After each overdose or DUI, people are quick to blame everything and everyone. From the user who overdosed, to the doctor who prescribed the pills, to the dealer who sold the drug, to the driver who got behind the wheel, to the bartender who didn’t cut them off, to the bystander who didn’t take their keys, to the victim who died! However, nobody ever seems to blame the DRUGS that are the root cause of everything! Instead, people continue to use the same deadly drugs themselves.

Also, contrary to popular belief, prescription drugs are NOT medicine! Society has been conditioned to believe drugs and medicine are synonymous, when in fact they couldn’t be more different. Drugs take control of your mind and body away from YOU. Medicines (such as NARCAN) reverse this and restore control back to YOU (if you are still alive). Drugs are chemicals designed to override brain receptacles to produce a feeling. Medicines are solutions used for the treatment or prevention of disease.

Don’t fall victim to the advertising practices of the pharmaceutical companies. Their primary objective is to cultivate as many customers as possible all while ensuring a high retention rate. If you can get high on it, become addicted to it, or overdose on it, then it is a drug!

The FEARLESS definition: If it impairs your reflexes and mental functions, it is a drug (aka mind-altering substance).

Despite the facts, the drug and alcohol companies have done an amazing job of deceiving people into believing their products are safe and harmless. They have become experts at masking the true effects of drugs and blurring the lines of addiction. Worst of all, they hire actors and athletes as spokespersons to make alcohol and drugs seem cool. They promote their products by sponsoring popular sports, that ironically can’t be played if you are drunk or high or under the influence of drugs. They use gimmicks and slogans like “The Most Interesting Man in the World” to pump up the stigma of their brand. Likewise, alcohol doesn’t make you “wiser” nor does it give you the “high life” as some of the names try to suggest.

Just ask any alcoholic or addict how great their life is to see the real side of drugs and alcohol.

Nevertheless, because it is a trillion-dollar business, you can’t turn on the TV without seeing a commercial for alcohol or some drug. Go to a sold-out concert or watch any of the biggest Hollywood movies. Not only is drug use (both legal and illegal) glorified as “cool,” but people get doped into believing you can’t have fun without alcohol and drugs. That illusion is amplified with young people who idolize singers and celebrities for their money and fame. Yet what ends up being the destruction of nearly every actor or musician? Drugs and alcohol have cut short so many lives, and robbed humanity of so much potential, it is inconceivable! And we’re not talking about just famous people here.

There are only FOUR types of people in the world:

• Those who have never used drugs
• Those who have used drugs at some point in their past
• Those who are still using drugs and
• people who are now addicted to drugs

If you are one of the rare individuals who hasn’t yet consumed mind-altering substances, congratulations for being in total control of your body and having a brain that is still fully intact. You are either already living a FEARLESS life or you are at the crossroads now, choosing your future. We urge you to pick the FEARLESS road and stay drug-free. We guarantee it will be the best decision of your life!

For those who have used drugs at some point in their past, we implore you to remain drug-free and never fall back. Take the FEARLESS journey and help others escape from drugs. There are many reasons people begin using mind-altering substances. Peer pressure. Boredom. Experimentation. Pain. Injury. However, drugs are not the answer. With your acquired knowledge you can expose drugs for what they really are, and steer people to a FEARLESS lifestyle!

For those who are still using drugs, whether you claim to only be a social user or recreational user, now is the time to get drug-free while you still can. Start living the FEARLESS life and watch what happens. By abandoning mind-altering substances, you will never have to worry about being the cause of someone’s death, directly or indirectly, and you will save yourself from a lifetime of regrets. After you begin living the FEARLESS way, the example you set will save lives!

For the people who are currently addicted to a mind-altering substance, even with your brain rewired and enslaved to drugs, hope is not gone. As long as you’re still breathing you have a chance to change course and become FEARLESS. We know kicking your addiction seems impossible, and many have tried only to relapse, but we believe if you get hooked on extreme sports you will finally be able to become drug-free after you discover living FEARLESS is more fulfilling than anything else!

It won’t take you becoming a full-blown alcoholic or addict before someone else loses their life. Consider every person killed in a DUI because the driver used a mind-altering substance. How many lives would have been saved if that driver had never touched alcohol or drugs? The answer is, ALL of them! Every-single-one!

The most devastating fact about drugs and alcohol is, every death was preventable.

We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future! Your influence matters! Instead of playing with fire and hoping no one gets burnt (or killed), how about don’t light the match in the first place? Let’s stop partying with a killer and cease playing the death game altogether! Let’s purge drugs and alcohol from our lives and start living a FEARLESS life!

If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for the friend you lost to drugs. Honor that friend and be a role model to your remaining friends (and strangers) by living a drug-free life with extreme sports. It is a thousand times better than any drug!