Today Americans are facing an ever growing facet in society of uneducated adolescents. Perhaps not uneducated in the sense that they have dropped out of school. But ignorant in the area of alcohol abuse information. The information is out there, but there seem to be a lack of alcohol abuse information educational programs that are correctly structured for the appropriate age groups.

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Oxycontin is a white, odorless, crystalline powder derived from the opium alkaloid. It is the brand name for a powerful painkiller called oxycodone hydrochloride. This drug is used as a mild to severe pain reliever for patients with chronic pain. Cancer patients are commonly prescribed with this drug and it has been praised for its long lasting pain relieving quality.

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I realized the other day that I have a problem, so I called a cocaine addiction helpline. I don’t know what came over me, but I had nowhere else to turn and it was the only way I knew how to help myself. I’m sixteen years old and I started using alcohol three years ago. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t control it anymore and I feel like I need someone to talk to. I am ashamed of my addiction and I do not want to talk to my parents or my friends. I’m fearful that I will get into trouble or they will feel like I’ve let them down or they have let me down. They haven’t. I just made some poor choices. At school they pass around these fliers for a cocaine addiction helpline. So I came home today, locked myself in my room and called the alcohol addiction helpline.

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Everything happened so fast. The thoughts racing through my head at a hundred miles an hour. Depressing thoughts that would not seem to leave me alone. This was not me. I grew up in a normal family, I’m in a band, I’ve got a fantastic girlfriend. Why am I suddenly down every day and having these suicidal images in my brain? I decided to run away from all of it. I packed my bag with a few things and hit the road. I didn’t have a destination. I didn’t even have a good taste in my mouth about my friends, or family, or what was going to happen to me. Thoughts were fuzzy and scattered. One minute I was thinking about jumping off a cliff, the next minute I would laugh at myself for having such a thought.

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