I Want To Stay Clean

Many believe that drug addicts do not want to get better that they do not want to stop using drugs and that it is a waste of time and money having programs that help addicts get and stay clean. But in reality many addicts and drug dealers do want to stop selling or using drugs but it is hard to stay clean with no support system or the backing of friends and family. In the video Lip’s Place and the news article Life, Death, Birth and Love Twisted by Heroin 's Power, and Road to Detox: Do Not Enter it describes the reason as to why some want to stop using drugs but the challenges that comes along with it.
In the video, one woman describes that she wants to stay clean because she have seven children and she wants to provide a better life for them. However, it is very unlikely of that happening. She lives in an apartment building where there are drug usage, people selling drugs, needles, cocaine bags everywhere, that the possibility of her staying clean is very slim because there is too much temptation around here. This video shows why communities and the government need to support and have programs that can help addicts. …show more content…
Lourdes Pabon who was five months pregnant and HIV positive and her drug addict boyfriend, Lips. He wants to stop using drugs because he wants to provide a home for Pabon and her unborn child and he knows the dangers of using drugs. However, the reality of either one of them becoming clean is very slim. For Pabon there are programs available to help her and her unborn since she is HIV positive, but these programs are inefficient with temptation around. In the case of Lips, the more drugs that he takes the less optimistic he becomes about becoming clean. For him getting his next high is the most important thing which shows how once drugs take one over it is hard to become free of