Have you ever wondered what draws you to use drugs?

[brokedownpalace10]

First, monkeys (and other animals) will get high from fermented fruit. So we might just be the best doing it safely and a lot.

I first started to get high from curiosity as many people have said. Did pot and psychedelics once every week or two, automatically keeping it to that. It was just how much I wanted to.
Started hanging around with a group of guys (a band) who smoked pot every day and smoked a lot. After some months doing that, I wanted to get high every day and did so on my own. So, I think the addiction switch can be turned on. After that, I developed a badly habitual use to everything but opiates, one thing after another, quitting one and picking up the next, until my late 20's at which point it was pot, pot, pot.

 

[Ex-Cracker]

I’m in the stage of addiction where escape from suffering is all that draws me to them anymore. No fun or interest or socializing partying uses anymore

 

[Ex-Cracker]

I similar to use for escape and recreation and mentalhealth and not nesserecly in that order, and i personally believe that when a user says for recreation is (not wanting to sound uncaring or rude) is to escape mental health but trying to hide it being for mental health in saying for recreation.

 

[Ex-Cracker]

I similar to use for escape and recreation and mentalhealth and not nesserecly in that order, and i personally believe that when a user says for recreation is (not wanting to sound uncaring or rude) is to escape mental health but trying to hide it being for mental health in saying for recreation.

I have been there and done it myself, im not a preacher or a layman by any honest standards but as i say been and done it and admitidly still occasionlly do. I find it is something that user has to admit to and understand the doing of so for realisation of their personal health and useage situation, everyone is an unique human individual but also share same problems. Peace to you!.

 

[ions]

Siegel argues that intoxication is a drive much like sex, hunger, and thirst.

 

[RobustTuna]

Humans are complicated beings, yet to my knowledge we are the only species, besides cats (catnip) that goes out of our way to to get high. For me it is psychedelics that turn me on, I was afraid to try heroin in my youth but I loved morphine as a result of surgery. I took a lot of MDA because it was so readily available. Mushrooms didn't do much for me but LSD and mescaline did. Never tied DMT or crack and I wasn't impressed by cocaine. I think I was too young and immature to reap the full benefit of a cocaine high. As far as alcohol and liquor goes, I liked the taste but always passed out from drinking too much. Not a fun way to get fucked up.

Why are we the chosen few who enjoys an altered state of consciousness? While some people have no interest in getting high? I don't know, the reason(s) I started was because of my parents, church and religion. I was a southern baptist preacher's kid fucked up by parental stupidity and their commitment to make me a clone of righteousness according to their perspective of the Bible. Church and religion was clearly not for me, so I took a higher path of reason with psychedelics.

Not really. After years of use there are a couple things I know will trigger me. One is when I'm on top of the world - doing well career wise, making good money, no financial worries, healthy relationships. It's a weird self sabatoge thing. The other one is boredom. When I have too much time to sit around and stay in my head for too long bad things happen.

 

[M!$TER-ED]

I'm bored with life besides looking forward to tripping I'm waiting to die. No intentions of sounding morbid but it's true. Psychedelics may offer me a new interest in life however, yet to be achieved because of prior consumption of psych meds. I stopped taking antipsychotic and antidepressants 7 days ago without relapse. This makes me wonder if I need these types of medications at all? I'm so conditioned to taking medications for mental health out of fear of relapse this is the first time I've gone without medication since I began taking them in 1975. Psychological dependency prompted by fear is one hell of a reason to conform to mental health doctor prescribed guidelines. "If you don't take your medicine how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? Pink Floyd

 

[Shinji Ikari]

This makes me wonder if I need these types of medications at all

Maybe you should wait a while before trying to trip and just see how you manage without the meds, and then revisit the idea if you're still stable in a few months? Who knows maybe just being off the meds will give you a new appreciation for life.

 

[PtahTek]

self medicating.
plain and simple for my usage.

 

[Esperighanto]

I'm bored with life besides looking forward to tripping I'm waiting to die. No intentions of sounding morbid but it's true. Psychedelics may offer me a new interest in life however, yet to be achieved because of prior consumption of psych meds. I stopped taking antipsychotic and antidepressants 7 days ago without relapse. This makes me wonder if I need these types of medications at all? I'm so conditioned to taking medications for mental health out of fear of relapse this is the first time I've gone without medication since I began taking them in 1975. Psychological dependency prompted by fear is one hell of a reason to conform to mental health doctor prescribed guidelines. "If you don't take your medicine how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? Pink Floyd

What meds were you on? I've self medicated suicidal depression with psychedelics for years at a time before, it works, sure, but it takes a TON of extra effort as far as the meditation, integration/reflection, etc.

I used to drop my Bupropion to not die when using harmaline/ayahuasca, and man did that take a toll on me, I should NOT have put down the Bupropion.

 

[Greenonion76]

both curiosity and self-medication

(as a former sheltered teenager, it was way more the former than the latter)