Diary of a Drug Addict: Including Drug-Related Information and Trivia

By Kathy S. Thompson M.A.

I’m introducing a new genre by way of the Diary—Education Fiction. Drug Education runs all through the book. The purpose of the book is to educate. The more people who know about the world of drugs and drug addicts, the better—that is why the book is Education Fiction and not just a simple diary.
Because the book is Education Fiction, the overall writing of the diary is on the academic and sometimes even scholarly side. Still, it is fiction and it has to be more academic and scholarly since its real purpose is to inform and educate and help drug users and addicts and also their families. The book is also for professionals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665538183

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Efforts towards accuracy have been made but the author makes no claim to there being full and complete accuracy of the book’s contents. Any errors brought to the attention of the author will be corrected in the future.

Any noted prescription drugs or prescription-drug remedies must be thoroughly affirmed by a physician as being useful for a particular patient before they are taken by any patient.

Medical content in this book is not considered to be current or actual medical orientation or treatment. When there is a medical issue or disorder, always seek advice from a licensed physician or health-care provider.

This is a Fiction book that has a Non-fiction orientation. The author makes no claim that there is total accuracy of all noted facts and details, particularly those noted about illegal drugs and prescription drugs. That world is continually changing, for one thing. Also, though the author is in the mental-health field, she is not in the medical field and does not claim that everything noted that is medical is accurate or the way things are done. Additionally, not all jails, courts, health clinics, or rehab centers run things the same way so there can be variations with the details of this book when compared with what is being done at other such places. What particulars surround one rehabilitation at one place may differ from the particulars that relate to another rehabilitation at another place.

All incidents and actual characters in this book are entirely fictitious and no reference is intended to relate to any particular occurrence or to any actual person, living or dead.

DIARY OF A

DRUG ADDICT

INCLUDING DRUG-RELATED

INFORMATION AND TRIVIA

KATHY S. THOMPSON, M.A.,

EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

CONTENTS

Apology

Explanation

Author’s Note

Diary Characters

Laying the Foundation and First Events

My Diary, by Geena

After-note

Ending Note

APOLOGY

I know this book is not perfectly written. Though I majored in English as an undergraduate, I’ve forgotten some grammar, plus some grammar and even spelling rules have changed over the years and I have not kept up with those new ways, although, many of them are optional. Still, grammar can get to be a little muddled in the mind. So, apologies for any and all imperfections. Just getting the book out was the priority. Therefore, you may find some irregularity, in that the book was not professionally edited. I hope there’s no typing errors (but my eyes are not so good). So, apologies go out for any and all oversights or undersights. There may be some repetition, too. Some is purposely there, to drive in a point. Some is accidentally there but is put in a different context. Because I was working on more than one book at a time, I would sometimes forget what I had already written so I occasionally put the same information in twice—almost always in a different context. Also, this book was a bit of a rush job. Because the book was somewhat rushed, all sentence construction may not be immaculate but most of the content generally makes sense in so far as I know.

Furthermore, you may think some text information does not directly relate to the included covered subjects. There is, perhaps, some borderline material in there. With what may seem extraneous, if you give it more thought, you would likely make the connection that the material does relate to the overall subject and certainly to what is generally being covered in the text. There are one or two covered areas that may be more remotely related to the principal subject but I wanted to add in those subjects and felt that they were connected. All points made tie in with the overall subject, and they generally or specifically relate. Some points that were made do, more than others. I tried to be thorough; I am a detail-oriented writer. Putting so many details in so the book would be more comprehensive was not always so easy to do and so the organization of the book is not quite all that I would have wanted it to be, but I’m not unhappy with it. Mainly, I got everything in that I wanted in and that was my priority. Again, this book was a little rushed.

EXPLANATION

I’m introducing a new genre by way of this Diary—Education Fiction. Drug Education runs all through the book. The purpose of the book is to educate. The more people who know about the world of drugs and drug addicts, the better—that is why the book is Education Fiction and not just a simple diary. Much knowledge is woven into the Diary to make the book’s focus educational, while at the same time presenting a story.

The main character in the Diary is purposely made to be more savvy and in the know than you find with many other main characters in a Fiction book. She has to be, so she can impart what is clearly educational knowledge. Because of her role as educator, she can’t be completely realistic, only partly realistic. Still, the reader will know that the main character represents a particular person or type of person. In Education, Fiction, it has to be this way because one of the elements of this new type of Fiction is that the main character (and sometimes other characters) bring in a considerable amount of facts and information.

Because the book is Education Fiction, the overall writing of the diary is on the academic and sometimes even scholarly side. Still, it is Fiction, having a story, but it has to be more academic and scholarly since its real purpose is to inform and educate and help drug users and addicts and also their families. Because the book is on the academic side, it is for professionals, as well. In other words, this book is for any and all.

Education Fiction is thoroughly explained in my book, Writers and Writing. Simply put, it is the weaving in of considerably more knowledge than is usual and that will be found in a general Fiction book; yet, it is still Fiction. The Story is still emphasized, but so is all the educational material. It is a new type of book, and so it has to be read a little differently. The overall perspective is a little different.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

In this book, crack cocaine is what has disturbed the mind and marred the individual’s life. I knew someone as they were getting involved with the drug, crack cocaine. What a change. Day versus night. He lived across town but I knew other people who were in his life and they told me all about what was going on. I mainly got the scoop through the fellow’s room-mate. They weren’t room-mates for very long. Room-mates can’t stay room-mates when someone is doing something illegal. Whereas Geena had just started to use crack cocaine, her boyfriend, Joey, was only using cocaine. Both had used other drugs, as well.

Drug use devastates lives and brings people down, way down. Some fractured lives are never restored, not very well, because of the ravages of drugs. In some cases, even just short-term use of certain drugs will ravage mind and body, and one’s future will cease to be optimistic. There are medical issues to consider, too. There’s overdoses, acute reactions, and often, malnutrition. Diseases can come about from unsterilized needles. There can be expensive hospital visits, all in all. And then, there is crime increase and familial devastation. People take to the highway of lies when they start using drugs. Getting back on a good road is not so easy to do. Everything becomes step-by-step. Treatment and rehab can be difficult. There can be relapses.

Drug-rehabilitation programs, whether government-run or private, vary in length. It can sometimes depend on the severity of the actual drug use as to what program is best for someone. The program can depend on criminal acts committed while on drugs, and also, on any repeated criminal acts that are committed, subsequently. A two to three month program is not enough if someone has been using drugs. Where alcohol use is concerned, a two to three month program can sometimes be enough help. Some programs set up for alcoholics are much less in time, but should they be? A three-month program is the least amount of time that a drug abuser should put in, relative to rehabilitation. Then there is the six-month program, the nine-month program, the twelve-month program, and the eighteen-month program. All these programs are out there and available (in some places). Some may not be nearby or even available, unless some travel is involved. Some programs can be quite costly, and who is going to pay the bill and for how long? Best to not start using drugs in the first place because there will be long-term effects and losses (for the individual involved, spouses, parent/relatives, and the government). Often, an addict becomes so down and out and impoverished that they can do nothing when it concerns their own rehab.

Those who have been hooked on harder drugs generally need to be in longer programs. Heroin use is way up. Fentanyl use has gone way up because morphine and heroin use has gone up. More people are using both. In pure form, Fentanyl is a hundred times stronger than morphine. If someone were to take a hundred milligrams of Fentanyl, they would quickly be dead. All Category 1 drugs are extremely dangerous.

Fentanyl is even being sent to people in the mail, as are other drugs. Some drugs are mailed from Mexico. Quite a lot of the Fentanyl comes in the mail from China. When they are sent in from other countries (after payment is received), it is hard to prosecute because they came in from far away and from another country. Everything is also in a different language.

PCP was and is very dangerous. People get PCP mixed up with LSD because both are dangerous drugs and have a similar history, but PCP was even more dangerous that LSD was. PCP went off the market in 1965. Before around 1965, very few people were even thinking of using drugs illegally, whether they were euphoria drugs, performance-enhancing drugs, stimulants, or general recreational drugs. Once marijuana and hashish came on the scene during the Viet Nam War and from 1965 on, more people started to use harder drugs and more people got into the business of drugs and the businesses were all different sizes and in different places. Drug cartels did not start up right away. Drugs came in by way of the Mob (Mafia), gangs, and certain business people, some of whom were rather shady. At first, certain ones only came in from certain areas.

By the 1970s, drugs had infiltrated and gotten ahold of considerably more people. They got into South-East Asia (and Australia, Mexico, Europe, Latin America, the USA, Canada, and on and on we could go). They got into the Middle-East, including Turkey, but penalties were very strict in many of those countries for dealing and using illegal drugs. Turkey was one such country. One film, Midnight Express (1978) was set in Istanbul, Turkey, and, with some exaggeration for dramatic effect, it reveals how strict Turkish laws and their prisons were back then. Muslim countries do not tolerate drugs. Trafficking is taboo.

In the noted film, Brits and Americans are shown to have been given very stiff sentences. They received horrible treatment and were in awful conditions. The one young man who the show centered on had been a drug runner. Drug runners are a part of the drug world. People think of the manufacturers, the dealers, and the users, but drug runners are all over the world. They can live anywhere—even in your own neighborhood—and they travel a great deal. They work deals. They deliver drugs. They, sometimes, carry the money. They have different routes, which can change. They are loners, or they can have families. Many of them end out getting killed. Quite a few go to prison, sometimes in a foreign country.

Drug use is an apolitical matter but it started with the Democrats and their push towards individual freedom. People from both sides—Democrat and Republican—use drugs. So do Independents. As a group, they do not like controls. More of the right-wing segment tend to fight drug use and drugs, but there are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and other political adherents who are on police forces, in Sheriff’s offices, and in any and all government prosecution offices, whether they be city, county, state, or federal, and they all tend to fight drugs, and drug use, as well. Anyone who joins in with fighting drugs, in any way at all, can be of any political persuasion. It is a war on drugs that everyone is fighting, and being united in this cause is of the utmost importance. There is power in numbers, and it is numbers that are needed to fight the power of drugs. Some groups are anti-police because they are pro-drugs and drug use. They are in the business or they are users. Quite a few of the 2020 riots after the deaths of several black men included protesters who were in the drug world, including the marijuana world, but some protesters were not. It cannot be said that they all were, only some. I guess they know who they are. Outsiders wouldn’t know.

Realize, too, that the Mafia is heavy into the drug trade. They have been in it for a very long time. The Mafia has somewhat faded out, but some of the ones that are still around have their hands in the drug world. They have some networking going on. Mafia people are still in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, which are all networking cities for drugs. The Mafia could even work with Mexican or Columbian cartels on occasion, but more people say, no, they don’t than yes, they do. Keep in mind that there can be more than one buyer of a load of drugs, while the drugs are in transit. The load can go from one buyer, to the next. The buyers have to distribute the drugs to the users . . . after they decide on a price. Prices for drugs can be negotiated, up to a point, by the dealers. Dealers can’t be coming up short when they must pay up. No one in the drug world can. The trafficking of drugs took on new dimensions because of the coronavirus or COVID, especially because people had to be under quarantine. The drug world became disoriented.

The coronavirus threw hard-balls and curves all over the place, at the drug world. Trafficking and distribution and pushing slowed down and even stopped, in some places. Drug use was quelled. It slowed down considerably because people couldn’t get to them. Those who made money from the drugs were not happy. Fewer people were on the road so more vans and trucks got checked at border crossings and so quite a few drugs got confiscated. Also, people ran out of money for them because they weren’t working. This greatly distressed addicts and near-addicts. Prostitution also slowed down, and many prostitutes were drug users. Some people were unable to get drugs, or their drug of choice. Being in quarantine and isolation slowed everything down; much came to a stop.

When men in the Mafia get into legitimate businesses, it is always going to be somewhat suspect because if they are running those businesses, how are they running them and could they be using them as a front for something and/or as a tax decoy? If they get into legal businesses, then why do they need to even be in a structured Mafia? They don’t. But, they will stay in the Mafia because they have some other businesses on the side and behind the scenes, which aren’t legitimate.

Some Mafia families did not want to get into the illegal drug business and many of them stood back from it, for a time. Some jumped right into it and stayed in it. The competition got to be keen because so many gangs also got involved in drug trafficking and distribution. Now, there are the cartels. The cartels don’t usually work with the Mafia. They’re mostly south of the border, but there are Mafias who operate near the southern border. They operate around the Mississippi Delta area, and New Orleans, Houston, and Phoenix. A lot of drugs come in through Miami via a different way, entirely. This is, of course, assuming that Cuba allows it in, and then out, as a stop-over country. Columbia, South America, is connected to Panama and therefore, to Central America. Columbia generates a lot of drugs. Columbia is a long way away to be transporting drugs, whether the drugs are sent up more westerly or more easterly, into the United States. Drugs would have to go up, all the way through Central America and Mexico, to get to the U.S. Think about that distance—it is far. If the drugs went more easterly, they could go north through South America, cross the Caribbean and temporarily stop in any one of a number of Caribbean countries, but especially, in Cuba. They could be sent up a number of different ways, from Columbia, but again, many drugs come direct from Mexico. Flying drugs in can be chancy because there are inspections. Some drugs are grown and/or put together in a Mexican lab. Columbia works with Mexico, and they use Mexico in their drug trafficking. Is Columbia using Cuba? Is Mexico using Cuba, in any way? Drugs get into Florida, and they go up to the eastern states. Probably, drug routes change from time to time. Quite a few drugs are sold in Central and South America, too; they don’t just go up to America.

During the coronavirus epidemic (COVID), there were fewer vans and trucks crossing the border (sneaking in illegal drugs) but more drugs started to come in by way of cars than had been usual. More backpackers or just body-carriers, in general, tried to get drugs over the border. Still, drug movement slowed down considerably. Access to illegal drugs either ceased or slowed down. Some people had no more money to buy any drugs. Job loss was rampant. Money was tight.

In truth, illegal drugs come into America from all over. Some come in from Europe, and the Middle-East, including Turkey. Mexico has become a big producer. For one thing, they have increased their number of poppy fields. The tendency is for people to only think of Mexico as a drug-trafficking country but they are a drug-manufacturing country—big time. There are drug labs for all the poppies. They go undetected or are disregarded or ignored by the law officials either because the officials are bribed or they are afraid.

Many street drugs are manufactured in illegal labs. Some labs are quite small—just kitchen-sized. (In fact, some drug Labs are in home kitchens.) But, illegal labs can be quite large, too. There can be several rooms, and more than one drug may be being produced. These labs make drugs differently. The drug or drugs will have different strengths than the same drugs being made in another illegal lab will have (re the same exact drug or drug). They may use different binders. They can have differing purity amounts, somewhat because of the binders they are using (i.e. the particular binders and the binder content amount).

The weights of some of the street drugs can vary, too. For example, pills may weigh differently with the different street drugs, even when the pills are the same street drug. Even marijuana can weigh differently, in that there are different kinds of marijuana. Usually, with some drugs, though, they go by the number of ounces when packaging and selling them. Price per ounce will vary with different street drugs, and this will vary from one area to another. Street drugs fetch more money in certain areas in the different states. The areas range from poor to affluent but even in affluent areas, bad and dangerous street drugs can be sold (and so users do not get what they pay for). Purchases are usually cash up front. Promised payments are not the norm, but they sometimes happen, which could ultimately get the drug user in trouble.

Street-use dosages all vary, too, which makes them even more dangerous. Prescription drugs are measured and always known. When a user becomes tolerant of the dosage, out of desperation they will seek out a higher dosage. It is both the amount of drug taken, and the dosage in that amount of drug that will determine the high and the reaction to the drug. Taking more than one drug at a time can be really dangerous. This can be done on purpose or accidentally. Some users want more of a high. One dosage can dull someone’s thinking so, without thinking clearly, they’ll take more of the drug they just took, or they’ll add in another drug, Some users lose track of how high they already are, and they end out taking too much and so they’ll overdose.

There are a number of street-drug pills that users can get on the streets. Then there are the loose-powder drugs. These are the ones that are snorted or breathed into a nostril. Sometimes, users put the powder on a surface somewhere, section it into lines, and use a straw or rolled-up dollar bill to breathe it in by the nose so it gets way down into the nasal area. With pills, they just pop them in the mouth and swallow them. Fentanyl and methamphetamine are around in pill form. When someone dies of Fentanyl, outsiders always wonder if they died because they wanted to.

Several Fentanyl deaths were believed to be suicides but there was no suicide note left behind, with many of the suicides. With Fentanyl, the user who overdoses falls asleep, goes into a coma, and dies. Death couldn’t be more peaceful or painless. There’s no struggle, and when accidental, there’s likely no fear. Some drugs are more conducive to committing suicide. Marijuana is not one of them, not usually, even synthetic marijuana. Suicides are often caused because drugs cause hopelessness. Drugs ruin lives and so users become desperate. So, are drug-connected suicides attributed to drug manufacturers, drug dealers, drug runners, and drug pushers? Certainly, overdose deaths are.

Marijuana is grown in many places (including Mexico) because of the climate. Marijuana is mind altering and everyone knows it is, especially when it has high THC, which it tends to have, these days. It is actually considered to be a Schedule 1 drug, which is the top group of the mind-altering drugs. Affect goes down, and the Schedule goes from 1 to 5. Synthetic drugs can also be ranked. Fentanyl is way up there. Many synthetic drugs are made abroad, too, including synthetic marijuana. Since marijuana is more legalized now, more is grown in America and more synthetic marijuana has been coming out (much of it, being illegal). Other illegal drugs are made all over America, too. There are in-home labs, and secret labs in buildings.

There are drug runners and pushers everywhere. Again, you don’t hear too much about drug runners but they are a big part of the overall operations and there are many of them around. I wrote a story titled Ordeal in the Desert and it is about illegal-alien smugglers who were also running drugs. Drug runners can both deal and transport. The story is in the book Twists and Turns Drama Stories and also, at the end of the book, Living in the South-West (as a Bonus). The illegal aliens weren’t running drugs, the illegal-alien smugglers were. The plane is forced to land in a remote area and there are nine people and it is very hot. People hear about pushers, all the time, but not much news comes out, specifically, about drug runners. You hear about stashes and hauls of drugs being discovered and confiscated by authorities, but very little about the runners, themselves. Yet, there are many drug runners in prisons, just like there are pushers and users in prisons. They’re caught in cars, vans, trucks, on motorcycles, and during air travel, including at the airports.

In Mexico, there’s more than one drug cartel. Mexico is a big country and again, there are different kinds of drugs prepared in Mexico and the different cartels don’t, necessarily, deal with the same kinds of drug or drugs. The bigger operations might try to take over the smaller operations and this would relate to the South American drug cartels, too, especially the Columbia group. But, there’s enough physical distance between most of the main cartels that they operate separately, most of the time, though with some, not all of the time. Some might, at times, work loosely with another cartel, sometimes temporarily, but in time, there might be some kind of change or a falling out.

There are many kinds of drugs. Drugs fall into six main categories and all together, they point to the fact that there really are many kinds of drugs. Until people are aware of the divisions, the different drugs will all be muddled up in their mind. It helps to be aware of all six divisions; they are all around.

First, there are stimulants, which include cocaine and amphetamines and methamphetamines. They affect the central nervous system. An addiction can occur with both of these relatively fast and it can be dangerous coming down from any of these. Some stimulants are medically used.

Second, there are hallucinogens, which aren’t used medically. Two examples are lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and phencyclidine (PCP) and both are dangerous ones to take. Both have a fast tolerance increase but not so much of a withdrawal. Thought patterns will become considerably distorted while on hallucinogens. With PCP, there can be very violent behavior.

Third, there are sedative hypnotics. The barbiturates are what are widely abused. Some are prescription meds, like Valium® and Librium®. The benzodiazepines are tranquilizers. If alcohol is mixed with sedative hypnotics, a person can easily die. Sedative hypnotics can be used to help people on stronger drugs come down from the stronger drugs and get off them. There can be bad withdrawal symptoms when coming off certain drugs.

Fourth, there are opioids (that are opium-derived). When someone uses heroin, there is a rush or fast high. Medically, opioids are used for pain relief so they’re analgesics. Morphine is the most well-known. Codeine® is also well-known. Withdrawals from opioids can be quite dramatic and grueling. There can be up to ten withdrawal symptoms, all going on at around the same time—like perspiring, fever, anxiety, vomiting, diarrhea, tightening up, kicking out legs, cramps, and insomnia. Coming off heroin is the worst.

Fifth, there is cannabis, or pot, and hashish. The leaves, stems (twigs) and even flowers of the Cannabis sativa plant are dried and crushed. It’s not that easy to get, but hashish is a fired concentrated resin and it can cost a lot of money but all drugs can be costly. They all add up, too. Pot can be addictive if there is frequent use and the dosages are large. It is usually smoked and it can damage lungs, depending on usage. It is used medically relative to cancer, nausea, pain, tremors/seizures, alcoholism, and glaucoma. The heart rate goes up when using it. Effects on the heart, and on respiration are what need to be scrutinized, relative to all drugs and their use. There are other conditions and reactions, too. Medical people look at all facets. Unfortunately, marijuana, as well as some other types of drugs, can be made to be synthetic. Some of these synthetics are very dangerous and even lethal. You never know what they are going to come up with next, either.

Sixth, there are inhalants, like glue, aerosols (including paint fumes), gasoline, Wite-Out®, and anything that affects the brain when it is breathed in. These can affect the central nervous system and be quite dangerous. Sniffing (also called huffing) is more commonly done by young people under 18. While not addictive, internal body damage can be done. The circulation in the body can be affected, which means ‘heart’ and ‘breathing’ interruption can be going on. Death can happen. Some peer pressure can be going on when sniffing or huffing goes on, but not always. Kids do this when they are by themselves. Often, many kids do not realize the dangers.

I came up with the Five S-es when it comes to drug administering. Each one is obvious as to what is meant. There’s smoking, snorting, swallowing, shooting (up), and suppositories. Yes, drugs can be administered anally and vaginally. Any patches really do not work, but that one would start with a P, unless you wanted to call them, sticking on, which would be another S, so there would be six S-es. One particular type of drug can, medically and otherwise, be administered in more than one of these ways. Drug users can have a preference for how their drug of choice is administered but the term, drug of choice, can be quite misleading because there are users and abusers out there who might prefer one drug type but they are unable to get it, either because of a shortage of money or because it is not readily available. Users and addicts want the at-the-ready drugs, to note the obvious.

Ecstasy is a type of amphetamine. It makes people hyper. It’s hard to get Ecstasy; it’s hard to get amphetamines, in general. Quite a few recreational drugs are hard to come by, anymore. Prescriptions for many of them that are sometimes used recreationally are getting harder and harder to come by. The street drugs are getting dangerous. If a drug is made by outside people, i.e., criminals, it is easier to come by. They’re not that hard to find. Certain streets and street corners, in certain areas, often have certain types of drugs. Usually if someone just asks around, most any drug type can be found. If one drug-selling area gets shut down, people soon find out where they can go to get what they want. Word has a way of getting out. Certain pushers will sometimes come around to your home, too. They make deliveries.

Drugs that are prescribed are not so easy to find on the streets. Some drugs out there are old drugs . . . like pill drugs. They’ve gone past their use date. You don’t ever know if they have, either. With some of them, they’re still useable but it’s not good taking really old drugs. That is what all physicians will tell you, though some may say this is not applicable in every single case. It is always possible that something changes with the chemical composition, after a time.

Amphetamines are supposed to be good for lots of different medical ailments. Some are used in the field of Psychiatry. Ecstasy might be, too. Quite a few drugs are used in the field of Psychiatry, and some of the same ones could, at times, be being used medically. Some people think there are way too many drugs in circulation, whether they’re legal ones or are non-legal. You cannot get some drugs, like Ecstasy, from any prescription.

Some people go to the doctor’s just so they can get prescription drugs. Some make up medical and physical ailments. Of course, many written prescriptions are legit (but some aren’t). Some people will doctor hop, just so they can get more prescription drugs. The computer’s been catching a lot