Living an urban life, being curious, experimenting, avoiding stereotype, no limits and borders. Everbody starts with marijuana because they want to be popular and get accepted by friends. If someone refuses, he is seen as weak, coward, gets rejected and the others make fun of him. There is a popular belief that marihuana is nothing to be afraid of, it’s a “light drug” you can’t get hooked on, you can control it. Marihuana is an herbal based substance, so it can’t be that damaging, “better marihuana then cigarettes”. But it’s different because, at some point, everything becomes related to marihuana- same crowd, same places, all sharing the joint. There is always someone bringing “the pot”, so you are not buying it, but then you find yourself in situation you really need it and start looking for a way to get it.
Every young person wants to follow modern trends, it’s a growing up phase. They visit parties where they get to try ecstasy; it’s just one pill, right? It’s more fun and that good feeling of being “high”.
Every night out brings something different, something more. So you try LSD and it gives you a good “trip”. A way new feeling, you get to see and hear different stuff.
Gradually, a person starts avoiding its old company and starts hanging out with new people who also enjoy relaxing, and are likely to offer something new and something more. Then comes a moment when you “just want to try” heroin so you could experience the world differently. There is nothing wrong in trying it once, right? Person is convinced that he can quit at any moment- it’s not a big deal, since he is using it to relax occasionally. Then you start using it frequently, once in two weeks or over weekends, and still perceive it as controlled consuming. And every time person makes a decision to quit, someone comes up to remind you and drag him back into the illness. It can be a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend. If a person continues with drugs for too long, people start abandoning him, so he starts forming relationships with the only people left- other drug addicts. You take bigger and bigger dozes, heroin becomes most important. You wake up one morning and realize you can’t function anymore without the substance and you need it just to get out of the bed. Nothing is the same, you live in your own reality where you only think about how to get the substance. There are moments when you try to get clean from it, and never take it again, but it’s not easy. First few days of crisis you feel unbelievable pain in your body, and you feel that the only thing that can help you is to take drugs again, and you start all over again. Large amounts of money are being spent, there is not enough left for heroin or for the treatment. In order to get some fast money, people start selling drugs, and the money they get is called “cursed” money, since it is spent again on drugs.
When you look back, it all started with marijuana, the drug that opened the door to hell. You thing it was all going to end on that, trying it for a couple of times, but it didn’t.
You are just one step away from the heroin. By the time you realize what is happening, you became a drug addict.
Quit drugs, choose healing.