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What did you do on 9/11 2001? (addicts in NYC mainly)

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Hi,this is in no way meant to be offensive so if you find it that way I apologize wholeheartedly in advance..

9/11 made a huge impact on my life,from my fathers office in WTC2 to the military and deployments to Afghanistan ,also getting into addictive substances after being discharged..

I have always been thinking a lot of what happened that day,and recently I have been thinking about about"how did the addicts/junkies whatever got trough that day"..was the dealers still out on the corners/parks especially in the affected area?..did someone have to go cold turkey in addition to the ordeals of that day,imagine someone going cold turkey and losing a family member to the terrorists on the same terrible day)..stuff like that..

Also ,feel free to post your own story from that day regardless of where you live if youre so inclined..

all the best..:)
 
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This might do better in Drug Culture...

I live in Birmingham, Alabama. I was in my sophomore year of high school. I didn't know about it until I got to school and the morning announcements included a moment of silence.

It was super heavy. I had 3 first cousins in New York City when it happened. I shared a very little bit of what you New Yorkers felt. On, a side note, we watched TV the rest of the day in all the classes.
 
seems like a really interesting topic to me :)

Unfortunately I wasn't quite old enough to fully appreciate what happened on that day, plus my mum would not let me watch the TV for a while. But I remember after seeing some of the scenes on that day, just sitting around drawing pictures of planes flying into buildings. I could say that the main way that it has affected me (not so much in drug use, although it did introduce me to the war on drugs) is that I have grown up knowing , almost expecting to be constantly watched and do little to question it.
 
psychopath said:
This might do better in Drug Culture...

I live in Birmingham, Alabama. I was in my sophomore year of high school. I didn't know about it until I got to school and the morning announcements included a moment of silence.

It was super heavy. I had 3 first cousins in New York City when it happened. I shared a very little bit of what you New Yorkers felt. On, a side note, we watched TV the rest of the day in all the classes.
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Yeah,I was a 2 months shy of 18 at the time(high school senior,I had moved to Europe at that time,so I wasnt in the city at that time,allthough i am from/born there originally )..We had armed police/metal detectors(that happened before 9/11 too tho) at our school for weeks as my school was heavily muslim/christian integrated and they were afraid of some sort of student uprising/violence against the muslim students ,had I only known when I saw on CNN the plane hit the building how it would affect the rest of my life in so many ways..its mindboggling to think about..luckily my dad wasnt in the building when it hit so that I am grateful for..I also dont regret enlisting in the army and deploying overseas with ISAF(Norwegian contingent,camp meymaneh..I chose the norwegian army cause I hold double citizenships and were residing there at the time and had friends who did the same)..nevertheless it sure affected my life and the life of so many I know..

May the victims rest in peace.***"OPS".

Reason why I ask the questions posed in this thread is that Im very curious by this particular aspect of the 9/11 story..
 
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It doesn't pertain so much to that day however in our school system when you left 8th grade and went to the highschool you got your portfolio given to you which had random stuff from the time you were in kindergarten until then such as drawings spelling tests etc. Well when I got mine back it was a couple years after that had happened and we were all looking through ours well I pulled out a drawing I did when I was in like kindergarten or first grade or something and the drawing was of two tall buildings both the same height and on fire which was pretty freaky but the crazyiest part was down in the bottom right hand corner it had 9/11. I have no idea why I drew it or anything Idk if it was just coincidence that I did it on September 11 but didn't put the year for some reason or if maybe I had a dream way back then and saw that was gonna happen then drew it and it came true but it was very freaky the teachers looked at me very weird and my fellow students couldn't believe it either. Just wanted to throw that story out there as well
SOrry for the long post and not breaking it up
 
This would definitely belong in Drug Culture more than it would anything else IMO. It may not even fit DC very well - that is up to DC's moderating team. I'll send it over there though, as this doesn't fit very well here.
 
I was preparing for a normal 3rd grade day.
Saw it on TV n thought it was just some movie til my mom explained to me what happened.
I didnt understand fully til i got to school.
Probly the 1st time iv experienced thoughts of sympathy.
 
I watched the towers fall on live tv in the senior lounge in high school. I had heard a plane hit a building earlier, and then that...as a Long Islander, going to the city frequently, it will never be the same. I am a current opiate user but I don't think I used anything that day. It was just so bloody bleak.
 
I use to smoke weed back then & thats it. Anyway, I was living with my ex-gf.....I had gotten up to go to the toilet & as soon as I sat down, my gf was watching tv in the living room & yelled out, an airplane just hit the twin towers, I was like, wtf you talking about?

I quickly jumped off the toilet after finishing & wiping, washed my hands & ran out where she was at watching the tv. We sat there & I was like, are you sure you saw what you said & as soon as she said that, we watched the 2nd plane hit the other tower live. I was like, wtf is going on......I thought our country was under attack by an other country & was thinking WW3 was coming or something.

I reached for my bong but just couldnt light up because I had so many emotions going threw my head, I figured I would need to figure out whats going on first before it was time to get high. I dont think I smoked weed for about a week. Anyway, later as we were watching, the buildings started to crumble, a sad sight.

Next day at work people seemed to all be in a daze. I cant imagine what the people in Japan went threw after that tsunami & quake.
 
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I smoked weed weekly at that time. Anyway, I would have felt disrespectful asking someone if I could cop a bag. All my connects were in school with me, and the whole day you would see someone else get carried out of school by one of their parents because the other one died. Weed was the last thing on my mind that day.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
This would definitely belong in Drug Culture more than it would anything else IMO. It may not even fit DC very well - that is up to DC's moderating team. I'll send it over there though, as this doesn't fit very well here.
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Isnt asking (mainly) what addicts in NYC did on that day related to drug culture...?
I beg to differ..
Its one of the untold stories of that day,as I never seen that aspect covered in any form..denying people to share their experiences that day otherwise(not addicts etc) would seem arrogant if thats what you mean by "unrelated"..

Good day to you sir..;)
 
Tommyboy said:
I smoked weed weekly at that time. Anyway, I would have felt disrespectful asking someone if I could cop a bag. All my connects were in school with me, and the whole day you would see someone else get carried out of school by one of their parents because the other one died. Weed was the last thing on my mind that day.
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Yes of course,I were only smoking weed at the time myself(this was before the military/A-stan mind you,I didnt get into opies until after being discharged and the "demons" caught hold of me if you will)..

What I am wondering about is the guys who were hardcore junkies at that time,people that wouldnt be able to go without their medicine even if a full blown nuclear exchange was in the process...these are the guys im most interested hearing from,allthough anyone wishing to post any other experience is welcome..(reflecting on important events in your life and how it changed it is not a bad thing).

hope this clarifies..

you would see someone else get carried out of school by one of their parents because the other one died
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Yup,this and all the flagdraped coffins in the years to come passing by while youre standing at attention/giving a slow salute ...that certainly made an impression,well other then being in an actual TIC(i.e contact with the enemy)IED or simply waiting for IEDD/EOD to clear the road you will shortly be driving down..(sorry for rambling)
 
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I was only in 6th grade at the time, but I lived in NY right on the border of Nassau County and Queens. Went to school like normal that morning. They never told us what happened in school. We werent allowed to go outside for recess and people kept randomly getting pulled out of school. We were wondering what the hell was going on. When my mom came and got me, she told me what happened. I freaked out because my dad works in Manhattan, but my mom was able to call him on his cell phone despite many of them not getting service at that time.

Everyone else who was in school at the time always says they were told about it. I guess we werent since we were pretty close to NYC and a lot of the kids parents worked there, so they were probably trying to contact the parents first.

edit: sorry I got off topic, but this story is probably more relevant: my dad was worried about my grandma (his mom) the whole time, even though HE was the one trying to get out of Manhattan after the planes hit. she hadn't tried calling him at all and he knew that she would know about what happened (she lived in Queens) and should have been panicking and calling him a million times. He tried calling her, no answer. He was worrying that they flew a plane into Ozone Park, Queens and hit her or something. Turns out she was asleep the whole day because she just started fetanyl patches.
 
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I'm from the UK..

I was 15 and at school when it happened.. just as the day ended..

I walked to my girlfriends (at the time) house to find her freaking out thinking terrorists were taking over the world.. i spent the rest of the afternoon trying to convince her we weren't in danger.
 
rickolasnice said:
I'm from the UK..

I was 15 and at school when it happened.. just as the day ended..

I walked to my girlfriends (at the time) house to find her freaking out thinking terrorists were taking over the world.. i spent the rest of the afternoon trying to convince her we weren't in danger.
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hehe,my girl was freaking out that exact same way that day and subsequent week..those days sure were crazy..unreal is a fitting word..
 
Your gonna be hard pressed to find people who were junkies back 10 years ago in 2001 and living in NYC, who are still alive or atleast still hanging around forums like this.

On that note, i was in 7th grade when it happened and i remember it very clearly.
 
sockpuppet said:
The attacks disrupted the drug markets for several days, but most people were only really affected for the first day when all the subways were shut down and the bridges and tunnels to Manhattan closed. Methadone programs around the city went into emergency mode with patients being medicated as guests at the clinics closest to them. In both these respects the attack was no different than a major blizzard in its effect on addicts.

What has impacted drug users FAR FAR more in the decade since is the shredding of the constitution in the name of the phoney "war on terror". All the unconstitutional tools set up to track the "evil-doers" have actually been used primarily against ordinary US citizens involved with drugs or other unapproved activities. This is the REAL act of terrorism and it's still going on to this day......:X


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Thanks for sharing bro,this is the exact type of stories im after allthough anyone else that wanna get something off their chest regarding that day is appriciated as well..

And damn,that second part of your post rings true..
 
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