What's the worst thing you've done to get drug money?

[gingerjunkie]

No, I actually did it daily. For months. The dope in ABQ (where I lived) is super stepped on. Like to the point where you can't smoke it, if that's your ROA. Most times, I would just gut the gram in half, but there were times when I was really sick and wanted not only to get well, but also get high. I was a junkie to the max.

 

[Capricious]

Stole money & valuables from family friends, wrote bad checks, panhandle, apply for & sell food stamps, sell my plasma (Blood), sign up for paid research studies, you name...I am not proud of any of this at all! I would have been disgusted before my addiction but in the midst of my addiction nothing was to degrading or immoral!

 

[thizFreckles]

when i was hooked on oxycontin & heroin i came up with some pretty clever ways of getting money... and scummy ways too.

-overdrafted my bank account ~$500 in bad checks from my other bank account
-stole about ~$400 from my grandma's credit card thru a money wiring company
-stole $500 (total) from my parents by forging checks
-i won't go into detail but i've scammed multiple payday loan centers - which is much easier than you think
-i've stolen over $3,000 from previous jobs (thank god i am no longer a junkie & have a full time job now)
-hustled other junkies by selling them overpriced pills
-i also won't go into detail with this but let's just say i got into a pain management doc using a 'less than perfect' MRI

also, when i finally decided to quit the game - i stole $520 cash from my dealer. he would front money & i would bring him back the bulk. this was a weekly thing so he trusted me. yeah, well i never returned and never planned on it - i used the money to start suboxone treatment. lol how's that for irony

i am by no means proud of what i've done and still to this day i'm repaying all my debts. fucking drugs man. make us do some ugly shit, shit i wouldn't even think about doing if i wasn't an addict

 

[thizFreckles]

I worked at a Christian Bookstore. When people would pay cash, I'd give them their change, and if they didn't ask for a receipt, I'd back out the sale and pocket the money for OC. The manager caught on and told me if I confessed, they wouldn't press charges. They thought I'd only been doing it for a week when I'd been doing it for a year, so I confessed and got the hell out. I was taking approx. $200 a day, working 3-4 days a week for a year. I did the math later. It was at least $30,000 total. Looking back now, I was a piece of shit.

this is EXACTLY what i was doing at my job working in a sandwhich store... damn.

 

[opi8]

i am by no means proud of what i've done and still to this day i'm repaying all my debts. fucking drugs man. make us do some ugly shit, shit i wouldn't even think about doing if i wasn't an addict

It's not the drugs, it's the drug war and their illegal and expensive nature that makes people to desparate things for money.

 

[BritishLad]

I worked at a Christian Bookstore. When people would pay cash, I'd give them their change, and if they didn't ask for a receipt, I'd back out the sale and pocket the money for OC. The manager caught on and told me if I confessed, they wouldn't press charges. They thought I'd only been doing it for a week when I'd been doing it for a year, so I confessed and got the hell out. I was taking approx. $200 a day, working 3-4 days a week for a year. I did the math later. It was at least $30,000 total. Looking back now, I was a piece of shit.

Not that I think anyone who is a Christian deserves harm, I wouldn't feel to bad. The bus driver where I use to live would let me on as a child and pocket the change, he didn't hide it was just one of them things.
$200 a day though, pretty good money.

 

[steve022]

I never really did anything to steal for drugs. Maybe lied about what I spent money on, but never really did anything nuts to get drug money. Some of you people sound like your on your way to being people who whore themselves out to random people and/or mug people on the street for drugs. Some of you guys seem like your in pretty deep, I hate to be the one to break it to ya but if your stealing and doing dumb shit for drug money maybe you should seriously consider quitting or cutting back.

 

[MsPilly]

I never really did anything to steal for drugs. Maybe lied about what I spent money on, but never really did anything nuts to get drug money. Some of you people sound like your on your way to being people who whore themselves out to random people and/or mug people on the street for drugs. Some of you guys seem like your in pretty deep, I hate to be the one to break it to ya but if your stealing and doing dumb shit for drug money maybe you should seriously consider quitting or cutting back.

Nobody posted on this to be judged. We're sharing our experiences. Thanks. It's called an addiction. If you don't understand the behavior then I don't know why you would choose to even click on this thread.

 

[JunkieDays]

Received stolen property, sold it in my name.
Went to jail.
Never again.

 

[weekend addiction]

Well one time I copped a bag with my friends 15 bucks and reasoned that I would pay him back the next day. It was fucked up but I was out of my head at the time.

 

[SirTophamHat]

lie... i haven't stolen from my parents or friends, thank goodness. anything i've sold to get drug money was mine to begin with & didn't want it anymore

 

[95Land]

I never really did anything to steal for drugs. Maybe lied about what I spent money on, but never really did anything nuts to get drug money. Some of you people sound like your on your way to being people who whore themselves out to random people and/or mug people on the street for drugs. Some of you guys seem like your in pretty deep, I hate to be the one to break it to ya but if your stealing and doing dumb shit for drug money maybe you should seriously consider quitting or cutting back.

Being a drug ADDICT and being responsible with money don't really go hand in hand. I've done things that looking back on make me cringe.
What's preferable? Taking the change in the "Overseas Adopted Kids Program" bin and running it through a CoinStar? Or lying in bed racked with cramps, feverish and vomiting from dopesickness? Personally, I felt the impoverished kids could wait a bit longer.
I've done much worse but I can tell you that I am sure I've never been a gigolo. I know my "your" and "you're" too.

 

[thizFreckles]

It's not the drugs, it's the drug war and their illegal and expensive nature that makes people to desparate things for money.

true, but we wouldn't even be in a war on drugs or paying outrageous prices if it weren't for the actual DRUGS in the first place... & plus, drugs lower our inhibitions and make us do things that a person with a healthy mind (not an addicted mind) would not do.

 

[ohshea]

I never really did anything to steal for drugs. Maybe lied about what I spent money on, but never really did anything nuts to get drug money. Some of you people sound like your on your way to being people who whore themselves out to random people and/or mug people on the street for drugs. Some of you guys seem like your in pretty deep, I hate to be the one to break it to ya but if your stealing and doing dumb shit for drug money maybe you should seriously consider quitting or cutting back.

The title of the thread is "whats the worst thing youve done for drug money." dont act all holier than thou by telling any of us we have problems, were well aware of it. GTFO!!

 

[Sprout]

Cut a little bit into next week's money. I'm a little uptight about my finances so I plan ahead.

 

[Professer]

I previously posted that the worst thing I've done is lie to parents for drug money... but not sure if this counts since it didn't involve money directly.

I've thrown a fake anxiety attack and made an entire mess of the house just to get some xanax one time. It got to the point where my father broke down in tears under the false pretense that I'm truly suffering so much (I also live with back problems/chronic RLS which I wove into the whole thing). That made me feel much more worse than the xanax I got out of it. I just knew we had some on backup for real anxiety attacks and wanted something for the sleepless night ahead of me(insomnia). Oh well, we all have our low points.

The title of the thread is "whats the worst thing youve done for drug money." dont act all holier than thou by telling any of us we have problems, were well aware of it. GTFO!!

And it's not like we're doing this stuff present day or anything. Some might be. Mine, and I'm sure most the posts in here, are from some real low-points in our lives and are behind us by now. The time is not relevant here. That steve guy seemed to be understanding/posting in the wrong context and with that attitude too.

 

[Raginrondo]

Lets see i use to take opana from my dad he use to get 120 pink 10's a month and 80 of the yellow 40's a month..so once a month i would take about 6 of each. My actions only got worse though and i still regret much of what i did to the day. Such as stealing jewelry from my mom, took about $500 from this girl's parents that had taken me on vacation for a couple days early in the year. The thing that gets me the most is i stole a 12 gram gold ring from my Grandma and she died a week later still think about this everyday and regret it so much. I think it's a big reason why i still continue to use, i feel so guilty about all the nasty shit i have done and the only way to escape them thoughts is to jam a damn needle in my arm

 

[ohshea]

^ah man that reminds me of this one time me and my ex were digging thru his moms closet and found this little plastic bag with jewelry. We thought it was gaudy costume jewelry because we thought there was no way as many diamonds as it had could be real. We took it to pawn for shiz n gigs cos we were sick, and the pawn dude tested each diamond with the diamond tester and they were all buzzing out real. His eyes were about to pop like where the fuck these fiends get all these diamonds?!? He knew they were stolen. We asked him how much they were worth, and he snapped that its not a jewelry store and he doesnt give estimates. He wanted to low ball us as much as he could and he had no idea, so we spit out give use 400. He was hoping wed never come back for it

And we werent going to, until his mom went rummaging thru her guest room and found some board games were missing (which we returned to target for giftcards) and got suspicious so went looking in her room for missing things and saw we went thru her closet and found the ring missing.

Turned out it was a family heirloom worth 17k. Thank god she found out we pawned it within thirty days so she atleast got it back. She was going to report us to police but didnt have the heart thank god.

Another hideous thing i did for drugs:

Laid on the bed in the back room of this nasty crack dealer apt with nothing in it hut a broken stereo and lamp and mattress on floor and laid there while four hondurans came in one by one and fucked me one after another after another after another. The look of delight on their face still comes in my mind and repulses me. Getting up and leaving that dingy, smoke filled, dark nasty apt with my handful of rocks was one of my most shameful moments

 

[95Land]

17K!?!? I would have paid the $400 just to tag along and see the pawn fuckers face when you guys came back in and picked it up.
I watch that Pawn Stars show on occasion and begin to enjoy it. Then I think about what a vile/predatory industry that is and I shut it off.

My junkie ex-girlfriend would get on my back to sell or pawn some of my tools whenever we ran low on cash. Despite the fact that I needed them 5-6 days a week. Finally one day we were both sick and I relented.
I pawned a $250 hammer drill and a $150 sawzall for some ridiculously small amount. Less than a bill, I think. I had every intention of trying to go back and get them but I needed them right away.
Eventually, the other mechanics asked where some of my shit was. I told them it had been stolen out of my truck and I was saving up to get new shit. A few days later they had spoken to the company owner, all pitched in and had gotten me a new saw and drill because they felt bad mine got "stolen" and they were good friends. I almost started crying right in front of them. Because of the gesture of some good people and because in a way it made me feel like such scum.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

Damn. This thread has me thinking of some really fucked up shit from my past. I wouldn't even know where to begin.

I guess the worst stuff I've done probably was just robbing and psychically hurting people for money. I would collect money for dealers and whatnot.. end up hurting people just like me who were just a little in over their head, so I could get enough money to get well.

Keeps me up sometimes.