Dear internet users,
My name is Konrad, Konrad Fissneider. I warmly welcome you to my homepage. I was addicted: addicted to cigarettes, to alcohol, to medication, and to all kinds of drugs.
This website is my life story and it is meant to make you think and to offer help!
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It all started when I was ten years old. Back then, I had my first experiences with cigarettes. Just two years later, at a city festival, I experienced my first intoxication. From that point on, I lived my life in a haze for 15 years. Besides nicotine and alcohol, sleeping pills and painkillers, and especially drugs like hashish, marijuana, LSD, opium, and finally heroin, dominated my life. |
That I am still alive is not a given. Every day could have been my last. The addictive substances were both a comfort and a hell for me. Breaking free from them was also hell. Withdrawal and therapy saved my life and gave me a second chance.
Since my recovery, I have been working in drug prevention and sharing my knowledge and experiences through conversations, lectures, seminars, books, music videos, and films.
My goal with this website and my work is:
- To protect others, especially young people, from all kinds of drugs and to raise awareness about the dangers. Drugs are not a way out!
- To wake up addicts. It’s not others or the drugs that are to blame. The addicted person themselves is the problem.
- To provide a platform for those affected — whether addicted themselves or confronted with addicts. Get in touch! Hiding, pushing away, and silence are no solution!
- To inform! You need to know that drugs affect the central nervous system. They influence senses and feelings and alter perception and consciousness. But drugs only help temporarily. Fear, loneliness, anger, boredom are only pushed away briefly, and even pleasant feelings like cheerfulness and joy don’t last long. Drugs destroy lives!
All the best!
Yours, Konrad Fissneider
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