and have them filled at certain drug stores. I was arrested for this class C felony in Missouri several times. There were many more times I received the drug with, no questions ask.

This drug was mostly prescribed for those who needed to loes weight. I was tall and skinny, so that says it was fairly easy to obtain.

Desoxyn another popular injection drug I used.

It was not as popular as the others but was a very strong amphetamine. It was a slower process to prepare for injection.

The few I mentioned were what I mostly abused. White crosses were extremely popular. Mostly taken orally, but could be broke down to inject. The thing about these was they were also readily made up by man, so you were never sure what you may be getting.

As most street drugs today, their were several deaths due to overdose and deadly combined ingredients.

There is a prescription drug being abused today called hillbilly heroin check this monster out.

Now is the time my drug addiction stories, begin to be interrupted by jail and prison sentences. This is due to not working a normal job because my life of getting drugs daily, was all that mattered. Drugs cost money, and at the rate I was going no job I could get, would pay nearly enough.

That first choice to use drugs often turns into drug addiction stories such as these.

One choice and many destroyed lives.

My first jail sentence came as the result of doing burglaries. There were many, many, burglaries and stealing I committed for the dope.

I received a one year sentence in the St.Louis county jail. Drug addiction and crime are most always partners.

After a few months they put me in a work release program. I worked a regular job daily and returned to jail every night. Then I was rewarded weekends at home for doing well. I was not doing well at all.

The job I got was doing maintenance work in a hospital. That spelled one big thing for me. Access to drugs and blank prescriptions. They put an addict in an addicts gold mind.

These drug addiction stories can be very predictable. Mine are I can say that.

I believe most addicts who run the streets have a routine that's illegal, self serving, disrespectful, extremely unhealthy, and heartless. Addicts keep making the same choice moment by moment, day by day, week by week...

It was not to long after I was placed on the work release program, I was back into drugs and crime.

I had people coming up to the place I worked the St.Louis County Hospital and they were bringing me drugs. Then I found something I was familiar with, blank prescriptions. It was not long and I was writing my own and having them filled while I was suppose to be working.

I would take some of the drugs back to jail with me to sell and give to my friends. This went on for about a month before I was caught. Then I was sent back to the county jail for punishment.

It was a sick feeling being back in jail but not because of what I did, it was because I got caught. It would be many years before I was truly sorry for my actions and life style.

Unknowingly, waiting to begin another series of my drug addiction stories

It was not long before I talked my way into going to a drug treatment center, outside of the county jail. I convinced them that I needed drug treatment, that sitting in jail was not the answer for me and my future.

They sent me to Malcom Bliss a psychiatric ward in St.Louis City. It was the perfect move to continue my drug abuse. All the drug addicts were put in separate areas of the hospital, so we could not congregate, in our spare time.

Believe it or not they allowed us to go home on the weekends. They gave us just enough time in treatment to do what addicts do best. We were drinking daily in treatment, so going home on the weekends was not any different.

I got busted again while out on pass, for passing an illegal prescription. There were no charges filed because they thought I was a mental patient, due to my place of residents at that time. So they turned me over to the hospital, only to loose one weekend pass because of a felony I was not charged for.

That was a pat on the back for me. Not much of a lesson, it was a lesson to keep right on going, making the same old choices.

My drug addiction stories go from bad to worse. Progression in drug addiction is seldom recognized by the addict. It is sort of like aging. We see ourselves daily so the changes in age or weight gain or loss is difficult to notice. The only way to be aware of the progression is to keep close tabs on it.

Drug addicts and alcoholics keep tabs on only one thing. I feel confident you understand what that one thing is.

From this point in 1976 till 2000, my drug addiction stories are mostly repetitious. I went back to the county jail shortly after my treatment and completed my one year sentence. I was released on one year of probation with a 2 year sentence, if I did not comply to the rules of my probation. Comply I did not.

Here is a review of my life for the next twenty three years.

* I failed to complete my one year probation. Was sentence to two years in Missouri prison system.

* Released in November, 1978* Returned to prison in September, 1981

* Released in April, 1983* Returned in January, 1985

* Released in November, 1988* Returned in December, 1989

* Released in May, 1994* Returned in May, 1994

* Released in September, 1996* Returned in February, 1997

* Returned in November, 1997* My last release to date in April, 2000

I am currently on methadone a very small dose, and I am leading a life that I am not ashamed of. Now my desire, is to help others stay off addiction road.

For the ones who are addicts, you are the only one that holds the key to open that door to a new life. Use that key to open the door and ask for help from the heart and you shall receive.

There is one other important reason for reaching out. I need all of your help sharing your ideas, comments, or stories to help children understand in depth with great responses why they are saying no to drugs and alcohol the FIRST TIME.

I want to help children understand why no is the all important answer to drug and alcohol use. We can do this, it is our priority and duty.

Lets work on making drug addiction stories a thing of the past. We do not want our children to be scarred with a past such as mine.

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