Why do we drink and use drugs? by King Steelo

If we didn't drink or use drugs---we wouldn't be considered Substance Abusers in the first place---right? I think back to why did I ever drink or use drugs and all I can come up with is because my friends did it! I wanted to look cool and get attention from the hot girls in school. I mean back in the days---smoking a joint or drinking a beer wasn't that big of a deal. Little did we know that we opened a gate to another dimension none of us should have entered.

As we got older---our usage increased. We became "Weekend Warriors"---partying and getting high together at clubs. Next thing you know---we graduated to much harder drugs like cocaine, x-pills and heroin. Then we became dependent on our drug of choice. Our world revolved around it---ADDICTION! The drugs took over our minds, bodies and souls. Our friendships weren't the same anymore. We started lying, cheating, stealing and plotting on each other. Some of us would lose everything, end up in prison or even meet DEATH!

How in the world did this become the aftermath of childhood friends who only drank or did drugs every blue moon? Well if I would've known then what I know now---I wouldn't have hung out with my so'called friends in the 1st place. It's hard to accept you're hanging out with a negative peer group but in actuality---you're pleasing them and destroying yourself. I really can't answer the 'Why' but the 'Who, What, When, Where and How' spirals us deep into ROCK BOTTOM and it is not an easy hole to climb out of...

Take it from ME---a 5 time loser and I have no more chances! It's a must I live as a law abiding citizen or them white folks gonna Rail Road me... I CAN'T LET IT HAPPEN---BETTER YET I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN! I'd rather DIE than be trapped in that Living Hell again anyway!!! So think about it next time you're TWEAKIN'---is it really worth the trouble?
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