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Age: 22
Gender: Female
Location: Kimberly

I started using Meth when I was 16. I started stealing from my job, lying to my parents. I was at work one day and a girl I worked with brought Meth in, she asked if I wanted to try it but warmed me that I would become addicted. Being the person I am I said I will do it "just once." Well that just one time turned into doing it before school on my lunch hour, after school, and all through the night. I would stay up for up to 3 days straight without sleeping. I remember one specific night, I went to walk down the hall way and got so scared because I had these three shadow people around me. I remember going back into my bedroom and I looked down and my whole body was red and blotchy. I was dehydrated and on the verge of an over dose. That was my breaking point. I went in the next day to work and told all of my "friends" that I was done not only because I almost overdosed but because we had the cops across the street watching us. I was doing meth for about 2 years and I would have to call that drug just like the ad on the radio ­ "the devils drug." Once you have done that, there is never ever going back to the original person you were before you touched that drug.

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