Meth Addiction

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Loss sustained through addiction
When you go to an amusement park to ride all the rides you are probably going there to get that adrenaline rush or seeking the trill. You know that feeling you get when you go on the roller coaster for the first time, and it just sends you bodying into this euphoric feeling? It amazing huh? After the ride is over you don’t go home, instead you race back to stand in that line for another hour waiting to get back on to go again. That 's what a meth addiction is like. The very first time you take that first hit you are overcome by the most incredible euphoria that washes throughout your entire body. When it goes away and you want it back. Now you are chasing that high again. "Addiction is a disease that has a
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I personally suffered a great loss due to my addiction to meth. When I was seventeen I had a three-month old daughter named Nevaeh.I got busted for doing meth and the child protective services came in and took Nevaeh away from me and put her in a foster home. I had a choice to either get clean and get her back or keep doing drugs and never see her again. I chose to get clean. Anyhow by the time I got her back she was already crawling and almost walking. I missed out on the mother-daughter bond that you get when they are newborn till they are one years old. It 's a terrible thing to go …show more content…
They don’t want to watch their friend deteriorate and give up everything they worked so hard for. In some instance its recognized as tough love, but not always. A lot of the time people are embarrassed to say they even know someone if they are living on the streets and addicted to meth. Most of meth user’s relationships are with other meth users.They tend to all hang out together because their common interest is the “devil” meth. I know this because when I started doing meth my best friend of five years turned her back on me, and wanted nothing to do with me. I didn’t feel hurt by it because I didn’t care what she thought at that time, because my addiction was way more important than her thoughts. Now that I’m clean we are still not friends because of the way I acted while I was using. That’s what addicts do they lose great people in their life because they are

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