Coke on nights out

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I don't know if my life has been a bit sheltered but is it quite common for people to have coke on nights out/house parties?

They're all in their 40's, successful, have dc etc.

I'm quite shocked tbh, I thought it wouldn't be a thing anymore and it's tainted what was a good night up to the point I realised what most were disappearing off to do. I don't want to be around it.

My thoughts are possibly clouded due to a family member who had a drugs problem. Maybe it's not the massive deal, that I'm thinking it is.

I'm from outer London and everyone does it. It's everywhere. I wouldn't say it's a massive deal, some people are obnoxious/obvious (and annoying) some people you wouldn't even know 🤷🏻‍♀️

(I don't just for the record!)

It is quite obvious though by their behaviour.

Not in our circles never taken it or wanted to

How expensive is it?

Yeah. Some of my mates recently got back into it (never been my thing. Wine and a cheeky fag only) it’s really fucking irritating and selfish. Just avoid going out with them as a group now.

Friends, good friends, sure. But there are plenty of peripheral people, acquaintances if you like, who you just wouldn’t know do coke occasionally.

If someone knows you’re against it, they’ll just do it with other friends and not you.

And there’s the myth. It is NOT always obvious. At all.

I had a funny experience with a friend. I was really trying to be a worthy wingman and do all loo trips together as we were out out in a club. Strangely she was weird about it but I persevered. When she came out of the cubicle she was puce and very paranoid. I was really calm and said come on you are not well let's go home. I had no clue at this point. I thought she was about to have a stroke. I'm laughing as I type this! God I'm so stupid! A few girls came in and she started arguing with them about them saying something nice to her. At this point she could have argued with her own reflection. Slowly the penny dropped. It was a long evening as she was paranoid and overly emotional and not much fun. I thought the drug was supposed make you have a good time?

I disagree. It is something I have talked about with my friends. I don’t know anyone who does coke or who has admitted to doing it. Mind you, our social life revolves around having dinner with friends or going to the local pub. We don’t go to parties, clubs or other crowded and lively places.

I can guarantee you it'll be going on in your local boozer. I live in a fairly nice area on the outskirts of Merseyside and its everywhere.

It's one of those things where the people who do it think it's normal because they hang around with other people who do it, so it becomes their normality. But at the end of the day the majority of people don't use it. It can seem like they do if you know the people who do, but they're still a minority of people.

Maybe, but not among my friends. We don't do "nights out" as such. If we go to the pub it is early doors and we are home for 7.30. I meet up with the book group every other month there, and they are mostly retired and pretty sedate.

I am really boring and our friends lead similar lifestyles to us.

As an ex heavy user, I'd shy away from anyone using it now.. so I just mainly don't go out anymore.

I can't stand it.

I worked with kids dragged into county lines gangs, delivering to these middle class wankers for their weekend fun.

Believe me, it's no fun for the kids.

I'm not saying you or friends will be but there will be other people in the pub doing it. You don't just find it at clubs or parties.

I've heard of several Doctors that take coke as a middle-class dinner party drug. I also dumped a cardiologist I briefly dated when he told me many surgeons needed coke before surgeries!

Agree it totally depends on the circles you move in. I've got 3 friendship circles (sort of) - i'm pretty certain people in 2 of those would never dream of doing coke because it just isn't on their radar (I've never seen any sign or mention, and I'm pretty clued up) - but I know people in the 3rd group do it regularly - they tend to be wealthier, have high pressure jobs, into competitive sports (maybe surprisingly), big into festivals and gigs and generally partying more (unsurprisingly)

It’s rife, and not just a nightclub drug. It’s a house party, local pub, music gig, pretty much any occasion drug. A couple of decades ago, it was the drug of the rich. Not any more. Go in pretty much any local pub on a sat night and there will be people on it, and in a lot of those you wouldn’t really be able to tell. Middle age blokes who go to the pub with their mates to watch footy on a sat or sun afternoon, are bang at it. Stood there in their stone island tops and adidas originals, signalling to each other it’s time for a cheeky line. Pathetic.

Well done for that. Appreciate its not easy

Most of the youngsters banged up in my workplace have been caught and sentenced for doing exactly that.....young lads,lives in ruins

Nobody thinks of that though....even less actually care!

I used to do it fairly frequently around 5 years ago, but much much rarely now - definitely less than once a year.

It is common in my industry however (solicitor), there's been one occasion that I know of where our corporate team have been doing it in work to help get through an all nighter to complete a deal. Most people who I know take it are successful in their careers and have family

It’s actually quite weird for me. I’ve never done it but saw a dip in others for the last 5 years. Thought the old boys were aging out. Now I’m seeing younger staff members on unofficial nights out being the ones who are out, waiting for a dealer, proper fresh out of uni. From family members etc who are younger they are generally thinking the uni years are far less ‘druggy’. So why these young lads are doing it (my industry not notorious or even remotely known for it) is odd.

Also North London and I don’t know a single person who takes coke or has done since their 20s if at all.

@pursuedbyablackdog I mean, if that's your reasoning then take a look around your house, so many of your products are made from slave Labour, do you have any nestle products in your house? Nestle alone were responsible for some of the vilest maltreatment of workers yet people are buying consuming nestle products every day. Seems to be a bit of a hypocritical statement really. Why can't you use say no without getting on a misguided high horse?

It is a extremely addictive drug and very expensive if you do it on a regular basis and can turn a normal well adjusted person into a frightening paranoid lunatic who can be sectioned under the mental health act when they start seeing snakes in their wardrobe.
I have been there and seen it and don’t recommend it .

@fifteenohfour do Nestle go round decapitating people, torturing & murdering people willy nilly, human traffic etc
The muppets who take coke do have blood on their hands @pursuedbyablackdog is right

And it always seems that the most sanctimonious woke, organic food, ethical trade buying people are the two faced twats who take coke.
Cognitive dissonance.

Personally if drugs were legalised & there were licensed ethical producers the cartels would be gone (hopefully)

Yes most people that age (which is also my age) so coke on a night out. I don’t, and I really wish they wouldn’t as IMO there’s NOTHING worse than a cocaine bore.