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((continuation of a char from 2021)) Isabella Donaldson, AKA Zombie, was a crack baby born in a trailer in Crystal Park. As part of a group of white kids living in a predominantly hispanic area in the Valley, she quickly found herself hanging around fellow delinquent youths and being introduced to drugs, first beginning with a joint but slowly but surely morphing itself into something different as the difficulties of Donaldson's life continued - substance use only further compounding it. At the age of 17, Donaldson met and began dating Francis "Drummer" Barker - a known skinhead up East at the time. As Barker's criminal activity, prison stints, and position in his gang increased, Donaldson began leaning heavier on narcotics in an ill-advised attempt to cope with her boyfriend being away in prison. The couple’s relationship was perceived as toxic and the duo often clashed over Donaldson’s use of substances after Drummer became active in prison. Donaldson, through her rapscallion friends, in her early and mid-20s, was inevitably introduced to heroin, meth, and fentanyl - her genetic predisposition from her parent's respective addictions being too much for the young woman to overcome alone. Donaldson shot up dope for the first time with Peter “Piddy” Good - another known figure in the neighborhood at the time. Donaldson was given her nickname when she was willing to go through crazy antics and act like a zombie for the amusement of a pill pusher for free drugs. The attempt was successful. While her boyfriend was locked up, he began making demands for money. As a result, Donaldson turned to committing crime as well, eventually coming to a head when she was convicted and sentenced to two prison terms following an arrest for burglary and assault with a deadly weapon in San Fierro a few years later. In prison, Donaldson met Liliana “Witch” Rosiak. After her release from prison, with her boyfriend behind bars and her former friends missing in action, Donaldson relapsed and soon found herself on the streets of Mission Row, a neighborhood in Downtown Los Santos that houses open-air drug markets and one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the country.
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Who are we? Narcotics Anonymous is a independent government commission, a fellowship comprised of individuals, both men and women, who have grappled with the overwhelming burden of drug addiction. NA was founded in 1953 on the premise of fellowship, providing a safe forum for individuals to share their experiences, strength, and hope in their road to recovery. We, as recovering addicts, convene on a regular basis with a shared objective; to support one another in maintaining a life free from that substance abuse. Our approach is rooted in unwavering abstinence from all forms of drugs. The sole prerequisite for membership is a sincere yearning to break free from those clutches of drug use. We encourage you to embarce an open-minded perspective and grant yourself the space to heal. Our program encapsulates a set of principles that are elegantly simple, enabling us to seamlessly integrate them into our daily existance. NA comes with no restrictions or qualifications. We have no affiliations with other organizations. We have no initiation fees or dues to pay, no vows to sign, and no commitments to make. We have no ties to any political or law enforcement organizations, and we are never under surveillance. Anyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, creed, religion, or lack thereof, is welcome to join us. The particulars of your history, whether the quantity of your consumption, your affiliations, or your previous activities, are irrelevant. Instead, we are completely involved in your desire to overcome your difficulties and how we can help you along the way. In our sessions, the newcomer takes center stage because we recognize that the act of giving is what maintains our own advancement. Our cumulative experience shows that regular attendance at our sessions is critical to living a clean life. Sponsors You know, the pleasant individual you had coffee with after your first meeting. That kind individual that continues to share his or her recovery journey for free. The one who continues to astound you with astounding insight into your character flaws. The one who reminds you to complete your Fourth Step, listens to your Fifth Step, and doesn't tell others how strange you are. When we're used to someone being there for us, it's easy to take all of this for granted. We may let our imaginations go wild for a time, telling ourselves, "I'll call my sponsor later, but right now I have to clean the house, go shopping, and chase that attractive." As a result, we find ourselves in turmoil, wondering where we went wrong. Our sponsor cannot read people's minds. It is up to us to seek out and ask for assistance. It is our responsibility to make the request, whether we need assistance with our steps, a reality check to help us straighten out our wacky thinking, or simply a buddy. Sponsors are warm, intelligent, lovely individuals, and their recovery experience is available to us. All we have to do is ask. A sponsor is somebody who has been clean for at least 5 months and wants to spend time helping a newcomer get started in Narcotics Anonymous and recovery. The sponsors are not medical or professional practitioners. Sponsors are not paid. The 12 Steps "The 12 Steps" are the foundational steps that we use in Narcotics Anonymous in our journey to recovery. These steps offer a more structure approach to overcoming addiction and maintaining a long-term sobriety. The 12 Steps: 1. We admitted we were powerless over drugs, that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addictcs, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Contact Do you want to become a sponsor? Do you require instructions to a meeting or rather have personal one on one meetings? Or do you have any further questions? Please dial 6576-9561 or send an email to [email protected].
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MORNING: As usual all days begin with a morning. Unless you were just off binge, in that case you will sleep for days before you wake up again, but still it usually begins in the morning. Once we wake up, we are hit, with dreadful, but so awfully familiar feeling of emptiness and craving. Yes the withdrawal kicks in. Now this part usually differs from, what are you using, how much time passed from last dosage. That aside we wake up craving for more, we need it. If we are lucky, we saved up a small portion of our drug of choice before we went to sleep. So we can skip the morning relatively alright. If we are not lucky, we wake up with no leftovers and frantically search our house or wherever we woke up for for hooters, pookies or anything that may contain some residue of a drug of our choice. Once we are done searching our immediate surroundings, we hit up the net or phonebook asking everyone we know, if they have something to cope with the day. Mostly we are asking for money or if it's our fellow abusers, for the drug of our choice. AFTERNOON: Afternoon activities are usually for "jobs" be it whatever may. Usually simple jobs, that can be done in few hours and do not require a piss cup. Or if we still have a regular job, then we go there. But as soon as we are able to lay our hands on some cash, we "suffer" through the job we have. Or if we are finished with the job we hit up our dealer or people that know people, so we can buy our drug of choice. Afternoon is usually the least interesting part of drug addict roleplay cause apart from few exceptions, it is not different from any other roleplaying concepts. EVENING: Evening is the stuff we've been waiting for. It's party time. Time when drug addicts assemble to chill or party, drugs are abused heavily during the time. People do many things they like to do at this time, all this tripled being high on a drug of our choice. Not much to be added here. NIGHT: Night and before dawn or before when you go to sleep. This is the time we (if we haven't nodded off), participate in petty crime activities. Now a drug addict, depending on said person and group of people they are with, usually goes for simple and quick jobs. Car break-ins are pretty common among such, as well as breaking into various closed establishments. Pickpocketing is usually done during daylight in shopping malls. But if we do our illegal "grab that cash for more drugs" activities at nights.... Most common is car break-in and breaking into small shops or whatever. If you are daring enough, you can also rob people, though that is not as common. Then various drugs have various effects, but stages are usually the same for any drug, this however depends on how deep we are in it. Also how long they take is different from drug to drug. DRUG STAGES: -Rush. This is the intial stage, the kick or the bang, when you hit it. It rarely exceeds 30 minutes. -High. After rush comes the High, this is the stage where we want to be the most, it can last up to 16 hours or longer, depending on the drug. This is also the stage when we usually commit all those petty crimes we do to get money for more drugs. -Binge. This is rather chaotic stage when High is fading away and we need to maintain it. We use other drugs and alcohol in any amount we deem necessary to maintain the high. -Tweaking. Is the most dangerous stage, this is the stage where nothing we do helps to maintain the high. Delusions, hallucinations etc etc. Tweaking does not occur at every drug though. -Crash. Is phase where we literally crash, our body is no longer able to deal with our nonsense and simply shuts down sending us to long sleep. -Withdrawal. And withdrawal is what we wake up with after the crash only to start the whole ride all over again. Or seek help. Edit: This guide (if you can call it that) mostly serves as an insight into a hardcore user's life, because you can be an addict and lead pretty much a normal life. Or you can be on the street, sleeping elsewhere every night engaging in dubious jobs and activities to get your fix, or you can be both.
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