Addict

New Beginning Rehab Center

"Hello this is reporter Amy Lee and I'm here with eighteen year old Rachel Taylor. She is a drug addict and she has agreed out of her own free will to tell us her story for educational purposes."


"Well first off I was a drug addict. I'm clean now. Second nobody calls me Rachel. They call me Nikki. But anyway let me start off by saying I didn't always look like this. I was an athlete. I had tans skin with no blemish. My hair was long, silky, and brown. I was always smiling. My teeth were shiny white. I was on the track team, tennis team, pom squad, and the basketball team. I was smart and always had straight A's never anything less. My life was full of fun and laughter. I had most perfect boyfriend and the greatest parents with a dorky, but amazing little brother. He's seventeen now and he's a star. He'd learned from me to never do drugs. No matter how cool it may seem, it's not. There's nothing cool about getting so addicted that you steal money from our own flesh and blood to get a fix. There's nothing cool about losing so much weight and color out of you that you look pretty much dead. There's nothing cool about losing most of your hair because you're so unhealthy. There's nothing cool about watching your friend overdose and die in front of you. I was sixteen when I first started drugs. I was handing out with one of my friends at his house. He was listening to some hardcore stuff, which always makes him go crazy, and he pulled out two joints from under his bed. Every fiber of my body said to leave, but I didn't. I stayed and I wound up staying with him that night. My parents didn't worry since I stayed with friends all the time. I woke up the next morning in my friends bed. We hadn't done anything so I wasn't worried. This went on for months and then one night as we were laying on his bed be brought out alcohol and cocaine. We got so wasted and so out of it that night and the next thing I knew we were kissing. One thing led to another and then our clothes were flying. I don't remember much after that except waking up naked. I had cheated on my boyfriend and I didn't even care. All I cared about was hanging out with this guy and getting a fix. I didn't even see how I was destroying everyone I loved. I didn't hit rock bottom until I was a few months from turning seventeen. My boyfriend has forgiven me for cheating on him already, but then he found cocaine in my car. That day my life went spiraling out of control. I didn't know it at the time, but he saved me. My life had been spiraling out of control and I didn't even notice. He took my drugs and showed my parents. I went into a frenzy and before I knew it my boyfriend and my brother were on me. They had to tackle me to the floor. I thought they were ruining my life but, they loved me so much that they would do anything to save me from me. I guess I passed out because, I woke up strapped to a hospital bed. I spend a few days in the hospital and then they send me here. I can't tell you how many times I woke up screaming or went into a frenzy. They had me in this little room by myself. I went through crazy withdraws and I tried everything to get out and get a fix. I quit cold turkey and I'm clean today. My guess is what kept me going was the visits from my boyfriend and my family. They kept encouraging me to fight it. I'm turning nineteen soon and I'll be able to go home then. It's a birthday present from the center. My boyfriend stayed with me through it all. Can you believe it? I knew I couldn't. I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have him. We're even getting married. Rehab was hard ,drugs ruined my life and I had to fight to get it back. In the end it's not worth it. Take it from me, it's not worth it."


"Thank you so much Nikki for telling us your story. You will help hundreds of kids."

"They're young they deserve to have a great life and they need to understand that if they're doing drugs that they're addicted. They just can't see it. They have to get help before they die. It's simple as that. They have to fight to survive."