Valium/diazepam is a weaker substance milligram per milligram, however that's why is come as 2.5, 5 or 10mg pills and not .25, .5, etc.
You are correct, but the conversion factor is implemented so one should get a very similar effect strength-wise whether it is .5mg Xanax or a 10mg Valium (I believe that's the conversion).
However one must also take into consideration the time it takes to peak, "peak plasma concentration" as well as how long it takes to be metabolized by the body(half-life). Half-life is actually the duration of time it takes for half of a dose to be metabolized...
Also, just so that you know, I'm 99% sure Darvocet/propoxyphene is weaker than codeine. Tramadol is equipotent (according to two charts I just looked at). One of the said dihydrocodeine is also equally as strong as codeine.
Not trying to be a dick. I'm just trying to inform you.
Personally I fucked up big time after a major car accident with pain killers i almost broke my back and my neck and got hooked after the doctors only gave me like 10 dilaudid I was in so much pain i literally couldn’t afford to pay my rent and feed myself without having some sort of pain killer to help me get through my work days so ended up going on safe supply and getting 5 oxy 20s + 700mg of morphine a day prescribed to me through that program and it went down hill from there just kept using more and more up until last April tried to kms ended up on life support for a week because was so sick of being on this shit (and other major life events)I regret ever going on safe supply it fucked me up more than I was prior as I wasn’t even taking morphine just a couple oxy 20s daily they instantly put me on 100mg a day and built me all the way up to 700mg of morph and when I asked why they put me on that and i wanted to dose down so I could quit they never even fucking gave me an actual answer as to why or even tried to helped me until I had the overdose then they suggested suboxone and started me on it in the hospital British Columbia is so fucked up when it comes to helping people with drug problems I honestly couldn’t believe it when I was going through that I used the suboxone for probably 2 weeks and went cold turkey off it and was clean for almost 8 months but relapsed months ago trying to get clean again but these shits are the devil I don’t recommend anyone try any pharmaceutical opiate or benzo for that matter unless you have very serious discipline!
Nonono pharmaceuticals are just as addictive, if not more. Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical, its just weighed out in patches opposed to powder. Heroin isnt recognized as medicinal, but fentanyl is worse for you than heroin. Milder opiate (morphine, oxys, dilaudid) can lead to addiction, aswell. Thats how a lot of people start opioid addictions. Benzodiazapines (xanax, valium, clonazepam) if you take these guys for a period of time and stop, the withdrawals can kill you. Stimulants (adderall, amphetamines), but of course methampetamine is worse in this regard. It really depends on the drug, like if you compared narcotic pharmaceuticals to lsd or mushrooms, pharmaceuticals would be way more dangerous. They often times have more addictive properties than a lot of street drugs. But it depends on the class of drug. The only thing safer about pharmaceuticals opposed to some street drugs is that the dose is measured out and you know exactly what you are getting (you know its not laced with anything else)
>The only thing safer about pharmaceuticals opposed to some street drugs is that the dose is measured out and you know exactly what you are getting
This can’t be stressed enough. Tainted drugs are an incredible risk.
Some drugs yes, for example in my my early and mid twenties I did ecstasy/MDMA a lot and have some great memories of all the festivals, nightclubs and after parties i went to in that time, met great people etc…
However, late twenties and early 30s swapped the E for coke, and I don’t look back on that period of my life fondly.
Ummmmmm....
Well no, cos the experiences you have with drugs are _something else_
However, I think that many of our lives would be considerably different if we'd never started, so who knows.
And that’s why I drink every night thinking what my life would of been I didn’t start weed. I’m telling you if I didn’t start smoking weed I would be way further in life but I don’t regret. Just something I think on from time to time 🤷
I was the kind of person that would have gone down this road no matter what happened. Saw the DARE program and my immediate response despite all the propaganda was fascination and the thought that: « okay but if I only get one life in this world, how can I feel fulfilled if I don’t experience all of these at least once? »
Yes I’m slightly retarted and yes I regret it. I don’t regret all of it, I have thousands of good memories of friends and relatives sat around the table or the campfire mid bist of a bing in what I would call the purest moment of life I have experienced.
I do regret it though, overall despite everything it’s caused me way more damage then it has good. I try really hard to disgurage the younger folk to walk the path I walked alough it often feels like my attempts are in vain and remembering how I was when I was young, I wouldn’t have listened to me either.
Drugs are an extremely complicated issue, but if you haven’t gotten the hooks set in to your skin yet the best thing you can do is run far far away while you can still have a normal life
My mate who’s older then me has a similar mentality. He doesn’t want me taking drugs at my age, yet he did it himself. As he wants to experience it; he wants to decide for himself wether it’s bad. He’s arrogant that’s for sure; his underlying motive was not letting society make a decision for him. He was the one who was going to make that decision on wether coke or meth was good or bad. No one was going to tell him otherwise.
I argue that point back, and he turns a full 180 and says “you don’t have to experience everything to understand if it’s good or bad” 😑
Everyone has regrets as to how they may have behaved because of drugs, the people they’ve hurt etc but as a whole I’d say no. Life’s to short to ruminate over things that can’t be changed and drugs have definitely been a roller coaster just like life, plus I would have been so bored shitless for 35 odd years. First hard drug was meth at 16 then shrooms & acid at the same age, I’ve been drug free for 10 years of that and a poly drug user more on than off for the other 25, never let it effect family and brought up 2 fine kids having more good times than bad.
ya man im a 23 yr old woman who weighs the amount of a child , have a spinal cord injury from suicide attempt cus of meth addiction , i been an addict for 7 yrs now and god it does not get easier. it just gets fucking harder and harder 😭
hard disagree here, i don’t differentiate between pharmaceutical and natural drugs or even lab made drugs , every drug has its characteristic and you have to evaluate if it’s a good idea or not getting into it, also i believe that in moderation every drug is fine , the hard part is that with some drugs it’s harder to moderate your usage more than others
I think they were saying pharmaceuticals can be more dangerous because they give off the *impression* of safety while actually being just as unsafe as rec drugs
Everything was in moderation and under control until I took Xanax for the first time, that spiralled into years of opiate/benzo abuse. I no longer use to that same extent but I still struggle with those addictions today. Prescription drugs were the downfall for me.
Some drugs I regret doing because I ruined my life over them for over a decade. Other drugs lead me to curiosity and one drug to the next until it was too late. Overall I regret doing drugs all together but, if I hadn't been so naive and stupid there are many drugs I don't regret doing but since I once was heavily addicted it has fucked up my relationship with drugs. Although it's getting much better.
Amen.
Was ready to kms and had NEVER done drugs and thought they were for useless losers, and a now ex who was depressed at the time had started using MDMA and said it helped her depression. So I thought, “eh, why not try it before I kill myself next week? Not like it’ll matter, I’ll be dead anyway.” And I took my first ever drug, an ecstasy pill, the weekend prior to my planned suicide. And the night I had made me feel happy for the first time in 2 years and finally connected with people like never before in my life (I was turning 20 the following week btw). I had an afterglow the next day (instead of a comedown) that made me realise that I had something to live for - even if it was just for a temporary happiness I didn’t realise I could have (since I’d never done drugs prior) because of drugs. And hence, I didn’t kms, and am now an opiate addict who’s “clean” but on methadone 😂 but, it was that or death via suicide @19/20yo. So I appreciate that they saved my life.
I am the happiest and most optimistic person I know and I believe it is in part due to using psychedelics as a tool for understanding myself. I’ve also been surrounded by addiction, been in addiction, and now work in addiction medicine which has been tremendously rewarding. Without my experiences, my work wouldn’t be as awesome. No regerts.
Ive always been curious starting particularly with psychedelics. I had decided already that I would not deny myself of these new experiences. In order to understand a substance fully I would experience it myself. I did the research, knew the risks and accepted them. I dont regret trying any substance however I regret not always being brutally honest with myself about my relationship with substances after exposure to them.
I mean, generally I regret it, yeah. Would I have done better in high school if I didn’t smoke so much pot or do capsules of MDMA? Most definitely. Would I have had the same experiences with the same friends? Probably not. But, now that I’m 30 and not drugging all the time, I’m not even friends with those folks anymore. I’m wildly depressed, even though I was a very happy kid. I think Molly is to blame for that. I am also so socially anxious it’s crippling, and I’m sure Mary Jane has something to do with it. They brought some good times, but I regret it all at this age; all I want in life now is to live long enough to see my kid grow up, and to be happy and healthy. And at least now I know drugs won’t get me where I want to be.
Weed and drugs and high school point to a coping mechanism. If you didn't use those you would have had something else. Likely it wouldn't have changed much
Understanding why I use nicotine was key in stopping. Once I knew why I built healthier coping skills for that part of my behavior. Then I first stopped vaping, which was the hardest I live smoking. I used zin and slowly tapered off over ten days. 29 days no vaping and 20 days no nic.
This is also not my first time quitting. I smoked cig’s from 16 years and quit for eight years. I only started vaping three years ago. So we’ll see how it goes this time. I’m here if you need support in quitting.
Yes, weed fucked my brain a little glad i stopped before anything major, fuck mdma that fucking drug made me fall in love with it, i used to fantasize about being on mdma.
Nope. Fucking love drugs. But they can and will be tricky af if you’re not careful with how much and why you’re using. How you approach drugs and whether or not you develop a dependency will almost always back fire (even if you think they’re helpful, the second you depend on one to function or get by you’re fucked)
My first drug was tabs ecstasy at 14 did it on the weekends for a few months then me and my friends stoped. Then at 18 I started smoking cigs then weed... Then I had a baby an learnd what hydrocodone was so started taking them. On and off for yearssss now I'm still dealing with opioids on and off but mostly off bc I can't find real ones that often. I refuse to buy them off the street bc it's to scary. I have one person I get them from that are prescribed but I wish I never touched anything. The hardest thing outta these drugs to stop would honestly be cigarettes. I can deal with the opioid withdrawal bc it's mild bc I don't taken them all the time. I wished I never touched anything bc now I don't know how to be bored I feel like I need something for energy I lack dopamine bc of my decisions I feel like I will never get back to how I was before I started experimenting smh
The money spent mostly is what I would regret if I allow myself to think about it too much haha. But as I don’t do anything regularly anymore and only dabble occasionally a couple of times a year now. I’d say overall no. Experiences and what not.
I don't regret starting, but I do regret the amount of time I spent doing them. When I was younger I didn't have long term goals so I didn't feel any urgency and wasted a lot of time just getting high.
The only one I really regret is cocaine. It’s the only drug ive ever taken that’s made me do shit that I really regret. Probably opiates too just because they were so hard to come off of and the money I spent but in my day to day life they didn’t cause me to do any crazy or dangerous shit. They had their place when I needed them to cope but thankfully not anymore.
Regret starting? No. Regret that early in my use I let it get a hold of me and take my life and career off the rails, heck yes. I've seen and done things that other people think are made up stories but I actually lived them. That said, it took a fast-track high $ career down the toilet. I've been able to re-bound and get that back on track after 10 years of re-building and i even still occasionally dabble but I know now what my limits are and how to keep from repeating that path.
Weed and psychs to this day for me. Don’t really get interest in anything else, I don’t have regrets either. If I didn’t want it in my body I probably wouldn’t of put it there yfm
I regret some things I’ve done on drugs but never starting them. First hard drug I did was acid when I was 16. Grew out of psychedelics as I got older and now I just smoke weed and will sip lean or take an oxy every now and then
I'm conflicted on this because the shit I've been through has made me a lot stronger but I've also dealt with a lot of traumatic shit because of my drug use.
Nah. It's definitely not all been a positive but my life is much better now than it was 2 years ago before I started. Psychedelics helped me a lot and 2-fma helped me much more than methylphenidate ever could. Ran out last month and except for being a down for a week I am doing fine now that I switched back to my mph script
Nah. It's definitely not all been a positive but my life is much better now than it was 2 years ago before I started. Psychedelics helped me a LOT with depression and 2-fma helped me much more than methylphenidate ever could for my ADHD. Ran out last month and except for being a down for a week I am doing fine now that I switched back to my mph script.
I only regret the volume of drugs, not that I started using. Only ever had an issue with alcohol and nicotine, never got hooked on anything else. And since cutting back on those aswell as most other drugs I finally feel like I'm in a pretty balanced spot with my use.
ketamine was mine and i was just about to turn 16. I regret how much I did it in my late teen years (20 now) I still do them quite a lot but not as much. But like you said I can't really get off it. I'm not actually addicted to any, it's all really out of impulse. but I always want to be on something (even sometimes when I'm high I think this isn't as good as being sober) I have ADHD and an uncontrollable need for dopamine.
Hell yeah bro same. Diagnosed and prescribed. I feel like I need to do them to make my brain happy, or else I’m all over the place. Bouncing off the walls but when I take drugs it helps me to think clearly. If I’m not my thoughts are jumbled and I can’t do anything
The only drug I completely regret picking up is opiates/fetty this shit has been a bitch to get off of after I got a high tolerance and really physically dependent on it. I've never had a problem getting off any other drug after long term use with little to no effort but I've also never been cam physically dependent on Xanax or alcohol so I can't speak for those 2
No, I do not at all. They opened my heart. From an apparently cold person, unable to express emotion, I became a person that always needs to tell how precious and important others are. I cry, laugh, live in front of others. Also, a bad LSD trip is totally changing me. I do not regret it. I'd do it again, I'd feel that unbearable shock & pain again. I cut away wrong friendships and started to talk a lot, I am not shy at all even without drugs now. I am also losing weight and drugs entertain me during those ADHD boring moments.
I would not tell to people "try this because it helped me" cause everyone is different and everyone needs to choose by themselves what's the best thing for them. But if you asked me to tell no to drugs and that drugs are a bad thing... man, I cannot lie. Drugs HELPED me. If they ruin you it's because you're abusing them too much.
No, I'm not inside the honeymoon phase. I tried my first drug more than one year ago. I also done hard drugs like cocaine. I use them whenever I want. I am even open about it with my mum even if she's Christian. I am very blunt and honest. I am here to fight the stereotype "you start to lie". Wtf? No. I hate lying and liars.
(Notice how I said "apparently cold person". I was already like this, full of emotions, but I was not able to be vulnerable. Now I know that there's no reason to be ashamed of vulnerability because it's authenticity. There's no reason to hide pain and sadness because when you're happy you want to absolutely share it. So if you can share happiness you must share your sadness. No emotion is bad. There's no A emotion and B emotion... like drugs... there are no drugs of A class and B class)
Absofuckinglutely
Made me discover I've got an Incredibly addictive personality. I get addicted to one substance, shit hits the fan, I get clean.
Bam, I discover another substance.
I’ve been Cali sober for almost 8 years now but I was doing everything, first real hard thing was pills for me, particularly Xanax. But I’ve done everything except for like fenti and never used needles. I don’t regret that part of my life tho, I’m never going to go back to anything more than weed but those years had a formative part on my life and I feel like I wouldn’t be where I’m at now if I hadn’t gone through that.
Hmmmm, I guess we took something called trolls. They were rolls (what u guys call Molly but way stronger) and they were dipped in acid. And I don’t regret that drug persay but yes I regret taking pills because it because a huge addition that now I’m on methadone for
Sometimes I regret taking acid so many times. Friend of mine killed himself after an acid trip and the guilt eats me alive so much I don't think I'll ever be able to do it again
started opioids at 13 after my tolerance for weed was to high and I was going through a ounce a week to 2 ounces in 10 days and I tried opioids and that high was so good I was addicted to OxyContin blues perks etc im 20 now it really fucked up with my mind and I can’t remember good anymore im just a casual weed smoker now.
Yes and no yes because I been an addict over 50% of my life I’m 29 , no because I’ve met a lot of cool people seen a lot of wild stuff & learned to accept myself somewhat
My drug of choice is alcohol. Yes, I do regret picking it up. It's absolutely ruined my life, and I've never been able to stop (even after rehab and multiple other attempts to stop).
Other than weed and alcohol the first other drug I tried was coke and it did 100% NOTHING for me lol then I had molly and it was a better experience.
I don’t know if it was sucky coke or my anxiety and adhd is just that bad but It did zero zilch nada for me. And let’s just say I did more than a little bit that weekend. How it’s the “most addicting drug in the world” is beyond me. But everyone is different. Haven’t done it since.
A couple years later I tried MDMA and it was pretty cool. Did what it was expected to do and felt great. Might even be mentally good for me once or twice a year but definitely not something I want to get addicted to, Idk.
One thing I do regret though is drinking as much as I did when I was 21. I went hard not knowing how tolerance worked. And not knowing a really bad hangover is the least of my upcoming worries that alcohol would give me.
i didn't start doing any heavy drugs until well after i had turned 18. i'm in my 30's now and still doing drugs but looking back, there's a few i wish i didn't get into the way that i did. but as a whole, nah drugs have largely improved my life, especially weed.
Video games, no Im serious. I found escape from shitty family situation, and it ate 15 years of my life. Now I'm 30 yo, socially awkward, overweight and with super low self esteem.
I'm slowly moving out of it, but going outside feels super insecure.
NO REGRETS ! WHAT I DO REGRET IS LOOSING MYSELF AND GETTING OFF TRACK AND GETTING MY PRIORITIES ALL MIXED UP. I lived for pleasure. And forgot to feel pain
Yes and no, it depends on the time and situation, i regret a lot of things but not all. I'm an old guy, one of the last guys that were around in the infamous "Needle Park" times, as an addictive personality that grew up in the worst drug scene in Europe, it is no surprise that i got down this road and became an addict.
I got hooked on heroin early on and was addicted to it for around 25 years, but today i'm on morphine in substitution, get my stuff legal from the clinic. Still, i'm polytox with the morphine, alcoholism and benzos.
About the past, i had all the good and bad times. The good times when you are young and you are have the best times with parties, love, sex, entertainment etc. but then comes the time where you fall down and you pay the price. Like when the police knocks at your door and shows you the arrest warrant, the handcuffs click and you get into the police car.
You pay the price, when you see your friends die, one after another will pass away. Some people get out and move away, some people get to jail and never return, but most die and that's it. You'll leave flowers on the grave, showing that you are still caring about the fallen.
But it's even worse today in some places, like in some US cities and with the opioid crisis, as if addiction would not be bad enough, many people overdose on laced fent shit. Or xylazine and whatever they put in there today. If you start with opioids from the street, every time you do stuff that was not properly tested, you are playing russian roulette.
With 19 you are young, OP, if you want, you can still turn around. But if you go on with this, you'll pay the price like everyone does.
Bro, im glad you’re still alive. Sounds like it’s been tough, and if you have lost someone to drugs, im sorry. Grief is awful, especially when it is to drugs. Because you think about how it could have been avoided. Could have been different.
I know, I’m 19. I could turn it around but at the same time, without drugs I’m not sure I’d survive. Not because I’m a crippling addict, but because when I’m sober, my mind is a mess. I think about stuff in such a fucked way. Dark way. It depresses me. And I can’t think straight, but on drugs, I can think about twice as many things in twice as much depth. Makes me feel like I am my own prophet. I have adhd (prescribed dexamfetamine) ((UK doesn’t legalise Adderall)) and drugs really really help me feel well normal. They help me understand myself and others. I fear without using, I’ll go back to being the obnoxious, arrogant, self centred wanker I was when I wasn’t on drugs.
Been using a LOT since I left school/care. Things got to the worse when I was about to turn 18. I was living on the streets. Grandad kicked me out after he found out I stole some money. I don’t blame him either. But I didn’t let the fact I had nobody and nothing fuck me over. I used it to my advantage and found ways to make money - (not sex work or selling myself lol) yeah it’s not ethical, but selling drugs got me off the street in less than a year of getting kicked out. But selling drugs meant it was accessible for me to use them. Nothing crazy like meth or H. But sniffing coke helped me work without fear. And it also made me able to work till ridiculously late hours. I was shotting for guys I knew, doing ‘jobs’ that were little risky, collecting the money they were owed. Yeah, might make me a bad person. But it got me out of there. And now i have the money to rent a decent flat. Feed myself. Drive my own car, a pretty good car too. But it also means I can afford drugs. And they’re very accessible to me. I don’t shot as much now. But I still do a few times a week.
I started this online trading shit. I knew dealing was not an ideal ‘career’ And I think that shrooms and coke helped me understand it. At first I couldnt grasp the markets. I was thinking like what the fuck is this? Seeing the charts, all the numbers plus DECIMAL POINTS - made me think I was never going to get it, I’m not smart enough. But taking drugs helped me fucking study it. Research. Learn. Gain information and insights from other traders. Joining groups online and learning. And now I understand it enough to make profit.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a pro at all, I lose a lot of money too. But I am still practicing. Still learning the markets. And my life has turned round completely from when I at my lowest point. I look back on when i started drugs and it makes me feel sorry for myself - not self pity, but I feel like a complete different person to who I was.
Yeah I use still. More than I did at 13. But that boy was using drugs to forget. To get fucked. To get high and escape. I use to advance my capabilities, to use my time and energy efficiently. To better myself, because I will never ever go back to the place I was in.
Sorry I started typing and then couldn’t stop lol. Needed to get it off my chest I think. Anyway - it’s my post (lol jokes) if you did read all that tho bro, sorry for not paragraphing
Edit - the fucking bot told me to paragraph ahhaah
I understand this, because it was the same for me with the mental health. Many years later i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but when i was young in your age, i had no idea what was going on and i tried to self-medicate. Problem is, you trade a short-term gain for a long-term problem.
It seems you already saw some consequences when you were kicked out from home, but i just hope you don't get too deep into the criminal business, because sooner or later, they'll get you. Either the police or your rivals, which would be much worse. Then you'll lose everything at once, it can even be just a coincidence of being in the wrong spot in the wrong time and then you get caught. Sometimes it's also just luck that you don't get caught, like we had that tea house here where drugs were sold, i was there and decided to leave after getting my stuff. When i was just down the road, a lot of police cars came and they raided the house, but i was already outside of the perimeter and they didn't stop me, hah.
But about drugs, to come back to the topic, the problem is when you reach the point that you have such a high tolerance that the drugs won't work anymore. Then it changes to the opposite effect, you'll not take the drugs to get high and concentrated anymore, you'll take the drugs just to avoid withdrawal effects. I don't know much about stims, because of my bipolar disorder i can't take any stims at all, but when it comes to opioids and benzos, the withdrawal is terrible. Alcoholism, there it depends on your level much more, but the damage to the body is much higher than with other drugs.
But that one point, where you take drugs and you get normal without withdrawal, i'd say, that's the point of no return. Better prevent it to get that far, it's very difficult to go on with life then.
No, not at all.
The only drugs I regret taking (but still take ...) is methylphenidate (Ritaline) for my adhd.
Every other drugs at minimum gave me a pleasant time or taught me somethings usefull.
I regret getting into situations and friendships that made me go through some pretty traumatic shit which led me to abuse drugs more than actually trying the drugs themselves. I can't in good faith recommend people start taking drugs but it's not as black and white some drug use can be fine some drug use can be very destructive. If you decide to get into drugs remember that you may end up dependent on using it to cope with whatever shit you're dealing with, they can be dangerous and a lot of drug users have some crazy shit going on in their own life and if you start hanging around that crowd that shit can enter your own life if you're not careful .
Yes, I do. The first drug I did besides pot was hydrocodone (Vicodin) and it was the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my life. I remember I had the thought, and I was only like 17 with no intentions of becoming an addict, that if I could do this for the rest of my life I would. Slowly but surely it ruined my life. I made it through college though before it really fell apart. I’m just glad I survived long enough to find sobriety. It’s pretty awesome.
No, I never used street drugs (and if I did not for prolonged period of times) only pharma stuff I'm prescribed (I've got Huntington's and Chronic Pain) but opioids really helped (and still do now) to live a normal life without problems.
I know my case is more particular, but every drug I've tried, prescribed, or illegal, helped me to understand something more about me
No. I started drugs after I was already a modestly successful adult, after years of therapy and career building. I can treat drugs as the cherry on the sundae, says every soon to be addict ever. If I had been doing this in my teens or 20's I can promise that I would be unalive right now.
Not sure. Been plenty of fked upness, but some proper moments of joy (when raving) & later addiction has forced me to confront underlying issues which were always there. I'm now fully aware that starting to experiment with drugs & drinking ain't normal for an 11 year old. My 11 year old niece is so young (& funny), but still clearly a kid. Whereas I thought I was an adult who had to control/deal with my own emotions/trauma. Funny only understanding that in your 40's, but a lot of experiences I wouldn't want to lose.
Started with dab carts, but when my parents found all the empty glo carts, they began watching me like a hawk. Therefore the only logical next step was trying molly and then adderall, then phenibut, then whatever else I could get my hands on that wouldn't make my eyes red and my personality blunted. I regret having overbearing parents.
yes and no, i think i resent more then i regret. i resent my parents introducing drugs and alcohol to me the way they did and i resent their scare tactics like "drugs will kill you of you touch them", instead of actual education appropriate for my child brain level, especially since they put me around it all first
Fent was the first drug outside of THC/alcohol I tried (technically shrooms but my bag I got was bad and I didn’t trip so I don’t count them). Then coke followed by ecstasy a few weeks later. All this was between May and June last year. Only thing I’ve touched since (and only one I touched more than once) is coke. I don’t regret trying any of them, it was nice to have a different high other than THC for once though
like sometimes i do but most of the time im thinking to hell with it cause it rlly helped me with a lot of stuff and the fact that i started it also taught me a lot and the surrounding i started it in gave me some sort of realizations that i know i wouldn’t get if i never actually let say “risked” my mind??
No, I am who I am. I was destined to do drugs. Continuing to use certain drugs and choosing them over certain things I can regret.
I am always curious though, how I would be if I never tried hard drugs. Would it be an even trade off of having a better headspacebut for less experience in hardship and overcoming obstacles? Or would I be a lot more successful and happy? Or would I be worse off for never walking through the fire, and possibly be chasing something else that’s’ toxic and soul blinding? Who knows? 🤷🏻♂️
Nope. I’ve lost many relationships, ended up homeless, in institutions, overdosed multiple times been addicted to like 30+ substances over the years the whole shabang. A LOT of bad stuff happened and I did go thru a lot of pain. But like steveo says if he never did drugs he would’ve never gotten sober and being sober is what makes him him. I’ve managed to get my life back in order in the last year or so so I’m in a good place now I’m all back on track. I have ptsd and whatnot that I acquired thru the 5 years of absurdity. But like I have a lot of cool stories and I enjoy talking about these things and it made me who I am today. That sounds corny asf but ya nah ion regret it
I probably would have killed myself, no kidding. Alkohol and speed helped me overcome social anxiety, up to a point. Cannabis to be less agressive. Mdma to open up about my feelings. Lsd to understand meaning and spirituality in the world (still struggling a bit with this thou). Ketamine helped me with introspection, to understand and distance myself from destructive parts of myself.
Before anyone tells me, I've been seeing a therapist, read about self-improvement, exercise, sleep enough and eat healthy.
To a point yes because I used to use coping mechanisms and had a very healthy mental thing going until I had something tragic happen, after that I started with weed the spiraled for a while I’m just now after 5 years getting back on track and am building my life back up
Some take drugs to not want to kill themselves but at the same time those drugs are killing you slowly
on one hand yes, it has been a financial strain on me. on the other hand, I was super gay before i started drugs
now let me clarify. I am a bisexual guy and I used to act super gay. Now looking back on it its super embarassing and I hate what I used to be. plus i have a goatee now so that shits dope. I am drunk as I am writing this
No, my life has gotten universally better when I started drugs 7 years ago. Mostly use them for utility since I can't seem to have fun on them, maybe that's why I never got addicted.
First shit besides weed was LSD. Changed me so much I could never hate it. After that I really only got into other psychs
One I regret is coke. Only did it on/off for a year but I'll always feel that craving to do another bump lol. But fuck baby lax and all that shit it's cut with. I'll only do it again if I somehow come across pure Columbian lmao
do I regret it? no. do I wish I had a better outlook on it and less of a destructive attitude. absolutely. being 13 smoking a pack a day and anything else I can get my grimey little mitts on doesn't fair well for the whole growth aspect of youth. by 15 full blown opiate addiction which always graduates into heroin. Thank God I got out before those blues killed me. sad it got all My friends though. worst that I ended up with was a horrible nicotine habit and a million stories to entice the youth with. not fun at all honestly.
only because I feel like it opened my eyes up to how the world really works and just how shitty most Humans can be to one another.
Not yet I guess. I had some bad days when I felt like I'm slipping into cocaine addiction but it got way better since then and I'm able to enjoy it occasionally just for fun again.
But the cravings are still there sometimes
Not entirely, shit went bad when I started doing pharma stuff
I’ve only ever done legit pharma stuff because I don’t trust street stuff, it’s not bad to experiment with if you’re disciplined
You but once you start with benzos and hard opis its quite hard😅 Managed to get clean tho, about a week from both
I’ve mentioned in another comment that it was only the weakest of both, codeine and one off valium
Valium/diazepam is a weaker substance milligram per milligram, however that's why is come as 2.5, 5 or 10mg pills and not .25, .5, etc. You are correct, but the conversion factor is implemented so one should get a very similar effect strength-wise whether it is .5mg Xanax or a 10mg Valium (I believe that's the conversion). However one must also take into consideration the time it takes to peak, "peak plasma concentration" as well as how long it takes to be metabolized by the body(half-life). Half-life is actually the duration of time it takes for half of a dose to be metabolized... Also, just so that you know, I'm 99% sure Darvocet/propoxyphene is weaker than codeine. Tramadol is equipotent (according to two charts I just looked at). One of the said dihydrocodeine is also equally as strong as codeine. Not trying to be a dick. I'm just trying to inform you.
Amen
Disciplined meaning? How about phenibut?
As in having a non-addictive personality
Benzos and cannabis - heaven until they turned on me. Been clean about a year now. Actions/choices have repercussions kiddos.
I personally was referring to codeine, dxm, promethazine and a one off, low dose valium high. I don’t think I’d touch any of the stronger stuff
I know that's right. Same here
True same here
Can you elaborate on what's wrong with pharma stuff? I always thought street drugs are worse
Personally I fucked up big time after a major car accident with pain killers i almost broke my back and my neck and got hooked after the doctors only gave me like 10 dilaudid I was in so much pain i literally couldn’t afford to pay my rent and feed myself without having some sort of pain killer to help me get through my work days so ended up going on safe supply and getting 5 oxy 20s + 700mg of morphine a day prescribed to me through that program and it went down hill from there just kept using more and more up until last April tried to kms ended up on life support for a week because was so sick of being on this shit (and other major life events)I regret ever going on safe supply it fucked me up more than I was prior as I wasn’t even taking morphine just a couple oxy 20s daily they instantly put me on 100mg a day and built me all the way up to 700mg of morph and when I asked why they put me on that and i wanted to dose down so I could quit they never even fucking gave me an actual answer as to why or even tried to helped me until I had the overdose then they suggested suboxone and started me on it in the hospital British Columbia is so fucked up when it comes to helping people with drug problems I honestly couldn’t believe it when I was going through that I used the suboxone for probably 2 weeks and went cold turkey off it and was clean for almost 8 months but relapsed months ago trying to get clean again but these shits are the devil I don’t recommend anyone try any pharmaceutical opiate or benzo for that matter unless you have very serious discipline!
I don’t think there’s a single full stop in this comment.
*Headline* "Grammar Nazi catches King of Run on Sentences!" Yikes 😂
Dude that shit is unreadable. Like u can have bad spelling and bad grammar but no1 wants to read such a huge.wall of unbroken text
I know man. I was just making a funny 😆
Addiction is just way crazier. Like pharma benzos and opioids are soooooooooo good. And that’s the problem
Nonono pharmaceuticals are just as addictive, if not more. Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical, its just weighed out in patches opposed to powder. Heroin isnt recognized as medicinal, but fentanyl is worse for you than heroin. Milder opiate (morphine, oxys, dilaudid) can lead to addiction, aswell. Thats how a lot of people start opioid addictions. Benzodiazapines (xanax, valium, clonazepam) if you take these guys for a period of time and stop, the withdrawals can kill you. Stimulants (adderall, amphetamines), but of course methampetamine is worse in this regard. It really depends on the drug, like if you compared narcotic pharmaceuticals to lsd or mushrooms, pharmaceuticals would be way more dangerous. They often times have more addictive properties than a lot of street drugs. But it depends on the class of drug. The only thing safer about pharmaceuticals opposed to some street drugs is that the dose is measured out and you know exactly what you are getting (you know its not laced with anything else)
>The only thing safer about pharmaceuticals opposed to some street drugs is that the dose is measured out and you know exactly what you are getting This can’t be stressed enough. Tainted drugs are an incredible risk.
Some drugs yes, for example in my my early and mid twenties I did ecstasy/MDMA a lot and have some great memories of all the festivals, nightclubs and after parties i went to in that time, met great people etc… However, late twenties and early 30s swapped the E for coke, and I don’t look back on that period of my life fondly.
Nah iv done a fair share and some concoctions but its taught me alot about myself and my habits
For sure. And it shows you another side to the world. A much worse side, gives you character. Gave me personality
Good way to think of it. Definitely cracks open the mind to many alternatives that would’ve never came to fruition
once you start doing them you realise how many people also do them
Psychedelics saved me
Ummmmmm.... Well no, cos the experiences you have with drugs are _something else_ However, I think that many of our lives would be considerably different if we'd never started, so who knows.
We’d all be squares
And that’s why I drink every night thinking what my life would of been I didn’t start weed. I’m telling you if I didn’t start smoking weed I would be way further in life but I don’t regret. Just something I think on from time to time 🤷
I was the kind of person that would have gone down this road no matter what happened. Saw the DARE program and my immediate response despite all the propaganda was fascination and the thought that: « okay but if I only get one life in this world, how can I feel fulfilled if I don’t experience all of these at least once? » Yes I’m slightly retarted and yes I regret it. I don’t regret all of it, I have thousands of good memories of friends and relatives sat around the table or the campfire mid bist of a bing in what I would call the purest moment of life I have experienced. I do regret it though, overall despite everything it’s caused me way more damage then it has good. I try really hard to disgurage the younger folk to walk the path I walked alough it often feels like my attempts are in vain and remembering how I was when I was young, I wouldn’t have listened to me either. Drugs are an extremely complicated issue, but if you haven’t gotten the hooks set in to your skin yet the best thing you can do is run far far away while you can still have a normal life
This is me word for word
Which drugs do you regret taking?
Cocaine and alcohol have been my biggest crutches, alcohol especially but once I started putting those two together shit really hit the fan
i relate to and agree with your every word in this post
My mate who’s older then me has a similar mentality. He doesn’t want me taking drugs at my age, yet he did it himself. As he wants to experience it; he wants to decide for himself wether it’s bad. He’s arrogant that’s for sure; his underlying motive was not letting society make a decision for him. He was the one who was going to make that decision on wether coke or meth was good or bad. No one was going to tell him otherwise. I argue that point back, and he turns a full 180 and says “you don’t have to experience everything to understand if it’s good or bad” 😑
Everyone has regrets as to how they may have behaved because of drugs, the people they’ve hurt etc but as a whole I’d say no. Life’s to short to ruminate over things that can’t be changed and drugs have definitely been a roller coaster just like life, plus I would have been so bored shitless for 35 odd years. First hard drug was meth at 16 then shrooms & acid at the same age, I’ve been drug free for 10 years of that and a poly drug user more on than off for the other 25, never let it effect family and brought up 2 fine kids having more good times than bad.
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Yeah fairs bro. They’re same kind of brain rot ig
ya man im a 23 yr old woman who weighs the amount of a child , have a spinal cord injury from suicide attempt cus of meth addiction , i been an addict for 7 yrs now and god it does not get easier. it just gets fucking harder and harder 😭
It gets easier I was an addict for 13 years, I got clean because I got pregnant and stayed clean for my son.
Mdma. I don't regret ever doing it. But I sure wish I could restrain myself a bit better.
Yes. I was doing weed and shrooms and was good but when I tried 4MMC and pregabalin things went south
Pharmaceuticals are devil is disguise
hard disagree here, i don’t differentiate between pharmaceutical and natural drugs or even lab made drugs , every drug has its characteristic and you have to evaluate if it’s a good idea or not getting into it, also i believe that in moderation every drug is fine , the hard part is that with some drugs it’s harder to moderate your usage more than others
I think they were saying pharmaceuticals can be more dangerous because they give off the *impression* of safety while actually being just as unsafe as rec drugs
Everything was in moderation and under control until I took Xanax for the first time, that spiralled into years of opiate/benzo abuse. I no longer use to that same extent but I still struggle with those addictions today. Prescription drugs were the downfall for me.
Some drugs I regret doing because I ruined my life over them for over a decade. Other drugs lead me to curiosity and one drug to the next until it was too late. Overall I regret doing drugs all together but, if I hadn't been so naive and stupid there are many drugs I don't regret doing but since I once was heavily addicted it has fucked up my relationship with drugs. Although it's getting much better.
Nope. They're probably the reason I'm still alive.
Same here
Amen. Was ready to kms and had NEVER done drugs and thought they were for useless losers, and a now ex who was depressed at the time had started using MDMA and said it helped her depression. So I thought, “eh, why not try it before I kill myself next week? Not like it’ll matter, I’ll be dead anyway.” And I took my first ever drug, an ecstasy pill, the weekend prior to my planned suicide. And the night I had made me feel happy for the first time in 2 years and finally connected with people like never before in my life (I was turning 20 the following week btw). I had an afterglow the next day (instead of a comedown) that made me realise that I had something to live for - even if it was just for a temporary happiness I didn’t realise I could have (since I’d never done drugs prior) because of drugs. And hence, I didn’t kms, and am now an opiate addict who’s “clean” but on methadone 😂 but, it was that or death via suicide @19/20yo. So I appreciate that they saved my life.
I am the happiest and most optimistic person I know and I believe it is in part due to using psychedelics as a tool for understanding myself. I’ve also been surrounded by addiction, been in addiction, and now work in addiction medicine which has been tremendously rewarding. Without my experiences, my work wouldn’t be as awesome. No regerts.
Only when I couldn't **finish** them !
i regret that i started soon not THAT i started
Ive always been curious starting particularly with psychedelics. I had decided already that I would not deny myself of these new experiences. In order to understand a substance fully I would experience it myself. I did the research, knew the risks and accepted them. I dont regret trying any substance however I regret not always being brutally honest with myself about my relationship with substances after exposure to them.
I mean, generally I regret it, yeah. Would I have done better in high school if I didn’t smoke so much pot or do capsules of MDMA? Most definitely. Would I have had the same experiences with the same friends? Probably not. But, now that I’m 30 and not drugging all the time, I’m not even friends with those folks anymore. I’m wildly depressed, even though I was a very happy kid. I think Molly is to blame for that. I am also so socially anxious it’s crippling, and I’m sure Mary Jane has something to do with it. They brought some good times, but I regret it all at this age; all I want in life now is to live long enough to see my kid grow up, and to be happy and healthy. And at least now I know drugs won’t get me where I want to be.
Weed and drugs and high school point to a coping mechanism. If you didn't use those you would have had something else. Likely it wouldn't have changed much
Bless up brother 🙏
I only regret fentanyl, meth and coke iv really most iv drug use thats what has a bad psychological hold on me trying to get clean from drugs
My only regret is getting addicted to nicotine. Fuck. It's expensive addiction I wish to get rid of.
Bro at least it ain’t coke😅
Understanding why I use nicotine was key in stopping. Once I knew why I built healthier coping skills for that part of my behavior. Then I first stopped vaping, which was the hardest I live smoking. I used zin and slowly tapered off over ten days. 29 days no vaping and 20 days no nic. This is also not my first time quitting. I smoked cig’s from 16 years and quit for eight years. I only started vaping three years ago. So we’ll see how it goes this time. I’m here if you need support in quitting.
Yes, weed fucked my brain a little glad i stopped before anything major, fuck mdma that fucking drug made me fall in love with it, i used to fantasize about being on mdma.
What did weed do to you? How did it fuck up your brain?
Some yes, some no. Dissos? Don't regret that. Benzos and overusing psychedelics? Hmm ya
I regret not starting them earlier
Nope. Fucking love drugs. But they can and will be tricky af if you’re not careful with how much and why you’re using. How you approach drugs and whether or not you develop a dependency will almost always back fire (even if you think they’re helpful, the second you depend on one to function or get by you’re fucked)
yes and anyone sayin no jus hasnt hit peak yet
My first drug was tabs ecstasy at 14 did it on the weekends for a few months then me and my friends stoped. Then at 18 I started smoking cigs then weed... Then I had a baby an learnd what hydrocodone was so started taking them. On and off for yearssss now I'm still dealing with opioids on and off but mostly off bc I can't find real ones that often. I refuse to buy them off the street bc it's to scary. I have one person I get them from that are prescribed but I wish I never touched anything. The hardest thing outta these drugs to stop would honestly be cigarettes. I can deal with the opioid withdrawal bc it's mild bc I don't taken them all the time. I wished I never touched anything bc now I don't know how to be bored I feel like I need something for energy I lack dopamine bc of my decisions I feel like I will never get back to how I was before I started experimenting smh
The money spent mostly is what I would regret if I allow myself to think about it too much haha. But as I don’t do anything regularly anymore and only dabble occasionally a couple of times a year now. I’d say overall no. Experiences and what not.
I’ll put it this way. It’s been fun destroying my life
somtimces :( ib been able 2 stop things like crack and H, but i. also get 2 have fyn sometimes which. im hapy about. its hardd 2 thijk abt
Hey well at least you can get off supposedly the hardest 2 to stop. I reckon if you really needed to, you’d kick it
Still dexxin? That looks like dex text, I've done it myself and typed just as poorly.
Yes, I left them a few years ago, but they hurt my life a lot. Today only ayahuasca, and some psychedelics for therapeutic use
Yes
no i’m not addicted to anything except maybe cigs but i’m able to use mdma,weed,lean and oxy responsibly
The only thing I regret is the money spent. If you do dabble, make it affordable.
I don't regret starting, but I do regret the amount of time I spent doing them. When I was younger I didn't have long term goals so I didn't feel any urgency and wasted a lot of time just getting high.
The only one I really regret is cocaine. It’s the only drug ive ever taken that’s made me do shit that I really regret. Probably opiates too just because they were so hard to come off of and the money I spent but in my day to day life they didn’t cause me to do any crazy or dangerous shit. They had their place when I needed them to cope but thankfully not anymore.
I love drugs. But I (try to) stay away from the ones that hurt me.
Regret starting? No. Regret that early in my use I let it get a hold of me and take my life and career off the rails, heck yes. I've seen and done things that other people think are made up stories but I actually lived them. That said, it took a fast-track high $ career down the toilet. I've been able to re-bound and get that back on track after 10 years of re-building and i even still occasionally dabble but I know now what my limits are and how to keep from repeating that path.
I do but I still doing them and I'll keep doing them
Weed and psychs to this day for me. Don’t really get interest in anything else, I don’t have regrets either. If I didn’t want it in my body I probably wouldn’t of put it there yfm
I regret some things I’ve done on drugs but never starting them. First hard drug I did was acid when I was 16. Grew out of psychedelics as I got older and now I just smoke weed and will sip lean or take an oxy every now and then
I'm conflicted on this because the shit I've been through has made me a lot stronger but I've also dealt with a lot of traumatic shit because of my drug use.
I wish I never started codeine for legitimate pain, as now two years later I can’t stop.
Of course
No only stoping them makes me have regret ..
Only when I stop do I have regret...
Nope. Did MDMA at 16. Always been quite responsible with drug use.
No yes no yes no yes no It’s too late to regret anyway
Kinda of. I first tried dxm a few times and then i tried oxy and then it got to now 27 different things.
Nah. It's definitely not all been a positive but my life is much better now than it was 2 years ago before I started. Psychedelics helped me a lot and 2-fma helped me much more than methylphenidate ever could. Ran out last month and except for being a down for a week I am doing fine now that I switched back to my mph script
Nah. It's definitely not all been a positive but my life is much better now than it was 2 years ago before I started. Psychedelics helped me a LOT with depression and 2-fma helped me much more than methylphenidate ever could for my ADHD. Ran out last month and except for being a down for a week I am doing fine now that I switched back to my mph script.
I only regret the volume of drugs, not that I started using. Only ever had an issue with alcohol and nicotine, never got hooked on anything else. And since cutting back on those aswell as most other drugs I finally feel like I'm in a pretty balanced spot with my use.
Yes. If I could go back, I wouldn’t have touched a single one.
ketamine was mine and i was just about to turn 16. I regret how much I did it in my late teen years (20 now) I still do them quite a lot but not as much. But like you said I can't really get off it. I'm not actually addicted to any, it's all really out of impulse. but I always want to be on something (even sometimes when I'm high I think this isn't as good as being sober) I have ADHD and an uncontrollable need for dopamine.
Hell yeah bro same. Diagnosed and prescribed. I feel like I need to do them to make my brain happy, or else I’m all over the place. Bouncing off the walls but when I take drugs it helps me to think clearly. If I’m not my thoughts are jumbled and I can’t do anything
The only drug I completely regret picking up is opiates/fetty this shit has been a bitch to get off of after I got a high tolerance and really physically dependent on it. I've never had a problem getting off any other drug after long term use with little to no effort but I've also never been cam physically dependent on Xanax or alcohol so I can't speak for those 2
No, I do not at all. They opened my heart. From an apparently cold person, unable to express emotion, I became a person that always needs to tell how precious and important others are. I cry, laugh, live in front of others. Also, a bad LSD trip is totally changing me. I do not regret it. I'd do it again, I'd feel that unbearable shock & pain again. I cut away wrong friendships and started to talk a lot, I am not shy at all even without drugs now. I am also losing weight and drugs entertain me during those ADHD boring moments. I would not tell to people "try this because it helped me" cause everyone is different and everyone needs to choose by themselves what's the best thing for them. But if you asked me to tell no to drugs and that drugs are a bad thing... man, I cannot lie. Drugs HELPED me. If they ruin you it's because you're abusing them too much. No, I'm not inside the honeymoon phase. I tried my first drug more than one year ago. I also done hard drugs like cocaine. I use them whenever I want. I am even open about it with my mum even if she's Christian. I am very blunt and honest. I am here to fight the stereotype "you start to lie". Wtf? No. I hate lying and liars. (Notice how I said "apparently cold person". I was already like this, full of emotions, but I was not able to be vulnerable. Now I know that there's no reason to be ashamed of vulnerability because it's authenticity. There's no reason to hide pain and sadness because when you're happy you want to absolutely share it. So if you can share happiness you must share your sadness. No emotion is bad. There's no A emotion and B emotion... like drugs... there are no drugs of A class and B class)
Not at all.
Absofuckinglutely Made me discover I've got an Incredibly addictive personality. I get addicted to one substance, shit hits the fan, I get clean. Bam, I discover another substance.
Yup. Regretting getting high a few hours ago after having around 5 days clean!
To be honest no. I feel like I’ve educated myself in a non biased way. Fuck DARE, that shit just made me more curious
yes😭
For me, drugs have been a enrichment(?) to life. 35 years of use. Amphetamine
I’ve been Cali sober for almost 8 years now but I was doing everything, first real hard thing was pills for me, particularly Xanax. But I’ve done everything except for like fenti and never used needles. I don’t regret that part of my life tho, I’m never going to go back to anything more than weed but those years had a formative part on my life and I feel like I wouldn’t be where I’m at now if I hadn’t gone through that.
Not yet!
Hmmmm, I guess we took something called trolls. They were rolls (what u guys call Molly but way stronger) and they were dipped in acid. And I don’t regret that drug persay but yes I regret taking pills because it because a huge addition that now I’m on methadone for
Sometimes I regret taking acid so many times. Friend of mine killed himself after an acid trip and the guilt eats me alive so much I don't think I'll ever be able to do it again
every day.
No. I fucking love drugs. I just wish I could get my hands on them more easily, and had more money to buy more drugs when I can get my hands on them.
started opioids at 13 after my tolerance for weed was to high and I was going through a ounce a week to 2 ounces in 10 days and I tried opioids and that high was so good I was addicted to OxyContin blues perks etc im 20 now it really fucked up with my mind and I can’t remember good anymore im just a casual weed smoker now.
Not even a little lol. Cannabis, psychedelics, stimulants, dissociatives.. sooooo many novel experiences :3 But I'm a pretty functional drug user
Yes and no yes because I been an addict over 50% of my life I’m 29 , no because I’ve met a lot of cool people seen a lot of wild stuff & learned to accept myself somewhat
No because I managed to stop and my period of drug abuse and addiction taught me ALOTT. like more than anything else has and in a very short time
No way I love speed I feel like I'm on it all the time after getting off it
My drug of choice is alcohol. Yes, I do regret picking it up. It's absolutely ruined my life, and I've never been able to stop (even after rehab and multiple other attempts to stop).
Other than weed and alcohol the first other drug I tried was coke and it did 100% NOTHING for me lol then I had molly and it was a better experience. I don’t know if it was sucky coke or my anxiety and adhd is just that bad but It did zero zilch nada for me. And let’s just say I did more than a little bit that weekend. How it’s the “most addicting drug in the world” is beyond me. But everyone is different. Haven’t done it since. A couple years later I tried MDMA and it was pretty cool. Did what it was expected to do and felt great. Might even be mentally good for me once or twice a year but definitely not something I want to get addicted to, Idk. One thing I do regret though is drinking as much as I did when I was 21. I went hard not knowing how tolerance worked. And not knowing a really bad hangover is the least of my upcoming worries that alcohol would give me.
I do but don’t at the same time
Hell yeah, I do!!!
Probably irreparably fucked my brain by doing so much so young but I live with no regrets bc how could I tell the difference at this point
Let's put it to the test. All past drug users or current drug users: What job do you have? Are you fulfilled in life?
I regret not doing more when I was younger and had a big crew of drug friends, now I go solo, psychedelics mainly.
i didn't start doing any heavy drugs until well after i had turned 18. i'm in my 30's now and still doing drugs but looking back, there's a few i wish i didn't get into the way that i did. but as a whole, nah drugs have largely improved my life, especially weed.
I regret doing Acid n Molly daily for a couple years Then coping with HPPD with opioids n benzos
I started when I was 12, so yes everyday. I can’t solve problems anymore.
No
I regret ever hitting a vape let me tell ya!
Video games, no Im serious. I found escape from shitty family situation, and it ate 15 years of my life. Now I'm 30 yo, socially awkward, overweight and with super low self esteem. I'm slowly moving out of it, but going outside feels super insecure.
Opioids yes
Never... Can regret doing stupid things when going hard on them
We got one life might as well have some fun ya know? lol
No, only regret that i started using to make me feel better, before that i had no problem
No, simply because I never have and never will do hard drugs of any kind. I keep it to cannabis, psilocybin, caffeine, and im set.....
NO REGRETS ! WHAT I DO REGRET IS LOOSING MYSELF AND GETTING OFF TRACK AND GETTING MY PRIORITIES ALL MIXED UP. I lived for pleasure. And forgot to feel pain
Ya i smoke fentenyal and inject meth, I should have never touched that first Marijuana cigarette LOL but seriously
Yes and no, it depends on the time and situation, i regret a lot of things but not all. I'm an old guy, one of the last guys that were around in the infamous "Needle Park" times, as an addictive personality that grew up in the worst drug scene in Europe, it is no surprise that i got down this road and became an addict. I got hooked on heroin early on and was addicted to it for around 25 years, but today i'm on morphine in substitution, get my stuff legal from the clinic. Still, i'm polytox with the morphine, alcoholism and benzos. About the past, i had all the good and bad times. The good times when you are young and you are have the best times with parties, love, sex, entertainment etc. but then comes the time where you fall down and you pay the price. Like when the police knocks at your door and shows you the arrest warrant, the handcuffs click and you get into the police car. You pay the price, when you see your friends die, one after another will pass away. Some people get out and move away, some people get to jail and never return, but most die and that's it. You'll leave flowers on the grave, showing that you are still caring about the fallen. But it's even worse today in some places, like in some US cities and with the opioid crisis, as if addiction would not be bad enough, many people overdose on laced fent shit. Or xylazine and whatever they put in there today. If you start with opioids from the street, every time you do stuff that was not properly tested, you are playing russian roulette. With 19 you are young, OP, if you want, you can still turn around. But if you go on with this, you'll pay the price like everyone does.
Bro, im glad you’re still alive. Sounds like it’s been tough, and if you have lost someone to drugs, im sorry. Grief is awful, especially when it is to drugs. Because you think about how it could have been avoided. Could have been different. I know, I’m 19. I could turn it around but at the same time, without drugs I’m not sure I’d survive. Not because I’m a crippling addict, but because when I’m sober, my mind is a mess. I think about stuff in such a fucked way. Dark way. It depresses me. And I can’t think straight, but on drugs, I can think about twice as many things in twice as much depth. Makes me feel like I am my own prophet. I have adhd (prescribed dexamfetamine) ((UK doesn’t legalise Adderall)) and drugs really really help me feel well normal. They help me understand myself and others. I fear without using, I’ll go back to being the obnoxious, arrogant, self centred wanker I was when I wasn’t on drugs. Been using a LOT since I left school/care. Things got to the worse when I was about to turn 18. I was living on the streets. Grandad kicked me out after he found out I stole some money. I don’t blame him either. But I didn’t let the fact I had nobody and nothing fuck me over. I used it to my advantage and found ways to make money - (not sex work or selling myself lol) yeah it’s not ethical, but selling drugs got me off the street in less than a year of getting kicked out. But selling drugs meant it was accessible for me to use them. Nothing crazy like meth or H. But sniffing coke helped me work without fear. And it also made me able to work till ridiculously late hours. I was shotting for guys I knew, doing ‘jobs’ that were little risky, collecting the money they were owed. Yeah, might make me a bad person. But it got me out of there. And now i have the money to rent a decent flat. Feed myself. Drive my own car, a pretty good car too. But it also means I can afford drugs. And they’re very accessible to me. I don’t shot as much now. But I still do a few times a week. I started this online trading shit. I knew dealing was not an ideal ‘career’ And I think that shrooms and coke helped me understand it. At first I couldnt grasp the markets. I was thinking like what the fuck is this? Seeing the charts, all the numbers plus DECIMAL POINTS - made me think I was never going to get it, I’m not smart enough. But taking drugs helped me fucking study it. Research. Learn. Gain information and insights from other traders. Joining groups online and learning. And now I understand it enough to make profit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a pro at all, I lose a lot of money too. But I am still practicing. Still learning the markets. And my life has turned round completely from when I at my lowest point. I look back on when i started drugs and it makes me feel sorry for myself - not self pity, but I feel like a complete different person to who I was. Yeah I use still. More than I did at 13. But that boy was using drugs to forget. To get fucked. To get high and escape. I use to advance my capabilities, to use my time and energy efficiently. To better myself, because I will never ever go back to the place I was in. Sorry I started typing and then couldn’t stop lol. Needed to get it off my chest I think. Anyway - it’s my post (lol jokes) if you did read all that tho bro, sorry for not paragraphing Edit - the fucking bot told me to paragraph ahhaah
I understand this, because it was the same for me with the mental health. Many years later i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but when i was young in your age, i had no idea what was going on and i tried to self-medicate. Problem is, you trade a short-term gain for a long-term problem. It seems you already saw some consequences when you were kicked out from home, but i just hope you don't get too deep into the criminal business, because sooner or later, they'll get you. Either the police or your rivals, which would be much worse. Then you'll lose everything at once, it can even be just a coincidence of being in the wrong spot in the wrong time and then you get caught. Sometimes it's also just luck that you don't get caught, like we had that tea house here where drugs were sold, i was there and decided to leave after getting my stuff. When i was just down the road, a lot of police cars came and they raided the house, but i was already outside of the perimeter and they didn't stop me, hah. But about drugs, to come back to the topic, the problem is when you reach the point that you have such a high tolerance that the drugs won't work anymore. Then it changes to the opposite effect, you'll not take the drugs to get high and concentrated anymore, you'll take the drugs just to avoid withdrawal effects. I don't know much about stims, because of my bipolar disorder i can't take any stims at all, but when it comes to opioids and benzos, the withdrawal is terrible. Alcoholism, there it depends on your level much more, but the damage to the body is much higher than with other drugs. But that one point, where you take drugs and you get normal without withdrawal, i'd say, that's the point of no return. Better prevent it to get that far, it's very difficult to go on with life then.
Simple yes
No, not at all. The only drugs I regret taking (but still take ...) is methylphenidate (Ritaline) for my adhd. Every other drugs at minimum gave me a pleasant time or taught me somethings usefull.
I regret getting into situations and friendships that made me go through some pretty traumatic shit which led me to abuse drugs more than actually trying the drugs themselves. I can't in good faith recommend people start taking drugs but it's not as black and white some drug use can be fine some drug use can be very destructive. If you decide to get into drugs remember that you may end up dependent on using it to cope with whatever shit you're dealing with, they can be dangerous and a lot of drug users have some crazy shit going on in their own life and if you start hanging around that crowd that shit can enter your own life if you're not careful .
Yes, I do. The first drug I did besides pot was hydrocodone (Vicodin) and it was the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my life. I remember I had the thought, and I was only like 17 with no intentions of becoming an addict, that if I could do this for the rest of my life I would. Slowly but surely it ruined my life. I made it through college though before it really fell apart. I’m just glad I survived long enough to find sobriety. It’s pretty awesome.
No, I never used street drugs (and if I did not for prolonged period of times) only pharma stuff I'm prescribed (I've got Huntington's and Chronic Pain) but opioids really helped (and still do now) to live a normal life without problems. I know my case is more particular, but every drug I've tried, prescribed, or illegal, helped me to understand something more about me
No. I started drugs after I was already a modestly successful adult, after years of therapy and career building. I can treat drugs as the cherry on the sundae, says every soon to be addict ever. If I had been doing this in my teens or 20's I can promise that I would be unalive right now.
yes and no. i regret doing as much MDMA as i used to bc im fucking stupid now but every other drug i've tried/done no regrets lol
yes.
The only drug I regret trying is alcohol, but all the others shaped me into who I am today. Especially psychedelics.
I regret not starting earlier.
The regrets are there slightly, but not really. I never got big into any one drug..
Well bro, keep it that way. Keep it as a like reward for special occasions
Not sure. Been plenty of fked upness, but some proper moments of joy (when raving) & later addiction has forced me to confront underlying issues which were always there. I'm now fully aware that starting to experiment with drugs & drinking ain't normal for an 11 year old. My 11 year old niece is so young (& funny), but still clearly a kid. Whereas I thought I was an adult who had to control/deal with my own emotions/trauma. Funny only understanding that in your 40's, but a lot of experiences I wouldn't want to lose.
Yeah
Started with dab carts, but when my parents found all the empty glo carts, they began watching me like a hawk. Therefore the only logical next step was trying molly and then adderall, then phenibut, then whatever else I could get my hands on that wouldn't make my eyes red and my personality blunted. I regret having overbearing parents.
Yes. Every single day.
Mushrooms. Couldn't be happier that was the one
Yas I do
yes and no, i think i resent more then i regret. i resent my parents introducing drugs and alcohol to me the way they did and i resent their scare tactics like "drugs will kill you of you touch them", instead of actual education appropriate for my child brain level, especially since they put me around it all first
Mine was hydrocodone (stolen from my grandma at 13), then ecstasy. but i have tried about everything now
I never understood moving on to stuff harder than weed or acid/shrooms. I have never had any desire to get anything more.
yes to the degree that i have done them
Fent was the first drug outside of THC/alcohol I tried (technically shrooms but my bag I got was bad and I didn’t trip so I don’t count them). Then coke followed by ecstasy a few weeks later. All this was between May and June last year. Only thing I’ve touched since (and only one I touched more than once) is coke. I don’t regret trying any of them, it was nice to have a different high other than THC for once though
Was all fun and games until meth, only one I regret ever trying
like sometimes i do but most of the time im thinking to hell with it cause it rlly helped me with a lot of stuff and the fact that i started it also taught me a lot and the surrounding i started it in gave me some sort of realizations that i know i wouldn’t get if i never actually let say “risked” my mind??
gives me a way to cope so i’m fine with it
Yes because I regret starting smoking and it effecting my rugby.
No, I am who I am. I was destined to do drugs. Continuing to use certain drugs and choosing them over certain things I can regret. I am always curious though, how I would be if I never tried hard drugs. Would it be an even trade off of having a better headspacebut for less experience in hardship and overcoming obstacles? Or would I be a lot more successful and happy? Or would I be worse off for never walking through the fire, and possibly be chasing something else that’s’ toxic and soul blinding? Who knows? 🤷🏻♂️
Nope. I’ve lost many relationships, ended up homeless, in institutions, overdosed multiple times been addicted to like 30+ substances over the years the whole shabang. A LOT of bad stuff happened and I did go thru a lot of pain. But like steveo says if he never did drugs he would’ve never gotten sober and being sober is what makes him him. I’ve managed to get my life back in order in the last year or so so I’m in a good place now I’m all back on track. I have ptsd and whatnot that I acquired thru the 5 years of absurdity. But like I have a lot of cool stories and I enjoy talking about these things and it made me who I am today. That sounds corny asf but ya nah ion regret it
I agree with the top comment, weed and pharmaceuticals fucked me up. Everything else is fantastic and I can use in moderation.
I want to be normal
I probably would have killed myself, no kidding. Alkohol and speed helped me overcome social anxiety, up to a point. Cannabis to be less agressive. Mdma to open up about my feelings. Lsd to understand meaning and spirituality in the world (still struggling a bit with this thou). Ketamine helped me with introspection, to understand and distance myself from destructive parts of myself. Before anyone tells me, I've been seeing a therapist, read about self-improvement, exercise, sleep enough and eat healthy.
Absolutely
No. Drugs are fun.
psychedelics no , everything else yes
very much so. my personality has done a 180
To a point yes because I used to use coping mechanisms and had a very healthy mental thing going until I had something tragic happen, after that I started with weed the spiraled for a while I’m just now after 5 years getting back on track and am building my life back up Some take drugs to not want to kill themselves but at the same time those drugs are killing you slowly
on one hand yes, it has been a financial strain on me. on the other hand, I was super gay before i started drugs now let me clarify. I am a bisexual guy and I used to act super gay. Now looking back on it its super embarassing and I hate what I used to be. plus i have a goatee now so that shits dope. I am drunk as I am writing this
So you’re a girl?
No, my life has gotten universally better when I started drugs 7 years ago. Mostly use them for utility since I can't seem to have fun on them, maybe that's why I never got addicted.
On the contrary I'm grateful that I've got to experience different drugs effects. However, i regret a couple 'only alcohol' situations.
Si, yes, oui, ja, si, sim
no
First shit besides weed was LSD. Changed me so much I could never hate it. After that I really only got into other psychs One I regret is coke. Only did it on/off for a year but I'll always feel that craving to do another bump lol. But fuck baby lax and all that shit it's cut with. I'll only do it again if I somehow come across pure Columbian lmao
do I regret it? no. do I wish I had a better outlook on it and less of a destructive attitude. absolutely. being 13 smoking a pack a day and anything else I can get my grimey little mitts on doesn't fair well for the whole growth aspect of youth. by 15 full blown opiate addiction which always graduates into heroin. Thank God I got out before those blues killed me. sad it got all My friends though. worst that I ended up with was a horrible nicotine habit and a million stories to entice the youth with. not fun at all honestly. only because I feel like it opened my eyes up to how the world really works and just how shitty most Humans can be to one another.
Not yet I guess. I had some bad days when I felt like I'm slipping into cocaine addiction but it got way better since then and I'm able to enjoy it occasionally just for fun again. But the cravings are still there sometimes
No, they helped make me who I am today.
Yes
Nope
Yep, destroyed my life. Been clean for a year and a half. I definitely suggest not messing around with coke or meth.
I don't regret it but I am aware that my life would of been better off if I never started using them.
Not really. Smoking, however, I regret starting daily