When something like drugs is controlling your life, you tend to cover for it. Hiding an addiction is stiff. Sometimes you need to know that something has a power over you, your heart and brain but just cannot admit it because you do not want to ruin other people's perception of your personality. I knew a girl who was really brilliant. She was almost on the top of her class since the first grade. Though she did not come from a well-to-to family, she scored a scholarship in college and was good at maintaining her grades. Because of the records that she had to maintain, her schedule was rather hectic and demanding and she had to do some part time jobs in one of the common food chains to support her allowance and to help her mother send her younger siblings to school. She did these for months and it did not really matter that she looked worn out, she still excelled in school. Then she encountered some classmates who introduced her to cocaine, a substance that she got addicted later on. She could go to work with much energy, she was very alert and had been the manager's favorite because of her hard work. She could go on for a day with just bag of chips and still feel highly ecstatic. A part of her modest salary then went to her mother, and then a part was spent for cocaine. Sharp as she was, she knew the undesirable effects of getting addicted to cocaine. She tried to stop but she had trouble concentrating on her studies. Her grades dropped; she fluctuated on her subject. She was dismayed and depressed so she resorted to taking in more. To keep her ecstatic feeling and to deny herself from getting addicted, dropping school and losing her job, she tried taking in cocaine intravenously. She felt that all the needle pricks were paid off after consuming grams and grams of cocaine. Her parents in the province did not have a single idea as to what she had been through. Months later, during summer, she went home. Her mother was astonished as to why Jenny was often wearing sweaters despite of the warm weather. Just like before, her neighbors looked at her with high regard but they were quite surprised why Jenny was no longer the friendly girl that they used to know. After 2 days, Jenny could no longer contain the need. She was just lurking the corner shivering. Her mother thought that she was just having a fever but deep inside Jenny knew it was more than that and she knew she badly needed a shot. Jenny could not tell her mother because she did not want to fail her. When everybody was asleep, Jenny flew back to the city in desperate search for her dose of stardust. Countless lives had been gone to waste because of drug addiction and many drug dependents are veiling under their mask. They have their reasons. They don't want to fail the expectations of their families. They cannot disclose what they are into because they do not want to put their families into shame. And most of all they cannot admit to themselves that they are addicted. These addicted people need our help. If they decide to unveil themselves, we should not discriminate them but help them in any way we can.
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