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Why I Will Say No to Drugs and Alcohol

When you take drugs and alcohol it's like putting yourself on a rollercoaster ride that
ends on your death bed. Your mother and father could have paid your way to college, you could
be going to a division 1 school for sports, you could even be in your first year of a professional
sport, but once you take that one puff of marijuana or the one shot of Grey Goose, all of those
privileges will be gone forever. That yellow brick road that you had is now black and hard to
walk on. Although many high paid icons such as lil Wayne, Wiz Kahlifa, Birdman, Rick Ross, and
many more promote drugs and alcohol it’s a really destructive message. It's not too late to get
off of that rollercoaster of death and get back on that yellow brick road.
Drugs and alcohol don’t only affect you but it affects you and everyone around you.
People would start to look down on you because of you bad decision, your parents would be
disappointed because they know that you can do better than that, and they have high
expectations for you and your life. Some of your closest friends will begin to become distant
and then sooner or later they won't be there anymore. Once you start drugs that’s something
that is very hard to get off of people won't trust you like they used to and no one will want
anything to do with you.
A lot of teens will begin to use drugs and alcohol as an escape from family, school, or
even life itself the reasons vary.   Drugs and alcohol may feel good on the outside for that
couple minutes while you're high or drunk but on the inside your slowly committing suicide and
you don’t even know it. The more you drink or smoke the greater the damage is done to your
body and your life. There are several different ways to deal with negative things or stress in
your life such as counseling, pray and support groups just to name a few.

In conclusion drugs and alcohol should never be in the question at all.   If... [continues]

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