Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll To Heroin Addict
by Jude Hassan /
2015 / English / EPUB
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An estimated 150,000 people per year try heroin, most of them are
under the age of 26 and relative newbies to drugs. The stories of
those within these jaw-dropping numbers are the tether needed to
wrap our collective minds around this problem. Author Jude Hassan’s
memoir, Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll, to Heroin Addict, is a
personal account of his journey from a smart, well-loved kid with
great potential to a fear-filled addict and how he found his way
back. In Suburban Junky, Hassan was the last kid anyone would
imagine a junkie. He had loving and attentive parents, was a great
student, his father was a drug counselor; he knew all he was
supposed to know. When his family moved to the suburbs just in time
for freshman year, Hassan was more lonely than ever, shy and eating
lunch alone. When a boy his age finally approached him and offered
him drugs, it was all it took. Though he knew better and had all
the tools to resist, his desire to fit in became an unhealthy
obsession. Hassan quickly went from smoking pot to experimenting
with other drugs. He eventually landing on heroin. It took an
enforced detox in a jail cell and his father’s cancer to give him
the will to climb out of the deep, dark hole he’d lived in for six
years.
An estimated 150,000 people per year try heroin, most of them are
under the age of 26 and relative newbies to drugs. The stories of
those within these jaw-dropping numbers are the tether needed to
wrap our collective minds around this problem. Author Jude Hassan’s
memoir, Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll, to Heroin Addict, is a
personal account of his journey from a smart, well-loved kid with
great potential to a fear-filled addict and how he found his way
back. In Suburban Junky, Hassan was the last kid anyone would
imagine a junkie. He had loving and attentive parents, was a great
student, his father was a drug counselor; he knew all he was
supposed to know. When his family moved to the suburbs just in time
for freshman year, Hassan was more lonely than ever, shy and eating
lunch alone. When a boy his age finally approached him and offered
him drugs, it was all it took. Though he knew better and had all
the tools to resist, his desire to fit in became an unhealthy
obsession. Hassan quickly went from smoking pot to experimenting
with other drugs. He eventually landing on heroin. It took an
enforced detox in a jail cell and his father’s cancer to give him
the will to climb out of the deep, dark hole he’d lived in for six
years.
