Personal Narrative: Cocaine Addiction

At twenty-two years old my younger-self had previously pictured me in an entirely different place. I never imagined living in Texas, I’m originally from Chicago, and that’s where I thought I would reside. I thought I’d be graduated from college already, but fate had a different plan. And never in a million years did I think I would become a drug addict; but I am, and you know what? It’s been the best thing that has ever happened to me, it’s something I’m truly thankful for now. See, all the things listed above may seem like negative things if you look at them from an outside perspective; however to me, they’ve changed me in ways I never thought possible just six months ago. Multiple circumstances have led me to this point, but a few stick

It was my senior year in high school when my mom told me that my cousin, Mayra, had given birth to a baby girl. However, child protective services decided that Mayra wasn’t adequate to take care of the child; due to her drug abuse. Child protective services from Mexico were trying to place the baby with close relatives. Sadly, there was only three choices, her grandma, my aunt Gloria, and myself. The choices were few and the family small.

Addiction is a disease that I will battle for the rest of my life. After being sexually assaulted at the age of twelve, I started to self-destruct. Lack of parental support, less than pristine living conditions, and an addictive personality paved an expressway to a life of addiction. I chose to hang with undesirable people, and was introduced to Marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, PCP, Cocaine, Heroin and eventually what became the love of my life, the prescription painkiller Morphine. Never did I think that trying pot would have a domino effect. It led me to try harder and more addictive substances ultimately turning my life upside down. Often publicly

The scary part about being a damaged heart is that when you meet someone new, your defenses are at an all-time high. Constantly on ready to run, always testing to see if they can handle your damage. You push away before anyone has a chance to get close. Some make it, though. It takes a while but you start to believe them when they say they are there to stay. You tell them you are a storm and they say they love

When people ask you, what do you want to be when you grow up? What do you answer? Most people would say they want to be a professional athlete, working in the sports industry, police officers, doctor, lawyer, working in the business industry, president, and a movie star. However, that’s not what Blake Landry wanted to do. Landry, who was a promising soccer player decided she was going to be a heroin addict for the rest of her life and that’s they it is. That is just one case out of hundreds of case where drugs and especially heroin can ruin someone life. Currently there is an epidemic of a heroin addiction going on in the world today.

Overcoming an addiction is hard and something that i struggle with. I was 13 when I had my first drink of alcohol. From the first moment i had a drink i never stopped. At first i only drank sometimes and as time went on and as i got older the drinking become a more common thing in my life. I joined the church two days before i turned 18 and i had stopped drinking for my baptism, but shortly after i had started drinking again. It wasn't until i met to sister missionaries met with me and took me to the Addiction recovery program that the church offers. I haven't had a drink since then and that was three and a half years ago! It hasn't always been easy, but i will never drink again. My father has been an alcoholic for 35 years and after seeing

When you go to rehab for addiction, you make the thing at the forefront of your thoughts: improving. Rehab, as it were, is a narrow-minded thing. Keeping in mind the end goal to prevail at getting sober, you need to concentrate on you. When you leave rehab, you have another life to live, as well as a major chaos to confront. A standout amongst the most imperative wrecks to tidy up after rehab is the relationship mess. You most likely wrecked a wide range of relationships with individuals from your folks to your parents, your companions, and even your

Breakups are hard, to say the least. It’s a similar idea to being addicted to some sort of drug and going through withdraw. Well, that would be in the most extreme of cases, anyways. Many people deal with breakups in different ways. What is generally expected would be a lot of crying and maybe some anger mixed in. Some people are calm about it, to the point of it showing no effect to them. Usually, I would see myself being the calm person, yet I find myself in my ex’s closet, looking out on an empty room in an attempt to see whatever he could be doing.

into tender eyes that had not yet adjusted to the outside world. Had he not been the car's owner, he might have considered puncturing its tires, but deciding upon a lesser (cheaper) form of objection, he fished around in the breast pocket of his jacket for sunglasses, before entering the street behind it.

Getting dumped can happen to any of us, and such can be a devastating experience especially since you are the one who got rejected by the person whom you truly love. Some people would find it so hard to accept rejection, which is often the reason why they would end up hurting themselves, or worse, they would become suicidal. If you are in this situation, bear in mind that there are still a lot of reasons why you need to move on and go on with your life. Read the following advices to help you to get through.

If you have given yourself plenty of time (minimum six months) to get your world put back together then consider dating again. The next time you find someone you would like to get to know better, take it slow. What the heck, even play hard to get. You are stronger now and know more about what you need and want in a new relationship.

You can have your heart broken by anything like losing a family member, your love one breaking up with you or your favorite character from a book or show got killed off. In my case, I went through a break up with my long term boyfriend. We were together for two years, I broke up with him and five months later, we reconnected and got back together but after three months of getting back together, he dumped me . I was fifteen when we first got together and we were different, he loved to go out at night, went to parties, which he did not have rules and regulation and well me, I was the opposite. I didn't not like to go out to parties, loved to stay at home, and had rules and regulation. That changed when I started to get older, I got to do more

As a child you do not really give much thought about how the people around you are dealing with their situations and problems. In truth, many people can go their entire lives being apathetic to the conditions that people close to them are dealing with. However I learned at young age, that if you are not observant of the set of circumstances surrounding a problem, then it can develop into something that may wreak havoc upon your life.

In animal models, cocaine is administered either chronically or acutely to parallel long and short- term usage respectively. Chronic cocaine can also be infused intermittently, at irregular intervals, to mimic human intake and addiction. Kumar et al. (2005) found that acute and chronic exposure to cocaine are each associated with different histone post-translational epigenetic modifications in mice. The effects of both acute and chronic cocaine on the promoter regions of genes implicated in addiction such as cFos, FosB, and Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor (BDNF) were investigated. These modifications were observed using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), an antibody- based method used to detect specific histone modifications associated with DNA. It was found

Undoubtedly, the experiences serve as lessons learned. Dealing with a broken heart is never an easy task—sometimes people fall