Hello everyone I am a recovering cocaine addict and alcohol addict and I am 29 years old.  I was first introduced to cocaine back when I was 26 year old, my boyfriend one night told me to take a hit I was relutant because I never thought using drugs and sticking things up your nose was cool I didn't even know how to do it!  Anyways I tried it and had a rush I never felt before and then hit it again and again and again and then I became an addict overnight, It ruin my life I would never introduce this drug to ANYONE it is death in a millions ways more the one I had a steady job as a dancer never drank or did drugs when I was working never had the drive at all.  I was living in a townhome it was 1400.00 a month and a had a nice 1998 ford explorer and my life was pretty sweet no worries at all I had it MADE until this drug destroyed my life and now I have really nothing to show for it I lost everything, it hurts me so bad when I begin to think what happen to the three years of my life losing it all everything I worked so hard for it all came crashing down and now I am 29 and I feel that a chunk of my life was lost all due to this drug.  I was getting into trouble with the law and lost my job this was the most disruptive thing that has ever entered my life COCAINE I hate the drug it stole my innocence as human being and it robbed me blind of all the things I can never replace with the hands of time I feel lost and alone at times and I don't even know who I am these days, I look at my pictures before I used this drug and it is clearly a total change of my innersoul that had been isolated and tormented and broken to a zillion little pieces I don't even know who I am, it hurts...I remember when I was a little girl and me and my friends would walk to the candy store and we would get those lemon drops and red hots and in the little box it would say "SAY NO TO DRUGS" That really stuck in my head til this day. PLEASE DON'T DO IT OR ATTEMPT TO.  It's like quick sand you will definitely go under fast, either 6 feet deep or Financially, Mentally, Physically, Emotionally etc. It destroyed me... Remember there is no rewind button in this life we live and time keeps moving forward.  Lea