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"The other day we got this 101 Things to do That are Better Than Drugs or wahtever and it was like really
stupid stuff like "blow on a babys tummy". LOL. Anyway, just say somehting like "I've got a life ahead of me and I'm not
gonna screw it up".
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Drinking and Driving
"A poem you must read..."
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Jonah was sober and they knew he had called 911, they hoped he would tell the truth. He didn't. All he said was that he thought Gordon may have done drugs but that he had definitely been drinking - lots! I was disappointed in Jonah but too afraid to say anything myself. As the paramedic left he told us, "Your friend is already in trouble and may even die, you can't get him in more trouble by telling me what he used." This was his last attempt to get us to come clean. It failed. Not one of us said a word about the acid. I later learned that Gordon had been seeking a "bigger buzz" and had used all the hits of acid that had been unclaimed by other partygoers. His girlfriend Amy said it was 5 hits. We later learned that each hit was a double hit. Gordon had taken 10 hits of acid! On purpose!! It seemed insane because it was insane.
Gordon eventually died from a massive heart attack but his brain was fried long before his heart went out. The toxicology report on his body showed that along with the acid he had taken, cocaine, alcohol and acetaminophen. The report also showed that the traces of LSD in his body were minute but that there were large amounts of rat poison and bisodium carbonate. They figured the cocaine had been mixed with rat poison and baking soda. Turns out the acid wasn't as strong as everyone first thought. Most of the people at the party who were "tripping out" were doing so in their own mind and not because of any effects of the drug. Explains why everyone seemed to sober up so fast when Gordon was wheeled away.
The hardest part of Gordon's death to take was that we could have prevented it. I don't mean we could have prevented it by stopping him from doing drugs, I doubt he could have been stopped. But we could have come clean when the paramedic asked for our help. Not me personally (I didn't know what he had taken anyway) and probably not even Jonah, but some of the people who called themselves his friends knew what he had taken. There was even some of the cocaine left that they could have given to the paramedics to test. If they had known what they were treating him for, poisoning, they may have been able to give him the help he needed. They wasted time just figuring out what he had in his system and it cost him his life.
Gordon was an addict. He wanted an extreme high from his drugs and each time he did a drug he wanted the effect to be stronger than the last time. This caused him to mix drugs, mix drugs with alcohol, and take lots of a drug. His addiction led him by the nose in search of a new, more effective high. His life became drugs - getting drugs, taking drugs, experimenting with mixtures of drugs, getting others to do drugs with him, hosting drug parties... His mother told us he had been in rehab once and that they thought it had worked. It didn't. He was an out of control, 18 year old, addict and yet he seemed so together. He seemed so in control of his life and his decisions. He had me and all his friends fooled. In the end it cost him his life. It cost all of us a piece of our innocence. It is something I can never forget.
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