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Are you a successful drug user?

I don't really do drugs anymore, but who knows where my life would be if i were sober. All i know is drugs made things much worse.
 
AmiMia said:
My husband and I both use daily and are what I consider extremely successful. We are profitable business owners. We have happy well adjusted children. We own out home, have several cars.. We can afford to vacation every year.
And most importantly we are functional members of society.. We have HEALTY relationships in our lives. We are amazing parents. We don't expose our children to our recreational choices. Over indulgence leads to problems.. It effects your health and your finances..
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seriously it depends on what you're using

LogicAndReason said:
I mean I really don't think that any of that was crap...it's only logical to question someone (especially when they post a highly unlikely story) on an anonymous forum.
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Like that they became a millionaire at age 25?

Whosajiggawaaa said:
What drugs do you use ?!
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seconded, as stated above
 
I was a regular/heavy drug user for quite a few years, doing ALOT more than I should have and definately pushed my body to its very limits...First drug I tried was acid at 13... Then speed/pills/meth/ice/crack/2ci/2cb... pretty much anything I could get my hands on.... But having said that, in the 11 years I have been taking drugs, I have never been unemployed. I have been overseas a few times. I am engaged. Live in my own house and am debt free. So yeah, I'd say that I'm a pretty successful drug user :D
 
I may be below the status quo with regard to material possesions, however, i believe this is incredibly subjective as many of us know that with the right heart, an impoverished person may find true happiness and a wealthy person may be living in hell. Nonetheless, for the sake of loved ones who suffer proxy-consequences for my past behaviour, I'm not where I wish I could be.

How successful? I feel I have made great personal strides while using that lead me to believe that my "self"- the sum of my behaviour, thoughts and beliefs has grown tremendously. Whatever emotional or neurological challenges I'm faced with, using puts me in a place where I feel "normal"; "normal" as compared to however "mainstream/average" individuals are defined. I've also observed that some of my friends, acquaintances, colleagues (i.e., doctors, therapists, accountants, corner-store clerks) have some of the same issues I do or issues in general. Within three years, I've lived in three countries that differ like night and day and I observed that people- their desires, dislikes and general behaviour is the same everywhere; only the culture is different.

But successful? My actions may be considered "self-medicating" with copious amounts of opiates and kush, but I feel I have found peace and a peace that allows me to grow and a feeling of "wholeness" which enables me to reach out and help others. So with regard to success, I may not have a penthouse suite, but I feel complete, stable and able to love others. Love. Most of us think we understand love, but in addition to it's pleasures, love will require sacrifice, pain and reluctant honestly (e.g., when I've fucked up). So by my definition of love and wholeness, if I put others first and it doesn't interfere with my responsibilities, I believe that would qualify as "success".
 
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Success to me would be happiness, so for the time being- hells no.
 
Not even close. I have been a CPP for many years & through several surgeries, injections, tests, different meds, etc. I am still miserably in pain. My poor husband has spent so much money on my medical bills, it sucks. I can't work, so I have to rely on him for my financial woes which makes me feel even worse. I can't even help out financially because I have been denied disability.

I don't have a choice. I tried it last year without drugs & I just wanted to die. Even worse than I do now. I would say that's a great big FAIL.
 
Can I function? Yes. In fact, I had periods where I would do quite well while using. Eventually it would catch up with me.

Can I reach my full potential and be happy with myself while using? Hell No.

Can I maintain good and healthy relationships with friends while using ? Kinda, but large majority are hollow.

Can I maintain good relationships with loved ones while using? Not at all, mainly because they know when I am lying to them and myself, often before I do.

All in all, its not worth it for me. Does that mean that I will not fuck up again? I hope not, but I am not dumb enough to say I never will.
 
i mean i hustle and make 150 to 200 profit a day helping people find there fancy. i get blasted everyday while doing so. ill say i fall in that category.
 
Yea I'm a daily user as well--I've experimented with every drug available in the Midwest besides Crack (which I'm fine with)
My boyfriend knows about my habits and accepts it as of now. I'm honest with him and I feel as if that's what causes him to feel content. As long as I keep working towards my goals and don't get too distracted I'll keep in that direction.
 
am I a successful drug user? More successful than some, not as successful as I could be. Since I started doing drugs, I would say my success has gone down. This downward spiral culminated in me going to jail for a felony posession charge and then living for a couple months unemployed, not in school, spending what little income I had on drugs rather than food. Things have gotten better since then, and while at first I thought it was because I stopped smoking marijuana due to drug testing, I was still abusing drugs on a daily basis (mostly alcohol and MXE), so I think my more recent success can be attributed to situation factors as well as environmental factors (since I moved states after my arrest, I've gotten 2 jobs, gotten back into school, have a pretty good social life and a girlfriend and live a pretty functional life). For some reason there's a voice in the back of my head telling me that without drugs, I could be so much more successful. But would I be happier? I'm not quite sure. I do think that although stable, my life get's pretty stagnant when I get into this whole drug using routine and maybe if I was sober more than 0 days out of the week I would be more "successful". Whatever that means, anyways. :\:p
 
In many ways drug use, at times heavy, has helped me stay anchored to an outsider identity that has served me well as a writer. but i've also fucked up a lot and missed a lot of opportunities, so like the Lord, it gives, it takes away. I regret not using more mind-expanding drugs though. The more I got into my work, the more I took what I call 'pinstripe drugs' like coke, mdma and alcohol
 
Just about every drug I've ever tried, I was successful. The one exception would be the very few attempts I've ever made at smoking cocaine freebase. The first time pretty much put me off the idea completely, simply because the learning curve for smoking with a stem resulted in me not getting high, which seemed wasteful and stupid. So after that, if I ever had to get crack instead of powder for some reason, I would IV it as cocaine acetate, dissolving it into a small amount of vinegar. Which was a tremendous success! I had become experienced with IV heroin before already though, which I did successfully the first time as well, without needing anyone prep it or take the syringe and hit a vein for me. Hit myself on the first try, too.
 
Work and study have always been messy while using, skip lectures and tutorials, assignments always overdue, if even completed. Timetables and schedules don't work so often issues at work because of this.

Financially I have higher highs and lower lows than friends that don't use, my friends I would guess add about 10k to their worth each year, whereas my worth is changing, daily, weekly, monthly. One thing that is hard coded deep inside me is to always have a nice apartment with nice things otherwise I would definitely have been on the streets years ago.

Family, friends and relationships are pretty much a disaster when using.

However, including all the lows I think im better off than my friends that don't use, I'm free to laze on beaches in Asia a few months a year, I can go out for a meal at 1 in the morning anytime I like, things like this I can do compared to friends who can't because they gotta be up early to get the kids off and get to their aweful jobs.

So generally I might be better off than many non users but the fact I don't have a wife and kids to vacuum up my money helps alot!
 
I would call myself a successful drug user since I'm getting pretty good grades, progressing well with piano studies (just finished the first two movements of prokofiev sonata 4), and I go through multiple week periods of not using anything other than weed, tobacco and alcohol. I'm usually in a weird state of mind about this, since I have cravings for harder drugs all the time (MXE, Mcats and heroin are comprising the bulk of my wish list as of late), but I don't associate with that many other drug users; all of the friends that I do harder drugs with mostly only do them with/get them from me. Without going into too much detail, my method of acquiring drugs like these requires a significant waiting period. This means that I only get to use drugs like those sporadically. I'm not how sure this is effecting me mentally, since I usually wind up binging fairly hardcore once I get my hands on them, and I'm still constantly craving them when I don't have them, but not enough to seek them out in a more immediate fashion...
 
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