Posted by Tony Bylsma on May 31, 2010 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education | 
When I’m speaking in high schools, I often get the question, “Mr. Bylsma, do you still suffer from the effects of your drug use?”
I usually tell them that while no one is ever completely the same after being addicted to drugs or alcohol, it couldn’t be said that I am still addicted. It did take years to recover and while I’m no longer addicted, (I haven’t used speed in thirty four years and can’t remember the last time I followed one beer with another), it also isn’t true that I’m the same as I would have been had I never taken the first hit.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on May 19, 2010 under How to Help a Drug Addict |
The problems of overcoming addiction are something only one who has overcome them can completely understand. Others can study addiction, work with addicts and even live with addicts and begin to see what the effects of addiction to drugs or alcohol are. But there is a vast difference between truly and fully knowing something and merely knowing about something. The addiction scholars can study for years and never completely understand the life of the addict .
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on May 18, 2010 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education |
I’ve been really busy lately and haven’t posted for nearly three weeks. Sorry, I have been in class and working on fund raising. It’s late right now and I have another killer day tomorrow, but a kid said something in a seventh grade class today that I need to talk about.
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