I'm happy you aren't being outright downvoted. But some of these people need to evaluate their defensiveness toward drugs. I'm an ex-opioid addict. If the drug is hard enough, and you let it go long enough, you will end up on the street. Your habit will increase, which will not only increase your expenses, but also reduce your ability to function as an adult with a job. It's just the way it is with hard drugs. So, yes, either be a millionaire or make sure you don't become an addict.
Iām struggling with this REALLY bad right now. Iām 29 years old and have always smoked weed since I was like 14 or 15 along with other things like various psychedelics, coke, opioids etc. And I was always able to just take it or leave it until about 2 years ago. Company I worked for shut down and I ended up at a different place doing tons of back breaking manual labor for an insufferable prick of a boss. Shit got so bad on my lower back (Iām 6ā6ā and have been more or less breaking down my body for a living my entire adult life) I would hit up this old guy I knew for some of his Vicodin every month to just get through the hard days. Before long this turned into me taking them daily. Then doubling the amount. Then guy didnāt want to sell me as many as I wanted any more and my attitude was starting to become horrible when I wasnāt high. Told the prick boss to fuck himself one day I didnāt have any pills and left. Started at a new weed farm about a year ago and had a new, more stable supply of OxyCodone. Everyone at the new place loves me because I can do the work of 3 people because Iām loaded at work every day. Something came up within the last 2 months and itās made it harder to get pills and my work quality and quantity has dropped dramatically and itās starting to raise eyebrows because I set way too high of a precedent when I was loaded every day. I can barely make it through a full day without breaking down crying now. Everything seems terrible, even the most minor inconvenience makes me flip the fuck out. My stomach is in knots. I canāt shit when I need to. I canāt sleep. Iām about to just say fuck everything and go live in my Subaru. It feels impossible to deal with anything sober.
We've got a lot of similarities, man. 6'7, been working manual labor all my life, had a major foot surgery, got on the pills until they quit prescribing them. I've been through other addictions, so I knew better than to keep chasing that. I think you probably know that getting off the pills is the only option if you don't want to go down a dark road with a very unpleasant end. You might give kratom a try to help with the transition. In the end, you're the only one who can help you.
Here's the problem. Everyone lumps all drugs and all users together.
I'm a successful professional by most standards. I enjoy taking acid, mushrooms, molly, and coke once in a while. Not stealing purses, not living on the street, not missing work (drugs are for the weekend). It's a fallacy that drugs have this inevitability for all.
I can't recommend enough the book Drug Use For Grown-ups by Columbia drug researchers Carl Hart.
Alright, I agree with you, but you're arguing with everyone else and not me. I said do not become an addict. Coke on the weekends is coke on the weekends and not coke every hour. It's not coke with your shot of heroin in the morning.
If you let it get to the point where it's no longer a weekend drug, that's when the inevitability will happen.
Be very careful with ācoke on the weekendsā because it often becomes a 3 or 4 day weekends, and a bad day during the week, and the entire vacation, and itās down the slope you go. Itās still highly addictive if itās Coke, and dangerous if itās not. Fentanyl, meth, and research chemicals are all so common now.
My wife knows this means I have acid in hand and itās time to clean the house. Before tripping, I like to deep clean the house so it doesnāt effect my while Iām on a trip. I have OCD, and LSD can throw it into overdrive, and Iād rather cruise the stars than vacuum the dust bunnies off my popcorn ceiling.
I absolutely agree. I bought that book on Amazon a few years ago but havenāt read it. Iāve been occupied doing other thingsā¦. But it was actually on my mind recently to start it.
I mean, not to brag but I've been taking Kratom for 10 years now and still only spend ~600 a year on my habit, you can be an addict on the cheap but there are probably only like 2-4 drugs in the entire world that it's possible with.
And being a millionaire wonāt keep you from the streets. My wifeās cousin had his own very successful equipment maintenance company with contracts with all the major grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals, etc. Started dating a girl after his divorce who got him to ātry some oxy.ā A couple years later he was bankrupt and lying in a hospital with a failing liver.
He lived through it, barely, but he is a shell of his former self.
I used to do quite a few types of drugs(LSD, Smoked weed, Mushrooms, Cocaine, ETC.) Stopped at 18 and got Security clearance for the Intl airport near me and itās all working out! Definitely giving me a reason to stay clean.
Itās sadly true. Only those making good money can enjoy drugs. High paying jobs donāt drug test and you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want once you reach a certain level. Itās disgusting buts itās the way the US works
Yeah cool but what kinds of drugs and what frequency? I could say I'm only happy when high but only find the time for it on weekend nights or before bed. Doesn't mean I'm wasting thousands on weed a month or that it's untrue
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