Well, today is July 19, 2007. I have been in the 41st Judicial Drug Court since May 7th, 2007 now. This program has helped me out a lot in life. The reason I am in this program is because I had a problem with drugs. My drug of choice was marijuana, and on March 10th, I got arrested for having a half pound of marijuana.
For the first couple of months after I got arrested, I was pretty heated about getting in trouble and that I wouldn't be able to smoke weed anymore. But now that I have been in drug court for about 3 months now, I am glad that I got in trouble.
I have learned to live my life more responsibly and last week I enrolled at a community college. I am going to study for my Associate of Arts in Teaching degree and then after I complete that, go to a four year school to study for my bachelor's degree.
I plan on staying clean from drugs and alcohol for the rest of my life, and I want to educate others on this growing problem we have in our society. Through this, I hope to help others stay away from ever trying drugs or alcohol and try to get current users of drugs more educated on their situation.
I believe that a lot more people would enjoy life if they did not need to rely on drugs. And when I say drugs, I mean alcohol also, because alcohol is a drug. I encourage anyone who has a problem with addiction, alcoholism, or think they might have a problem to attend Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
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I agree that people ought to pursue help if they are suffering from addiction, but few people know what addiction actually is. Because of the current state of our drug education program (or as I like to call it, abstinance only drug education), students are presented with a dichotomy that either you are completely free from drugs or you are an addict.
Then, when a person gets into the drug world, he has no idea what's what anymore. Everything with which he's been presented isn't true, so he doesn't know what to believe. Thus, he chooses to believe those around him (most of whom are worse off than he is).
I believe that if students were presented with objective information about drugs and addiction, we'd see more people identifying their own and others' drug addictions and the problem of drug addiction (because use isn't the problem, addiction is) would see a significant decline.
--Mike
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