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Have you ever had a drug problem?

This isn't for judging.. I'm just looking to share experiences. So I'll go ahead.

I started trying drugs at a very early age. I was 11 & I grew up in environments that deprived me of most of my childhood.
It started with weed. Then I tried liquor shortly after. By the time I was 12 I was already starting to try different pills to see how it all felt.

So most of my usage was all weed, alcohol, & pills until I got older. After high school I was kicked out of my house & I spent time on the streets. I was homeless for a time period, which coincideded with the same time SW first opened up. I was here & I posted regularly but I never fully opened up about what I was going through. At that time I wasn't addicted to hard drugs, but I did them often.

Actually I was never truly addicted to the hard stuff. I just didn't care & I did whatever. I had a very apathetic mindset. I didn't care about anything & the way I saw life was "f*ck it, if I die then at least I don't have to be here anymore".
I think that the reason I did all those drugs was because part of me hoped it would be the reason I didn't wake up one day.

It's crazy to admit that even now because I was always such a funny person & always joking around. I still am.

The night I stopped was because I realized all that & when it all hit me I felt like absolute shit. But I knew I was lucky because I shouldn't even still be alive.
The night before, I drank the entire day, smoked nonstop, drank half a bottle of codeine, fought somebody, ran from the cops, ended up at a crack house where I proceeded to pop 3 Xanax, then I crushed 3 more Xanax & snorted all of it.
Didn't stop there though. I followed that up with 3 lines of coke, 2 bumps of meth, then last.. we smoked heroin (which shockingly was the only thing I'd never done until then).
All while I still smoked weed & drank throughout all of that 🤷

The way I felt the next day was the sickest I'd ever felt in my life & I kept asking myself "why tf am I still even here?" It was my sister's birthday & she's the most important person in my life.
I didn't even tell her happy birthday but I could waste the whole day getting f**ked up...
I hated how far I'd gone at that point.

Idk. It's not much of a quitting story but I never went back after that.
I simply got sick of feeling that way.
I joke about drugs or whatever on here sometimes but believe me it all comes from experience. I'm clean now
Although I do smoke weed all the time still 🙌😂

& I don't drink like I used to either, despite my name 😅 but I definitely still drink lol. But hey that's me I guess 🤷
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Pfuzylogic · M
This would be back in 1979 when I was 20 when I quit. I sold coke and had done quit a few different types of drugs like Acid, PCP/Angeldust, snorted and sold cocaine before crack existed.
I got a waiver in the Navy and they gave me a shot at Nuclear power. I failed because the strip joints had all the beer you wanted for $5 and it was before a “watch” I had on my post.
Drank for a little more but I eventually stopped after getting married.
The U.S. Navy was the turning point.
@Pfuzylogic very cool. I always find it cool to hear how different stuff was back then. It was a lot of the same experiences we have today but just a different time.. when things were looked at differently & drugs/selling them wasn't glorified in media. So cool you turned your life around though & you found that structure. Lack of such is often what gets people stuck in that lifestyle to begin with
Pfuzylogic · M
@ChiefWalksWith40oz
I did need the structure.
I passed the ASVAB and the nuclear power test with a really high score so I was fortunate that they wanted me.
The Navy most definitely had structure with boundaries defined by the UCMJ.
@Pfuzylogic very cool. I looked into military recently out of curiosity & I don't think any branch at all would accept me 😂 but maybe if I made the choice back then it could've stopped me from a lot 🤷 but oh well
Pfuzylogic · M
@ChiefWalksWith40oz
There are other organizations that could offer similar structure like the Peace Corps. Don’t give up!