Cory is a junior in high school who got involved with drugs a few years ago. His girlfriend intervened and, after a lot of hard work and support from friends and family, he is now drug-free.
When I first used I was 15. My friends got me into smoking weed. I just started using it, like, every single day when I liked, so I kept using it and using it. I got kind of hooked on it because I didn’t smoke, like, just once – I did it, like, five times a day. I was a little shocked about it. I realized I had a problem one or two years after I started using weed.
Well, my parents really weren’t home all the time so it was easy to hide it from them. My dad was kind of upset and my mom kind of guessed that I was smoking weed, because of my attitude change.
I was flunking out, but no one suspected my drug use.
It never crossed my mind that I was putting myself at risk when I was doing it, but I decided to stop when my friend tried to talk me into doing heroin. I did talk to my one friend and he did go into rehab; he’s been in and out of rehab since then. I wouldn’t go using drugs when I’m with my friends, because I know it could mess up my life even more. I would tell them, drugs would screw up their life even more, and I wouldn’t take that road.