Crystal Meth isn't very glamorous

Not a pretty sight is it? Not very chic to look like a rotting corpse. That's why I am disappointed with Andre Agassi and the furore surrounding his admission he took crystal meth. It would appear that the motive to blurt this admission to the world could well be to sell his soon to be published autobiography. Fair enough, that’s marketing I guess. It doesn’t even rankle with me that he put one over on the tennis authorities by lying over how he came to test positive for the drug.

No, the real problem for me lies in amongst the good things he seeks to do here through his Agassi Foundation. Mission statements proudly proclaim how the lives of young people are sought to be improved. Hey guess what Andre? That’s exactly what the city fathers of Los Angeles are trying to do with all those billboards denouncing the use of crystal meth. Pictures line streets every few hundred yards, showing horrendously disfigured young people who have trodden the path of addiction to the same drug Agassi confesses to. Very few of those if any, have the luxury of wealth that can help them obtain the necessary help in order to fight such addictions. Their poverty coupled with their addiction is the very cause of high crime levels in many parts of LA. Now it appears the drug of their downfall is enjoyed by rich, successful sports stars, with a perceived glamorous lifestyle. Maybe keeping schtum and finding absolution via the Foundation was the way to go. I just hope there isn’t a copy of his book in my Xmas stocking.


nick