Tweak Post #2

Underage drug use is common in the north shore. It's not very often you come across a teenager who has not experimented with anything that is not age appropriate or appropriate at all. It is sad how popular some drugs have become. People don't realize that is this is a very serious issue. Teens are at an age where it is very easy to get addicted to things and many are not mature enough to get the help necessary to overcome these problems. Many adults have trouble overcoming these problems and many children are to naive to stop them before they get too bad. Tweak shows Sheff's struggle with this problem. He cannot control his drug problem because he had become addicted to hard drugs. He even got into selling drugs. Doing and selling drugs becomes his way of life. It is his first priority. They turn him into a different person who cares about nothing other than getting high. He constantly talks about how he chases the feeling he got from the first time he was high. This scared me because I have learned from this book that the more often people do the drugs, the more drugs required in order to provide that same feeling. Sheff talks about how he went through many twelve step rehab programs in order to stop his drug use as a child, but he never truly committed to them because he knew he needed drugs to survive, they had become his way of life. This drug addiction probably cost so much money. He used all his money saved up on drugs. Also, any money his parents gave him went to drugs. Also, his parents spent thousands on rehab programs that Sheff was not whole- heartedly working at. This drug problem was not only affecting him, but his whole family. Not only did it strip them of a lot of money, but it was detrimental to their normal lives. At a very young age they were seeing their brother get arrested and throw away his life. Sheff was a horrible role model for his younger siblings.