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Thoughts on prevalent use of behavior modifying drugs?

does anyone else feel like everyone and their mother is taking adderall?
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
I'm not sure if what I take would be categorised as "behaviour modifying". I don't like being out of control so I'm careful with drugs.
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@MartinTheFirst they can be the spice of life but you never want to over season things.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@2cool4school Agreed. I took some sleeping pills for a while when I almost had panic attacks in the beginning of school last year, and it had this side-effect where I would become super calm, see pictures move on their own and become 3d, and have irrationally positive thoughts. It was amazing, I started taking it before sleep just for that reason when I found out about it. They disappeared quickly and I would like to get some more but i think it's a good thing that I can't. I don't want to become a junkie.
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@MartinTheFirst everything in moderation.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@2cool4school Some things are too good for human beings to take in moderation
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@MartinTheFirst yep. Although I feel lucky that coke doesn’t seem to have the addictive effects on me. But LSD has.
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@2cool4school it was a long time ago and I think I was just bored and inexperienced. I would much rather get high off my own endorphins and adrenaline doing stuff in nature (and maybe a little THC) than do anything that has been shown to be damaging to the body especially the brain. But then again my activities have been damaging to my body and especially to my brain. Wearing a helmet only goes so far. Still no regrets or at least very few.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@2cool4school ) I don't think coke and LSD is good to take though...
2cool4school · 46-50, F
@MartinTheFirst oh definitely not together. Felt like I was going to explode. But again that was 25 years ago.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@2cool4school I'd like to know what it's like using coke, but only because it's been romanticised so much. I don't think I would take it given the opportunity.
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2cool4school · 46-50, F
@MartinTheFirst the best way I could describe coke is a feeling like it’s a very good time like you just accomplished something good. Promotion birthday Christmas lottery winning feeling all at once but it’s synthetic and the fact that it’s not real doesn’t matter but when it start to wear off you don’t want it to and you want to keep it going. I don’t do it but I’ve been around lots of people that do and one thing I see often is that nobody feels like they bought enough and often they return to buy more without planning on it when they started. I’ve been around people that end up buying 3 times what they originally said they wanted over the course of a night. I have had friends that have had to move away from places that had easy access to it just to stop there habit. It’s very hard for some people to stop. It comes with a a high and the next day a low that is usually what people try to fend off with more coke only to get caught in a cycle. I’ve basically told people that I don’t want anything to do with it so they know not to even bring it up around me or hopefully not to even have it on them around me. And it’s often done in secrecy so I don’t know how often I have been around people that do it regularly. I’ve had a lot of experiences where people I’ve never suspected of being into it do it openly in public and don’t even think of it as a big deal. I’ve been to parties in the past few years where people have had hundreds of dollars worth on a plate and just passed it around. I’ve had friends that date dealers just so they can get access to it for cheap or free. The worst case scenario’s I’ve seen are people who get into habits with it and when they can’t get it either because they can’t afford it or they can’t find it they turn to other hard drugs like crystal meth which I have had zero experience with and I’ve never even been curious about. At 17 I had an older more experienced coworker explain almost every substance to me and advise me what not to do when I was going off to college as I had been hanging out with my college coworkers and they were just into drinking and smoking pot. I ended up getting into a dorm that had the worst gpa on campus and kids were kicked out on a regular basis for partying too much. As soon as they were off campus they got into harder drugs and coke and heroin were not uncommon to be seen at their parties. I had a bf that I was joined at the hip with and we decided not to touch anything hard drug related but we did a lot of mushrooms and did them on Sunday nights almost weekly and they started to lose their affects and potency and we decided to stop. We drank a lot and smoked a lot of pot so much so that all the money I had saved for the year was gone in half the time I expected. When we split after a year so we could have a more authentic college experience he got a job at a restaurant and got into coke and heroin almost immediately. When I saw him a few months later he wanted to catch up. He decided to show me how much he had changed by smoking heroin off of foil and snorting coke as well as mixing them into speedballing and was actually disappointed with me for not wanting to try. I didn’t see him again but I heard that he had gotten in trouble legally for the fake IDs that a roommate of his had made us both and was forced to go to alcohol anonymous with his mom weekly for a year to avoid a tougher sentence and that was actually one of the best things for him because he wasn’t able to get into hard drugs as well. I think he actually never left the college town and works for the university currently and is married with a family. I’d say that curiosity is about as far as I would recommend going with coke. It’s expensive and it’s not worth it as well as being fatally toxic to 1/10,000 people and legally has the ability to really screw up successful lives. But I totally understand why you would be curious because it’s got a stigma and a powerful relationship with many people. Personally I don’t see a reason to go past cannabis or even to use cannabis but I also feel alcohol is not as safe as many people make it out to be.