I come from a high income neighborhood and a middle income, stable, loving, conservative, Christian family. I, myself, have identified with the Christian faith and the values that come with it. When I was 16, I started using heroin.

There were many events leading up to me that I will briefly state as the whole story would be a wall of text. I took my first sip of alcohol at 15, started getting into legal drugs at 16. I moved to illegal drugs like RX opiates in the matter of 2 months. Then I bought LSD and heroin 1.5 months later from the dark net. I used heroin for approx 2 months, and I went from snorting to shooting in the matter of a month and 27 days. Then I quit. I quit everything on my own. And weeks later, guilt made me tell my family of the drugs and lies. Now I’m almost 18, and my relationship with them is shitty.

I don’t regret doing heroin, I regret telling them about it.