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Are you a successful drug user?

3.8 gpa student through high school
3.6 gpa at a very prestigious college and full time division 1 student-athlete
 
den3ial said:
3.8 gpa student through high school
3.6 gpa at a very prestigious college and full time division 1 student-athlete
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Same goes for me drank a whole hell of alot during college and did opiates excessively whether it was ocs or dope. smoked weed occasionally because i was a division 1 student athlete as well and as the guy two posts above me knows we get drug tested alot lol

graduated last may took my LSAT and am now going to be going to law school in the fall. so even though i'm still in school id say i've been doing well
 
At times I can be very successful. But sometimes I feel like I'm the lowest (in my happiness) that I've ever been...
 
Well I'm in college pulling mostly A's...i consider that pretty successful for the time being at least.
 
Completed a degree in pharmacology and currently halfway through a PhD in psychopharmacology.

The fact that I took drugs acutally sparked my interest in pharmacology, so if it wasn't for my healthy interest in drugs I doubt i'd be where I am today. Ahhh sweet irony, don't you just love it...
 
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I am a high school senior who smokes weed and drinks A LOT every weekend and sometimes before school. I occasionally do opiate pills and have done shrooms and cocaine.
I am a high school senior, and I received a full ride to UNC-Chapel Hill (GO TAR HEELS)!
So I consider that being pretty smart and successful while getting fucked up all the time. :D
 
Im still a bit younger then many of the people on this forum, and kind of in a transition phase in my life.

I do have to say that though im a waitress right now, I do plan on eventually moving to a career in PR work. I have 3 possible internships at the moment.
 
I'm a junkie in college, own my own car, live in a house, got money in the bank. I guess im better off then some people are.
 
doin allright theses days.

full time cooking, nice girlfriend. still usingg about 3 times a week, which is manageable, but the cravings intensify every time I use and that part sucks.
 
I've been taking drugs since I was a youth (16ish). Started with marijuana, moved on to Rx pills, random psychedelics, and cocaine for eight months once.

I graduated college last year from the second largest University in my state. B.A., Criminal Justice; A.A., Political Science.

Starting the M.A. CRJU program this fall. I hope to fight US drug policy for a career.

I'm also married, zero children (I'm almost 25, go me!), and perfectly functional. I still use some Rxs (mainly opaites, my benzo days are over) and high grade marijuana, generally vaporized, daily (marijuana daily, not Rx opiates). I can't wait until this summer when I can roll again. I've got the beans, just no time.

I am deathly afraid of quitting marijuana though...
 
ive been on opiates for almost two years striaght.
with maybe one or two month breaks.
but i've been doing alright..except my sense of reality sucks.
but school and stuffs going good :]
 
"Successful" is hard to define - but I'd say that for the purposes of this thread, yes, I'm successful.

Had my first pill when I was 18, on Easter holiday from university. Had a couple more pill-nights that Easter, then went back to uni, where there were no pillheads.

We smoked quite a bit of weed, drank a lot, and had a fair amount of magic mushroom days. My result in the first 2 years were pretty bad... which isn't a drug thing - it was an alcohol thing, which is for some reason not regarded as bad. It doesn't matter though - it was the late nights and constant partying that caused my grades to drop - makes no difference what our substance was.

After my second year, I worked in the industry (electronics engineering) for a year. Smoked some weed, drank a lot.

Went back to uni for my final year, starting the year with a 45% average. That's BAD. Didn't do any drugs that year - basically just worked VERY hard. Graduated with a 2:1 in maths & computer science (BSc). I developed an alcohol problem somewhere along the way, which I sorted with help of a psychiatrist. No one at work ever knew.

Got an ok job. Rented a flat. Bought a car. Increased my debt. Got a better job in software development. I geek out all day long - it's everything I hoped for :)

Rediscovered drugs about a year ago - most months will go out and take some pills. Now... I take mephedrone a bit too often, in my opinion. I don't drink much or smoke weed... or do any other drugs.

No one at work knows that I do this. I don't think they'd see it as "well, her work is good, so obviously it's not a bad thing" - but rather an "omigodwtfbbq". So unfortunately I'm not helping the drugs user loser stereotype... because it's not worth my while to fight it.
 
Unfortunately by societies standards I have not been succesful at all. I was doing good in college for a while then started to get in trouble with the law, became addicted to booze and opiates, etc... Finally though I am straightening up. I'm no longer associating myself with "criminals", I'm working again, hopefully going back to school in the fall to finish up my associate's degree in engineering. One thing that has helped me through this is combination of therapy and Suboxone treatment. I want to get off my Suboxone but I'm just not at the point to be able to do it. Its been hard for me but it was made hard by my own hands. All this means to me is when I finally do get 100% back on track, things will be all the better :)
 
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for me it has been a matter of being addicted to the right drugs. i used smoke pot every day drop acid each weekend. that got me kicked out of college.

now i'm at a new college (which is incidentally much better in terms of my major) and i've abuse prescription stimulants on a daily basis, with a bit of cocaine and more than a bit of alcohol mixed in.

i'm a straight-A student atm ;)
 
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your own, as long as your totally honest about what you really think successful means.
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That's the problem I see with this topic as well. A lot of people think being successful means owning a large company or getting a degree in multi-level marketing or nursing. Other see themselves as being successful for attaining a higher level of consciousness and "needing" less in order to survive because they give plentefully, whether it be energy ot material, which is too often confused with "lack of motivation". Success is an inner quality and should not be comparable because the fact that we all have different perceptions of our self worth. I believe that this, in and of itself, is a blessing to humanity. As far as doing drugs and getting your 3d shit done though, it's quite simple.

I.E. I have little income, no car, cell phone isn't even turned on, I don't have an amazing job (although it's chill, I don't mind working whatsoever and I can blaze at work and surf the web all day), but because of the friends I have, the relationships I've built, the experiences I've had, what I've learned from those experiences and the creative endeavors in the realms of art, music and writing that I have initiated, and my overall connection with my higher self in the 5d alone grants me as much joy and peace of mind as someone who is really taking off with some normal ass 3d career, if not more. I feel successful, but in the eyes of someone who is super 3d, super materialistic, driven by the grains of culture and progression, they would probably think I'm a dead beat. Despite the fact that I am perfectly loving, peaceful and full of joy and they NEED, they RELY on the material world, their possessions and their class status to keep them from going into depression because they have not connected with their true self like a knowledgable, spiritual drug user has.

We are a forum focused on mainly psychadelics, and I'll be frank because only so much can be said about opiates, cocaine, alcohol etc. before you are beating a dead fucking horse, but entheogens are consistantly changing lives, usually in a posative way and opening up new dimensions, perspectives and bringing love and light into a world so dark (as long as the user isn't taking the entheogen to party or simply feel good or see visuals).

We need to take into account that success is hella relative and drugs don't always nessicarily destroy motivation, they just show you the way things really are. They motivate you to love rather than compete for success. Soon the drug user realizes that some of the things he/she is motivated to do without drugs are petty and often counter-intuitive to the spirit and the heart, even if it is tought to admit it.
 
^Not a bad post. I can sympathize with a lot of what you said.

One could simply measure one's success in different realms though. The material realm, achievements on paper, size of life savings/salary, then the interior, immaterial realm, emotional health, spiritual health, intellectual endeavors, one could get more specific if desired.

I would say that I'm becoming increasingly successful on paper, i.e. grades, academic achievements, less successful in the financial realm with increasing debt (please let me get that scholarship!), and increasing life expenses on a fixed income.

My emotional health is much improved with the end of the semester, I definitely invest too much emotionally and physically in school, because I primarily measure my success on paper, you gotta pay to play, I guess. As long as school is going okay and as long as I have time, I can explore the interior realm to my own benefit, but in the fourth quarter I just go balls to the wall with school, to my own detriment in every other way.

I think the thread topic in general asks only if you identify yourself as a success in relation to societal standards. At this moment, I can say yes, I am a successful drug user, but that is in large part because I invest more of my time and energy in the social game than I did, say at the beginning of my college career. This is in large part because, while by social standards I would probably still be considered a moderate-heavy drug user, by my personal standards (in relation to my history of drug use and it's correlation with socially defined 'success') I am using much less than I have in the past, with a decrease in both the frequency and quantity of drugs that I use.

Also, it makes a different what kind of drugs one is using. I find that heavy alcohol, benzo, and opiate abuse is more detrimental to one's socially defined success than heavy cocaine, amphetamine, or other stimulate abuse. Productivity and efficiency are a large part of the American value system (all of my musings here are limited to the American sphere, sorry non-Americans), and while all drugs can increase productivity and efficiency in a dose-dependent and idiosyncratic manner, with the depressants one in general reaches a point of diminishing returns sooner and at lower doses than with the stimulant class.

Psychedelics can be just as damaging as well, if used for the wrong reasons, at the wrong times, and/or to excess. Most of the psychedelic use that I see in the real-world falls into one of these categories. And the heaviest psychedelic users tend to be, in my opinion, psychedelic abusers and societal failures.

I feel like I'm beginning to rant, but I hope I've made a good contribution.
 
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