Monologue by a Teenage Addict

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This paper is written in the form of a revealing monologue by a drug addict in a detoxification center. The writer creatively and believably gives the reader a window into the mind of the persona, showing the progression from grade A student to indifferent drug abuser, and exposing how drugs cause delusions of invincibility in the user.

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"I, myself, am drowning in my routine now. I used to have this 'nice' life before: A-student, loving and caring parents, heap of friends and boyfriends, and all of what goes with it. Makes me smile when I think back about it. I was flying, flying very high above reality. Took me almost fifteen years to land. I know all about it now. How good grades just help you in front of your parents, but don't give you anything. Not even a personal satisfaction, you know. How loving and caring parents turn out to be depressed people, being aware of it or not. Look at my dad: too scared to live, too scared to die. How heaps of friends and boyfriends are just faces you add in your routine for a little while, and then once they are not seen everyday anymore, they disappear from your mind."

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