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I'm sitting here, listening to Alice in Chains, and I'm starting to think. It's the second time that a topic that in the end brings up drugs has risen. Shame however all that I see are pro drugs coments here. It's all very subjective, I know, but before some kid reads this and decides drugs must be cool, I just want to say my piece. I wasn't going to speak up, because people are alowed to do whatever they want, but as I said, I'm listening to Alice in Chains. Some of you kids out there may not know who they were. Alice in Chains was a grounge band from Seattle, and they surfed the grounge wave started by Nirvana(AIC is a better band if you ask me though). The lead singer was found dead in his appartment in 2002, two weeks after he died. He died alone, and of an overdose. Guess I started to think about it because of this. However, I also have personal experience with drugs, perhaps more than most "normal" ppl, I don't know. I never really thought much about it until I talked to an old class mate who told me that a girl from my class had died of an OD. This was six years ago, and I started thinking about how many drug related incidents there had been in my life. The list wasn't short.

1 friend in jail because of being on drugs when he drove his car. He crashed, and ended up with the engine on his lap. Lucky he didn't die.
2 friends ran away from the same incident, again lucky
1 friend going to psychyatrist because of suicide attempt, drug abuse, social problems in genereal. And what caused the suicide attempt was an argument about a girl. I was the person he argued with(we don't speak anymore).
1 friend having constant flashbacks from ONE trip that went wrong(he had two trips on acide in his life..first was good).
1 friend was addicted to cocaine, managed to get away from it, but struggles with alcohol instead.
1 friend ended up using the drugs he was supposed to sell, and got beaten by his dealer(1000 pounds worth)
20 friends managed to use drugs without getting addicted, without doing stupid things on drugs, without it affecting their lives after they stopped.

So, all in all, 27 people that I know of in my life did drugs(there are most likely many more, we just don't talk about it anymore). 7 of them ended up doing stupid things on drugs. 5 of them had long term consequences. Do the maths, it's a high percentage. It might be my friends not handling their drugs very well. In the end, you chose if you want to do drugs yourself, and as I said, this is highly subjective. Many may have the same experience with alcohol. Just make sure you consider the fact that things MAY go bad.