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Have you ever taken drugs?

271 replies

Timinfuckingruislip · 30/11/2019 22:15

Inspired by another, more serious thread. Am curious.. how many Mumsneters have, at some point in their lives taken anything stronger than smoking a bit of weed?

Yanbu for yes
YABU for no

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Emeraldshamrock · 01/12/2019 11:34

@Ginfordinner I agree a certain age.
My older Dbro late 40's never done drugs.
Older sister mid forties started going to raves in the 1990's.
I knew all about their rush feelings etc from about 14. Took my first at 17.
It had left raves hitting pubs and clubs.
Unfortunately many people smoked heroin to come down off E ending up heroin addicts.
I never tried H I was terrified of getting hooked like many growing up.

userxx · 01/12/2019 11:38

Fuckloads yanbu

AllStarBySmashMouth · 01/12/2019 11:46

YABU

SpamChaudFroid · 01/12/2019 11:56

In the late 80s and early 90s I did a fair amount at weekends as part of the whole rave scene. It was about the dancing/music as much as the drugs though. I took acid and ecstasy but really disliked cocaine and speed. When cocaine began replacing ecstasy at the raves I bowed out as everyone became really arrogant.

Does anyone who was involved in the scene remember The Crazy Club/Sin at The Astoria in Tottenham Court Road or Sterns in Worthing?

During that time I regularly smoked cannabis, then lost interest in it. I recently began smoking it again to help with meno symptoms. I don't touch alcohol as it makes me feel rough.

Funnily enough it was alcohol that caused my worst problems - when my husband died unexpectedly I practically crawled into a bottle for several years and became alcohol dependent, went bright yellow and needed a hospitalised detox. At one point it was thought I would need a partial liver transplant.

Carpathian2 · 01/12/2019 12:15

The fear mongering around drugs irritates me greatly.

Me too. I'm 56 and I can honestly say I've had some of the best times in my life whilst taking party drugs. I've never been tempted by heroin, Valium or ketamine and neither have my friends. We just outgrew partying and party drugs, but I don't regret it. I've had some of the worst times with alcohol strangely.

I now have one joint at night, and I'm completely tee total. I just don't like alcohol!

CardsforKittens · 01/12/2019 12:16

I’m gen x and lots of my friends took E at weekends. I took one once and it had no effect. Everyone else was dancing away and I just wanted to go home and go to bed. I must be wired wrong. Haven’t bothered trying anything else, although I like a glass or six of wine.

CareOfPunts · 01/12/2019 12:31

The fear mongering around drugs irritates me greatly.

Why is it fearmongering? You don’t know what you’re getting when you buy off a dealer. It could be something really harmful.

And as for cocaine, if you indulge in that, with the misery, death and destruction caused in the supply chain, you’re simply not a decent person.

CareOfPunts · 01/12/2019 12:32

The last comment not to you @pinkpink just a generic one

lynsey91 · 01/12/2019 12:36

No, never any drugs never even a puff of a cigarette

Frogsandsheep · 01/12/2019 12:41

Yes in the late 90s. Just for fun, never addicted and only on and off for a couple of partying years! Don’t regret it at all but would have no desire to do them again.

SerenDippitty · 01/12/2019 12:46

Never, never appealed to me.

lazylinguist · 01/12/2019 12:47

I'm gen x and never took drugs except weed once (didn't do anything for me). I drink alcohol but very moderately these days, and have never smoked a cigarette (my parents smoked when I was a child and I hated it).

None of my friends were into drugs at all and I wasn't ever remotely tempted. Most of the people who were into drugs when I was at university were boring, annoying arseholes.

If you've not taken party drugs you've never fucking lived. - what a ridiculous remark. I don't need my mind altered in order to 'fucking live', thanks.

AllTheWhoresOfMalta · 01/12/2019 12:50

Yes, a bit. Various ones but never heroin. I liked weed and Ecstasy, but I did not get coke. Just felt exactly like myself but really, really awake. For like, three days.

easyandy101 · 01/12/2019 12:57

Why is it fearmongering?

Whatever you want to call drug education trying to scare people off drugs is very ineffective and imo does alot of damage

Once you take acid and don't peel yourself like an orange you will have a think and be like "wonder what else they were lying about?"🤔

Galvantula · 01/12/2019 12:59

YABU

PositiveVibez · 01/12/2019 13:01

Yes. 90s raver here.

Ecstasy, speed, coke, not really a weed smoker. It always made me feel ill.

Had a fucking good time too for a couple of years but had well and grown out of it by about 21/22 (aside for the odd line of coke now and again)

Haven't touched anything since I was about 24.

I wouldn't go anywhere near drugs nowadays. I'm a rather sensible mumsy type.

ZaZathecat · 01/12/2019 13:03

Wow, I'm amazed that I'm in the minority as a YABUer! I wouldn't have been surprised if weed was included in the definition of 'taking drugs', but really surprised that 60% have tried other drugs. I guess it's cause I'm an oldie.

lazylinguist · 01/12/2019 13:06

Drug use doesn't even have to kill you or hospitalise you in order to harm your life though. As a teacher I've seen so many kids (mostly teenage boys) turn into angry, aggressive, paranoid, directionless nightmares when they started taking drugs. Even if they grow out of it, it's often messed up their academic chances and caused problems at home by then.

Stooshie8 · 01/12/2019 13:08

Apparently drug taking is soaring as you can by cannabis , and probably other stuff online! Have a google.

easyandy101 · 01/12/2019 13:10

Yeah but for most people the worst thing that's gonna happen to them is getting nicked

vampirethriller · 01/12/2019 13:17

I was a heroin and crack addict for 6 years, clean since 2014. Before that I took a lot of cocaine and speed/ecstasy while working in nightclubs.
I did end up homeless, but not just because of drugs, it was also to do with mental health and a very violent ex.

Emeraldshamrock · 01/12/2019 13:23

Yeah but for most people the worst thing that's gonna happen to them is getting nicked if only.
I saw some horrible situations during my drug years, it wasn't all E hugs love. Some of those house parties ended in blood. There was excessive drinking, violence, new dealers on the scene, lots of my generation ended up heroin addicts smoking to come down off E. The knock on affects helped them steal from their families, kids recruited to mule I've saw young mens lives ending with a bullet in their head, actually most gun deaths in Ireland in the past decade are down to dealers fighting, Some recovered and became professional helping others beat drugs.
Unfortunately the drug industry is worth billions with blood all over it.
I was ignorant young and foolish when I took drugs, they destroy lives.

Emeraldshamrock · 01/12/2019 13:24

@vampirethriller Congratulations Smile

PlinkPlink · 01/12/2019 13:24

Precisely.

Scaring people to not take drugs does not work.

It is far better to educate, realistically, so people are armed with the right information. The Loop does some fantastic work and has saved many, many lives all while providing free drug testing services at festivals.

They reduce the damage, they reduce the amount of deaths. That is the proper way forward with drugs.

I remember seeing an interview a couple of years back on the local news discussing The Loop. The festival goers who were interviewed said that if the drug testing service wasn't there, they'd probably still take the drug albeit a lesser amount. So, people will still take drugs regardless of what scary stories come out or whether they know what's in it or not. Far better to arm them with knowledge and testing.

easyandy101 · 01/12/2019 13:29

That doesn't happen to the majority of people though

I'm not even basing that off my own experience of drugs though, which has been more negative than average

Fact is this: most people take drugs for a while and stop and that's it. most people do not become heroin addicts after doing pills

I've been involved in the illegal rave scene since the 90s. Both as a punter and an organiser. I've seen some terrible outcomes so i know how bad it can be. I've been to too many funerals for someone my age, but it'd be disingenuous to suggest that's how it ends up for the majority of people