It all starts like a simple snort, just a puff or sip, then
it becomes a behavior and before you know it, you’re shackled in a death-trap
of substance dependency!
In spite of their grave short-term end-note, substance abuse
and addiction have stealthily muscled their way into the club of incurable
diseases that we have helplessly allowed to gain ground amidst us!
We continue to simply watch on as more kids taste away on
drugs and alcohol to also experience the 'higher' life for the first time!
We continue to simply watch on as youth get hooked on drugs
and alcohol to fit in with their peers or simply try to confidently ride with
the life tide!
We continue to simply watch on as parents wreck
family-fortunes to the bone in effort to water their drugs and alcohol
dependency!
You need to spend a few hours with substance addicts to wade
thru how substance dependency can wreck an individual's life till he takes his
last breathe.
You need to share
experiences with substance addicts to understand how life can be slit open with
just a snort on 'ice', a puff on weed or cigar, or a sip on liquor! Substance
dependency has become so rooted in our society that most of us view it as the
cheapest remedy to calm down nerves in troubled times, or a celebratory norm
when luck smiles at us!
However, unlike other incurable diseases, a minute over-dose
on substances such heroin or cocaine, or an alteration in content mixing of
drugs can result into loss of life in just seconds!
Never before has humanity experienced such soaring figures
of mental health illnesses and deaths all linked to drugs and alcohol abuse,
like we do today!
Every morning, for four weeks I sat
quietly at this rehabilitation home and listened to tear-jerking stories from recovering addicts, break-down how their
addiction journeys began with just a
simple snort, just a puff or sip,
then it became routine and before they knew it, they were shackled in a
death-trap of substance dependency!
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