Erika Hunt has been struggling with addiction almost her whole life. Parked at a dollar store in Indiana, Hunt was ready to "shoot up Heroin." She doesn't remember much of what happened that day, but luckily a customer found her and called 911. With her 10-month-old in the back seat she didn't think much of it except that he wasn't old enough to understand. If no one was to find her, she would've woken up, driven away, and probably killed someone and their child in a car crash. She was later sentenced to six months of rehab, after needing two doses of Narcan to reverse the overdose.
It reminds me of Tolerance back in the Antebellum Age and how women were repulsed by the fact that these men would drink their life away everyday and not think much of it.
This is a touchy subject for me personally, there are tons of teenagers my age that already use certain drugs that could produce lifelong bad effects. I think UNLESS somebody needs ___ drug for medical purposes, there's no excuse to use it. There's so much to love about life, you use a drug one day and you're fine, then next you could die. I'm a strong believer in doing what's right, and even if I didn't know someone, no matter what they've done bad in their life/who they've hurt, they deserve good. Everyone deserves good.
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I have close family members who struggle with addiction and ive worried about a fate like this for them. Its good of you to write an article about this touchy subject to help with awareness on this issue.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, there is no reason to use drugs if you know they can ruin your life. I think it is ironic that the women were creating things like the Temperance Society back in the 1800s, but the article you found was about a woman.
ReplyDeleteBrooke Simpson