Drug Users Verses Drug Dealers

It seems to me that the people best equipped to help drug addicts are the drug dealer themselves.  A  dealer can become a best friend to many young people, someone whose searching for a quick pain reliever, looking for a quick escape from their present situation,  or just times when they need and want to feel good for a change.  They learn quickly that these so called “friends” are only a phone call away or a few steps from their home, even a neighbor.  They can purchase their fix anytime of the day, and all their worries and anxieties can remain on the back burner for a little while longer.

Keep in mind that the drug addicts that I’m talking about do not necessarily choose this destiny for themselves.  Most often they’re experiencing hardships within the family – parental separation, sexual abuse, alcoholism, and most often,  disabilities of their own that they’re trying to tackle by themselves. These categories of drug addicts start off in life with little or no self esteem. At an early age, they seek acceptance often by the wrong crowd, those who appear no better than what they feel about themselves. They get introduced to drugs, and before they know it, they can’t live without them.  Still,  there are others who just can’t cope with the inconsistent confusion of present day pressures. It’s wrong to assume that we are all made alike, equipped to handle everything that comes our way.  Therefore, is it any wonder that they’ve found something that leaves them emotionally numb, a moment in time when they don’t have to care, worry, or fear anymore.

Unfortunately,  it’s the addicts that become society’s castoffs, beyond the reach of cities, church, schools, and even families. They soon become society’s rejection, the losers and failures, the bums, and for some, it only ends when they are transported to some burial plot in town. People say, “Oh, he was just a bum anyway, a drug addict” The idea that the drug dealers have just murdered another human being never seems to enter in their mind, “because drug dealers didn’t force them to take it in the first place.” “Nobody forced this drug into him.”  Whether or not he was an abused child, raised by an addict parent or alcoholics, born as an addicted infant, or just can’t cope with life. “They should have had brains enough to say “no”!  Oh, Please!!!