Drugs Made My Life a Living Hell

October 23, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Holiday - New Years

by Frank Smith

Printed by Partnership for a Drug Free America – http://www.drugfreeamerica.org

After having a huge fight with my girlfriend one night, I decided to go out with some friends to have a good time and forget my problems. I was very drunk and high on Methamphetamine when I foolishly climbed up a tree and fell about 40 feet to the ground. The next thing I remember is waking up from a coma eight weeks later and feeling a pain so tremendous and so severe that I could barely endure it. I had lost control of my bowel movements, could no longer perform day-to-day tasks by myself and the legs that once carried me swiftly down the football field in high school were now lifeless. I weighed less than 100 pounds and was faced with the harsh reality that at 22 years old, I would be wheelchair-bound for the rest of my life. I was lucky to just be alive, but I knew my life would never be the same again.

It has been 20 years since the stupid act I committed in a severe drug-induced state changed my life forever. But I can tell you it has been hell on earth — an existence filled with enough misery to last a lifetime.

As a kid, I was your average American teen growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey. I was a B student, had lots of friends, an out-going personality and a passion for playing sports. I was a polite, quiet kid and part of a nice middle-class family.

When I was in sixth grade, I convinced myself that drinking beer wasn

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