REAL STORIES
"With chronic use, tolerance for meth can develop. In an effort to intensify the desired effects, users may take higher doses of the drug, take it more frequently, or change their method of drug intake."
National Drug Intelligence Center, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Location: Idaho
I am behind the Idaho Meth Project 100%. I am completely passionate about this campaign. I'm not and never will be a Meth user, but I see the truth in everything behind this. It kills me to see people everyday suffer from an addiction, but I'll keep praying for them. I burst out in tears when I read these stories and I cannot help it. I can't believe how powerful this drug is. I wish they could realize they stand for everything and shouldn't fall for nothing. They have long lives ahead of them. Life is too short to spend high and addicted to this horrible drug.
Earlier on in May, I saw a presentation from a previous Meth addict. She talked about her struggles and everything she had been through because of her addiction. She was burned from a Meth lab. But she wasn't worried about getting killed; she was worried about getting in trouble. She talked to us and told us to never get involved with that lifestyle, no matter what. Her story inspired me. She is such a strong woman. I will never forget that presentation and everything she has been through. I remember thinking to myself, ²Why would she throw such a good life away like that?" She was beautiful, she was athletic, and she was peer pressured into ruining her life. Everything she did revolved around Meth. And the fact that she could stand up in front of 2,000 teenagers was amazing to me. She is an amazing woman. She had so many guts to be able to stand up and explain how she ruined her life. I would have been in tears, and she held it together. I hope this woman knows how many lives she saved that day and how many people she inspired to get off that drug. If she is reading this right now, I just want to say thanks for saving my peers and thanks for saving any ambitions anyone would have wanted to get involved with something so devastating.
So lets all live by this motto - NOT EVEN ONCE.
Please don't think I'm trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to point fingers and call people pieces of crap, I just want everyone to know they have so much ahead of them, and doing Meth is not the answer.
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