Addiction

My friend Tina has had serious issues with drug and alcohol addiction. Tina, had begun drinking when she was 13 to impress some of her friends at a party. She thought that it would be fun to prove how grown up she was to all of her friends by drinking so much that she had to be rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped.Her mom and dad punished her by taking away her TV and phone privileges...

Continue Reading...

The First Step of a Thousand Miles

My family has serious issues with drug and alcohol addiction. Mary, my sister introduced the family to this dark world when she was 13. She thought that it would be fun to prove how grown up she was to all of her friends by drinking so much that she had to be rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped. Of course mom and dad punished her by taking away her TV and phone privileges but that didn’t...

Continue Reading...

Jesses Problem

My older brother Jesse has always been the black sheep in the family. He was the typical rebellious teen-ager who cut class and drank, did drugs, and was in and out of Juvenile Hall all the time.He cost my parents thousands of dollars in court fees, and civil lawsuits. He stole cars, and vandalized property, and even set a small fire in the boys locker room, causing him to be expelled from school....

Continue Reading...