REAL STORIES

The truth about Meth is more powerful than any fictionalized account. These stories are real-life accounts of how Meth has brought pain, suffering, and havoc to people's lives. In some cases names have been changed to protect the identity of the afflicted, but the anguish and tragedy are real. Too real to ignore.

ANONYMOUS STORIES

Female, 18 - "I look back at the turmoil that stripped my best friend from me..."
Female, 19 - "Her will to fight the stuff is weak and she lost custody of me..."
Female, 19 - "I hope she stays sober and lives a happy life..."
Male, 17 - "After a year of abusing meth I had dropped out of middle school..."
Female, 16 - "When I was Thirteen years old My best friend's sister died of meth..."
Male, 20 - "I never thought I would be one of the so called Tweakers..."
Male, 24 - "He committed suicide by hanging himself in a hotel room..."
Female, 17 - "Elementary kids are doing it out in the open..."
Male, 18 - "I found myself trying to hide the fact that I was using but everyone knew..."
Female, 52 - "Meth killed Keren as surely as a murderer with a gun in his hand..."
Male, 19 - "I thought it would be a good way to lose weight and get skinny..."
Female, 19 - "My Grandparents have raised me since the age of two..."
Female, 16 - "Just last year I started again and ended up in the hospital..."
Female, 18 - "My Dad replaced us.. replaced me.. his family.. for 'crystal'..."
Female, 19 - "We had gone through a lot, being homeless, being addicts, everything..."
Female, 18 - "He doesn't even ask about his children and they cry for him every day..."
Male, 26 - "She told me that people were after her and she could not be safe..."
Female, 28 - "My whole family does meth except me..."
Male, 19 - "I told her I quit, but I had the 'hook up'..."
Female, 28 - "Once an addict, always an addict. I even dream about smokin..."
Female, 14 - "Both my parents got arrested when I was about 10..."
Female, 29 - "I got a call from her parents saying she shot herself..."
Male, 19 - " I'll never see thatlittle girl who used to call me 'Bubby'..."
Female, 21 - "I never thought I would fall victim to meth, I was wrong..."
Male, 18 - " I first tried meth when I was 13 and I loved it..."
Male, 32 - "I would stay up for days, not sleeping, hardly eating, hiding from my family..."
Female, 30 - "I didn't want to stop, I wanted to keep getting high..."
Female, 15 - "The sister I once loved so much got lost in meth."
Female, 21 - "Just once, that's all it took..."
Female, 33 - "I didn't care if he beat me as long as I had meth to smoke after."
Male, 21 - "Meth destroyed me physically, emotionally, and mentally."
Female, 23 - "It can cause so much emotional damage for families and friends."
Female, 14 - "Meth is a drug, it's a lifestyle that no one should ever choose to live."
Female, 28 - "I was into the rave scene and came across Meth one time and was hooked."
Female, 17 - "He owed his friends and several dealers a lot of money."
Female, 44 - "Don't let your worst enemy (ice) become the only friend you've got."
Male, 23 - "Meth is the number one drug in Hawaii."
Female, 16 - "My mother had meth addict boyfriends who abused me and her."
Female 36 - "He started doing meth, and he started to hang around very scary people"
Male, 16 - "I don't think any 15 year old should be forced to sell drugs to feed himself..."
Female, 45 - "He is killing himself, but it doesn't matter to him."
Male, 23 - "My brother was 13, and died the day before his birthday."
Female, 26 - "I never thought that first hit would take me down this path..."
Female, 17 - "When she was 16, a guy in his 30's came out of her room, buckling his pants."
Male, 29 - "Today I'm still haunted by it and it's a day to day battle to stay clean."
Female, 23 - "It causes you to steal, lie, hurt people, and do anything to get the drug."
Female, 29 - "I stopped working my 2 jobs, quit going to school, and couldn't pay my bills."
Male, 20 - "I am now so addicted I have to shoot it in my muscles because I have no veins left."
Female, 14 - "There was a gaping hole going through my cheek where I had picked at my skin."
Female, 19 - "Then I started to see things that were not really there"
Female, 18 - "My mother...she's gone. I don't know her anymore."
Male, 40 - "I have no will or interest to do anything... have no girlfriend, no money, NO LIFE!"
Female, 13 - "I would cry myself to sleep watching some children's movie very loud..."
Female, 14 - "I want and need to have the ads placed in my memory, so that I don't try Meth."