Don't start taking drugs. If you do, you will end up homeless or dead.
Living in active addiction is a complicated mess.
For me my life was affected in the following way.
-It became impossible to maintain relationships on an emotional level.
-It became impossible to think about employment.
-It became impossible to properly manage money.
-It became impossible to appreciate anything I had achieved in my life.
-It became impossible to hold onto personal property.
-It became impossible to maintain respect from family and friends.
The addict becomes another entity inside you. It tells you that everything now revolves around the drug itself. I adjusted my lifestyle to make sure I could get the drugs through any means I had. In the end I was walking down a street with a backpack, no money, no place to stay, I was homeless.
My personal experience with addiction is that it will slowly take away everything in your life. I am not going to list the loss because it's gone, so there is no pint in dragging it out.
My point here is that it is obviously bad and that it is much easier to not start then to try and quit. If you have already started, then the end of the road will creep up on you at some point, if you can find help now, you will appreciate these words later.
Don't start taking drugs. If you do, you will end up homeless or dead.
If you are a person with so much money, it would be impossible to spend it all, your end will be death at an earlier age, or prison, depending on how you live. I have never heard of a drug addict to make it all the way and die of old age. Taylor Hawkins just recently died at the age of 50. Opiates, benzos and alcohol were in his system. That combination is a death sentence. It's a time bomb.
I am not saying he was a bad person or anything like that. I am saying the addiction will kill you.
If you have unlimited resources to feed your addiction, the following list is proof of what I am writing.
1. Michael Jackson
Age: 50
Year of death: 2009
Cause of death: Acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication
2. Whitney Houston
Age: 48
Year of death: 2012
Cause of death: Cocaine, heart disease, drowning
3. Heath Ledger
Age: 28
Year of death: 2008
Cause of death: Acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Age: 46
Year of death: 2014
Cause of death: Acute intoxication by heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and benzodiazepines
5. Amy Winehouse
Age: 27
Year of death: 2011
Cause of death: Alcohol poisoning
6. Anna Nicole Smith
Age: 39
Year of death: 2007
Cause of death: Acute combined drug intoxication from Methadone, chloral hydrate and three different drugs used to treat depression and anxiety
7. Chris Farley
Age: 33
Year of death: 1997
Cause of death: Cocaine and morphine overdose
8. River Phoenix
Age: 23
Year of death: 1993
Cause of death: Cocaine and heroin overdose
9. John Belushi
Age: 33
Year of death: 1982
Cause of death: Cocaine and heroin overdose
10. Janis Joplin
Age: 27
Year of death: 1970
Cause of death: Heroin overdose
11. Jimi Hendrix
Age: 27
Year of death: 1970
Cause of death: Barbiturate intoxication
12. Cory Monteith
Age: 31
Year of death: 2013
Cause of death: Mixed drug toxicity, including heroin and alcohol
13. Scott Weiland
Age: 48
Year of death: 2015
Cause of death: A toxic mix of drugs including cocaine, ethanol and the amphetamine MDA
14. Elvis Presley
Age: 42
Year of death: 1977
Cause of death: Officially attributed to cardiac arrhythmia, but toxicology results identified 14 drugs in his system, including codeine, methaqualone, morphine, meperidine, ethchlorvynol, diazepam and barbiturates
15. Jim Morrison
Age: 27
Year of death: 1971
Cause of death: Heart Failure. He was a known drug addict
Let's Not forget over 100,000 people a year die from overdose.
Here is a place to start looking for help.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
240-276-1660
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