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The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making
#7531659 - 10/18/07 03:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://gridleyherald.com/articles/2007/10/17/news/news02.txt
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The subject of this intense interview is named Sandy. Now, everything from here on out is absolutely true, no matter how unbelievable her story may seem.
Sandy and I spent a couple of hours together recently as she told me of her skipping school, smoking pot, found out she was molested at three-years-of age and her first line of Angel Dust, all at age 11.
She was smoking cigarettes at 10, and at 5 feet, seven inches tall, wearing a B cup bra, a size 8 shoe. She was old before her time.
“Pot was my gateway drug. I was living in San Diego, surrounded by lifeguards and marines.” She ran around with 20 and 30 year old men primarily. “My family lived in a beach comber town two blocks from the beach which was heaven for me,” Sandy explained.
“Who would want to go to school?” she asked. “We went to the beach. I looked for kids like me. I wanted to experience it all, no matter what. I was street wise, a survivalist and book smart,” she stated.
Sandy found the same type of kids, the kind who skipped school to smoke dope. She did two home tattoos on herself, nose piercing and pierced her own eyebrows twice.
Many nights she did not come home. Now, as she and her family discuss the past, they agree she always started acting up in the month of August.
“I was seasonal, which can be connected to my being bi-polar and manic, maybe even sad. I have dual conditions which trigger the addiction disease,” she explained.
Receiving a dual diagnosis, she learned the first stage of being bi-polar is rage. She also gets depressed and experiences the highs and lows. “I can be up and down, mad and sad, both at the same time,” she stated.
Sandy medicated herself with drugs before she found out she was a bi-polar, manic depressive.
Her pre-menstrual mood swings (PMS) as a teenager were outlandish, having started her menstruation at age 11.
Her mother's paternal side either had schizophrenia or manic disorders. Her mother's mother, abused prescription drugs for over 20 years, was manic depressive and committed suicide three years ago.
“I was going to the beach with friends wearing a bathing suit, flannel top, shorts, big shell jewelry, the motorcycle look with pewter jewelry, instead of going to school. (Flip flops are still my thing.”)
She was drinking anything she could get her hands on, mainly whiskey and beer.
When she turned 12, she used a birthday check from her grandmother to buy a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey, a bottle of vodka and four Old English 800's. She and two friends, ages 10 and 11 drank it all in one sitting.
Sandy would wake up on the beach in the late morning after her parents had searched all night for her all over town. Her criminal life started in San Diego, so bad, she plans never to return. The fights she got into at school were minor.
Truthfully, Sandy's memory surprises me after hearing how many drugs have gone through her system over the years. The fact that she can remember so much is amazing. As I think back to this interview, I remember at least once my mouth hanging open as she went into detail of her life and how she chose to live it. As can be said for so many recovering addicts, it's a wonder they are still alive.
As she told me everything she did at age 12, always being drunk or drugged, she told how she turned on one friend that she was drinking with. It was a night when she was really high on weed, meth and alcohol at the same time. Sometimes she would use LSD, shrooms (mushrooms) and acid. She explained how she and friends would drop acid. The first time she tried acid, the whole cube had been “soaked” not just “dipped” like most are. Not exactly the easy way to start.
On the day she turned on her friend, they had of course, skipped school and Sandy “made an agenda” as she put it. “My agenda was to beat Emily up for messing with their boyfriends. We said we were going for pot. We walked seven blocks, beating Emily up at each alley of the seven blocks. Each alley, we took more of her belongings, jewelry, clothes, boots, started wearing her stuff.” She explained, “She was a neighbor girl and we had her down to her bra and panties, after we had taken everything from her,”
she told me.
Now mind you, Sandy was not emotional at all during this interview until later when we talked of her children. She told these stories very matter of factly, sometimes seeming proud.
She explained, with the treatment that she and her friends gave Emily, she was going to be charged with strong-arm robbery, assault and kidnap for holding her against her will. Her family was planning to move back home to Sacramento due to a family emergency in two weeks. But left that night, packing the remainder of their belongings that weren't packed yet.
“Basically, the investigator on the case told my mom ‘If you NEVER come back to San Diego, we won't charge her,” she stated. Her mother told her in front of me, “I remember it was the first of March and we had to leave town and never go back because of you.”
The family left San Diego on the run to Sacramento. Sandy was home schooled from March throughout the summer to make up for lost time, enough to make it possible to start high school. She explained she should have been going into eighth grade but she was going in as a freshman, being put ahead a year. She was to only finish the eighth grade.
As true to form,Sandy would start to go wild in August and run till April. This was her “high time.” Once August hit each year, she was off and running, always with older people, older men.
She would have sex with men in their 20's at 12 years of age. Some knew she was only 12, some didn't care.
At 13-years-old she was still dropping acid and drinking a lot. She took the regional bus to Kennedy High School, carrying a water bottle, which she had poured 1/2 rum and 1/2 water in to get her through first period, Spanish class. She usually found time to smoke a joint while drinking and she was so messed up, her friends would throw her over a big fence to sleep it off, stating, “We'll be back to check on you at lunch.” She would sleep it off under a willow tree. She could not make it all day at school.
The ONE class she did love was ROTC, stating she never missed that class. “No other place could show me the discipline, not my parents. I had to shine my boots and belt buckle. Her mother said they hoped she was going to go in the military and leave. No such luck.
Having had enough, Sandy's parents sent her to Oroville to stay with her aunt where she attended Grand Avenue School, being put back to the eight grade.
She says she did not do drugs during that time, played sports such as softball, smoked cigarettes but stayed out of trouble with her two cousins.
She graduated from the eighth grade with several honors and awards. She had been with her aunt for six months. She had done well and her parents asked for transfers to Eugene, OR to start a new life.
At first, things went well in Eugene (of course, it was summer and Sandy hadn't met anyone, really.)
Then school started. Sandy only made it a few weeks, before she started cutting classes, partying, searching out the same types of people as before, back in San Diego and Sacramento.
First, it was cowboys who drank and smoked pot, then it was the older guys who did, cooked and sold dope. She was constantly on the run, sneaking out, gone for days at a time, sometimes on a “high” for many days.
Her parents combed the woods, searched all over town every day and night looking for her - talking to people who she might have partied with.
Sandy almost died from being high so many days. At age 14, she was told by a nurse that she had the worst case of Herpes she had seen in her 25 years of nursing.
“The Herpes was so bad, I never got it again. Which is what they say, if you get a bad enough case, you won't get it again. Luckily she escaped Aids and Hepatitis C.
She admits to being very promiscuous stating, “I made Gene Simmons look like Ghandi.”
“I knew never to disrespect the parents. Never fought with them, cussed or called them names. No disrespect. They put tack boards under my windows to keep me in at night. My windows were nailed shut so I couldn't leave during the night. I would put a towel over the sticky board and left anyway.
Her parent's dead bolted her bedroom door from the outside and put wind chimes on the doors to be able to hear if she escaped during the night, sometimes for days at a time. Sometimes it didn't work.
She was running from Friday to Monday. But sometimes, she would stay gone for a week or two. Her parents had another opportunity to advance in careers and move to Portland, so they decided to talk her into moving there from Eugene. (By this time, she had moved in with a 28 year old male and his daughter. She got the little girl ready for school and took care of her while he was at work. He was 28, Sandy was 14. She was doing “Coke” and “meth” with him and they also drank a lot. She wasn't about to leave this life to go with her parents to Portland.
Next week, Read about Sandy's next three years of the life of a druggie, ages 15 through 17 as we learn about her 16 years before her life took a drastic turn for the better.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7531757 - 10/18/07 03:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said:
-Sometimes she would use LSD, shrooms (mushrooms) and acid.
Epic Fail.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7531857 - 10/18/07 03:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: http://gridleyherald.com/articles/2007/10/17/news/news02.txt
“Pot was my gateway drug.
Is this hitpiece even for real? Come on. I wish I could say I did acid before bud, if anything, other drugs make me like pot even more.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7531883 - 10/18/07 04:00 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is an article about a girl who liked attention. Cool.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: DebuteMachine]
#7531907 - 10/18/07 04:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's also one of the most horribly written articles I've read.
Who the fuck would publish that?
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: MiddleFinger]
#7531924 - 10/18/07 04:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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She tried LSD, shrooms, AND ACID?
The whole cube was soaked in acid? She would be in a home now if that was the case.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: mushroomplume]
#7531970 - 10/18/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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> Is this hitpiece even for real?
Of course it is, see:
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Now, everything from here on out is absolutely true, no matter how unbelievable her story may seem.
What more do you need?
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Seuss]
#7532657 - 10/18/07 07:01 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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hahahah, i have to agree with MiddleFinger...
what a trash piece of journalism.. honestly sounds like it came out of a high school newspaper...
just to top it off, the writer goes with "Now, everything from here on out is absolutely true, no matter how unbelievable her story may seem."
and then ends it off with "Next week, Read about Sandy's next three years of the life of a druggie, ages 15 through 17 as we learn about her 16 years before her life took a drastic turn for the better. "
brilliant!
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Seuss]
#7532692 - 10/18/07 07:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seuss said: > Is this hitpiece even for real?
Of course it is, see:
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Now, everything from here on out is absolutely true, no matter how unbelievable her story may seem.
What more do you need?
My mistake. I skimmed past that bit!
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7533011 - 10/18/07 08:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: “Pot was my gateway drug."
dirty crack whore blaming pot. 
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b0red5tiff said: “The first time she tried acid, the whole cube had been “soaked” not just “dipped” like most are. "
you dont "dip" or "soak" sugar cubes, or they will dissolve, duhhh
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Psilobuds]
#7533145 - 10/18/07 09:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: “Pot was my gateway drug.
it was, now it's crack, meth, alcohol, lsd, and shrooms.
also when they say that her life is making a change for the better, she is probably telling them that her life is better because she doesn't want to quit drugs, also nowhere did it ever say that she would be drug tested to prove that it was (i hate drug testing but i hate drug addicted crack whores more)
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7533659 - 10/18/07 11:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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this girl was fucked up from the start. sexually abused at three? parents who just let her skip school? bi-polar and manic depressive with a family history of schizophrenia?
good lord. as much as I despise meth, I have to admit this girl was fucked up from the start and the drugs didn't really have anything to do with it.
so, what do you do when you have people with this much damage? I mean you pretty much know they're destined to be fuck-ups. it's sad. her whole life was wasted. she try as and stay clean, but it will be an everyday struggle for the rest of her life. can you imagine the burden put on this girl? i mean not only dealing with an addiction, but also dealing with inner demons from her psychological disorders.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7533715 - 10/19/07 12:11 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Who writes these fanciful stories? Pathetic.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: FecalDildo]
#7533822 - 10/19/07 01:14 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the same chimp who does speeches for george bush.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7534183 - 10/19/07 05:34 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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> the same chimp who does speeches for george bush.
Nah, Bush has a pretty good speech writer. This cud was written by somebody with a motive (religion I suspect) and very little education.
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Re: The life of a meth addict...16 years in the making [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7534340 - 10/19/07 07:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Kinda makes me wanna do meth for 16 years
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