News (Media Awareness Project) - US NC: Edu: Column: Dead, And At Only Twenty-Seven |
| Title: | US NC: Edu: Column: Dead, And At Only Twenty-Seven |
| Published On: | 2007-02-21 |
| Source: | East Carolinian (NC Edu) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-12 12:24:13 |
DEAD, AND AT ONLY TWENTY-SEVEN
Drug Overdose Leads To A Young And Tragic Demise
Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison are four of
the most famous deaths in American culture, and they have one thing in
common: Drugs.
The age of 27 was the final year for these performers and they became
immortalized in history. The problem is that these deaths seem to
glamorize the idea of excessive drug use and more teens and people in
their early twenties are passing away from overdoses.
Maybe it is just me, but I have lost too many friends to this
epidemic, been to too many funerals, and I am only 19.
Too many times have I been to parties at ECU where there are people
tripping, popping pills and doing lines. I just do not understand. We
are in college to build our minds to enter the "real" world
successfully, and not with an expensive addiction to one drug or another.
Everyone has their share of fun, going out and trying out new things.
But when it becomes a goal to get as messed up as possible each night,
to try and blackout just to hear stories the next morning about what
all you did, it is a problem.
In addition, when you are in a state when you have numerous drugs
flowing through your system, and it is likely that others around you
are too... it is doubtful these people will save you.
You know it is a problem when a friend blacks out, and then people at
the party continue to hand him drinks, to put pills in his mouth as he
passes out, then he ends up dying in the emergency room that same
night. Get out of your "vortex" and live in the real world. I am a
normal college student, and we all go out and have fun. Therefore, I
will get off my soapbox and let everyone live his or her own lives.
Nevertheless, take heed that I learned my lesson from mourning my
friends, and I am not ready to see the ECU population take hits from
drug deaths.
Stop living as if you are going to die at age 27, it is important to
live each day to the fullest, but it is not imperative to mock death
by pushing its limits with foreign toxins in your body.
Drug Overdose Leads To A Young And Tragic Demise
Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison are four of
the most famous deaths in American culture, and they have one thing in
common: Drugs.
The age of 27 was the final year for these performers and they became
immortalized in history. The problem is that these deaths seem to
glamorize the idea of excessive drug use and more teens and people in
their early twenties are passing away from overdoses.
Maybe it is just me, but I have lost too many friends to this
epidemic, been to too many funerals, and I am only 19.
Too many times have I been to parties at ECU where there are people
tripping, popping pills and doing lines. I just do not understand. We
are in college to build our minds to enter the "real" world
successfully, and not with an expensive addiction to one drug or another.
Everyone has their share of fun, going out and trying out new things.
But when it becomes a goal to get as messed up as possible each night,
to try and blackout just to hear stories the next morning about what
all you did, it is a problem.
In addition, when you are in a state when you have numerous drugs
flowing through your system, and it is likely that others around you
are too... it is doubtful these people will save you.
You know it is a problem when a friend blacks out, and then people at
the party continue to hand him drinks, to put pills in his mouth as he
passes out, then he ends up dying in the emergency room that same
night. Get out of your "vortex" and live in the real world. I am a
normal college student, and we all go out and have fun. Therefore, I
will get off my soapbox and let everyone live his or her own lives.
Nevertheless, take heed that I learned my lesson from mourning my
friends, and I am not ready to see the ECU population take hits from
drug deaths.
Stop living as if you are going to die at age 27, it is important to
live each day to the fullest, but it is not imperative to mock death
by pushing its limits with foreign toxins in your body.
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