Post subject: Call for stories for MTV Documentary
True Life: I’m Addicted to Cocaine
Is your cocaine use spiraling out of control? Have you gone from using only recreationally to almost every day? Do you find yourself unable to function on a daily basis without cocaine? Have you been spending more and more money just to get high? Have you done things that you wouldn’t have dreamed of before just to get more cocaine? Are your friends and family encouraging you to seek help? Are you considering going to rehab or enrolling in a program to overcome your addiction? If you’re finding yourself more and more dependent on cocaine, MTV wants to hear your story.
If you are at least 18 years of age and appear to be younger than 28, and are struggling with cocaine addiction, email us at TL2007ATmtvstaff.com with all of the details. Please be sure to include your name, location, phone number and a photo, if possible.
Is your cocaine use spiraling out of control? Have you gone from using only recreationally to almost every day? Do you find yourself unable to function on a daily basis without cocaine? Have you been spending more and more money just to get high? Have you done things that you wouldn't have dreamed of before just to get more cocaine? Are your friends and family encouraging you to seek help? Are you considering going to rehab or enrolling in a program to overcome your addiction? If you're finding yourself more and more dependent on cocaine, MTV wants to hear your story.
If you are at least 18 years of age and appear to be younger than 28, and are struggling with cocaine addiction, email us at TL2007ATmtvstaff.com with all of the details. Please be sure to include your name, location, phone number and a photo, if possible.
You may or may not be familiar with MTV's True Life -- it's a
long-running, award winning documentary series that seeks to have young people share their stories, in their own words. The format is strictly first person, which is to say that we don't filter the voices of our subjects through narrators or any similar third parties. All we do is follow them; it's our hope that by allowing these people to use their own voices to tell their stories, and communicating directly with their peers, we can impact the way people interact and engage with the world they live in.
Our topics change with the times, and one of the themes we're currently exploring for our new season is cocaine addiction. Millions of people use cocaine in spite of its highly addictive nature--and many of them are under age 25. What's life really like for a cocaine addict? How does using affect their personalities, their friendships, and their love lives? How do they pay for their habit--and how hard is it to kick?
I think this is a great idea, put the real life pain of cocaine addiction on air where those at risk are able to see what happens when the "fun" partying turns into a life consuming nightmare.
I hope that you get a good response and are able to show the true life of cocaine addiction.
Your station targets so many who either are or will be at risk for this addiction, and even if you can save just one family from all of the evils cocaine has to offer your program will be worth it.
Best of luck.
Lucy
Is your cocaine use spiraling out of control? Have you gone from using only recreationally to almost every day? Do you find yourself unable to function on a daily basis without cocaine? Have you been spending more and more money just to get high? Have you done things that you wouldn't have dreamed of before just to get more cocaine? Are your friends and family encouraging you to seek help? Are you considering going to rehab or enrolling in a program to overcome your addiction? If you're finding yourself more and more dependent on cocaine, MTV wants to hear your story.
If you are at least 18 years of age and appear to be younger than 28, and are struggling with cocaine addiction, email us at TL2007ATmtvstaff.com with all of the details. Please be sure to include your name, location, phone number and a photo, if possible.
Is your cocaine use spiraling out of control? Have you gone from using only recreationally to almost every day? Do you find yourself unable to function on a daily basis without cocaine? Have you been spending more and more money just to get high? Have you done things that you wouldn't have dreamed of before just to get more cocaine? Are your friends and family encouraging you to seek help? Are you considering going to rehab or enrolling in a program to overcome your addiction? If you're finding yourself more and more dependent on cocaine, MTV wants to hear your story.
If you are at least 18 years of age and appear to be younger than 28, and are struggling with cocaine addiction, email us at TL2007ATmtvstaff.com with all of the details. Please be sure to include your name, location, phone number and a photo, if possible.
Why a *younger then 28* appearance?
_________________ Does your train of thought have a caboose?
Are you saying that it will never happen to me? I'm the same age as that cat...but man how did they let that happent to themselves. I would never do that. Not me. No Way.
You never know what will have an impact. Recent studies have shown, and people stopping the featured folks on the street have said. I quit smoking because I saw you on the add, and I don't want have throat cancer etc.
I've been wondering if the ads discouraging kids from trying meth are having an impact.
Maybe it is not so much about the audience identifying with the person, but seeing someone their age in that situation and deciding not to pick it up to begin with because they don't want their life to end up like that.
We all know that someone with the it will never happen to me attitude will probably not be influenced but maybe others would be.
Are you saying that it will never happen to me? I'm the same age as that cat...but man how did they let that happent to themselves. I would never do that. Not me. No Way.
ROFLMAO....Jenni, jenni, jenni
Anything is possible.
Will you try crack?
It's possible
Will you end up a crackhead?
It's possible
Will you and your boyfriend end up reversing roles?
It's possible
Possible...yes
Probable...no
Possibilities produce few exceptions
Probabilities produce few failed expectations
Jenni wrote:
You never know what will have an impact. Recent studies have shown, and people stopping the featured folks on the street have said. I quit smoking because I saw you on the add, and I don't want have throat cancer etc.
LOL...How many people started smoking because of an ad.
Because it was glamorized.
Because their friends smoked.
Because their parents smoked.
Just because
I remember when I first started smoking.
I took smokes from my mom and practiced making circles
and french inhaling because I thought it looked so neat.
I smoke almost 2 pks a day.
It's easy to do when my cig. ends up burning away
while I'm on the computer.
When I was using heavily,
I could go through 4 packs in a day.
And let me tell you,
there were times when I couldn't even catch a full breath.
My chest, my lungs, my heart would be hurting soooo bad,
know what I did?
Took a handful of motrine and doused my chest with ben-gay
The only anti drug ad I remember...up until a few years ago
was the egg in a frying pan.
This is your brain(cracking an egg in a hot skillet)
This is your brain on drugs(egg crackling/frying in the pan)
Any questions?
Sh!t...I wasn't brain dead....I was an intelligent individual.
I'm still not brain dead...I'm still intelligent.
I do stupid things but, I'm not stupid.
I'm not through with impact but, let's move along.
Jenni wrote:
I've been wondering if the ads discouraging kids from trying meth are having an impact.
Well, there are many factors that depends on.
I, personally, have never seen an anti meth commercial or ad.
The only thing I saw was that *Faces of Meth* slideshow
that Gene left the link to.
That's it.
The only drugs I associate with Chicago are,
weed, crack, coke, heroine.
Acid and wikki stick was big when I was 16 and 17 but,
haven't a clue now.
In my opinion,
anti drug campaigns should not focus merely on,
discouraging against trying drugs but,
discouraging against associating with people who use drugs.
Kids are most impacted by their associations.
You are the company you keep
Birds of a feather flock together
If you do not associate with people who use drugs,
it is probable that you will not use drugs.
But, what about the situation now.
Parents are not only feeding their kids drugs but,
many adults are taking drugs themselves.
Drugs like Prozac, Ritalin, oxycontin, vicodin
that have been in headlines so many times,
it intrigues the curiosity of kids who have these drugs available to them
Curiosity killed the cat, or so the saying goes.
The first time I tried weed, it was out of curiosity
The first time I tripped, it was out of curiosity
The first time I tried a wikki stick, it was out of curiosity
The first time I did a line, what the h-ll, everyone else is
The first time I tried crack, was to shut Tom up
New associations...new curiosities
Jenni wrote:
Maybe it is not so much about the audience identifying with the person, but seeing someone their age in that situation and deciding not to pick it up to begin with because they don't want their life to end up like that.
Getting back to impact.
Do you feel that the material on MTV impacts their audience,
Sex, drugs, violence, racism, gangs...etc.
MTV would not exist if they aired music videos according to
a moral obligation concerning the possible negative impact
of those music videos on it's audience....on society.
Trying to identify with the audience you're impacting....
When a user is out of control,
the last thing they want to do is,
identify with someone else who is out of control.
Reality is not an addicts strong point.
Jenni wrote:
We all know that someone with the it will never happen to me attitude will probably not be influenced but maybe others would be.
Some people don't need to be influenced,
they already have common sense and standards
Peace & Love
Lynn
_________________ Does your train of thought have a caboose?
ROFLMAO...Not a surprising question, coming from a crackhead.
Yeah, I was giggling as I typed it, asking myself if it was a good idea to post such a question...it was meant as a joke I assure you, and the stupidity was totally meant in jest.
In my defense...I'm an IV user, not a crackhead. Never could understand chasing that rush off smokin' the sh/t that you never get the second time around! lol
Peace!
_________________ Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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