To think people are naive re cocaine

Sorry should of been more clear she doesn’t know why she’s infertile but she’s late thirties so probably indirectly drugs because of the mindset that you should spend your youth drinking and drugging and anyone who doesn’t is a loser.

rounds of ivf on the nhs cost millions that’s fine just ironic after talking about me behind my back being a waste of tax money

yes I probably sound bitter. I’m not though just pointing out that not “everyone “ is a secret drug addict a lot of people have genuinely never even been interested in drugs

I think it's you who are naive to suggest cocaine doesn't link to problematic behaviour.

Much of the alcohol related DV / pub violence is linked to and in many cases exacerbated by cocaine taken with alcohol.

I think it's part of the human condition to ignore things for convenience - it's just a question of what bothers you personally.

People who love animals still eat meat, people who care so much about the environment and hate cyclists, people who care about exploitation of children shop in fast fashion stores and online , doctors and nurses who smoke cigarettes, the list is neverending.

I have met people who have lost their job, family and home.
It's very sad when elderly parents are forced to borrow, sell their home, to save adult DC.
My Dbro has a building company, he often meets investors too, he said cocaine is hard to avoid in the business from the top tables to the site sweepers.
It's the new "do you smoke" 🚬 "do you sniff"

That she knows her fertility has been ruined by drugs

You just sound really fixated on having had a child at 16 and the people who disapproved of that. Who cares?

What part sounds like bollocks? People calling me a loser for having kids young or that people wasted their lives and money on drugs?

It’s not decades later for me I’m only in my mid twenties, person who said that is in their 30s though. she admitted she had an abortion at 16 that she regretted after she found out she was infertile years later. Even though said person was quite rude about me behind my back when we first met for having a baby at 16

A lot of people think it’s a waste of a life to have children young because you miss out on partying when not everyone’s idea of fun is getting drunk and high anyway

Yeah, my brother in law's old friend apparently sold his parents white goods, TV etc whilst they were on holiday to pay for his coke habit (he then claimed the house was broken into) he apparently had an excellent job but he was no longer able to function without it, had run up debts and obviously did whatever it took to pay for his habit. It can definitely be just as addictive as any other drug can be.

Birds of a feather flock together. People that don’t do it tend to keep their distance.

So very sad that there are so many people naively playing Russian roulette with their mental stability.

Once it's gone, it's gone.

I judge you harshly, OP. Do you support slavery? Recreational illegal drugs come to people like you because poor people in other countries are pressured into carrying and smuggling them. Sometimes they die.

It’s so ironic that many right-on people love their coke and manage to ignore how it’s produced in the same way rich people like them turned a blind eye to slavery while they enjoyed their sugar in the past.

I can’t echo that strongly enough. It’s a chain of broken lives from Colombia all the way to the west. I had a patient who was a retired Guyanese police officer, he said British Guyana used to be a nice safe country now it’s a staging post for cocaine from Colombia to the Caribbean and onto USA/ Europe and it’s overrun with gangs. So that people can get off their tits on a Friday night ☹️.

Statistics suggest 5-10% of the population as a whole uses cocaine. I wouldn't call that "common" across the population but it is common in some industries and some groups. You'd expect to see it in nightclubs, maybe not so much at NCT meetings.

I know i am biased and only see the worst of it ( i work in a hospital, often in A&E) but cocaine is a vile drug. It destroys lives and relationships, and in extreme cases people's mental health for a long time.
It might be normal in terms of use, but it is nasty. Also using is condoning the exploitation, pollution and crime that is part of production and distribution.

I think it might to some extent but I'm sure exploitation and shady practices would still be rife. I'd also worry that removing barriers to drug use might mean more people try and use drugs that might not have previously. Also legal drugs would probably be expensive and a black market for drugs would likely still exist along with all the crap that currently goes with drugs.

Ideally life would be such that people wouldn't feel the need for that level of escapism. I saw a documentary in the BBC where people were in danger of losing their bladders due to Ketamine use, one man, who was married with kids had to install a mini portable toilet in his car boot his bladder was so damaged and yet he still used.

? That sounds like bollocks. Do you really still think about this decades later? At least you won and every single one of them lost, anyway.

Sure, medical technology. So pretty important that everyone is as with it as they can be!

But it has been interesting watching people who called me a loser wasting their lives and money shoving shit up their noses one even admitted she got pregnant at 16 too but had an abortion she now regrets because drugs destroyed her fertility

God this thread is depressing

A company policy is up to them.

The poster is suggesting companies should be mandated (presumably by law since there is no other way to get them to comply) to test all their employees. Not the drivers, not the machine operators, all of them. To see if they did drugs at the weekend.

Is your concern legality (an employer has no legal powers, obviously, so that would be very strange) or ability to do the job (which is the employers concern) if the latter why is a weekend Cocaine user be any riskier than a drinker?
Prescription drugs of all kinds have side effects (some like anti psychotics can be very serious) so what difference does legality make if you’re concerned about job performance?

Your point isn't very coherent. Are you on coke right now?

are you always this thick?

Companies have drug policies, with a sanction of dismissal, for a reason, because it impairs ability.

Cocaine can be tested for up to 4 days after usage. It stays in the body, even if affects are reduced.

If the government wants to reduce knife crime in cities I think they need to enforce testing in companies.

OP I’d take this as a sign to review your social circle or activities. If you were someone who didn’t go out weekly or regularly (like most people) you’d see that most people enjoy themselves doing much lower octane stuff than class As. I can recommend cookery and gardening?

Alcohol and prescription drugs, when taken by the person prescribed for, aren't illegal.

Re anti-psychotic, if prescribed, it would be more irresponsible not to take it than to take it.

Your point isn't very coherent. Are you on coke right now?

I was absolutely naive about it until I met a functioning user in a well paid who was my ex boyfriend. In his 50s.
He gaslit me and denied it but I swear he was using it regularly. See my old threads. I absolutely didn't want to believe it but I was thoroughly taken in by him.

Signs were sniffing (allergies you know) mood swings, short of cash, massive alcohol intake and being able to drink without getting drunk.
Narcissistic tendencies, multiple short lived relationships. Ex raver. Admitted to all the other drugs but denied using cocaine weirdly.

Mid twenties, never done cocaine in my entire life, been focusing on my children I had my first at only 16 so never had time for partying. Apparently I’m the loser, but I know loads of people in their late thirties who spent their twenties shovelling shit up their noses and having abortions so kids didn’t inconvenience their lifestyle who’ve admitted they wish theyd had kids.

not to mention the ketamin bladders