Seriously, kids—and whomever—don’t put drugs in your body. When I was a teenager, I had a friend who had the worst drug addiction—a heroin addict at 17. Crazy, huh? He was actually a full-blow drug user; he’d do any: ice, coke, crack, oxycotin, acid, shrooms…

Anyway, he was the worst cat to be around when he went on drug binges. We had a band together, he the lead singer and guitarist, me a guitarist. He would always be a big jerk, always grumpy and depressed. To me, this is proof alone that, while you have a drug addiction, you can’t be happy.

Some would say life is hard enough; drugs make it intolerable. …Well, what happened to my good friend? He overdosed on heroin one day and had to be revived. A couple years later, he had snorted a line of coke and taken these pills—I can’t remember their names—and he drove himself into a telephone poll. He luckily lived and is supposedly doing better all these years later.

I also had other friends as well as family members fall to drugs. Believe me, drug addiction is not a pretty sight. Think again before you think drugs will solve your problems—because they only make things worse.

People try to do many things to be happy; you’ve got to find what makes you feel good inside and bring that into your life daily. Drug addiction is not the answer. Most of us have a hard time being happy period, so doing drugs makes it damn near impossible to live a good life.