ELKHART — Years ago, Sonny Cruz found a way to be a hero.
All he needed were drugs.
“After school, I would go to some party, and as long as I had drugs — I didn’t even need to have drugs, at least I had a connection or a hope of getting some — and I’d be a hero,” Cruz said. “Guys liked me, girls liked me. Boom. I just show up with a little roach, and everybody’s happy.”
It’s been 26 years since Cruz smoked his first marijuana cigarette with his cousins in their 1957 Chevrolet near Ox Bow County Park. Since then — during high school and his first job fixing and supervising the installation of siding on trailers — he tried everything from methamphetamine to LSD.
His drug use came with a cost. He overdosed five times and has had three heart attacks. Though the latter were caused by Kawasaki disease — a condition that causes inflammation of blood vessels — they were exacerbated by the effect of drugs.
But in 2002, when he was writing a suicide note, Cruz started on a path that caused him to turn his life around and help others with their own addictions through his music.
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