"Kicking the habit".

"Kicking the habit".

Part 2.

can't believe this thread is still alive.
kind of brought some memories.

I've been a bad bad boy again.

I've messed around a bit in the way of experimentation, but my struggles have always been limited to alcohol....which I've been doing very good with as of late. I'd say I drink maybe three times a week, only getting drunk on two of those occasions (my days off).

There have been occasional bouts w/ pain killers in the past...these don't tend to last more than a week or two at a time (when I run out)...and I never allow myself to search for more for at least a month or so. And it's been MONTHS since I've fucked around w/ those.

I'm too content w/ everything right now. Being sober has been a nice high, and having a little extra coin to spend on my girlfriend in nice.

Shits expensive.

in my experience the people who go on about having a drug problem dont or never really did have a problem at all. they just seem to do it to try and look cool (like having a drug problem is cool!) or to try and impress which is as equally silly.

There are definitely those sorts, sure...but there are also those that have dealt with issues they don't mind openly discussing. Drug issues, dependency issues, are something that is a strong reality for many, many people.

And as lame as it sounds, some of the "cooler" people I've met in my lifetime have dealt with these sort of issues at one point or another...most of the addicts I've dealt with have happened to be rather complex individuals. Drugs may start out as being fun, but even when one ventures into them as a means of fun it's still an escape from a world they are not completely comfortable in. This is likely why some of the better/most creative musicians in history have dealt with addiction at one point or another..."escape + create"...Iggy, Coltrane, Johnny Thunders, Miles, Kurt C., Richard Hell, Wayne Kramer, Dee Dee Ramone, Kristen Pfaff, likely even Robert Johnson.

Drugs, for better or worse, are cool. This isn't to say I think everyone (or even anyone) should partake...I don't. I feel as if this sort of thing is about personal choice...if ya need that sort of escape, or like Dee Dee said "want to be that sort of outlaw", just know that there are consequences to deal with...and the longer you partake, the more serious these consequences become.

I can appreciate an adventurous mindset toward anything. this is where my "dabblings" have came in. Alcohol, no doubt, is something I've abused the shit out of time and time again. Do I think this makes me "cool"...hell no, I don't. But, I DO believe it puts me in a situation to where I can actually understand, at least from my own point of view, what chemical dependency means. If there is one thing I know for a fact...addicts seldom won't take the advice of anyone that has never suffered there own addictions seriously. Maybe in that little way, they are cool.

To each there own.

Kids do shit sometimes...I don't know many people my age putting much emphasis into doin drugs as a means of being "cool", or "fitting in". Most my age that do drugs, wether occassionally or as full time addicts, have been doing so for ages. It just because a part of yr life...like pissing or sleeping or admiring the opposite sex. it begins to feel natural. For a while I didn't feel "normal" if i wasn't intoxicated. I needed it...my body had ways of telling me I needed it. When this begins to happen (and it's happened on a small number of occasions) I realized it was time to step back...at least for a while.

"Cool" is all relative anyways.

Drugs (hard drugs, anyway) are neither cool nor uncool. I choose not to partake in anything stronger than alcohol myself, and have friends who smoke pot (and sometimes I'll try and get a contact high when hanging around them), but the consequences of hard drugs are not something I feel like dealing with. I'm not going to preach against them to anyone, lest I sound like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVic3RYcZkc

Pot is by no means a hard drug. Illegal, yeah...but not hard.

Carl Sagan smokes tons of that stuff....

Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs out there.

carl sagan is dead, sway. he did smoke hella weed though.

i had a serious heroin problem, which turned into a cocaine problem, which turned into a heroin and cocaine problem. then i quit both almost a year ago (haven't touched either since) and started drinking way too much, not to the point of alcoholism but i was still drinking every day. then i got knocked up so i stopped that shit. i still smoke cigarettes (cut back seriously) and since i've been pregnant i only occasionally smoke weed.

there's my sob story.

Is this still the case? Have you ever tried hypermorphone?

Because I can talk about demons doesn't mean I don't have them.

You are right, he is. I knew that, too...serious error on my end.

Seth Putnam really is fucking gross.

by the way
having a drug problem isn't cool. it's fucking foolish and it sucks ass. for me it was just a cop out so i didn't have to be an adult and deal with serious emotional problems. fortunately i grew up enough to realize that and get psychological help, and i'm fine now. it's a lot easier in the long run to suck it up and deal with bad days rather than take a fuck ton of drugs and dwell on the past. not only does it become a psychological burden to be a drug addict, it's a major financial and physical burden as well.

basically, if you don't take drugs, don't start. smoke pot and drink (not too much) but hard drugs are not worth it.

Ill tell you all about it Monday. Right now I am drunk.

I was hooked on xanax for a year, which is entirely a blur to me. I've never loved drinking all that much, tried coke twice... it wasn't really my thing, same with rolls. I've been smoking bud daily for the past few years. Recently, I've stopped buying it entirely, and only smoke socially - which isn't hindering my productivity like it used to. I've also cut back on my cigarette smoking, making each pack last me at least 2 days now, 3 if I'm lucky. I'll also take shrooms, or 2-cb or something every so often. But I hardly make an effort to do so anymore.

I've been lucky enough not to get seriously hooked on anything for too long though, and I've promised myself to never shoot smack or anything hard like that.

So yeah, best of luck to everyone sobering up!

Who needs drugs when you've got faygo and clown love?

Goddamn, I haven't even thought of rolls in a good year now.

Had some good times with that shit... mmmm.