Aaron’s story is typical — a young man, a successful high school athlete, and a gifted soccer player. In 2005, Aaron overdosed on OxyContin and prescription drugs and was in a coma for three weeks. His parents planned his funeral, but he is now a quadriplegic due to an overdose. He knows everything and communicates with hands and fingers, one for yes and two for no.
In 2009, Yaga nearly died. She went to a private high school, she was a cheerleader, but when she was 18, she overdosed on MDMA. She was in a coma for two months, with complete organ and respiratory failure, unable to walk, talk or do simple things. She has been in a wheelchair for 5 months. She’s been in rehab for two years, and she’s still in rehab. She can’t dance, she can’t run, and she talks very slowly. This decision of hers changed her life…she took a pill of ecstasy.
One of the girls who testified in this documentary was very committed in high school, she worked in the student government, she graduated from high school with a very good GPA and a scholarship, and had a bright future with honors and leadership positions. She discovered alcohol and MDMA when she was 17, and about three months later she started using heroin. Her condition escalated rapidly, she wanted to try everything, they all had different effects, they all made her feel different and do different things, she was curious, very uneducated about drugs, she didn’t know she was rolling Into what with.
Another girl started out smoking marijuana, drinking and taking pills, ended up with several overdoses, went to rehab at 14, and eventually became addicted to heroin for two years. She was able to make it through college for a year, and when her problems got serious, she basically lost control. She failed all her classes, she didn’t show up at family events, she lost all her jobs, she was in an abusive relationship with an ex she used to date, the most important thing to her was that she lost herself .
