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are you a Harm-Reductor outside of bluelight.nu?

yes and no.

Like, i normally make it a point to write myself off, and if i find myself in a situation where someone needs looking after: yes i can do it. but the person im looking after will often say "dude, how fucked up are you and you're looking after me??"

I can often dispense the "technical" information no problems, the practical application of it though can somehow be a little tricky.

Like, i know what to say, how they should be looked after, BUT i personally wouldnt trust myself to do so :\
 
I am the knowledge guy for my circle. I dispense relative safety information to people who ask or seem like they have never heard it before, but I do not push it. I do not always follow the "rules" to the letter either. Yes, I would not mix a pint of rum with ten Percocets but I might mix three beers and two Percocets even though I know it's shitty for my liver. Other people are going to go farther than me and take six of each. Short of immediate and extreme dangerous combos, I just let people do what they want without bitching about it.

As for babysitting some random person who should have known better, fuck no. I would only do that for a close friend, and none of my friends do things they should know better than to. A random would get at most a 911 call.
 
If I hear someone bust out a myth like "I like the pure dancey pills not the ones with heroin" or "LSD builds up in your spine" I almost always say that it's not true... but if they are convinced they are right and think they can prove it, fuck it.

yah thats what i mean. things like that is where i more or less nod my head and change the subject, and think to myself rofl what a fucking newbie.

however, say someone entirely new to drugs was around, i would certainly argue to the end of the earth so that the person who has never done E before doesn't have the wrong idea. I could care less about mr misconception, but the e virgin shouldnt be tainted with his mistruth.

for example one time me and one of my very close friends who is a long time hard drug user (i mean this is someone very experienced with crack heroin etc, so i expect more damn it!) , and another guy were going to eat mushrooms. Ive eaten them over 100 times. My friend has eaten them maybe 8 or 9 times (at this point). The 3rd guy (hey i have a myth about tripping with an odd number of people, but thats for another forum) had never done anything but smoked pot and drank booze.

My friend proceeds to tell him that hallucinations are caused by small hemmoragings in the brain which cause blood to leak into your eyeballs which causes them to make objects appear distorted. What the fucking fuck?!?

So of course I have to bust out the metaphysical book of neuroreceptor knowledge and give this kid a layman's briefing in neurology. Thank GOD he took my word for it, because after my friend's explanation he wasnt going to try the mushrooms and was going to miss out on a wonderful experience.

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By sucking up harmful drugs and otherwise diverting them away from the ignorant and into my sponge-like body, I think I qualify as a "harm reductor".

Yes, think of the poor children! By consuming as many benzos as possible, I hope, deep down in my heart that noone else is getting them and becoming slowly addicted.

Also, I lecture my pharmacist at will on certain things. But no, they don't listen, they just refuse to sell me thing.

I let people who I couldn't really give a toss about think what they like, such as people trying to be knowledgeable by telling me that my pills contain heroin due to their brown marks.

Even after lecturing some people they've taken my advice the wrong way. For example, the fact that benzodiazepines are rather difficult to overdose on does not make it worthwhile to go on some binge of 20mg clonazepam per day.

For some people it's just not worth it; they don't listen, and think their crazy rumours are true. Fuck these people, especially if they're dealers. If I'm getting some sort of good deal then I'll just nod my head and say "Yep, I'll try not to take too many and get addicted to heroin!"
 
if they're friends it's definitely worth pointing out that you know better and that they listen to your valuable point of view.

apart from that i must say preaching isn't what i wanna do any more. i used to try and talk people into healthier diets when i saw what was making them ill, and i used to try and reason with people whose drug consumption i saw as detrimental to them.

i no longer do this, simply because it is a waste of energy. i am happy to help when my advice is asked for, but i am currently learning to accept that people will not necessarily want my advice. they have to be ready. if they aren't, then nothing i say will make any difference in their outlook. i may actually reach the opposite effect.

basically if someone is not ready for advice and kills themselves out of reckles curiosity, then that's what had to happen. I have certainly damaged my body in many ways in the past, not knowing my limits and so on. But for some reason I have survived this far.

what i do do, though, is hint at "alternate realities" in my conversation with others. but i try to keep this subtle and usually don't mention any of the available catalysing agents.

I am courageous enough to admit that I am, of course, a coward. I don't want to be crushed by a social matrix that is so scared of me it would lock me away for years for possessing even just modest quantities of these catalysing agents. . . by ingesting these agents from time to time and trying to resonate with the information I have glimpsed and perhaps let this come to the fore in close conversation with valued/loved ones . . . this is all i can do. Sounds all a bit Buddhist but I am not out to change the world. All I can do is change myself and keep learning and teaching. But I can only teach those who already have questions :)
 
I think im a harm reductor, whenever a friend is like yeah im taking drug X for the first time i always tell them to make sure they know about the drug to some degree of dpeth before they take it.

i got told of by a friend when i was ignorant and have been studying up ever since.

waxing intelectual about drugs is the coolest thing to do ever, some cats talking crap bout something, i fly in an dismiss all his myths and rumors bout drugs its awesome, but i still have buttloads left to learn.
 
I am definetly the harm-reductor with my crew.
I get calls all the time
'Hey I took some vicodin about an hour ago and this guy just came to my house with some coke, can I do it?'
'Hey I just got a prescription for *insert drug* how many should I do?'

I don't mind it and I have BL to thanks for all of my knowledge.
 
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