Derek Rea

Illinois

"Stress of everyday life has to be relieved someway. Alcohol sure isn't the drug for me -- made me sick the first time I drank it and that was probably a blessing.

"Genesis 1:12 really says it all, I guess that's why it's tattooed on my chest."

• Heavy Construction Worker
  

• Volunteer editor and archivist of published letters for the Media Awareness Project
  

• One of the founding members of the Drug Policy Forum of Illinois

Check out his web site at: www.drugsense.org/dpfil.