Hello steemit family, today I write this basically to share about my past life that was enslaved in drugs.
I grew up in a middle-income family with my father owning various bars in town. At my age of thirteen, I had started seeing my father under the influence of alcohol. He stored some of the alcohols at home in the store room, these he would always take from home. Every evening he would come back home late from work and head to the bar, from the bar he always came along with crates of beer that he kept in the store room, I had not felt the taste of alcohol and one time I sneak into his store room to get my self a bottle of beer without his knowledge, I loved the taste of it and since then I started getting exposed to alcohol at fifteen years. From school , I would always sneak into the store room to get myself a bottle, and with time it accumulated to three or four bottles that I resorted to taking.
By the time I was seventeen years, I had started doing other drugs alongside alcohol and these were tobacco, marijuana, cocaine. My grades at school started dropping but I had no choice at the moment to improve my performance but to continue with the life of drugs despite the fact that it was reckless and was at stake since I was already a drug addict and my life was becoming dependent on the drugs. I was habitually and comparasively occupied with drugs despite negative circumstances to the extent of injecting myself with cocaine.
My father however could not watch me turn into such a beast that I had become. He took me to Butabika rehabilitation centre where people are treated from where I got pharmacological treatment alongside psychosocial interventions.
Psychosocial interventions enabled me to develop more coping skills including the desire to remain substance free and the pharmacological treatment helped to prevent me from suffering from withdrawal symptoms since I was already a dependant to the drugs.This kind of treatment was administered to me through intoxication services.
Within a period of six months, my chances of recovery had been maximised since I was getting holistic treatment. I was discharged from the rehabilitation centre in the nineth month with close monitoring by my doctor from home.
I began living a substance free life and it was from this that I realized my consciousness, potentials and competences. I started involving myself in activities like sports, playing chess all of which helped me live a productive life.
I went ahead to sensitize my friends to live substance free lives whenever I got a chance to meet them. I sensitized them about the dangers of drug abuse, and this changed many of their lives to living a substance free life, my life became impacting to the rest of the youths.
To this day, I've been able to get audience from many youths because of living a substance free life and I believe that through steemit, am going to be a great impact to more lives for their betterment.
This story serves to the rest of the youths out there that are involved in drugs, they have the potential to be productive and change their lives other than being enslaved in drugs and its negative consequences.Together we can help them out of this through passing a message to them through social media platforms, meeting them personally.