Living without Drugs
Almost 70 percent of university students will have tried marijuana, half will have taken an illegal drug, nearly 40 percent will have smoked a cigarette, and more than 20 percent will have used a prescription drug for a non-medical purpose. There are many reasons adolescents use these substances, including the desire for new experiences, an attempt to deal with problems or perform better in institution, and simple peer pressure. Adolescents are “biologically wired” to seek new experiences and take risks, as well as to carve out their own identity. Trying drugs may fulfill all of these normal developmental drives, but in an unhealthy way that can have very serious long-term consequences.
I am going to tell a personal story of a persons who addict with marijuana. This marijuana addiction stories proof that people who believe they need marijuana to be happy can get along just fine without it. In fact, as these drug addiction stories show, people’s lives improve immensely once they find the help they need to put an end to their own stories of drug addiction.
Rahman had his first cigarette at age 19 and his first taste of marijuana when he was 22. Rahman says around that time, he started to hang out with people from his university who take drugs like marijuana extremely. By the year after that Rahman says he was doing ‘hard drugs.’
His first use of drugs is done by his class mate, taught how to choose good marijuana; grind them and put into paper then roll it for smoke. Some days after this incident, Rahman started himself taking drugs in a day long period. He told that “it make me feel like pleasure and set-free”.
After a while Rahman started stealing money from whomever he could; his mom, his girlfriend—just to fund his marijuana addiction. He told- “In the last three months of my use, I had been stealing whatever amount of money I thought I could get away with to buy my weed. Eventually, my mom caught onto the fact that I was not only stealing from my family but my girlfriend too (I stole from whoever gave me the opportunity).
I asked him when he runs out of marijuana what he does? He shared a story- “one of those nights hit when I ran out of pot, I went crazy. I called everyone I knew to score even a roach. I remember calling my dealer every hour on the hour to see if it had come in yet. I bought pot from people I normally wouldn’t have even talked to, much less done business with. What had happened to me? I thought I was using because I wanted to. Now I found that I was using because I had to. I had become an addict!.”
Rahman began to see the monotony of his everyday life: “Get up, go to work, come home and spend the rest of the evening stoned in front of the TV with a soda in one hand, a bag of chips in the other and the bong loaded and ready to go! This was the extent of my life.” He had enough of the monotony, of getting nowhere and doing nothing with his life. His situation on his family- “My home life was awful. I was in a constant battle with my parents and my little brother was being hurt as a result of my selfishness. I thought I was the only person in the whole world.
This young boy Rahman is now a well skilled cinematographer in Bangladesh Media Industries. Once it was his dream to become a cinematographer and now he working for his passion. Rahman recover himself by taking rehabilitation program in time of his extreme addiction on marijuana. He back from his addiction so strongly that some of his friends still smoke, but they’re cool with his recovery. Some of his other friends from before are nothing but trouble, and he don’t hang out with them anymore. Now he spends most of my time in class, working, or at home helping his family. He was working for a production house but now he is focusing on his graduation.
The realization behind give over on drugs that explained- “So many people think marijuana can’t be an addiction, but it can. Because when you smoke weed like I did, and you feel like you can’t have fun without smoking, that’s you depending on weed to have fun. And dependence on a drug, that’s addiction. My advice to other people is stick to it, you can do it! It’s not easy because when you’re in a residential program you have to be away from the people you love. But it helps you realize how important those people are, and it brings you closer to them in the long run and that’s what matters at the end of the day. I mean, yeah, you should definitely get clean for yourself. But if that’s not enough of a motivator, get clean for those who love you. I have noticed a vast improvement in my life, and it can only get better. So, if you are new, the best advice I can give you is read the literature, get a sponsor, and take a commitment. But more importantly, KEEP COMING BACK, because your life is still worth living.”