Drug Addiction Stories: What Most Drug Addiction Stories Don’t Tell You

What I as a recovering junkie have found is that drug addiction stories seem to get glamorized in the movies, novels and other sources. Typically they will look at an addict and tell a story about them, but they never really get into the essence of what it is to be an everyday street addict.

Most of the time the character playing the addict comes from a wealthy home or a complete slum, but there is never really focus on the middle of the line junkie, the junkie who wakes up, has a fix and then begins to plan their day around their next fix. This unfortunately is very often the way that most drug addiction stories happen in reality.

When I look back, I see the different stages which I went through as a heroin addict. I came from a good middle class home, did well at school (up until drugs took over), got a good job and then began to break it all down due to my absolute love affair with a powder, a drug and what would eventually become my master.

I can only imagine where the potential which I had could have taken me, but due to a few bad choices, I chose to begin to create my very own drug addiction story. A story which took me to hell, the abyss, other dimensions and in the end very nearly cost me my life a couple of times.

Very few drug addiction stories cover the constant internal battle which goes on within the soul of a junkie, very few deal with the pain and suffering which is experienced by the addict when they can not meet the ever increasing demands of their drug master.

It is a life which I would not wish on my worst enemy but alas I often have to watch people I know or their loved ones enter into their own drug addiction story and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it as we as humans learn far easier through experience than by listening.

If only people would begin to hear the truth about addiction from the few survivors who make it out alive and what they have to tell in their drug addiction stories, perhaps then we would be losing fewer of our children to death by overdose every year, perhaps then more families would not fall apart, perhaps then we would begin to learn.

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