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Stop the voices
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Why do so many people come on this board just to say 'drugs are bad'? Do they think they are being Christian souls by trying to save others from evils? I would go as far to say that nothing is bad as long as you do it in moderation (except rape,killing and child abuse,and beastiality,and supporting Man U/Spurs). Try things before you criticise and even then just because you don't like it, it doesn't make it bad. I don't like the Manic Street Preachers but I don't try and tell Manic fans not to like them. Thank you and goodnight.
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Go on Dom, stick it up somewhere.
I find it hard to conceive of why my parents smoke cigarettes; they can't afford it, they don't want to quit because it will make them put weight on apparently and makes stressful situations harder to bear. Yet, it damages their health and did so for their parents.
I did indeed come on here yesterday for the first time to hear why people had started taking drugs and in some cases it seems quite sad for the individual feeling like that was the best thing they could do in a bad situation. I wondered whether I should point out some of the side effects to taking drugs, but I stopped myself as I thought most of you people know perfectly well what they are doing and I am not counsellor.
If anyone does want to make a comment on anything drug related for use of my desertation or other then my e-mail address specifically for my desertation is here:
desertationgirl@yahoo.com.
Thanks.
Just wanted to add a few things. Yes, people use drugs for many reasons. In my case, I never was into drugs in school. The sum total of my experience was smoking a joint once or twice. When I was 21, some friends who used heroin asked if I wanted to try it. I never considered getting addicted since they had always used receationally (once or twice a month), so I figured it would be the same for me...and hey, I was awfully curious about it. I had a different reaction to it...I fell in love with the high and within 2 weeks had a $300/day habit. My addiction was as close to hell as you can get on earth. I lost everything...my job, my marriage, my life savings. Rock bottom came when I overdosed and nearly died. That's when I finally was able to clean up. I had been clean of all drugs for almost 5 years until about 6 weeks ago. Someone offered me a line of coke at a party. I remeber thinking it wasn't a big deal..hell, I don't even like coke that much. Within a week I was going though an eight-ball a day, and had switched from snorting to injecting. I've lost my job again,and have run out of money.
I guess my point is that you really can't judge addicts or users unless you've been there. Dirty Harry, it seems that you are one of the lucky ones who are able to control their drug use. I'm one of the unfortunate individuals who truly gets hooked the first time.
That being said, I would never judge another person for their use or abuse of drugs.Some people can go their whole lives with no interest in experimenting. That's just fine.But I am no less of a human being than anyone else just because I had trouble controlling my use (I like to think that the drugs controlled me, actually).As Dirty Harry said, drug use is not a sign of a horrible upbringing, or some kind of emotional instability. It can happen to anyone.
I'm going to be leaving town for the country in couple of days to try and clean up again, but I look forward to hearing more opinions from everyone here.
Thank you for sharing your post with us, I hope you manage to get clean while you are away. Please continue to share your experiences with the boards, apart from the occasional arseole, you will find people here to be genuine, caring and understanding individuals who want to try and help others by sharing their experience and knowledge. Listen to the wisdom of dirty harry, he obviously knows what it is like to be in a position similar to yours.
take care of yourself and keep in touch
derby
Hope you manage to stay off, good luck. Use the board for emotional support as well, we're all listening!
In case your interested, I thought I'd update you on how I'm doing.
I went up north last week to clean up and it went really well. However, I have used twice this week.Despite the fact that I've used, I feel very confident that I've taken some really positive steps this week. I've made appointments with several treatment centres for assessment, and I'm on a waiting list for a program specifically for women who are IV users.
This time around, at least I've been able to recognize the problem early on, and I know what resources are available.
Wish me luck!
just wanna say, well done 4 ur progress so far and good luck to completely stop. i've never bin addicted to anythin and so i couldnt even imagine how difficult it is.
once again good luck, and as lolly said keeps us updated as we'd like to know how u get on.
c ya
love helly
As far as I'm concerned ppl have their own opinions on drugs, if they don't do em then that's there choice but they shouldn't go aropund bitching bout ppl who take em... reckon they only do that cos they're jealous that their lives r missing summing that ppl who take drugs have... They should try em b4 slagging em off.