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Bennyboy (9,185 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 10:58 PM
What Drugs have you done and why?
Let’s have an honest conversation about our personal drug use, why we use drugs, and how the war on drugs impacts us, our families and society. Please answer the questions below and reflect with me in the "comments" section.
What drugs do you use on a daily, weekly or annual basis?
While you may not consider yourself a “drug userâ€, virtually all of us use drugs on a daily basis. Our society is swimming in drugs. Coffee, soda, cigarettes, Prozac, weed, Ritalin, alcohol, cocaine, and sleeping pills are just a sample of the drugs that we take to get through the day and night.
Which drugs do you use?
Why do you use the drugs you do?
Most people use drugs for joy and for pain. Enjoy having some drinks at the end of the day? Enjoy a little smoke or shot of espresso after a nice dinner with friends? Many people bond with others or find inspiration alone while on drugs.
On the flip side, many people self-medicate to try to ease the pain in their lives. Ever had too much to drink to drown your sorrows over a breakup or some other painful event? Smoke cigarettes to deal with anxiety or stress? What are the reasons you use drugs?
Which drugs have you become dependent on or addicted to?
Some people associate drug use with addiction or dependence. Dependence is not necessarily a bad thing – think of a person with diabetes who needs insulin, an office worker who needs a cup of coffee to start the day, or a person with debilitating pain who uses marijuana to get through the day. But when someone’s dependence on a drug becomes problematic, that’s when it turns into an addiction.
People may also assume that trying certain drugs, like meth or heroin, will guarantee an addiction. The truth is, only about 10 percent of people who ever try “hard†drugs like cocaine or meth become addicted. I know this may be hard to believe, but even the governement’s own numbers show this.
Do you know people that have tried illicit drugs? Did they develop a problem? Which drugs have you tried and have become addicted to them?
What image and who comes to mind when you think of a person who uses drugs?
MORE AT LINK: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/what-drugs-have-you-done-and-why
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^^^what comes to franksolich's mind when he thinks of someone who uses drugs.
Atman (26,477 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:01 PM
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nadinbrzezinski (124,323 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:10 PM
9. Caffeine, I know, I am boring!
Or you mean my legally prescribed meds?
rppper (2,661 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:57 PM
21. Quite a few....
Never went for heroin, and I never bought coke...used when someone offered a rail, but frankly, it's horrible on my sinuses...weed, booze, ecstasy, various pills, speed....mostly all when I was young and foolish...parties and such....all prior to navy service....now just some weed every now and again.....an occasional shot of scotch or a Sam Adams....I worked with addicts for nearly a decade, I've seen the destruction it does firsthand, and I have a history of addiction and alcoholism in my family...I try to keep it very moderate..
HiPointDem (20,396 posts) Tue Jul 30, 2013, 12:51 AM
40. why would anyone ask such a question on an internet chat board?
hobbit709 (27,222 posts) Sun Aug 4, 2013, 10:15 AM
51. Never did heroin, at one time or another probably everything in the book.
to get high of course. Never liked downers. Will take major painkillers only if nothing else works. My last script for Vicoden(20-no refills) lasted me a year.
I first did LSD while it was still legal, tried all the other hallucinogens, some I liked, some were worth doing once.
Been smoking pot since I was 16, I'm 63 now.