Hitting Bottom

For my blog, I read a chicken soup for the soul story called Hitting Bottom by Jenny Hungerford. This story was about an eleven year old girl who moved to a new town and turned to smoking and drinking as a way to cope with her low self esteem. Before long, she was running away from home, doing cocaine and living in the basements of apartment complexes. She denied her moms efforts to put her multiple treatment programs, and finally her mom took the case to court and Jenny was forced to go to a long-term treatment center. She became sober and completely turned her life around. To prevent kids from following the same path she did, she started doing presentations and speeches at elementary schools and has never thought about doing drugs since then. This story teaches an important lesson about how drugs and alcohol will not solve any problems for you but will only complicate things. It also teaches how satisfying it can be to reach out and help others, like Jenny did by teaching elementary school students about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.