The "Ecstacy" of addiction

There was only a short period of time I took ecstasy. Those little colored pills with cute symbols on them...I started taking them because I heard they make you want sex more and make it much better.. me, with a terrible sex life with my now ex husband was looking for any reason to improve things.
Little did I know that they do improve the mood, nothing can change someone's below par performance... that was a pathetic reason to take the things in the first place, but an addict always looks for a fix to cure all discrepancies.
Ecstasy raises the body temperature, quite a bit actually. It cooks you from the inside. Many people have dropped dead from using the drugs and being highly active. The body boils and the spine and brain shuts down. It can cause seizures, spinal damage, brain damage, paralysis, organ failure, death...so why take this drug you ask? Any addict looking for that ultimate fix, aka ecstasy...for what it is named..Will sought after these little pills. I know I did. Luckily I never experienced any of those symptoms. An unfortunate mix of ecstasy and cocaine landed me a very embarrassing and frustrating trip to the hospital for severe dehydration, kidney problems which led to stones, UTI, and other infections, abscesses..boooo!
You ask why, I took the pills again? Because I was looking for the high, man... but on a serious note, next time you think that doing ecstasy is a fun idea, imagine yourself sweating and I mean severely...more than you have ever sweated in your life, imagine your body inside struggling, panicking to cool itself down but it can't so it starts shutting down different departments to keep other more vital areas alive until those give out from over working themselves, imagine the room spinning so fast and going black for long moments, the fear, and pain you feel when you realize you may be dying...imagine what it would do to your loved ones, when you die because of a poor choice to eat this little pill, just to have fun...Is that what you want to be remembered for?
Or you can imagine a clean drug free life with less worry, less pain, you find yourself going to Starbucks for that coffee, or in my case, to the department store for that handbag addiction fix rather than your dealer for that pill addiction.. it's much cheaper that way too..
you have a better chance of survival and less risk on your body. Plus you will feel and look better, your opportunities in life are much better, you don't have to hide from your family until you feel better and don't look strung out.. You won't have to fear job interviews and drug tests cuz we all know how scary that can be when you are dirty..
Just do your body a huge favor because it is yours and your have to love it, don't destroy it by eating ecstasy, or any other drugs that are not for medical use...just don't, let it go..walk away, you won't regret it.