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AIBU?

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To think that drinking 111 units of alcohol in 30 hours...

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TartWithACart · 14/05/2014 20:30

Or 20 units (maybe less) combined with at least two ecstasy tablets, amphetamine, cocaine, ketamine, mephadrone or a combination of those drugs (consumed over the same period of time) - is not normal and is a pretty fucking strong indicator that you have a serious problem?

Even if "it only happens a couple of times a month" and "all my friends are the same"?

I would really like everyone's views on this on so i can reassure myself I haven't absolutely lost my grip on reality!

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TartWithACart · 14/05/2014 22:02

Thank you MrsKoala, I'm glad you are happier now. Your post could literally be written about him bar the depression although I think he may be suffering a bit and not realising (from experience I know that sometimes it takes someone to point it out to you before you realise). What concerns me most is that he doesn't know when to stop drinking and will not stop drinking for fear that he's missing out on the party.

Just to clarify, when I said he will 'give it all up' I meant bingeing and drugs, not drinking entirely. If he had said he would completely stop drinking I would have never believed him in a million years!

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Methe · 14/05/2014 22:11

I did this for most of my late teens and early twenties as did most of my friends. My younger friends at work have weekends like this frequently.

As love says, most people grow out of it. I don't take drugs now really and haven't for years and I drink a moderate amount of wine.

I've had loads of in depth medical screens over the last few years and have never had an issue picked in with my liver or anything else. I remember once doing so much cocaine and vodka that I passed out for 16hrs. Not proud of it but that's how it was.

That said.. I'd kick dh's arse if he started doing it as an adult.

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TartWithACart · 14/05/2014 22:39

Thank you everyone for such speedy and honest replies. This thread has actually been more reassuring than I expected. I'm glad to hear that some people do just 'grow out of it' without any related longterm health issues and hope this will be the case for him as well. He is exceptionally intelligent and a really lovely person so I think he is aware that this lifestyle isn't sustainable or normal but he doesn't want admit it to anyone.

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Preciousbane · 14/05/2014 22:58

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ComposHat · 15/05/2014 01:34

KeinBock This is based purely on what he told me he drank. Specifically:

One and a half bottles of rose wine
Four pitchers of woowoo in Wetherspoons (IIRC there are four shots in each pitcher)
A litre of Captain Morgan's rum split between 4 people (so in the interest of fairness I assumed he only drank his own quarter of the bottle)

And when he woke up the next morning...

Two further litres of rum

Drinking exploits are like fisherman's tales, get more impressive and further removed from the truth with every telling. I'm going to call outright fib on the two litres of rum the next morning. Taking the morning two litres of rum out of the equation and it doesn't look too awful. As others have said, the woowoo will have been piss week, no more booze than a double gin and tonic. The amount of cranberry juice he'd have drunk must have had him pissing like the Trevi fountain though.

Also. if he thinks he is acting hard or expects people to be impressed by his drinking exploits, he is sadly deluded. His choice of drink screams 'Essex girl on a hen weekend in Malaga' (a woo woo? Rose? ffs!) rather than booze addled hell raiser.

SolidGoldBrass · 15/05/2014 01:52

Meh, basically. He (whoever he is) will either grow out of it or he won't. Quite a few people drink and drug at this sort of level in their 20s and get bored with it after a while. Some have problems that the booze and gear are either masking or exacerbating, and some come badly unstuck and walk under a bus or whatever.

Why is this person telling you about his consumption, though? Is it someone who wants to impress you with his constitution, or someone who expects you to flap and be shocked and scurry round looking after him?

UncleT · 15/05/2014 01:55

2 litres of rum in the morning is more than enough to kill you.

PrincessBabyCat · 15/05/2014 02:08

Hee hee... 2 liters of rum in the morning...

I bet his dick is 10 inches too.

PrincessBabyCat · 15/05/2014 02:15

Seriously though, he might want to stop soon. There's no such thing as an old drug addict (unless they start old).

Raskova · 15/05/2014 05:28

Compos hat, that's hilarious but very true!!! Essex girl

JulietBravoJuliet · 15/05/2014 07:14

I have an acquaintance who has gone on a downward spiral into alcoholism, and can easily down 2 litres of vodka per day, plus often a bottle or two of wine as well. A litre of vodka is about 36 units and a bottle of wine about 8, so she is regularly drinking 72-88 units a day :(

dementedma · 17/05/2014 20:39

Joking aside, this time last year I was preparing g for my alcoholic brother to die. Well educated, well travelled, intelligent....and an addict. Found him in his flat filthy, stinking, starving,like a walking skeleton. Could make it to the local shop and wait for it to open so he could buy his first bottle of wine.
On May 13th last year we signed him over to the Salvation Army Life house because no-one else would help him. GP watched him rocking, weeping, banging his hands on his face, pulling his hair begging for the voices to stop and she said " I can't do anything when he's like this. Bring him back when he's sober'
One year on, he lives in a Sally Army flat,studying for his Masters with the OU, working as a community counsellor and the proud recipient of his silver "one year sober" medal.
It could have been very very different.

specialsubject · 17/05/2014 21:32

this person may be having a good time (although what a boring way to live) but they are not setting up for a long time.

if he won't admit he has a problem, tell him that he knows where to find you if he needs help when he does.

I sincerely hope you are not in a relationship with him because he is swilling and sniffing all your money.

CrayolaCocaColaRocknRolla · 19/05/2014 10:36

YADNBU!! My OHs friends all take E's and maybe one of them takes m-cat.
They all also smoke weed and drink while this is going on.
I don't like OH taking anything (army within the year - he needs to stop). But when he was there about to drink something with E in it, I cried in front of him and all of his friends.
Yes they might be having a good time but
"this is only something we do occasionally" no it's fucking not. I don't even need drink to have a good time, drugs are fucking disgusting. The plan is for him to stop smoking weed while he's getting ready to go away. I couldn't care less he drinks and smokes, so do I. But I hate it when he's high. He's a young kid just like me (well, 19&20) and he's just BEING young. but it's shit when they don't listen.
sorry for the swears, i'm really pissed off about this in my own life

Nancy66 · 19/05/2014 10:53

my addict friend was DEFINITELY going to give up drink and drugs when he married.

He didn't but then he was DEFINITELY going to give it up when the first kid arrived. failed there too.

He was DEFINITELY going to give up by the child's first birthday. Didn't happen.

He was DEFINITELY going to give up by the time the third kid arrived. Nope.

He was DEFINITELY going to give up after his 40th. He did. But only because he died of a massive heart attack aged 39

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