Dear Heroin,
Over the past few years you've made your way into my hometown, causing many deaths and a lot of problems for our community. You're all over billboards to show awareness and all over the news to show the problems you've caused. Most recently, you've made your way into my home, a place I used to feel safe. You've taken the light out of my family, caused more heartache and aggravation than you could imagine.
Before all of this I never thought of heroin as being something so common. It was something you only saw in movies and tv shows. To me, heroin was just a prop in a movie that the bad guys were always in trouble for. I never saw heroin as anything other than a box of drugs that eventually was seized by the police when they catch the bad guy at the end of the movie, but tv shows and movies don't show you how heroin works in real life. Never would I imagine that one day that such a terrible drug would make its way into my household. Movies don't show you all the horrible things you can do when you're used.
I've first hand seen the things you can do. How you tear apart bodies, leaving them skinny and weak. I've seen you turn a loving family into a family I don't know anymore. I've seen you steal money and belongings from the people you love. I've watched you look the ones you love straight in the face and lie. I've seen you manipulate family members just to get what you need. I've seen you sneak around and I've seen you turn someone we love and care for into a monster...
Heroin, you've destroyed many lives, and have taken a big toll on my family with your addictive manor. My once happy family, is now in distress. We argue, we cry, and we have all began resenting one another for what the problems you've caused. The joy we all once had is now replaced by anger and hate. While you have done all of these negative things, you have shown me to choose something different for myself. You've shown me all the ugly you can do to a person and their family. You've taught me to stay away from things like you, and shown me who I never want to be. I want my family back. My family who shares a big heart, and loves each other dearly. My family who came together as one when in times of need. Instead of the one you've turned them into.
So heroin, please leave. Leave out home and leave our town. You're something I wish I never had to know of, you're a hurt I wish I didn't have to feel. A sadness I wish I didn't have to watch.
Sincerely,
A very exhausted and broken family
