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Are you a successful drug user?

By society's standards, no. I'm at a community college after dropping out of high school. However, I ended up getting a diploma from an alternative high school program so I suppose I'm on the 'right track'. I test very high though, 35 composite on the ACT, and I took it coming off a nasty coke high. But standardized tests aren't a real measure of intelligence anyway. My point in bringing that up though is that I should have been in some high achieving ivy league school or whatnot... just not my idea of a good time.

As for the drugs... all day every day. I'm a heroin addict, been one for a year, with methadone available so I'm never actually sick. So in that regard I'm a more successful drug user than I am a member of society. I smoke weed many many times a day (except today! blah!) and love tripping on psychedelics now and again. I still say my most amazing experience on any drug was my quarter ounce mushroom trip in the forest preserve at the edge of my city... man, I felt like I died, was reincarnated, and then evolved from a single celled organism up to a rodent-like animal to a monkey and then finally back to human, it was just so powerful.

I got myself off of cocaine, which in my opinion was one of the best choices that I've made in my life recently. I was addicted to coke for about a year before I tried and became addicted to heroin. I know that I simply traded one addiction for another, but this is an addiction that I can handle. I love my life, opiate addict or not. In fact, I love my life all the more so because I'm an opiate addict. Yes, theres a price to pay for it, but I get to feel a level of bliss unequaled by almost anything in the world... I was just raised with high self esteem, and that carried over to my life as a drug user. I made my peace with being a junkie a long lopng time ago, when I first started shooting.

Now if I didin't have the dealer that I do not, I'd be in shit, because they have methadones for when I'm too broke for smack, and some real fire shit for when I do. They're less than two blocks from my apartment, which is in a good part of town (ie not the ghetto). If something happened to them I'd be sick sick sick as hell, and I'd probably just take the fucking pain and go cold turkey. Shit, my tolerance would be back down to normal in a month or two and I'd be able to get blown off a tiny ass hit of the shit.

But anyway, long winded post, but yeah, I'm a successful drug user, the most successful that I personally know. But I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who have their shit together more than me. Still, I have a great future in recording engineering ahead of me, a nice high paying albeit labor intensive job, a car, lots of friends, and lots and lots and LOTS of drugs. What more could I ask for?
 
i shootup heroin and methamphetamines every week, i work a full-time job in the career i want to work in. successful? compared to a lot of people, yeah, but not my true potential. the reason for my present successful drug use is due to all my previous unsuccessful drug usage in the past.
 
i consideer myself successful personally and academically speaking and i smoke cannabis almost everyday and use E and LSD every a few weeks...
 
Im a successful drug user in the sense that I experimented with everything, found my love for opiates, turned into a junkie, lost family n friends, isolated myself, became depressed, ended up in the hospital, then rehab, then kicked all drugs and am now living a sober life...........

I take it back, i'm not a drug user, i'm an ADDICT who is not using at the moment.

And I measure success with how happy and content I am with myself, others, and life in general.
 
I wonder how many people here are not "successful" as a drug user but use Bluelight as a self-justification mechanism. They post here and go on and on about all the harm reduction tactics they use and their incredible responsibility, but secretly they aren't as moderate and safe about their usage as they profess, although it makes them feel better to pretend on BL that they are a responsible druggie.
 
^thats a pretty good question. Although I dont use my harm reducton tactics as a measure of how sucessful or unsucessful I am in my drug use orin my ife
 
Synto_ said:
people know that the majority of daily users aren't successful
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I think, at least if we are talking about hard drugs, that we'd all agree with you.

But you also have admit that the average BLer isn't your average drug user. Which is why I think the ratio of successful to unsuccessful drug users here is so much better than that of the average drug user.
 
Indelibleface said:
I wonder how many people here are not "successful" as a drug user but use Bluelight as a self-justification mechanism. They post here and go on and on about all the harm reduction tactics they use and their incredible responsibility, but secretly they aren't as moderate and safe about their usage as they profess, although it makes them feel better to pretend on BL that they are a responsible druggie.
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I always advocate and offer advice for harm reduction that I rarely follow myself. Can't remember the last time I actually filtered meth before I shot up. I just backload all the time. =/
 
Synto_ said:
Nope, not been successful at all. I was for a while, but then I fell off. I don't think it pisses me off that so many of you claim to be "successful drug users" if that's truely the case right now, I've just witnessed the exact opposite from staying in the scene for 7 years or so and it pisses me off that some people know that the majority of daily users aren't successful and still try to throw up this glamorous facade. I guess everyone has their individual experiences, that's just not what I've personally experienced nor has it been my observation of those daily users around me. I would venture to say that the majority of the people I see using on a daily basis are ultimately unsuccessful. I started using early on in high school and by sophomore year I was using on a daily basis. I maintained a 3.8 GPA throughout the whole time I was in high school. I was taking honors classes and graduated a little early with a scholorship to UGA. After being at UGA for a while and maintaining a 3.6 GPA I got deeper in the scene, got involved in a lot of stuff, and my focus started shifting from my responsibilities to other things and problems created primarily from my drug use and/or involvement in the scene.

My grades started dropping, I started getting in legal trouble, I had some health issues, and was involved in a lot of drama. This all didn't start happening until I'd been using on a daily basis for over 4 years. Since then I've dropped out of school, overdosed 3 times, been arrested and thrown in county jail 4 times, served a prison sentence, gone through a rehabilitation center, and ruined a lot of relationships that meant a whole lot to me. I could tell you about hundreds of kids I grew up with and kids I've met while going to school that have similar, if not worse stories. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you that there haven't been a few people that I haven't seen fall off yet because there have been. It's just been my observation with a whole lot of people and my personal experience that daily users don't go on like that forever without it causing serious problems that usually lead to the downfall of their success.
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It's good you mentioned this, because I think about myself in a similar situation all the time. I don't mean to use you as a bad example or anything of the like, it's just good to see that an honest few will let themselves be proof of what drugs can do to you if you let it get out of control. Thanks for the story man.
 
Sandbag said:
I always advocate and offer advice for harm reduction that I rarely follow myself. Can't remember the last time I actually filtered meth before I shot up. I just backload all the time. =/
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It can't be good to keep talking about past meth use to current users. Have you had trouble keeping it out of your life for good?
 
BenditlikeClapton said:
It can't be good to keep talking about past meth use to current users. Have you had trouble keeping it out of your life for good?
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Yeah, since december I've had 3 tweekends. Actually just dropped my last shot of a 2.5day binge about 3hrs ago and I'm wishing I had some alprazolam to put me out of my misery so I can get some sleep....or even worse, I don't get to sleep and end up going out to get more tomorrow morning...ack...that's what happened this morning... =(
 
NerdOnDrugs said:
I think, at least if we are talking about hard drugs, that we'd all agree with you.

But you also have admit that the average BLer isn't your average drug user. Which is why I think the ratio of successful to unsuccessful drug users here is so much better than that of the average drug user.
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I think your average BL'er is your average drug user, maybe with a little more knowledge and a high speed connection. What differentiates them? I mean, I've met a few bluelighters in person and I've been a member for over 4 years. I don't see too much of a difference between bluelighters and a lot of the kids I chill with that don't know anything about bluelight, other than the fact that some of the people on bluelight posess a desire to know more about the substances they're ingesting than kids I chill with on the street. I mean, even on the street I don't really chill with too many kids who are ignorant when it comes to factual information on the substances they're putting in their bodies though. The smartest kid I've ever known is dead due to the drug scene and two others who were up there with him on an intelligence level are both in prison for a long time. When you're using on a daily basis or are heavily involved in the scene for a long time then it's almost inevitable that serious problems will eventually arise (no matter how much knowledge you posess). I strongly believe that almost all who use on a daily basis will eventually fall off, and if they continue in their ways, will reap the negative aspects of the scene until they get to a point that only an idiot would consider "successful". It takes a lot longer for some than it does for others. I know there's a handfull who believe they can prove that statement wrong. Hell, who am I to judge? I'm just speaking on what I've personally experienced and what I've seen from everyone around me for the last 7-8 years.
 
^I dunno, it might vary from scene to scene; but a lot of the tweakers I know are almost 'superstitious' when it comes to drug knowledge. A lot of incorrect, or at best partially correct information floating around their circles based entirely on word of mouth.
 
I think I am successful. I don't really use drugs anymore, but I was no less successful when I did. I am an engineer for a multi-billion dollar corp. I won't go into any more detail because I am paranoid - but that's not related to the drug use. More to the fact that things I have said in e-mails to people outside the company have been repeated to me by my boss. Things that he should never have been able to see unless he is reading my mail going through the exchange server. On top of that my office is 100 miles from my house, not very likely that anyone would run into someone I know outside of work. Needless to say, I don't go to BL on any work computers anymore.
 
NerdOnDrugs said:
You have permission to brag, I love hearing stories about how someone aced college or landed a good paying job while high out of their minds. And it can motivate drug users to pursue success when society tells them they will fail.
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Finally a place I can brag about career and drug use at the same time! =D

I've done all the "normal" drugs (weed, coke, meth, speed, E). In college, I was smoking a lot of weed (smoked religiously 2-3 times per day), and selling alot to support my smoking habit. Meanwhile, I had a 4.0GPA and even worked as the professor's assistant for 2 years.

Had a job (within my field) the same day that I graduated. That was 23 years ago, and I am still with the same company and am currently a VP. I smoked weed every single evening until 3 years ago- 3 years ago I re-discovered E, and the weed was no longer something I desired. So here I am a 40-something, VP (with a salary to match) that rolls on E every couple months. ;)
 
I'm a 2nd year graduate student at the top university in my field in America.
I'm a weekend warrior, with some mid-week excursions (I think I might have to cast these aside).
Am I successful? check back in 8 years. :)

ebola
 
I consider myself a successful drug user, however by the stories here I guess I am not a true user. Ive tried most types of drugs, opiates, mdma, lsd, benzos, ghb, few random piperzines and the usual weed etc however my usage is sporadic. Sometimes I'll go 3 months without doing any more then drinking alcohol, then I'll get a 20 pack of oxy or something and use that over a month. Probably smoke weed once a month and the other drugs maybe once a year if I am lucky.

I'm currently a 2nd year electrical & electronic engineering student and have a casual job working as an embedded systems programmer (C coding for PIC microprocessors) I get average grades pass/credit average as I don't put in as much as I could, however I can see myself getting a very well paying job in the future as my current job pays very well for only a 2nd year student.

I guess a lot of it comes down to your definition of user and successful, if you are a true addict I can't imagine you being successful for very long.

Sorry for bumping an old thread but I thought this brings out some interesting discussion.
 
I'm still in high school, so I don't really have anything meaningful to brag about. But I am about to graduate first in my class, and by a considerable margin. I know it's not absolutely indicative of future success, but at least it shows that I've been responsible about drug use and have kept my my priorities straight.
 
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