“Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope- and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.”-Bob Riley. Many people face the problem of addiction and that’s why they choose to do things that they’re not supposed to do.We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff is a memoir about Sheff retelling the story of his troublesome young adult lifestyle and struggles with addiction. He is put into a detox and therapy to help him but he always feels the need to drug himself. Although drugs seem helpful they’re not always the right decision.
Nic knows that he shouldn’t be doing drugs but feels the need to do it anyway. While at a trap house Nic describes the dealer giving him plate of crystal meth and says, “ When he handed over that plate… it was like they almost looked evil to me...It was sinister. It was like being in the presence of death.” This makes me think that he feels as if one part of his brain is telling him not to do the drugs but the other part is telling him to do the opposite. Therefore, he knows he shouldn’t do it but it makes him feel good. After snorting the meth, he begins to say, “the whole world just closes down on me. There are new opportunities, no callbacks ever come. My car gets towed, and I end up losing everything all everything. This makes me think by doing all these crazy drugs causes him to lose everything and throw his life away. In other words, he knows it’s wrong but continues to do it.
Nic’s addiction had a huge affect on his troublesome life. When talking about his relationship with his girlfriend he says, “Relapsing-shooting heroin, cocaine, crystal-popping pills till we couldn’t even feel them anymore-smoking crack. We sold our clothes, book, CDs for drugs.” He and he girlfriend gave up everything just for drugs. He doesn’t realize that the drugs are only making his life worse and that they aren’t helping him in anyway. When explaining the fact that he had been offered a book deal to write a memoir about his life he said, "the book is on hold. Actually may have blown the whole thing completely. I have no money, no place to live, no car, no cell phone, nothing.” These drugs are becoming even more of a problem because he was offered such a big opportunity in writing a memoir but wasn’t able to do so because he devoted his life to doing drugs. Furthermore, he’d even give up a life-time opportunity just to smoke very harmful drugs that will affect his future.
When sent to a detox Nic’s receives a lot of mentoring from his counselors and new friends to help him become sober. When speaking to his new friend, the friend says, “You start opening up and doing all this shit they [counselors] tell you, I guarantee, not only are gonna stay sober, yer gonna come out of her lovin’ and respecting yourself like you never have in yer life.” This makes me think that Nic listens to what he’s saying, and he will stop drugging himself and try to do something with is life instead of wasting it on buying these unnecessary drugs.Therefore It will make him a better person if he were to quit drugs. When responding to him, Nic says, “I, uh… you know… thank you. I wanna change. I really do… I believe you that this is the place where that can happen.” This makes me think that he understands what his friend is telling him and he now has to find a way to prevent himself from doing drugs. Furthermore, he knows what he’s doing is wrong and he wants to live a better life.
Even though these destructive drugs are sometimes a reliever of pain they’re not always the way to go. If you feel the need to use some sort of nonprescription drugs you shouldn't do it because you can end up throwing your whole life away by doing so. To all the teenagers out there who feel the need to use drugs should seek help because no matter what, drugs are never the answer.
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