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It's still in my mind if the project that our MAPEH teacher has given to us is something he really thought of many times. Probably that is not easy and is quite hard to do, uncommonly, when you don’t have the guts to interview a drug-dependent man. Well, can you?

Our fourth grading topic in MAPEH-Health cycles about prohibited drugs. Yes, I heard a lot of things about this since my elementary days—how to prevent it, what are the signs if you’re a chronic user and many more how-what-when-where-why facts and questions about the erroneous use of drugs. Bad, bad, bad indeed!

I have thought of reports or research (those that we students just usually hunt for in Google and then retouch as soft copy and finally get its hard copy without even reading it) that could be our project in this matter. Well, unexpectedly, he gave something new. We have to interview a drug-dependent person and ask him few questions which are then I found challenging.

(These are some of the questions I had prepared for the ‘target’)

1. Who motivated you to use prohibited drugs? How did he/she influence you?

2. Was your first taste of drug good to you? In what way?

3. Have you ever tried to do a crime when you have no money to buy drugs? When and to whom you had done it?

4. What type or kind of drug you use? How much it is being sold to you per gram?

5. Have you ever asked or convinced yourself to go to rehabilitation center to get cured? Why? Why not?

I asked these fretting questions to my brother’s friend—a good-looking, 24-year old guy. I was frightened of course at first thinking he might just snob or mock at me but I’m glad he listened and talked to me that well. Honestly, I felt “sayang!” the moment I was talking to him. By then, I started to understand more why people do such bad thing. I learned a lot and he revealed things that I am quite innocent still—sex, anxiety, money and crime—and advised how not to be involve with it.

We ended up our conversation satisfactorily. And the good thing is, he had stopped using it 5 months ago and promised that he will never use it again for it ruined his life.