Smoking, Drinking And Drugs

[JJ]

Just realized I left something out. I had prescriptions for amphetamines and took them for 20 years. Legally yes, but not good. My body feels old now because it is-speed burns you out. By the end they were very strong. Someone once gave me a Black Beauty when I didn't get my prescription filled in time and it wasn't as strong as my prescription.(do they still have those and whites? Nevermind.Just wondering if anyone even knows what I'm referring to now that meth has swept through)

I'd take them all week and skip Sunday and sleep all day. Sometimes Saturday and Sunday. I got lucky that I didn't develop a lot of problems with them. I took them from 13 (my anorexic mother was worried I might gain weight since I was a size 8 .She and I were the same height 5'5". To her anything over 100 lbs was FAT. She weighed 85lbs when she died. Her system gave out at 73) and took them till I got pregnant at 29. Then took them again for 4 years in my 30s. The last Dr. who put me on them was a cardiologist but he felt if I could take them that long without dire consequences something in my system needed them. I'm ADHD so he was probably right but my source dried up when he was busted for taking them himself.

I will always miss them but would NEVER want anyone to start taking them. I was very, very lucky.

JJ

[Guest Andrea Elise]

I've been wondering how many people are like me. I don't(and have NEVER) drank, smoked, did drugs and I don't party. I have met very few people who haven't that are my age(22).

What about you?

I have abused my body with all of it. I do not drink alchoholic anything anymore.

When I was in the service, the only way I could deal with "what I did" was to stay high.

When I went back to civilian life...I checked out for several years until I decided that I wanted more from life than just to be high. When I was stoned, I could forget.

I smoke tobacco. I like it. I enjoy it. I quit once, but no one around me did. I avoided it for a long time and one day I was stressed out and....

I just don't like the thought that children might think druggies are cool and "Wow, I want to be like that!"

I will quit smoking. I have to.

Zolrek, you will never regret your choice of abstinence. Stick by your decision.

Andrea

[Guest RachaelAnn]

On the thought of alcohol I enjoy a drink once in a while. But I enjoy in moderation. Maybe 1 drink every few months. My father was and brother is alcoholics. So I do what I can to avoid going down that road.

I have strangely enough, never smoked a cigarette. But I have done everything else. And when I say everything I mean everything. After my father died I couldn't cope with the loss and got into a downward spiral of drugs that cost me 2 years of my life that I can never get back. I did anything that people would give me as long as they said it would mess me up. There are things that I did that to this day I have no idea what they were. What got me clean was watching my best friend drop dead right in front of me. That scared me bad enough that I quit right there. Getting clean is the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. And believe me when I say this: doing time is easier than getting clean.

Rachael

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

I couldn't really say that I quit doing drugs because I've only tried it twice and I don't intend on doing them again. I haven't done them in *thinks* gosh, 6-7 years? I tried it once to see what the fuss was about and then once more after that just to make sure and then I was done with it.

I rarely drink. Last time I had a drink was Memorial Day cookout and before that...I have no idea.