I went to my first interview with these Narcotics Help classes for my court ordered agreement. What a time that was! I'm interviewed by this woman who I wanted to choke the life out of after 10 minutes. I go in and meet this lady and she asks me a series of questions: name information etc, and what I was charged with.
She says, "Steroids? That is a major problem...oh wow. I'm going to recommend that your stay here is extended 6 months." I'm like ma'am, I am not an addict. I'm an athlete. This is an interview and you already assume I'm a junkie?
"I don't assume things I just can tell that you're going to need alot of help so I think its for the best. Now this is court ordered but its also voluntary...There is methadone in the nurses office. You can take some and leave, but if you do you have violated your court order and we will report you and you'll never be able to come here again."
I was about to choke this woman to death. I said "Lady, methadone is an OPIATE BLOCKER. I AM NOT A ****ING JUNKIE."
"Sir calm down....the first step in fixing this problem you have is admitting you have a problem."
Oh my God.
Edit: I have a question for you guys. I've got a year of these classes to do and frankly I think its ridiculous. I know that I'm lucky not to be getting charges and just do these court ordered classes, but I'm sitting around people that have stolen and hurt people for their fix. I'm not a druggie. I'm considering writing a small book about this whole thing. I've almost got a bachelors and also a minor in English. I'm a full time working goal oriented college student who was almost a USMC officer.
I want to show people that the steroid users in the bodybuilding / athlete / power lifting community are GOAL ORIENTED HARD WORKING PEOPLE, NOT JUNKIES. I'm going to go in depth on proving that as well as how there is more LENIENCY towards addicts of cocaine, heroin, oxycontin etc, and leniency toward marijuana laws but HARSH PENALTIES for users of steroids just trying to be their best. If I wrote this and had it marketed, if you guys liked what you read would you recommend it to your friends and others who see this as a 'junkie habit' ?
I've talked to a few people locally who do publishing work and also some people who do work on this site. If they like what they see, that's a big step. I'm just trying to see if this would be something that people would be interested in.