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Do you want to come over here and
give us a short interview for kids

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to stay off drugs? Not really, yo!
Seriously.

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[music] When I grow up I want to be

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an aesthetician. When I grow up I
want to be a magician. When I grow up

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I want to be a basketball player. I want to be
a geologist. I want to be a teacher. A pianist

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and an architect. A want to be a nurse. Surgeon
Fashion designer. I want to be a veterinarian

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when I grow up. I want to be a horse rider.
I want to be a policeman when I grow up.

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An animal trainer. A mechanic. A doctor.
Music teacher. I want to be a famous

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singer. When I was younger
I wanted to be an acrobat

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and instead I chose to do drugs.
My dream job when I was

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a kid was following my father,
becoming a cook. I really wanted to

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be a fireman but I got into drugs when
I was young and I\'ve been addicted

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since. What are drugs? What are drugs?

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[music] Drugs are death, slow suicide.
Owwww! Ow! (inaudible)

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go!

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It\'s hard to remember sometimes you\'re looking at a patient or
a person that, that\'s tied up like an animal that\'s, that\'s

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screaming and swearing at you to
remember that once they, they had dreams

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and they had plans. They had things that they
were going to be and do. And they\'ve lost

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it all. Drugs are something
put on this earth

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to m-, to uh, make it hell
on earth for the people that

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choose to follow them.

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This year we\'re going to be talking about drug
use. So one of the things that is often a

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surprise for people is that I use drugs.
The reason I take drugs is because I

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get migraine headaches and if I didn\'t take drugs
I wouldn\'t have quality of life. There are many,

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many reasons why people use drugs. So what are we
talking about here today? Are we talking about

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that kind of drug use or are we talking about another
kind of drug use? We\'re talking about street

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drugs and the inappropriate use of some legal
drugs. We\'re really talking about substance

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abuse, aren\'t we? Now with crystal meth that
has become a very common drug. How many of you

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have heard that term before, crystal meth?
My girlfriend, she opted for crystal

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meth. At 28 she lit herself on fire
thinking there were bugs all over her

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and burned herself to death. What is crystal
meth? What\'s crystal meth? What\'s crystal meth?

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Crystal meth is a very dangerous and horrible
drug. Everything about crystal methamphetamine

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is bad. I, I think it\'s the, the, the,
the drug of the devil. It really is.

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[music] (inaudible)

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Not really, no. Seriously.(inaudible)

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All kinds of effects of
drugs like crystal meth.

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We see the people whose lives are ruined.
They are crazy. They\'re tied

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down. They are scarred for life.
I shot myself in the head.

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I got run over by a train.
I tried to kill myself

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by using drugs. I went from
doing uh, going from nights

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of bartending and then waiting tables to
doing uh, lines of coke for a few hours,

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to uh, doing crystal meth
for two, three days.

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It screws up your mind and your body.
I\'ve seen people get very violent on it.

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Once I did like my first shot of dope
I was pretty much screwed for life.

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They smoke it. They snort it. They, they
ingest it. They inject it. They do whatever.

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It steals a lot of things. It steals your
soul. It\'s almost like living in hell.

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It puts you on hold. It stops you from
your goals. These group of guys came up to

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both of us actually and they asked us
if we tried crystal meth once or if

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we had any on us and we obviously,
not, right? So we told them

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no, like why would we do that? And they\'re like oh,
well we have some do you want to do it with us?

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And we\'re like no, like that\'s the dumbest thing
to do. And so we just told them to get away.

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Okay, choose your career.

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Cool, I\'m an artist.

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One. Whoa, I get to collect $60,000.

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Cool. 60? My turn?

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Yep. Three.

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You get a life card.

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This is not a game. This is
your life and I\'m telling you

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it is the worst possible life
that you could possibly imagine.

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It\'s not a game. It\'s a trap
and it keeps you trapped.

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Drugs is not a game. Drugs
is not cool at all.

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It, it doesn\'t make you cool. It never made

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me cool. Drugs ruined my life.

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Scientists have done studies that show that drugs
like crystal meth can actually cause you to lose

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part of your brain. You have to remember, you use
your brain for everything that you do, day to day.

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You use it to walk, to talk. You use it to
use your computer. You use it to watch TV.

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You use it to eat, to go to school.
You use some to

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play outside. And you have to ask yourself if
you\'re going to use drugs like crystal meth

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what part of your brain would
you like to do without?

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Hey. Hey! Hey!

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Oh I got to put my (inaudible) Hey! Hello.

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There is a look to any chronic drug user.
You, you can tell fairly quickly when

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somebody has a significant drug habit.
And there\'s a lot of factors that

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go into that. I mean there\'s, there\'s certain physical
deterioration. They don\'t look after themselves.

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Uh, there may be, because of the mental deterioration,
they don\'t clean themselves. They don\'t

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look after their teeth. There are actually chemical
changes, biochemical changes that take place typically with

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crystal meth users, where their teeth
rot, become discolored, look horrible.

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Crystal meth wrecks the enamel
on your teeth. And they

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look real good for picture shoots.
I\'ve had an abscess

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and it was really gross and
I had a band-aid over it

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but like band-aid didn\'t really do anything
\'cause what happens is it gets this

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pus and it just, when it\'s ready, oozes.

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Keeps oozing out of you. So you\'re
this kid walking outside of

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your school and this fellow comes up to you and
says hey, I\'ve got some crystal meth. What

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are some of the things that you can possibly
do to refuse? In other words what are refusal

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skills that you can use? You have a choice. You
have a choice not to become a victim. You have

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a choice not to lose your, your life and your
future and your dreams. And you have to make

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that choice and say, I\'m not going to touch it. I\'m not
going to use crystal meth. I\'m not going to use drugs.

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No thank you. I would like to use my brain
for the rest of my life., No thanks.

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I have better things to do than to do crystal
meth. No thanks. I don\'t do Drano. No thank you.

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No thank you. Don\'t do drugs.
Don\'t even try \'em.

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You know, one time is too many, okay?

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Just because you\'re from a small town doesn\'t
mean you won\'t become addicted to crystal meth.

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And once you become addicted to crystal meth it may take
you places you never, ever thought you would end up.

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It may make you do things you never, ever thought
you would do. Everyone should be warned uh,

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on uh, Easter Sunday I, I
jumped out of my window.

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[music] My first time I
was offered any kind

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of drug was actually in, right when I got into
high school. I uh, didn\'t really know anyone yet

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so I kinda felt like it might have been the right
thing to do maybe to get to know people. But uh,

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I ended up saying no and I\'m glad I did
because from what I hear once you tr-,

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once you try it, you\'re hooked and like that wouldn\'t
have fit the lifestyle that I want for myself. So

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it was better that I didn\'t do it so I didn\'t. If
somebody comes up to you and says hey, want to try some

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speed, like, no, just don\'t. And I
will get asked while I\'m going home

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, while I\'m playing basketball, like I go to the tournaments and
this guy sitting in the bleacher is asking oh, you want to go

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you know, let\'s do this. But I\'ll give it to you for
free. You see friends asking you, I mean, it\'s just a

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obvious answer. You can\'t, you just gotta
say no. The best way is just to say

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no and just tell them to leave you alone.
That\'s what I did.

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I\'ve been approached a lot, but it, for me
it\'s easy to say no because it just comes

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naturally. I have self-respect and so
I can say no. Just don\'t do drugs.

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People that tell you not to do drugs
are the people that love you.

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People that tell you do do drugs and to try it, and
it\'s not gonna hurt you, those are people that

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don\'t care. Losing a leg and an arm

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that\'s bad.

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[sil.] I want to be an
acrobat when I grow up.

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