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Age: 20
Gender: male
Location: Southside Atlanta, GA

i guess these events happened about three years ago around clayton county. As young and wild teenagers, my friends and I have experienced many different drugs. Only when I encountered meth AKA "ice", that i notice how bad drug and it's chemical can destroy a human life. I have tried meth too but fortunately for me it was not so appealing and I never got hooked on it. Unfortunately for my friends they were highly addicted. I remember going to my friend house to "chill" and there were a group of teenagers just like me sitting in a circle smoking meth and playing cards (spade.) As I enter the house, everybody turn and stares at me. Their faces were white and pale as if the life in them had been sucked out. And I saw a girl, who was fifteen at the time I think. She used to be a really sweet girl who had never done any drug or put anything in her lung but air. She was in that cirle, and her face, too, was white and pale. It was scary and it was ashame because I did not think she belongs there. So now I thought back, neither do I. As for my friend, who I smoked meth with a few times, we were never close friends again. We used to hang out all the time but then I notice how much meth had drift him away from everything. He was just like any other meth users in that circle wasting their life over cards and drug. His action were very bizzard and all he thinks about his meth and he always carries a "shillay" ( ithink thats what you call it) ready to smoke. It gets so bad that he saved the crust around the pipe to melt down and smoke later. Meth was just a constant thing to him and it was like a ghost constantly drawing out his life energy and human senses with every puff. So for a while I stop hanging out with him, and later on, I got news that he is in jail. After he got out of jail, I talked to him and confronted him. I told him how he was not my friend and he was barely acting human when he was on meth and he agreed. He even said that meth lead him to jail time, but thankfully because of jail time he no longer crave for meth. It was like a very long and bad hang over for him. Even though he is better now, with a stable job and everything, we are never friends like we were. Because even though he changed for the bettter, he is not who he was before meth. And maybe, I also changed and grew up surpassed what he had left behind, and as he is catching up. Meth is a detrimental thing. Beware as you might lose yourself, yourfriends, your family, your future and your own moral.

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