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Here are this week’s Top 3 Comments of the Week!!

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  • “I couldn't help but look over this blog on addiction. I'm a bit older than the writers here, I'm sure-But I had to make a comment. I was a user for years~I used drugs to clearly get away from my past, present and my unseen future. I saw myself as nothing for a long time-thus, I was looking for something to take me away from reality (an escape). For 7 years, I was on a road that continuously had me on a search for Meth. If I didn't have meth-I did other drugs and such until I could get it. When I decided I was going to clean myself up for good-I did just that. I stopped using and it was the hardest thing ever to do. What I didn't realize, until a year after being clean, is I contracted HIV from the binges I took. I can't tell you who I got it from or how I got it. I can guess it was unprotected sex-but when you are high, you are not sure about anything like you think you are-My thought process was 'I wanted to get away from life.' I can seat here tonight, and say you can't get away from HIV. HIV is with you until you die. So, when I did drugs, did I get away? No, I didn't. I got HIV. I can't get away from that. Addiction took me further than I wanted to go. Addiction is a lie and a thief...addiction leads to distruction and death. It kills the person you are meant to be and it kills the people who love you the most (even if you think they do not). Addiction always takes and never gives. Unless the giving is to destroy your body, mind, and soul. God bless” - Drew
  • “my dad was an alcoholic and he quit a few years ago,but to this day he's still trying to pick up all the pieces. On that side of ma family there is a history of alcoholism and it scares me to death that if i slip into any kind of pressure i might keep the chain going. my grandpa (ma dad's dad) used to go drinking everyday, he used to get so wasted that he could not even get back home so what he did was pay one of the bartenders 75 cents to take him back home by pushing him in a wheelbarrow. he died when i was a few months old, his liver and pancreas were barely in place and fell out of place when he died. my uncle ( ma dad's big brother) got his pancreas removed because of drinking way too much, and he also is trying to get his life back together. then comes my dad's younger brother, he's on the verge of losing his wife and unborn child. for me it all comes back to my dad. he missed out on so much in my life all because he had to put himself first before his family. first of all he wasn't there for the first 5 years of my life because he was in russia for school, then he came back and we lived together for about 3 years. when i was 9 my mom, my sister, and i moved away from him, and i lived with my granma (ma mom's mom) wh basicly raised me when my mom moved to the U.S. but most of the time i'm on the edge cuz i don't wanna end up losing the people i love or things that i've worked hard for. my dad is an example in my life. for me 1 drink is just too many.” - kudakwashe
  • “my sisters ex-husband is addicted to coacaine and sells it also. he gave up his family for coke, he doesnt spend time with his kids and chose coke over them. hes so addicted that he talks to himself, steals money to buy the drug and wasted away all his money on the drug. he has tried to get help a few times, but he keeps getting sucked in... he will most likely be dead in a few years if things don't change for him. No one can help him, and when he does get people to help. he refuses.” - Dana P.
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