This series of posts, which, like the others, will converge into one or more books, analyzes the world of drugs TODAY and arises from my personal experiences, especially in the years from 2022 to 2025.
In those (these) years I decided to be a therapist, a support person, and to direct my activity toward people who, like a dear friend of my youth, destroy their own lives because of drugs.
They are the members of a community, the people who belong to an environment, which I call the “dark world,” populated by drug addicts, dealers, thieves, prostitutes more or less occasional or by trade, and various other categories, all united by their inability to find a higher and more rewarding meaning in their lives.
In my journey through this “dark world” I did not want to be a spectator but to live it from WITHIN, to be part of it; I did not limit myself to casually meeting the people involved but identified, selected and frequented assiduously, speaking with them in depth, the elements I considered most representative of that environment, and with them I shared everything, maintained personal relationships of every kind, formed friendships and partnerships, hosted and lived together and, with “one of them,” I lived the most engaging and intense love story of my entire life.
I did not only conduct detailed research on drug(s), I wanted to learn how to produce the one currently most harmful and addictive: Crack, often mentioned as “smokable cocaine.”
I did not want simply to be told what it means to be a drug addict, I induced drug dependence in myself and lived through to the end the consequences on my personal and working life.
I devised a methodology to confront and defeat addictions of any kind, also applicable to “hard” drugs, tested it successfully on myself, and intend to explain its principles (without profit motive for those most in need) to anyone who believes they may benefit from it.
I lived through a personal and demanding path of reintegration into society, returning to a “normal” life, with a job, human relationships and “normal” hours, while maintaining a connection with the “dark world” to help those within it who wish to get out and lead a “normal” life.