Substance Abuse Research Paper

When I was 5 years old I got adopted into a loving family. My life before I was adopted was not sunshine and rainbows. My birth mother had an issue with manipulated drugs and alcohol, she also didn’t have a good child hood because my grandmother, her, and my aunt, had to flee Haiti during coup. My mother had me at a very young age, she was 17 years old and shouldn’t have had a child in my opinion. One of my first childhood memories was insignificant . I went through abuse a majority of the time I was with my birth family. I remember one time my mother came home drunk.I was about three years old ,and I went to go give her a hug, she grasped me by my hair and yanked me to the basement door, then she opened it and chucked me down the stairs
The man stood there and talked to me about how he was going to take me to a safe place were no one would hurt me anymore. He said I wouldn’t be able to see my grandma anymore and that I had to say goodbye. I remember balling really hard and refusing to go because I didn’t want to leave her. She kissed me and told me it was going to be okay and that she loved me. I went to the D.C.F building with the man , and it wasn’t that far from our house. I stayed there a night and the next daybreak I was put into a foster home. A year later my amazing mother I have now adopted me ,and I couldn’t be more grateful for that man who saved my life.My mom is a alluring women with sea blue eyes and sandy blonde hair. She has done a multitude of amazing things for me such as; enrolling me in sports so I could assemble new friends. She's taken me on countless vacations such as ; Disney World,Colorado,Canada, New York, an just places all over New England. Another thing my mom does for me is she tries her best to expose me to different cultures. She does this by taking me to museum and playing music from different cultures in the car. My mother is a social worker for kids who witness domestic violence so she was always able to help me coap with what happened to