To ask the truth about your drug use?

I was awful in my early 20s; coke, pills, mdma, ketamine, 2CB, MCAT (to which i was pretty addicted for a time) pretty much anything that was around at the time.
Looking back i can see i was struggling with depression, stress and anxiety and this was my escape. I regret it not only for the fact it is dangerous and expensive (i am still in debt going in to thousands) but also because it set my career back years.
I've had several relapses but been properly clean for a few years now at 32 and my career is going off so fast i just hate to think where i could have been if my brain wasnt mush for 7 years

Oh, forgot. Just pethidine for ds's birth. It was kind of weird but it didn't feel like a drug.

Codeine seems to make me feel a bit sick and I stopped taking it even as co-codamol for periods.

No drugs or even smoking. Hardly any alcohol and not more than 2-3 expressos a day (often just one equivalent).

Never felt curious or pressured.
And I don't need alcohol to take any edge, relax or have fun.

I used to do ecstasy a bit in my twenties. I had a fucking great time if I'm honest.

But after a while I got a bit bored of it and realised that it wasn't "real" if you see what I mean and am just not interested now.

However I do have some very fun memories.

Gosh loads. Heavy weed smoker from age of 21 to age of about 30 ( pre DC)

Coke at parties and clubs. It gives you fake confidence but it turns you into an arrogant, selfish a$$hole. Seems to appeal to people with low self esteem. It's not pretty.

Acid - 3 or 4 times. I had a beautiful time but I have huge respect for acid, it's powerful. Only take it with very close friends you trust and somewhere peaceful and safe, like in nature or at home.

Ecstacy - some of the most incredible experiences of my life. Feeling at one with music, close to my friends, open with strangers. Pure feeling of joy, love and belonging. It removes the psychological wall between you and other people. It is heaven. But. What goes up must come down. You will feel terrible for a couple of days afterwards.

Shrooms: see acid above.

I'm now in my early 40s and a boring responsible parent with a good job. About twice anyway at a party or a gig I'll have a joint. I am a light weight now!

I know a lot of people who experimented with drugs and walked away happily with nothing worse to show for it but a taste for psy trance. I am aware we are probably very lucky.

I tried weed once on holiday, but nothing else.
None of my friends did drugs much either (very sporty Uni and then I was in the armed forces).
This thread is fascinating though!

Smoked a joint in Goa once, it was vile. Have never tried anything else ever.

Not much of a drinker either. I don’t like wasting my time except on mn

Obviously I get that some people do it as an escape but my life is fine so that’s not an issue for me.

Tried weed with a friend once (Amsterdam so legal) but that’s it. I don’t see the point in breaking the law and potentially facing consequences for a high especially when it’s not as good as other things.

Just weed for me, I prefer it to alcohol and if it weren't for pregnancy would still be using. Hoping to see it legalised in my lifetime!

Tried weed 3 times in my late teens, did nothing for me. I've never tried any other drug, aside from alcohol, and I never will.

Oh. Teenage advice. I took the fun ones because all of us were, parties, clubs, friends houses. I took the worse ones and the downers, because by then life had gine wrong, my mental health was shocking and I knew enough people who used everything else to get it easily so I did.

So just pick your friends wisely I guess. Not that I blame them, I made my own choices, but my friends were what enabled me to make them.

Never tried anything. Smell of weed makes me heave. Drugs & not being in control scare me & back then drink was the issue for my generation. At 19 stopped eating & drank heavily for 2years after my Dad passed. Something clicked & I stopped cold one day & started to eat.

Meant to say also OP, I’ve been completely upfront about my past drug use with my teen DSs. I think it would be hypocritical of me to do otherwise. I know my eldest has the type of personality that will likely experiment, and I would rather he felt able to talk to me honestly about it. Although I’ve only smoked weed myself, I’ve been around enough more serious drug use to be able to give him realistic advice.

Never taken or done any drugs neither has dh. Just didnt like lack of control. Dh said the other day he wished he tried weed when he was a silly teenager. I only knew two people at school that took drugs. One died young in a terrible car accident. However i grow up in the country where we didnt have access.

Everything available. Heroin, crack, opium, speed, mdma, ketamine, acid, mushrooms, pills of any discription, weed, 2ci, 2cb, cocaine, most benzos. Probably more, I can't really remember.

I took it because I could and didn't like being aware of the world, it blocked everything out. Some of them were also just very fun. I have never been addicted to any of them, many of my friends have been. Many of my friends ( at least 2 or 3 a year since I was 16) are also dead. I haven't done anything but occasionally smoke weed in the last 8 years (a year before I was pregnant with my first DC) other than one bout of coke taking in an awful situation. Too many people were dying around me for it to seem a good idea, all either suicide or overdose, a couple just their body giving up.

I had a spacecake that dh had baked once a few years ago. In fact I had 2 or 3, one after the other really quickly, and was poorly for the next few hours

That's about as wild as I go, drugs wise! I don't smoke and rarely drink and hated clubbing as a teen/young adult.

Never tried anything and never been offered anything (thankfully, as I was the sort of idiot who would have bowed to peer pressure). I'm only aware of one person who smoked weed.

Smoked lots of weed as a teen, probably almost daily at around 18/19. Loved it but gradually stopped because I kept getting bad throats/chests. Never really enjoyed alcohol so it was my way of relaxing, plus most of my friends did it. Did poppers once, didn’t enjoy that. I’ve never been the most emotionally/mentally stable person so never fancied doing anything like acid in case it freaked me out.

I was well into the raving scene so took a lot of half exstacy and speed. Moved onto cocaine and crack, didn't like heroin. Stopped all when I was around 25. I still have a smoke of weed occasionally but wouldn't touch anything else.

Smoked a fair amount of weed as a teenager. It was mainly down to most people I know doing it.

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Acid - big mistake. Took because I was curious. Was horrible.

Agreed. I loved shrooms and some of the thoughts and experiences I felt were amazing. Acid was literally like being trapped in a horrible never ending nightmare. Plus, a comedown from a night on other drugs lasted me half the next day or the entire next day. I felt depressed and on a come-down and paranoid after acid for the next four days afterwards. Nothing about that experience was fun. As soon as it kicked it I was frightened.

Never taken or smoked any drug of any type. I do know a fair few people who smoke weed, and after a conversation with my mum ( aged early 70s ) who said she'd often wondered how smoking a few spliffs would feel. So I took her a couple so I guess I could be classed as a drug supplier !

I have the occasional paracetamol.

Strange that no one has tried some heroin or crack..