The problem started when the family moved and Chris switched schools. He made friends with new kids, some of whom used drugs(毒品) . The first time Chris used cocaine（可卡因） was with friends at Larry's house. Everyone pooled their money to buy few grams of cocaine. Larry told them, “It's safe as long as you don't use it too often. It won't  turn you into an addict(成瘾者) like other drugs.

      During the following year, the group tried crack (价格不贵的强效纯可卡因)) along with cocaine. Chris bragged (吹嘘)， “I can handle this material!” Larry agreed. “As long as you only take a little bit, you'll be okay. He said. When one friend died in the hospital from an overdose(过量)，Chris thought, “That'll never happen to me. Since I'm mostly smell the drug, I won't have any problems.

       At 16, he lefthome without telling them where he was going. Just because his parents tried to change his mind .He lasted two weeks working at a pizza shop , and then he started selling cocaine. “I'll only do this until I get back on my feet(独立的)," he told himself.

      Chris's family found him living alone in a rundown(荒芜的) part of town. A school friend had called the family to tell them where he was. “It probably saved my life,”Chris says. “I was half-dead.”

      To pay for Chris to enter a drug treatment center, his dad took a second job. Chris is grateful to getting treatment. Now he's able to see colors again. In the depths of his addiction he saw everything in black and gray.