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Age: 20
Gender: Female
Location: Northglenn, Colorado

The first time I tried meth when I was 15 years old. My boyfriend at the time said "if you love me you'll do it with me" I always used to watch him and his family do it. I never knew the effects it had on people, so to make him happy I tried it.. then it turned into me being high at school and then finally dropping out of high school. My mom never knew what was going on because I was always running away for weeks to months at a time... I was smoking meth, doing crack, snorting coke, I am pretty grateful I am not dead now because i was doing a lot of drugs and I'm small for my age.... My BF then his cousin who was also using with us, who actually supplied it committed suicide while she was using, my BF was starting to get more into it and became very violent towards me.. I was still using with him just to make him happy.. I feel like God was watching over me because I never felt addicted to meth like my bf was. I was just in a very dark place because of it. I was living in a trailer with him and his mom who was a drunk and never had a clue what was going on. I was beaten everyday for no reason at all. I didn't know the person I became, my face was full of scabs all the time, i gotten extremely skinny, and I lost all my friends. I eventually got the courage to leave my bf and i stopped using drugs, got back into school. Every time I see or smell meth i get very sick and cringe because it takes me back to the darkest part of my life.

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