What's Your Drug or Alcohol Story, Experience??

[Johnny Hughes]

[BigPhish]

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[iceman5]

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[iceman5]

Maybe someone could invent a test for that? Suseptablity to become addicted to alcohol I mean?

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That would be an extremely handy thing. Had I known what would happen to me prior to the onset of it ... I would not have the difficulty that I have now managing the problem. I'm also an early to mid stage case. There's not much hope at all for late-stage alcoholics although miracles do sometimes happen.

[iceman5]

There...I have provided you with inspiration for your life's work.

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[GreaterThanU]

Eh...I'll come clean. I didn't try any drugs before the age of 17...nothing...I think I drank once or twice but basically nothing. Then in like October of '05, my senior year in high school, I started smokin weed. At first it was just a weekends thing...now I basically smoke everyday and would like to cut back because obv it's an expensive habit. It'll be the easiest drug I will have to quit as you can't be addicted and there aren't withdrawals really. Besides maybe sleep-loss but I figure as long as I'm not sick I'm probably ok.

I went probably after a 1 and half of just smokin before I tried any other drugs. I believe the next drug I tried was cocaine. At the time, I just had money stolen from me, had girl problems (major source of my drug habit), and I was just depressed. I've basically been depressed since age 13 when I got diagnosed. I was taken off the medication when I was 15 and things got better but now it's worse than it ever was. Anyways, my friend got 2 grams of cocaine and it was there. He asked me if I wanted a line...I quickly said yes...which is very unlike me. It was the greatest feeling I ever had...at first. Later that night I wanted to kill myself I was so depressed. Comin down from cocaine is probably one the worst feelings in the world to me. I've done it a few times since then...but I knew this would never become a problem. I've done other stimulants too such as ecstasy. adderol, and concerta...but I didn't enjoy them as much.

I'd say the problem with drugs I might have is pain killers. I can't describe the feelin I get from vicodin. I feel like I'm on top of the world, which I usually never feel. I'm not addicted to it...but I'm afraid that if I ever get money...I'll just spend my money on vicodin/percs/OCs/etc. I'm probably makin it sound worse than it is. Like I can quit...but I couldn't turn it down if it was offered.

The good news is I'm only 19...this is my time to have fun til I have to grow up and become one of yall.

[EscapePlan9]

Ice might close the thread if I talk about my drug experiences again

I was straight-edge until my junior year of college. I wanted to know what it was like to feel drunk and my roommates had a couple parties in our dorm. I was already 20 at the time. A few months later I turned 21 and started buying liquor and beer regularly. About four times a week I would drink about 5-6 beers worth (liquor and beer). I kept feeling like shit after doing that for like two weeks, so it was really easy to cut back on. Now I barely ever drink - maybe once a week and only a few beers worth each time.

I'd already done a little weed during my junior year, but it wasn't until my senior year that I started smoking it a lot more. I had a LOT of fun that year getting baked all the time with my neighbors, chilling, and playing video games.

Then summer came and I got introduced to ecstasy and shrooms. Ecstasy was like the happiest 7 hours of my life, and I still do it occasionally (like once every few months). I had an overwhelmingly bad trip on shrooms and am afraid to ever use it again. I only did these two drugs once during summer - I mostly just smoked pot a lot during summer. Somewhere near the middle of summer I started to not enjoy pot as much - I started becoming more and more anxious and paranoid when using it, but still continued smoking it out of habit.

Fall semester came and I was still smoking pot regularly. I kept hoping I would find a way to get over the anxiety and paranoia problems, but I couldn't. One time I even started having some frightening visual and audio hallucinations, as well as not being able to recognize myself when I looked in the mirror.

After I moved to California, my friend Jon wanted to try coke and I did a couple lines with him. The first time we did it, I felt on top of the world. But the rush doesn't last long and I felt like complete shit afterwards. I did a few more lines with him spread out across the span of a few weeks and I no longer even felt good blowing lines. I quit coke very easily.

Now I live almost entirely sober. Maybe once a week I have a few beers, and once every few months I use ecstasy.

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