All the drug user organizations involved in this site agree, that injecting drug users should never encourage anyone to try injecting drugs for the first time. There is no telling who may wind up with a heavy dependency and regret ever having tried to inject. One of these organizations contributed the following story from a client:
Drugs take over your life. Please never use drugs. All my friends used speed and morphine – I never had. But one day I said I want to try speed. I was told “No, once you have it — once — that’s it. You’re hooked”.
“But I only want to try it once”.
Drugs wrecked my life. I’m a mum of five and my kids are the world
to me. But I just wanted to get high. If I wasn’t up, I was down,
spending every cent on drugs. I even stole to support my habit.
I lost all my real friends, the ones who were smart. I lost my mum and family,
but most of all – the one thing I love the most – my children.
They were taken away by the government, and I couldn’t believe what
I had done.
I am on the methadone program and don’t use street drugs anymore
– I never will again.
I will be off the program very soon, and the best thing is I’ll have
my babies back after three years of hell.
I felt like dying at times. If you are using and a friend wants to have
a first go at drugs, be smart and say no. Otherwise you could be responsible
for them saying goodbye to real friends, family and completely wrecking
their life.
T.
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