Dan is addicted to meth. Dan is the Director of Food and Beverage at my work. I have watched him slowly deteriorate at over the last year. The General Manager told me she was going to fire him next week.
I can't say that I feel especially sad about the fact that he is being fired. I would say that we have all been enabling him for a long time. Actually, I am hoping it wakes him up and makes him realize how much the meth use is affecting his life.
I grew up under a rock. This is according to most everyone because it is used in reference to my sheltered upbringing. I have good, protective parents. I have not spent much time around people that I was aware were using drugs until Dan.
So when I noticed that many Senators have introduced a bill to combat meth use, I knew I needed to write a diary showing my support for the bill.
Mr. TALENT (for himself, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. BAYH, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. SMITH, Mr. COLEMAN, and Mr. GRASSLEY) introduced the Combat Meth Act of 2005 to respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamine in the United States, and for other purposes.
I read the following letter on a website about meth:
I am sitting here at my desk reading these letters and you don't know what I am thinking right now. My husband of 15 years has decided to ruin our lives by using meth. I just found out about it over the Thanksgiving holiday when he decided to stay up for four days to teach me a lesson on what a real methhead does. He is trying to convience me that he knows his limits and can use just a little. I removed my fifteen year old daughter out of the house for three days and we just came back yesturday. I am scared,worried,confused,lost and alone. (I do have family who are there but how do you take their advice when you want to save him and love him). He has been talking sucide and is now completely depressed. I find myself sleeping with my pepper spray and leaving my keys in my car for quick escape. We are a two income family and I make over 60,000 a year by myself. I can't support the whole house do to our bills. I am 33 and my husband is 32. We have been trying to go to church and learn more about god and I was hopeing this would save him. When I read the story from Trish it broke my heart. My husband is was a good man and I still want him to be that person I fell in love with. He has told me the only thing stopping him from blowing his brains out because he could see himself doing it was our daughter. He can see no happiness. He actually thought I was out to get him because I took him to the doctor and he said he could have adhd and perscribed him Aderahl. My husband looked it up on the internet and found it had some of the same side-effets as Meth and decided he liked meth better and convinced himself that the docter was a drug pusher and would not go back in and then hated me and said I was manipulating his heart with love in order to control him. Help this is just some of what I am going through.
Cindy
This affected me. Her life is being shattered and she is the non-user! Life sucks sometimes.
I know that many of you are already writing your Senators and Congressmen about many issues. I thought I would throw up another issue and see what sticks.