Many, many people took recreational drugs in the 90s. Where are they now?

[perhapsiwill]

I'm not a drug addict and none of my friends were at the time, we just took Es at the weekend, sometimes other drugs. We all went to work or college, seemed like everyone else did this too. We had a great time, weekends were for dancing and hugging, I didn't get on with drunk people and one night stands and it suited me much better.
I moved away from where I grew up, nice area to another nice area.
When I mention partying in my youth to other mums where I live now, they look at me as if I'm an addict who needs help .
Are they all pretending? There were thousands of us doing this so where are they now? And why do people who never took drugs appear to feel so morally superior? One of the women where I live openly talks about cheating the system financially yet looks at me like I'm scum because I went out and had fun 20 years ago. (And probably once a year now!) I feel that because I mentioned this one evening in a pub I have alienated myself from the local mums.

births were the only time I've had hard drugs, felt relaxed and high throughout my (unplanned) C section with DC1, liked that a lot. when VBAC didn't work out with DC2 the silver lining I hoped for of the same experience during second C section didn't happen, just felt very sick and cold and shakey, then they put me out and spent the next morning vomiting, including on DC2! Bah.

ive done a lot of drugs in my time but the worst experience i actually ever had was whilst giving birth!! If i did it again i think id only have the epidural and none of the other bollocks. It sent me loops!
Its not a fun environment pushing a living being out of your vagina. I do think if at all possible you ought to remain sober as being on drugs just made it all psychologically horrific for me!! Even if they are legal. Combined with the lack of sleep it was the stuff of nightmares.
I was reading about what they used to do back in the 50s with that 'twilight sleep' ... sounds horrific. Women would apparently be absolutely off their box whilst giving birth but not remember anything about it afterwards.

sorry i meant the 1900s. Heres an interesting article about it.
www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/twilight-sleep/

perhapsiwill

Everyone would get along a whole lot better if they all took an E

I was going to say that

I'm pretty sure thats why they'll never legalise them Benadryl

You cant divide and conquer the populace of an everlasting summer of love....

pineapple I think it's advised not to take pethidine during labour if you have a chequered past r.e recreational drug use. I have, so just stuck to gas and air and a completely useless Tens machine.

oh and the midwife offered me a hot water bottle when I was in agony

"worst experience i actually ever had was whilst giving birth!!"

Funny you should say that. The worst experience I've ever had was with the IV morphine drip they gave me "to sleep well" the evening of my elCS. Very quickly, I felt incredibly heavy and couldn't open my eyes or move. A garbage truck soon came outside and made some noise, which I then heard in loops for what felt like hours. When I got up in the morning, I was convinced that I didn't sleep at all. It wasn't fun.

I can imagine that it could be quite terrifying if I were giving birth at that time. Pethidine is quite similar to morphine, isn't it?

That link about "twilight sleep"

"there are all sorts of reasons why one pill might be contaminated."

Name a few?

"Try watching the batch bake on gbbo"

The what on where? Sorry, no idea what you said just there

Cote I had auditory hallucinations after morphine after an elcs too, it was very scary.

Great british bake off. The batch bake. Some cakes turn out, some don't, but they aren't all the same!

Inadequate mixing. Differing temperatures at different parts of the mix. Storage issues e.g. The top tablet gets moisture on it, exposed to heat more than the others. Peoples fingers. One drops on the floor. Reuse of containers. Inadequate cleaning.

" I had auditory hallucinations after morphine after an elcs too, it was very scary."

Is that what an auditory hallucination is, then? It really wasn't pleasant and felt like it lasted all night.

There really was a noisy garbage truck for a bit, apparently, but my mum who was in the same room as me said the next morning when I asked that it wasn't even for a minute

"Inadequate mixing. Differing temperatures at different parts of the mix. Storage issues e.g. The top tablet gets moisture on it, exposed to heat more than the others. Peoples fingers. One drops on the floor. Reuse of containers. Inadequate cleaning."

All that might explain why one cake rises well and another doesn't but it won't make one bite of a single cake kill. That is the sort of contamination we are talking about here, not it getting a bit dirty from people's fingers or falling on the floor.

Yep, it's like s visual hallucination but sound instead. I heard bells ringing all night, birds cheeping ( in the middle of the night in the middle of the hospital with no outside walls!) and it was as I was drifting off to sleep so it would wake me, I felt like I didn't sleep for days.
I also had a tiny gap in the curtains, like an inch wide, and could see all sorts going on through that gap, which I later realised weren't real either. It was a twisted up night.

Probably was the morphine though, combined with exhaustion, but it was a harsh flashback to my druggy days at a time when I really didn't need that!

Even in the food industry there are incidents in which one single item becomes dangerous. For example a can with a tiny hole could lead to food poisoning. No other can may be affected in that batch.
There may be several particularly poor examples in that batch. However perhaps the others are taken by larger people, or less susceptible ones. Just like food poisoning really. Not everyone with E. coli dies.

I have had too much experience - no interest now,

All the substances I took ( and there were many) were completely pure and uncontaminated.

it won't make one bite of a single cake kill

With illegal drugs, unless you are a suitably qualified scientist wih a lab at your disposal, I'm afraid you have no idea what you are taking.

Ahhhhh gutted I missed the start of this thread!

I'm here too! I loved those days but would be far too terrified to do anything like that now. I have about two friends now who 'went out in the 90's' and we do have secret discussions about old tunes and I did have a rave for my milestone birthday recently which was just amazing!

Oh no I didn't RTFT, it's all gone Pete Tong. Shame, I liked the idea of a reminisce.

Head - Tiny holes in cans lead to degrading of organic material inside and/or infection that festers between its production and consumption. These don't apply to pills that are never meant to be kept in airtight containers and will never get infected.

"There may be several particularly poor examples in that batch. However perhaps the others are taken by larger people, or less susceptible ones"

"Poor example" from the same batch as thousands of others would possibly not be as effective, but it couldn't be made of a completely different (deadly) substance that would kill in such small quantities - cyanide, Polonium, snake venom? Something that is so toxic that it kills a slim woman will not go unnoticed if ingested by a large man.

I'm afraid the cake bake-off analogy isn't going to take us very far tonight

I cannot think of how 1 single pill can be poisoned unintentionally, when it is produced in the same place, at the same time, and from the same mix of chemicals as thousands of others. Sure,

With illegal drugs, unless you are a suitably qualified scientist wih a lab at your disposal, I'm afraid you have no idea what you are taking.

Agreed,

ROAR @ "it's all gone Pete Tong"

Incidentally, I met Pete Tong when he came down here a few years back. He was a bit more 'commercial', I thought, playing for a much lighter crowd on wine & champagne but was still good

Sat on my hands for most of this thread..... which is strange as they were mostly in the air from 1991onwards

First rave and pill '91
Last one 2012.....

I miss it very much. I went from raves to 'proper' clubs in the mid to late 90s
I've taken a multitude of pharmaceuticals over the years. I'm not bragging and neither am I an addict.
Im a parent now but I still enjoy a night out with good tunes and like minded people.
Anyone in the London or southeast should look up clockwork orange/peachy ravers or some of the junior boys own nights. They are amazing!
I'll leave one of my best tunes from the early 90s here....

Love that Tune Frankie I can get a rush from that, no pill required! A virtual E

Many of these people are choosing not to mention their partying past for fear of being judged. Your mummy friends probably know lots of them, even if they themselves never dabbled, but are keeping hush. Thus the 'alcohol only' drug users imagine that everyone is like them. Add the fact that the only drugs stories they hear are negative ones, and we have a recipe for ignorance and judgementalism! If we were all as open and honest as you were perhapsiwill (love the apparent relevance of your username), everyone would have a more balanced and informed view of recreational drugs.