At the height of my drug addictions I was injecting methamphetamine three to five days a week, taking benzos to sleep, and Heroin or Suboxone two to three days a week to come down from the meth.
Wanna know what caused me the most suffering: a close brush with the law, narrowly avoiding a drug trafficking trial.
I'm clean ~4 years now. I go to work every day, pay the bills, I bought a house. Fairly normal.
In my opinion one of the major problems with illicit substances is the lack of healthy social norms around any kind of recreational use, having to hide that you're a drug user.
We junkies have a worse PR department than nuclear energy. We're addicts, we're supposed to be degenerate perverts that live under bridges, beat our spouses, and leave our children.
It couldn't be further from the truth, in many instances. Having to hide it, or hang out with those who are more criminally minded as being your junkie peers, probably stems from the illegal nature of the beast.
I'm pretty sure legalization is a good idea. Let's face it, if you want to try drugs then you can get drugs. Drugs are plentiful, that's why we have drug users. Making them legal seems unlikely to create more users. "Hey, heroin is legal! I'm going to try it!" Said nobody, ever.
Actually, now that weed is legal, it's not nearly as much fun growing it.
So, yeah, there could be healthy societal norms, but not while it's illegal.
Related: I'm still not sure why coke users always seem to end up in the bathroom. It can be in a house in the middle of nowhere, but they'll still congregate in the bathroom. I don't mind coke, but crowding into a bathroom always seemed strange.
Confession time...
At the height of my drug addictions I was injecting methamphetamine three to five days a week, taking benzos to sleep, and Heroin or Suboxone two to three days a week to come down from the meth.
Wanna know what caused me the most suffering: a close brush with the law, narrowly avoiding a drug trafficking trial.
I'm clean ~4 years now. I go to work every day, pay the bills, I bought a house. Fairly normal.
In my opinion one of the major problems with illicit substances is the lack of healthy social norms around any kind of recreational use, having to hide that you're a drug user.