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...with?there was so much drugs that everybody was using them. My friends would say let's get high. I didn't want to say no, so I got high with them. I'd just say all right. I got started through drinking and then smoking reefers. I started heroin when I was 14. I wasn't really strung out [badly addicted]. I wouldn't get sick and upset. I used to take money from my father's drawer and ask for money on the street, some change sometimes. I used to get heroin from anywhere...
...couch. We just figured he was tired. He could have stayed right on the couch and died of an overdose. We wouldn't have known." Adds his father: "Last summer, we thought Billy was on something. We hoped it was pills or pot. What if it's heroin? What can you do then? You just kind of wish it away. Now I feel as if I have nothing left...
JEFFREY, 19, slight and almost frail, started on marijuana at 15 and went through LSD and amphetamines before he got into heroin at 18. "I started on smack exactly on the third anniversary of the first time I smoked pot. I'd never stuck a needle in my arm before, and I was petrified. I didn't know what to expect. A friend hit us up. For me, it was a thrill thing. I spent whole weekends hitting up. I was enjoying it more and more. I started hitting up once a day, and a couple of months later...
...high with heroin. It's that rush for the first minute, when it hits your bloodstream. It's one minute of heaven, that first jolt. Right after, you feel good. In two or three hours you get nervous, wondering where your next fix is coming from. I started begging, doing anything. All my time was spent raising money...
Except for marijuana, Jeffrey has now been clean?off drugs?for several months. "Heroin is a death trip," he says today. "I really enjoyed it. But once you get the habit, you're in trouble. One good friend is in the hospital with an $80-a-day habit. Another is almost dead from hepatitis. Two others I know, one a girl, died from overdoses. Every time you stick that needle in your arm, you're playing with your life...