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How big is the social stigma drugs gave you?

SoonAJunkie

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We all know that drug users are treated without respect,people tend to stay away from drug users,and if we're talk about teenagers,parents even don't allow their children to be friends with their fellow drug users.They aren't even hired in jobs they have the qualifications for.What's the social stigma drugs gave you? How has it affected your life?
My friends know about my heroin use but they haven't taken it seriously...My best friend knows everything but still he is friend with me.My parents have found out about my lsd use months ago and well, it's still very bad,they don't trust me,they check my money, and I've lost tons of respect from them.As I said,my social stigma is not bad cause not a lot of people know about it.That's why I'm talking about drugs here,cause I don't have the chance to do it in the real world
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i think a lot of social stigma drug users have is from acting shady, not from using drugs. not all drug users act shady of course but a lot of them do, i'm a drug user myself but i prefer to hang out with people who don't use (mainly the people i lift weights with and shit like that with) because with a lot of drug people there's always an agenda.
 
Idk I've always been open about my drug use so that people will take me for who I am not some false persona, and I've found that The only time people really get sketched out is when they see me get dopesick, which made me want to taper off opiates, because I knew I was never gonna quit for my own benefit until i hit rock bottom, which wasn't something i wanted to do.
 
My heroin use didn't create much social stigma with my friends or family. Mostly just concern. However my petit thefts committed in the name of heroin make employers hesitant to hire me. I had to enter a very dangerous and insane profession. It is lucrative but almost everybody has an extensive criminal history or is an ex-addict because you have to be pretty crazy to walk on six inch wide girders, hundreds of feet in the air, while you have 40lbs of tools strapped to your waist.
 
To be honest, i think i've made more friends through the pursuit of drugs than lost them. Every time i can find someone who has a supplier for something i can't find elsewhere, i befriend them and that's lead me to make more friends this year than i have in all the other years of my life combined. I'm also very open about the drugs i like and don't and even the ones i plan on trying soon so i can get that out of the way sooner rather than later and that really helps too. Based on all that, i think it's brought me the opposite of a stigma but i am aware that if i end up meeting just the wrong person, it can get me in a lot of trouble.
 
I don't lie about what I use when with friends and they don't hold it against me. When I'm in public and want to keep a low profile I'll wear a dress shirt instead of my hoodie and make sure I'm clean shaven. Voila, clean white boy status. I don't wear any clothing that depicts paraphernalia or incriminating slogans, nor do I have track marks. Makes things a lot easier.
 
I don't lie about what I use when with friends and they don't hold it against me. When I'm in public and want to keep a low profile I'll wear a dress shirt instead of my hoodie and make sure I'm clean shaven. Voila, clean white boy status. I don't wear any clothing that depicts paraphernalia or incriminating slogans, nor do I have track marks. Makes things a lot easier.

This is me. Only problem is my weed dealer said I've been too fucked up when I came over to buy weed. He told me this while I was buying from him!!! His problem is not my state of intoxication but the fact that I reach it before he gets off work. Fucking weird just give me my weed. I know a guy that got shit cheaper and don't care how fucked up I get on my own time. Guess who just got replaced???
 
I don't get very much social stigma for my drug use, but I'm also not a user of hard drugs, and live in an area where most people don't care about others lifestyle choices, so that may be why. All my coworkers and at least one of my employers know I use a lot of marijuana and psychedelics (some other employees smoke pot & drink all day at work and still no one gives a shit...personally I don't find weed gels with working, but I'll go to work on Kratom sometimes, and at some point I know I'll end up on stimulants at work), my family knows, I drink beer & smoke pot with my dad sometimes and he was an acid-head in his youth so he knows whats up with that, my friends are pothead/psychedelic users as well, there are a lot of hippies in this area so people are used to acid-fried weirdos around here I guess.
 
Created some stigma, shit get strange once you start on the needle. All my friends were using oxy and tons of other pills. I switched over to H because of how much cheaper it was and how much better it was. I was trying to explain that its pretty much the same thing at the end of the day and was asking them why any of them would pay 40 dollars for a beer when they could get a shot of vodka for 3 bucks. This analogy was lost on them, i did get a kick out of some dude snorting an 80 telling me i had a problem because i like to shoot heroin.
 
Reminds me of a long time ago when allot of friends were giving me so much shit for wanting to try heroin. I got that it was solely out of concern for my own well being especially since I was the youngest one in that circle of friends; but it's funny how me doing lines of coke+oxy mixed together was fine. We had previously used those drugs together countless times and they would always compliment me for having better self control with them than they did; but doing the big bad H is going too far. meh 8)
 
There are very few people who's feelings about my drug choices actually matter to me.
I guess my closest friends are comparatively open minded for not thinking of me too differently for trying (sometimes heavily) all sorts of drugs when they have mostly stuck to weed. There is one aunt and uncle that may never feel the same way about me because they know of an incident in which I was hospitalized due to an opiate overdose, but otherwise I think been carefull when its mattered.
 
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I've been addicted to dilaudid, morphine, fentanyl and oxy and noone even notices. At worst they will notice that i look kinda sick which passes off for the flu or cold. I have people close to me that know i was banging over 100mg's of dilly a day but they don't blab about it. Plus i was addicted to IV Coke (hell i was banging some tonight which is why i feel like shit now :\ ) and that often did make me basically non functional as i just wanted a hit just one hit ;) . I would do shit and go out n stuff but it was only when i had coke enough to last me or wasn't craving too bad for it and was taking something else.

Alcohol was another drug i was addicted to which was probably just as bad as coke/crack. Plus i was a bad drunk for years.
 
To be honest, i think i've made more friends through the pursuit of drugs than lost them. Every time i can find someone who has a supplier for something i can't find elsewhere, i befriend them and that's lead me to make more friends this year than i have in all the other years of my life combined. I'm also very open about the drugs i like and don't and even the ones i plan on trying soon so i can get that out of the way sooner rather than later and that really helps too. Based on all that, i think it's brought me the opposite of a stigma but i am aware that if i end up meeting just the wrong person, it can get me in a lot of trouble.

Yea but are these true blue friends or just drug buddies?
 
To be honest, i think i've made more friends through the pursuit of drugs than lost them.

I know that's true for me. Yeah, I've lost some friends, but not many. And the friends I've lost, I don't think they were great friends anyway.

Ahh there is a social stigma though. It's kinda crazy. Some people think I'm dumb when that's far from the truth. LOL. Ahh I don't tend to look like a stereotypical user though so many people can't even tell. I lie all the time, for the sake of my job mostly. :P
 
Created some stigma, shit get strange once you start on the needle. All my friends were using oxy and tons of other pills. I switched over to H because of how much cheaper it was and how much better it was. I was trying to explain that its pretty much the same thing at the end of the day and was asking them why any of them would pay 40 dollars for a beer when they could get a shot of vodka for 3 bucks. This analogy was lost on them, i did get a kick out of some dude snorting an 80 telling me i had a problem because i like to shoot heroin.

Yeah, syringe use definitely can create more of a social stigma, it did for me anyways. Thankfully I now have good friends that are REAL friends but when I first started shooting up, a lot of people that I would hang out with slowly stopped hanging out with me over the years and I've also noticed that when trying to hook up with a girl who doesn't use, her seeing my tracked up arms can make for a awkward conversation. It's the same with job interviews, I mainly just lie to naïve people and say that I was in the hospital for a while after a car crash and I had to have a lot of IV's put in me lol. Everyone I know right now is fairly non judgmental about my drug use and really, they only care about me shooting bupe, dope or smoking crack and that's just because we're all opiate addicts and we all worry about each other fucking our lives up or dying.
 
This is a very important topic or concept for me. My whole life since I left school has been to be different, but not just for the point of it, but different in terms of challenging the status quo, questioning everything, not being a sheep and most importantly advertising my differences (whether they are perceived as faults or strengths, doesnt matter) to everybody, not in a cocky way but in a way that tries to humbly show people that there is nothing wrong with thinking differently, living differently, not conforming to what society has decided is how a person should live, act or think.

For this reason, I never hid my drug use from anybody, well maybe for a year but soon stopped hiding it, since i started at about 23yo, 7 years back, lost many friends in the beginning yeah, but kept all the ones that where real and valuable. My true friends never left or judged me, even if they didnt do drugs themselves, and it really showed me true friendships over mere social acquaintances or shallow relationships. I know have real close friendships even with some people that I disliked, judged or plain hated from before. One of my closest friend now is a guy that hates drugs and drug users, and i hated in school, yet knows of my usage and we still somehow work. Always being open and humble about my mistakes, weaknesses and activities has been incredibly liberating and valuable in my life and relationships with real friends and family, however its tough in the beginning when you still care about what other people think of you.

With regards to my mom, she has always been aware of my drug use, as a hardcore christian who wont even touch weed, I have often sat and had long discussions with her about my time taking crystal meth, the feeling, the euphoria, and its amazing to be able to do that with your own mother who is family and you love, and they actually listen and find interest in an experience so beyond their understanding its crazy. In the beginning the usual pre-judgement is there, but after years they learn that your not some failure, weak person, junkie, just different with different ideas, and she listens and understands why i do drugs and it was so worth the effort and pain being open about it from the start. Obviously, not all parents can handle this, my mother is awesome, however I would never tell or try this with my dad ever, so it depends.

Anyways, the point is drugs has taught me to be proud of being different or have faults and accept any ignorance and blind judgement with a smile and a humble response, and boy does it make you stronger when you start off as a shy person who values them self purely through how other people view them. Hell I spent 6 years of my life trying to build my own internet business just to prove the society approved concept of a job is bullshit. Getting a career, praying for promotions you have no control over, selling all your time, your whole life to somebody else making some other person rich, and finally retiring and dying with a small pension, with nothing to show for you entire life of service? fuck that idea. Why anybody accepts that society approved life is still a complete mystery to me.

I was mocked by family and friends for years, watching people have nice things, get girlfriends, get promoted while i spent all my time and spare money on creating my own business, outwarding seeming to never get anywhere, until i eventually did it 4 years later. Now I work 1 hour a day max, answer to nobody, make money while is sleep, can do anything i want any day or time i want, literally retired before 30. I proved it to everybody and it was cool for a while, but some people still dont accept it, are still convinced that somehow my life of total freedom is worse then their life of career slavery. You learn you just cant convince some people, no matter how hard you try. After that i realized you need to be different for you, doing it to prove something has a fleeting reward at best. I will say however doing something just to prove a naysayer wrong is one of the most motivating methods, hell most everything i achieved was simply to prove to the old man that i could when he said it was impossible, and of course it was never enough.

But still being different, and challenging the norm, even if i look like an idiot or an outcast because of it, has made me happy, made my life have value, and i wouldn't change any of it ever just to fit in and be accepted by society. The day society takes me in and doesnt see me as an abbe-ration to be corrected is the day i know Ive fucked up or sold out. Hell, I would most likely always openly do drugs just to be able to say and to prove that I can be a normal, decent, successful and contributing member of society, friend and family man while still having different ideas and a different life then what society says is acceptable. My number one rule? Question Everything but judge nothing until you have all the facts. But be prepared to be wrong and make concessions, and be humble even when you know your are right. A hard life that teaches you the true meaning that ignorance is "bliss". Fuk bliss though, its for pussies. If lifes not hard, its not worth living.
 
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