By Emmy Lindfors Opinion Editor Throughout October 22nd in sophomore Health classes, there were presentations by five former drug and alcohol addicts. Their names were Deanna, Nick, Eric, Chris and Kelsey. Each had a story to tell and a reason why they wanted to share them with the students. Each speaker had the goal of telling the students about how someone's life gets affected by drugs and alcohol from a first hand experience. "I went to Rolling Meadows. They have pictures of athletes on the walls like [at Prospect]," Eric said. "In freshmen year, I said 'I'm going to be [an athlete on the wall].' In senior year I dropped out of sports and all I wanted to do was to get high and do nothing. My senior year was spent drinking warm, white wine."