Here are true and heartfelt words from some of the recovering addicts who shared their stories on Crystal Darkness.

Tennille
“I was a 4.0 GPA student. I lost everything; my scholarship to college, I graduated at 16—it’s not worth it.  Don’t try it. Not even once.”

Darrell
“With Meth you actually become the drug.  Not even a human being, basically.  That’s how I felt.  I wasn’t a human anymore.  I was just something, something loud and disgusting, despicable.  I could use a lot of words, that’s what I became. It’s really what I became.”

Omar
Don’t do it because you’re going to lose everything. Sooner or later you’re going to end on the streets, jails and institutions, or like I almost ended, six feet under.

Shad
The type of sickness that goes along, especially with people that inject the drugs into their veins…there are no boundaries to it. There is nothing that could ever be televised that can touch the surface of what is going on there. All the types of stuff that would put people in prison for the rest of their life if they were completely honest about what they were doing while they were that heavily under the influence of methamphetamine.  I do not know one single person using Meth regularly that didn’t commit crime.  I have never known one. 

Billie
Meth destroys you and you never know from one minute to the next if you’re going to be dead or alive.

Joshua
Don’t even try it because once is all it takes and it will start you down that road. 

David
Think of yourself as being put in a glass box. No contact with anyone, no food, nothing.  Eventually you die. That is sort of what it is like. That is what methamphetamine is like.  

Don
The dumbest word for what we did was partying, ‘cause it was no party.  A party of one is a very lonely party.