About a year ago, my mom got a call from my grandma saying that my aunt overdosed on heroin. We all knew that my aunt was an active user of different types of drugs, but we never knew that it would come to this. She was in the hospital for a couple of days, was in jail for another couple of days, and was let out to go back home. But then my aunt overdosed a second time. This time it was almost too late to safe her. There is one difference between adicts that abuse drugs, either they want to be better and want the help. Simply, the others could care less about wanting to get better and care more about when they can get their next fix. You would never want to witness your kid or even have your own self experience something so terrible like that. …show more content…
When a loved one sees you doing those awful things it hurts them. In O’Donnell’s story she talks about how having a parent that was a user affected her in more ways than one. According to O’Donnell (2017) “I had thought of addiction as a big bad demon my parents were fighting to escape” (para. 8). The author felt that her father doing drugs was like a betrayal to her. Like how could you tuck your child into bed then close that door and open another to go smoke heroin or any other drug? You can’t be a good parent, brother, sister, or loved one if you’re not here at all. The ones around you are here to help you not to be hurt by you. Kids need to know that if they were to do these drugs it would affect not only them. Why hurt someone else for just wanting to experiment? It isn’t worth …show more content…
There are always users who don’t know what they are doing to their body and think that they are just fine. Which is not the case, lots of teens think that weed it a good thing and it is not harming your body in any way. All these drugs are hurting your body and changing its flow of things. According to Current Health (1998) “ Illegal drugs change the way the brain works. The brain’s ability to receive information and respond correctly is changed. This can eventually affect your nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, and circulatory system” (para. 17). Using drugs kills brain cells, it kills that connection they need to send signals. Informing them all the different side effects. How they could have possible hallucinations, lack of energy, trouble breathing, depression, impaired memory, and even death. If given the information on what the kids would be doing to their body it could give them a scare to what could possibly happen to them. Maybe leading their decision to not