To ask what are your opinions on social cocaine use?

[sshroom]

I am finding that it is becoming more acceptable to use cocaine socially.

Friends and people that I know take it at weekends, at parties, bars or clubs and sometimes on a night in with friends and a bottle of wine.

These people are teachers, sahms, childcare workers, administrators, financial advisors and social workers so a real mix.

Is it becoming more socially acceptable? Would you have a problem if your friend did it occasionally?

I don't have time for anyone taking cocaine or weed when they have kids. Whether they are present at the time or not, the smell of weed lingers! I don't want it around my son. I don't agree with it at all. It's wrong in my eyes.

But if you want to do it occasionally, then go ahead. Don't involve me though. Don't dare do it around my son. If you want to potentially ruin your life, your mind and body... Whatever.

I just can't stand parents that deal drugs and take them when they have kids. It's disgusting. There have been time's people have smoked in public and I've had to drag my son past the smell! And times when someone come round my sister's house and her friend's just stank of the stuff... they had their kids in tow as well! Apparently their house just stinks of it, what a lovely place to bring up a child!

I would not have hesitated to tell them to get the fuck out if they lit one up whilst my son was there!

I bet it does. Just because you don't know about it, doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Exactly.

Drug takers don't advertise to non-drug takers that they are into it.

I used to work in the film and TV industry and its use was widespread, it was freely available at most of the parties I went to. At others people had to pay.

With only a few execptions it was a "social" drug, people used it on nights out, not everyday. It's not my thing, but I don't think that people who use it are all scum or have drug problems. Because they're not.

donthaveausername do you seriously think that cocaine is no more damaging then alcohol????

Wow.

So this is the rubbish people tell themselves to justify paying stoopid amounts to shove white powder up their noses and act like arrogant fools.

Honestly I know that my friends don't take cocaine and never have. We have talked about past and present drug use. Some do or have taken weed.

One of my mates was a PE teacher and he always used to have a little line before taking the kids to an away game - never caused him any issues and the kids and parents all thought he was a good laugh. Pretty harmless I'd say.

That is so naive McColonel

My Dh and I had a brief period of taking cocaine socially pre kids when we first got together. After the kids it didn't suit our lifestyle and just felt 'wrong' really.
For me though the terrifying thing is what can happen if you mix it with alcohol. It produces another completely different drug in your body which has been linked to a major increase in cardiac events/arrest. This was something we were unaware of to be honest and its not well known amongst users.
I have known a couple of people for whom cocaine use has become a real problem and has had quite a profound detrimental effect on their lives.

If I found out any of my friends were cokeheads they would be cut. I don't like potheads either but it doesn't seem to be as dangerous or destructive as cocaine.

You take cocaine - you are an asshole.

I don't know whether it happens in my circle of friends but if I knew someone took cocaine that would be the end of the friendship.

I genuinely do not think it is acceptable on many levels- it is putting yourself at risk of physical and mental side-effects and addiction. I have seen the problems it can cause and they are not insignificant. You are also putting yourself at the mercy of people who are mostly interested in making money- the purity and safety of that drug is not universal (analysis has shown samples to be cut with dog worming powder, talc or flour for example. Other samples were contaminated). You may not even be taking what you think you are. Why put yourself at risk in this way? Your life must be very boring if you need to try and get off your face to enjoy yourself.

I'd say the same about heavy/binge drinking too- it's just foolish and putting yourself at needless risk. Although, at least you can be reasonably sure that what you buy is manufactured safely and legally (assuming you're not buying it off the back of a lorry or something).

Added to that, possession and use of cocaine is illegal, so could have devastating consequences on employment and future career for some people if caught in possession and charged or cautioned.

Added to that, as others have said buying drugs supports organised crime in this country, drug smuggling and the exploitation and/or abuse of those caught up further back in the supply chain. It is not victimless.

it's a shit drug, depressing to read that it's so accessible and popular still, though it explains why people are so happy with crap entertainment these days.

Think people on here who start with the supply line ethics need to know more about where lots of their gooda. Come from. For example it is relatively impossible to buy an ethical.mobile phone because most of the copper comes fromy mines which use forced labour in the DRC. Mums net is getting very puritanical these days

No it is not acceptable. None of my friends takes any sorts of drugs.

My children (adopted) were heavily exposed to drugs before they were born. It has almost certainly affected the older one in ways we will no doubt only see fully as they get older. The younger one is too young to tell.
I don't imagine their birth mother started out thinking "hey, I'll become a heavy cocaine and other drug user and have my children removed from me". I imagine she started using socially. And when her last ex BF who by all accounts had a job/sense/no drug habit helped her to care for their baby, my children's younger sibling, tried to stop her using again, he wasn't doing it because the "friends" encouraging her were really nice people, but because he knew what would happen (and it did - the baby sibling is now in foster care and the well meaning dad and nice older family members - we've met them - are shaking their heads and saying "We saw it coming").

If anyone with any responsibility for a child - lawyer, social worker, parent, teacher, doctor - thinks it's "a bit of fun", they clearly have zero respect for my children or those in their care. It's not a bit of fun to us or to millions worldwide.

Someone asked up thread how much you would need to take to make you ill.

A friends brother was a regular 'social' user, ie most weekends, usually on a Friday night in the pub with his mates.

The weekend of his massive stroke he had 3 pints, and two lines. Much less than he'd had on previous occasions. He still can't use his left arm (and he is left handed). Walks slowly with a pronounced limp, and the left side of his face has dropped.

He is 26. Bizarrely his mates are still doing it. It's not addictive though, oh no!

My partner and i do love to wind down at the weekend by spooning some heroin onto a bit of foil, rolling up our tooters and sharing it. Why shouldnt we enjoy ourselves? We are hard working urban professionals with stressful jobs.

sshroom Tue 16-Sep-14 14:13:13

"Who knows anybody who has died after taking a few lines of coke socially?"

Some of the side effects of cocaine such as coronary artery spasm (a cause of sudden death) are non dose dependednt. When interpreting post mortem toxicology results any amount of cocaine or cocaine derivatives in the bloodstream may be considered an adequate cause of death.

I'm in my 30's and have never been to Devon - I don't take cocaine, don't think I know anybody who currently does. Lots of friends including my husband experimented when they were young and stupid. I can't really imagine any of my close social circle (which does include a lot of doctors, lawyers and teachers) doing anything so stupid now - especially because we have kids.

For me cocaine is one of the most frightening drugs because the side effects are completely non-dose related - in some ways heroin is a lot safer.

Totally unacceptable, IMO. I'm pro legalising cannabis but cocaine is on par with meth, in my eyes. Not good

I've got no real issue with it. It's pretty common, particularly in the industry I work in, and as long as someone is using it socially (rather than in an addicted sense, which I think is genuinely possible) it's fine.

The people who on here who don't know A SINGLE PERSON who's ever tried cocaine are either oblivious, naive, or lying.

There has never been a substance as harmful to humanity as alchohol.

Cocaine snorting zombie alert!

Cocaine makes people boring and self absorbed. Users talk about themselves constantly whilst believing they are being clever and insightful. They are tedious to be around. It costs a fortune. It changes the effect of alcohol, so some users drink more than they would usually.
Then there's the supply chain and crime association. I have nothing good to say about cocaine use, social or otherwise.

It's a HUGE waste of money.