Wednesday, July 1, 2009

11) Close your eyes and imagine a drug abuser, then breifly describe him or her. Then imagine a drug misuser and briefly describe him or her. Finally

Character:
27years old man
Vietnamese
Inoccupation
Likes: reading
watching movie
dancing
singing
drinking alcohol
Dislike: getting bad grade
some teacher
Favorite food: Vietnamese
Not popular
Not wealthy

Story
He was born in poor family in Vietnam. Hoping to escape from his poor condition, he tried his best on his school work to be successful in the future in order to take care of his family. His hard work paid back by letting him to enter Harvard University. Fortunately, he graduated Harvard University with the top grade. Then he began searching for a good job. On the last day of school, he went to the club with his friends. In the club he saw his friends taking drug, LSD, and he was asked to try it once. He tried it, yet worrying about the bad outcome he might have, because he wanted to be popular, or be the ‘cool guy’ among the society. Still, he thought he would be able to quit drug without any struggles. However, obviously, addiction of LSD was powerful thus making him to be a heavy drug user. Regardless of the fact that he was a drug user, he found a good job by not telling his drug use. However he was very stressed because of hard work and lack of sleep. Thinking he would get rid of those stresses, he took drug every night after his work was done. While taking drug, he wasn’t able to feel any dysphoria. Thus he finally became tolerant to a drug, elevating the drug doses dramatically. Using more drugs let him to experience euphoria. Few years later, his body became very weak and he knew that his illness was from overdose of drug. However knowing that didn’t help him to withdraw it. The finally one of his office partners found out that he was a serious drug user, accusing him for taking illegal. drugs. He happened to get fired from his work, go to hospital, and lose his dream that he wished to come true when he was a real ‘cool guy.

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