Introduction – How do I know this person? I met Darryl Rogers at an LGBT NA meeting in Ferndale, Michigan, shortly after I relocated back to my hometown of Detroit from Atlanta, Georgia in September 2002. After sharing my personal experiences of homelessness and drug abuse with the group. Darryl who was sitting next to me leaned over and welcomed me and asked if he could speak with me after the meeting had concluded. After the meeting Darryl and I talked about recovery and the 12 steps and how well we employed the steps in our lives. Darryl shared that he recently celebrated his ninth year clean and had been attending this meeting for 3 years and attended other meetings throughout the metropolitan Detroit area. Darryl impressed me, he was
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People may use to deal with stress, depression, and trauma, for the thrill of it or succumb to peer pressure. There also may be a genetic epidemiology or psychological predispositions that are influenced in the development of both alcohol and drug addictions as well as a variety of other externalizing psychopathology (Dick & Agrawal, 2008, p. 111). According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2003), risk and protective factors can affect how people begin to start using and become addicted to drugs. Risk can begin at any stage in a person’s life and can influence abuse of substances in several ways, the more risk a person is exposed to, the more likely the individual will abuse substances. Some risk factors are more powerful than others at different stages in an individual’s life development. However, protective factors may have greater impact on reducing risks depending on strong nurturing and balance in the individual’s early life environments and domains an individual was raised in (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003, p. …show more content…
But seriously I lost control after I began use crack, with drinking and the other drugs I has some semblance of control. Using crack was much different, it destroyed that semblance, I was no longer in control it controlled me. Crack took me to a dark side I never imagine myself going or knew I had inside me. To be honest crack had me doing things that still make my skin crawl when I think about it. It got so bad I was having indiscriminate sex with anyone just to get another hit when I no longer had the money to buy more. I was missing two to three days of work a week lying and using my depression as an excuse to explain why I was missing so many days. It got so bad my employers began to suspect something was amiss; I became afraid and resigned my position with the school board just to save face and my
People may use to deal with stress, depression, and trauma, for the thrill of it or succumb to peer pressure. There also may be a genetic epidemiology or psychological predispositions that are influenced in the development of both alcohol and drug addictions as well as a variety of other externalizing psychopathology (Dick & Agrawal, 2008, p. 111). According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2003), risk and protective factors can affect how people begin to start using and become addicted to drugs. Risk can begin at any stage in a person’s life and can influence abuse of substances in several ways, the more risk a person is exposed to, the more likely the individual will abuse substances. Some risk factors are more powerful than others at different stages in an individual’s life development. However, protective factors may have greater impact on reducing risks depending on strong nurturing and balance in the individual’s early life environments and domains an individual was raised in (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003, p. …show more content…
But seriously I lost control after I began use crack, with drinking and the other drugs I has some semblance of control. Using crack was much different, it destroyed that semblance, I was no longer in control it controlled me. Crack took me to a dark side I never imagine myself going or knew I had inside me. To be honest crack had me doing things that still make my skin crawl when I think about it. It got so bad I was having indiscriminate sex with anyone just to get another hit when I no longer had the money to buy more. I was missing two to three days of work a week lying and using my depression as an excuse to explain why I was missing so many days. It got so bad my employers began to suspect something was amiss; I became afraid and resigned my position with the school board just to save face and my