Breaking Bailey by Anonymous

Breaking Bailey by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse


March 16

I tried not to take any Addys today because I didn’t want to feel so on edge. I thought maybe that would help me feel calmer, or at least more normal.

But by the time I got to third period I realized it actually had the opposite effect. I was way more jittery than normal, and I felt like my eyes were crossing or something. I couldn’t focus at all on the reading in English. Not like I just couldn’t concentrate, but like my eyes wouldn’t work correctly.

I felt right as rain, though, after I took one between classes and went to chemistry.

Mr. Callahan is disappointed that I didn’t get selected for the Princeton program, but he said he’d talk to someone at the school and see if he could pull some strings. I asked him why I wasn’t accepted, if maybe it was my essay. He said it might have been, but not for the reasons I thought. Turns out the selection committee probably gets tons of essays every year about wanting to make drugs that aren’t addictive. He said the opioid epidemic is so bad around here, it’s a common theme for hopeful young chemists.

Me: I’ve heard this area is seeing a lot of heroin addiction.

Mr. Callahan: Heroin, but prescription drugs too. The kind usually prescribed for pain treatment. Things like OxyContin and Percocet or Vicodin. Oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine. You know. But then people get addicted and can’t stop.

Me, alarmed: So Percocets ARE really addictive?

Mr. Callahan: Oh, I know they are. All opioids are. Studies show it affects the body in more permanent ways than other drugs, so the body ends up craving more, and addiction happens faster.

Me: So . . . it’s more addictive than something like, say, meth?

Mr. Callahan: Well, everything like that is addictive, Bailey. One isn’t better than the other. Meth, for example . . . the users sometimes go through withdrawal or comedown for days. Users can hallucinate or get very depressed when they don’t have a supply, which makes them need more to get rid of the feeling. So, like I said. Neither is particularly better than the other. Are you worried about someone?

I looked at him, confused as to why he would assume that. I shook my head and, luckily, was quick enough to cover.

Me: I just feel silly for thinking I had an original idea, I guess, and I realized I don’t really know much about drug addiction. Thanks for talking to me about it.

Mr. Callahan: Of course. I’ll call my friend at Princeton tomorrow. See what he says.

I thanked him and got out of there, but honestly, I couldn’t stop replaying what he said over and over inside my head. Meth causes depression? Hallucinations?

And perhaps more important, considering what my boyfriend gave me last night, Percocet is highly addictive?



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