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do you portray a drug user image?

About a year ago I had long, dirty hair and a thick, tangled beard. I wore the same clothes for days on end. My eyes were always red. I carried a back-pack full of drugs and carried $100 bills in my wallet at all times.

Ya, I was that guy.
 
I look fairly normal, if shabby. I wear normal clothes, have short hair, etc., though I generally don't bathe as much as the average person and sometimes where the same exact clothes for up to two weeks. I just don't care about stuff like that I guess, and never give it much thought. Still I just look a bit sloppy, not like a junky.
 
I can tell you something similar to this. I used to work in a pharmacy long ago and this college student (this was when I was in college) used to come in with her Adderall rx, shaking to death. She was always going through w/ds by the time she made it to the pharmacy obviously. By the time she had the pills in hand, she always seemed much calmer. I always felt bad for her.
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
i always wonder what the pharmacist who fills my ativan script thinks of me. it's always the same lady.
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Nothing. I can tell you that working in pharmacy, usually no one questions anything unless it looks suspicious. Have had PLENTY of those in my day! I remember one person that had stolen a doc pad and wrote just OXYCONTIN on it with a scribbled signature. Dumb ass. They didn't look like a junkie or anything.
 
i know she isn't considering refusing the script, they're written by a doctor who works on the floor right above her. i just wonder if she is less than ecstatic about filling the script for me and/or thinks i am possibly abusing the medication. i'm sure she thinks i am just some kid who suffers from anxiety (which i am), but at the same time i do use drugs and that is a hard thing to hide (probably esp. from a pharmacist). i know nothing will come of it, i just wonder if she thinks i'm good people or a problem. i try not to act like i'm just dying to get a fresh bottle in my hands when she's handing it to me.
 
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phrozen said:
No, I'm not concerned. It's their choice.
It's not me know, but it once was.
I'm not worried that it'll escalate to that point again. I figure I'm smart enough to have learned something from the ordeals I've been through.
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Word.
 
Cool thread.

I definitely have heroin chic, my Mom has said that even though (and she knows) I don't use smack...yet.

I have a real curly afro and that distant look in my eyes all the time, people sometimes think I'm a pot head (I hate pot) or heavy drug user (spot on)...but it hasn't really come up as a problem before.
 
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I dont see that many homeless drug users because I dont live too close to a big city but when I go down to sydney I sometimes see Ice(meth) addicts taslking to themselves or in darlinghurst I see plenty of heroin addicts and yes it is really sad, but I try not to let things that dont involve me directly get me down otherwise id be sad 24/7. Last time I went down there 2 ice addicts come to mind.

One of them was this bikie looking dude who was homeless and he kept repeating"66 I hate the devil, 77 I love you god" over and over while rocking back and forth in that mentally ill way.
The other guy was an asian guy just standing in the middle of the walkway talking to thin air obviously hallucinating, he was talking as if someone was standing there saing things like "im going to kick the shit out of you and beat your ass" and just very violent remarks, but there was noone he could have been talking to. Both of these guys would have been suffering from amphetamine psychosis and it was pretty depressing because it looked pretty permanent, ive been psychotic from meth and never been like those 2 guys, I always knew I was psychotic and nothing was real.

I look like a junkie if I have a short sleeve shirt on because of my track marks but otherwise no I dont look like a junkie. Maybe if I was on opiates or stoned a fellow drug user might be able to tell im on something, but I dont look like a homeless bum junkie guy, far from it.
 
^ we have a lot of mentally ill people wandering around in one of the town here. They have a VA hospital that is closing and no longer caring for a lot of people...I have heard of some guy showing a house and then suddenly eating leaves and shit. *shrug*
 
I got into drugs for different reasons than most people; I was part of the high IQ/high achieving group until college, and kept that look when I started with drugs. My best friends for 3 years in college had absolutely no idea that I even used drugs, much less that I was an addict shooting up 4-5 times daily. People that only knew me in highschool are even more shocked. From time to time I'll go on a coke binge and look like a strung out junkie, but most of the time I look as far from a druggie as you can get.
 
I dont see that many homeless drug users because I dont live too close to a big city but when I go down to sydney I sometimes see Ice(meth) addicts taslking to themselves or in darlinghurst I see plenty of heroin addicts and yes it is really sad, but I try not to let things that dont involve me directly get me down otherwise id be sad 24/7. Last time I went down there 2 ice addicts come to mind.
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Not really an addict, but...

I went down to Adelaide for a 21st last year, and one of the saddest things I'd seen in a while was an old homeless man sitting down on the side of one of the seediest streets in the city, crying his heart out. Me and my sister just turned to each other and wondered what might have happened to this man in his life, what brought him to this heartbreaking point.

The recent ruckus in the news about pensioners being ripped off in the latest Federal Budget kinda brought it back up and I think about it a bit...I've got that feeling I've had when I've written a really good song, it's just a feeling inside that I've been touched or inspired by something powerful.
 
merging this thread with "Do you portray a drug user image?"

This topic always pops up from time to time. try n do a search or look around a lil bit before starting a new one. :)

Also, 2 things:

though I generally don't bathe as much as the average person and sometimes where the same exact clothes for up to two weeks. I just don't care about stuff like that I guess, and never give it much thought. Still I just look a bit sloppy, not like a junky.
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no, that aint "just a bit sloppy." Thats foul. Sloppy is wearin clothes from yesterday thats wrinkeld up from bein on a pile on the floor. What you are describing is "Dirty" lol. Im sorry dude, not tryna be a dick, but as a female drug user who is around other drug users, aint nothing as annoying as the dudes on drugs who dont know how to fuckin be even slightly reasonably clean. Whatever sometimes you get strung out and dont get to take a shower for a few days or whatever, thats different. but just your daily use? showers and clean clothes should be part of that routine. Consider this a public service announcement from me and all clean druggies out there. you might not think so, but that shit smells. Use some basic hygeine yo. Nobody knows how nasty B.O. smells until they smell it on someone else and be like, holy shit *I* smelled like that??? Not tryna call you out, like i said, but it really sux bein around someone who dont have that high standards of cleanliness and then they dont even realize it or think its totally cool but really they are stankin up the whole area.

I went down to Adelaide for a 21st last year, and one of the saddest things I'd seen in a while was an old homeless man sitting down on the side of one of the seediest streets in the city, crying his heart out. Me and my sister just turned to each other and wondered what might have happened to this man in his life, what brought him to this heartbreaking point.
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So why diddnt you ask him? Shit. Yall are acting kinda cold, like you seein people like this that concerns you but scared to reach out. Thats you, that could be you, why is there fear there? Why are you scared to talk to em, or treat em the same as any other person? its sad when members of a community thats pushed out to the outside of society, and not that much accepted, still make even more divisions between them selves by shit like this. Iunno, i just hate that patronizing bullshit thats all.
 
At first glance people might think I smoke pot because of the long hair and perhaps the bags under my eyes. I'm not a pothead by any stretch, I usually smoke a hit or two as a gesture of goodwill tword the person passing the smoke to me.
 
lacey k said:
no, that aint "just a bit sloppy." Thats foul. Sloppy is wearin clothes from yesterday thats wrinkeld up from bein on a pile on the floor. What you are describing is "Dirty" lol. Im sorry dude, not tryna be a dick, but as a female drug user who is around other drug users, aint nothing as annoying as the dudes on drugs who dont know how to fuckin be even slightly reasonably clean. Whatever sometimes you get strung out and dont get to take a shower for a few days or whatever, thats different. but just your daily use? showers and clean clothes should be part of that routine. Consider this a public service announcement from me and all clean druggies out there. you might not think so, but that shit smells. Use some basic hygeine yo. Nobody knows how nasty B.O. smells until they smell it on someone else and be like, holy shit *I* smelled like that??? Not tryna call you out, like i said, but it really sux bein around someone who dont have that high standards of cleanliness and then they dont even realize it or think its totally cool but really they are stankin up the whole area.
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Haha fair enough. I don't smell though, honest (I've even asked people because I'm worried 'cause I don't shower enough). I shower like once or twice a week, which is actually the norm in Europe apparently :\ I wear the same clothes a lot because I only own like three 'outfit' combinations, mostly because I hate wasting 50-100$ on a few pieces of cloth. I also change my underwear everyday and my undershirt ever couple, as those are the only two articles of clothing that smell if I wear 'em too much. I'm not poor or anything, just very cheap; I hate spending money on things unless it's drugs. Just my personal philosophy.
 
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sorry lacey, i thought i could start a new thread because i had a story and questions. you're right though, they are kind of similar. but i just wanted my thread to get read instead of passed on because i wanted people to reflect on the specific questions i asked instead of just "do you portray a drug user image?" maybe i should have worded the title differently. for those who didn't see my original question, please answer:

Do you become concerned when you see strung out kids, or is that you? Do you worry about whether or not your use might escalate to the point where that could be you?

Thanks everyone.
 
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