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Does your social life revolve around drugs?

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Mine absolutely does, and I find this kind of disturbing.

My friends and I all meet at a bar every wednesday afternoon, drink, and purchase drugs off each other (mostly stims).

Then we go back to one of our apartments and get high.

I guess this is probably true of a lot of drug users, but there's a certain development in my own case that unsettles me a little bit.

I don't know when it happened exactly, but somewhere along the line, I think my whole circle of friends became more a miniature stimulant supply network than an actual group of people who like hanging out.

Like, these days, when we meet at the bar, it's down to business almost immediately... Who has what, who's selling to who, etc etc.

Years ago we had real conversations.

These days, that's becoming less and less the case.

I'm reminded of a conversation I had a long time ago with a "straight-edger," who told me "drug addicts don't have friends, just people they do drugs with."

At the time I thought he was being silly, but now I see what he meant.
 
Mine used to be. And i didnt realize it till i was in a rehab. I am defiantly trying to change that now. its a sad feeling
 
Very true in alot of cases. I see where you are coming from. I guess thats where real friends come into play. Ive definatly had some friends that were actually friends to me, and sooner or later it became about "getting, and picking up drugs". It really sucked. The only time we chilled is if we had drugs to get down with. Although i do have a select few of friends that i can actually chill and talk with, even tho we still do drugs together sometimes, but also hang out just to hang out. And im thankful for that.
 
Mine used to be when I was younger. I had a social circle for every drug choice. I had friends I rolled and tripped with, friends I smoked with, and friends I did opiates with. I lived in a rich town so it seemed like mostly everyone kind of experimented with coke and I had a bomb coke connect so everyone did coke at my place.

When the hardcore opiates (dope & opana) swept through my town like wildfire everyone stopped chillin as much (also everyone is getting older) since people are always at different stages - getting clean, getting high, getting by, and people sick with no money. I've been lucky to have a good paying job and people took advantage of the fact I had 2 cars and always had drugs. People never quit asking for rides and hook up on drugs n shit like that. I ended up cutting out a lot of people, and stick to the few close good friends I have. Better off that way. Some people turned into jesus freaks, some hardcore anti-drug advocates, some are narco's, some are living on the streets, some are just getting by with a 9-5 job and still using, everyone just seems to be at different stages and different places. Thats how life goes.

And the line about drug users not having friends is false, everyone just is at different points. I've made quite a few good friends doing drugs, but sometimes that is the only thing you had in common with those people and really wouldn't get along with them otherwise. And again realize as you get older people start doing their own things.
 
With drugs you don't choose your friends or who do you see, visit. Drugs choose your friends and who do you see and don't see. That of course depends on how much you use and type of drugs.
 
I have even less of a social life now, and it used to be pretty nonexistant before. You do the math.

But yes, the social life I had basically did revolve around drugs.
 
My social life involves sitting in front of my laptop. Playing old records, for the vinyl crackle only. ;)
 
Yeah, it's kind of sad. Drugs = my social life. It's kind of my fault though because I isolate when drugs aren't involved... :\

I guess for the time being, it will have to do.
 
Yep. Recently a friend who I hung out drugging with for 4 or 5 months decided that I was a bad influence (he was the one who started shooting NOT me - excuses, excuses), so he cut me out of his life. He has gotten sucked into crack and something else - a better looking girl, I'm sure as well.

Meanwhile, this means I have no friends left. His friends were my friends and now I'm all on my own. Sucks. And my regular friends all smoke pot (yuck) and drink pretty heavily (which I'm not into when I'm on dope) and I just keep it one big secret...
 
yeah. i only meet / chill with people if i'm getting drugs, and i make sure i'm fucked on something 99% of the time i go out.
 
To some degree, yeah. I have anxiety and I hate talking to people and socializing people unless I'm on some sort of stimulant. That's the only time I'm really confident enough to make friends and to talk to friends.
I do hang out with people when I'm sober though. But I'm super shy and it just isn't nearly as much fun, I actually hate it. Most of my "friends" though, I met them while rolling and now hang out with them sober. But of course, it's not the same.
I don't regularly hang out with non drug users anymore, just because I've never been able to "let go" when I've been around them, so it makes it kinda difficult.
 
my social life is only based on drugs , i know people who dont use them but they certainly would not count a part of my social life lol . i only even really hang out with the people i kno if we have drugs (not neccessarily true but to an extent) . cunts in my new area are shit .
 
ooooh boy does it... its a sad and unfortunate thing when your "social life" IS using and abusing substance... but yes i have no motivation for anything anymore.. i used to LOVE going to parties drinkn some beers gettin social n shit... but nowadays the ONLY thing that gets my engine running is like a brick or a few bundles... wen i come across that... im MAD excited lol.
 
I could say no, but I'd be lying to myself. I wouldn't say that my social life completely revolves around drugs and drug-use as, occasionally, I'll go hang out with friends for a bit without there being drugs involved; but, for the most part, yeah... yeah my social life really does revolve around drugs, and it's not something I'm proud of, either.

It sucks because even my friends whom I consider to be very good friends, best friends, even, I only see now whenever there's a drug transaction taking place or we're doing drugs together.

I can blame it, at least in part, on the economy and on our situation being just all-around not-so-great. I mean, even before getting into drugs, I still hung out with friends only occasionally, though admittedly more often than today, because it's just so hard to hang out with friends or want to hang out friends when you're broke all the time from paying all your bills and can't afford to do anything.

I had an older woman I work with once ask me what we "young people" do on the weekends, and she was genuinely curious to know, and told me that things are so bad now and so much worse from when she was a kid that she can't imagine where we go or what we do without money.

I think that what it comes down to is this: broke all the time and can't afford to do anything with friends... frustrated by being broke all the time and being unable to afford doing anything with friends... so frustrated by being broke all the time and being unable to do anything with friends, start doing drugs alone... so frustrated by being broke all the time and being unable to do anything with friends, start doing drugs with friends. haha

It's a strange thing, and it doesn't make complete sense, but that's what I've experienced and what I've found in others.
 
Yup, I'm either bored or calling up dealers when I go out with friends and no one has weed. Toking herb is still my way of starting the evening, or morning. When I'm not with friends I smoke too, but not as much, or often. Also usually not until the afternoon. I used to feel like I "needed" weed to relax for a long time. But a month and a half of being too low on cash to afford it changed that drastically.

I also get alot higher than I used to.

Other drugs are often consumed too. But if we aren't gonna do anything interesting, or need to get up early the next day, usually we just hang out and smoke pot.
 
It definitely doesn't but it did to some extent. But my life changed a lot from shooting up morphine and popping a lot of various benzodiazepines to getting stuck on methadone and some clonazepam. I used to be with girls addicted just like me, sometimes it could really piss me off and the other time I really pissed someone off. When you're in a never ending "dream", things start to get weird, like they weren't real or from this world. It's not a good idea for your social life. My group eventually fell apart. If I meet someone from those times, it's one person at one time, we don't arrange to meet any more. This life, well, generally everything that took place then, is gone now. I feel abandoned but in reality I don't think it was anyone's fault in particular.

Right now when I abuse something, I do it alone. Mostly, it's more methadone and more clonazepam than it should be, I was at a steady dose at some point, right now I'm not. I decrease methadone and get back to my normal dose of clonazepam when I can get a hold of some good weed. It helps me a lot with depression, not necessarily anxiety but I feel a lot chilled too. Unfortunately, this doesn't last longer than marihuana's effects, so I wake up in the morning and sometimes feel so cold, I smoke a bit to warm myself up.
 
no. there's certain people that blaze up all the time and when i see them they'll blaze and i'll take a hit or two. but i've gotten out of the druggie lifestyle, i usually work out, play sports, or work on music when i'm with people. once you're out of the lifestyle you see how shitty addicts really are. and i'm saying this as a former addict who rarely gets high anymore, i was a shady person too when i was strung out.
 
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