How functional are you on your drugs?

[Allure]

I've been completely, fully functional with daily IV meth use since January of this year. I've been using on and off for 16 years.

Didn't start IVing it until 2014. Quit for 2 years, now I'm back...

Up to a point or 2 per day. Sleep, eat, act normally. No one that I don't want to know knows how deep into my addiction I am.

Anyone else out there on my level of functionality? I have questions for you if you are!

 

[LucidSDreamr]

When you have the money and access to drugs its pretty easy to be functionable. No matter what the demands on you are. Shit if you have enough opiates or stims it's easily to outperform and outwork your sober colleauges



When the problems happen is when you get caught without drugs then csnt even leave your bed or hold in you bodily excrement...but thatis more of a prohibition issue not a drug issue.

..or when the health problems associated with daily use catch up to you and you can no longer work.


Is it sustainable? Yes for a certain period of tine... eventually it comes crashing down in one way or another.

Let's not forget the emotional changes that happen from daily use that damage personal relationships.


So ymir your definition of functional is not getting fired ...then yes. But there is a lot of dysfunctions that come from long term drug use that is unavoidable and we can deny it all we want but its ther sooner or later

 

[Tubbs]

I was a daily meth user for a little over 2 years, smoking mainly, iv when i could sneak it past the ex..... a pretty heavy habit...... i worked 2 full time jobs, several side jobs, took care of 3 kids, spent time with the ex (mainly using and sex tbf....), and maintained a few close friendships...... amazing what you can do with 24 hours in a day...... did pretty well until things started going wrong and i went more than a little nuts. Still use occasionally, but nowhere near that scale.

Pretty functional when i force myself to be semi responsible.

 

[nuttynutskin]

I take kratom and drink coffee before working out, so yeah. %)

 

[Allure]

When you have the money and access to drugs its pretty easy to be functionable. No matter what the demands on you are. Shit if you have enough opiates or stims it's easily to outperform and outwork your sober colleauges



When the problems happen is when you get caught without drugs then csnt even leave your bed or hold in you bodily excrement...but thatis more of a prohibition issue not a drug issue.

..or when the health problems associated with daily use catch up to you and you can no longer work.


Is it sustainable? Yes for a certain period of tine... eventually it comes crashing down in one way or another.

Let's not forget the emotional changes that happen from daily use that damage personal relationships.


So ymir your definition of functional is not getting fired ...then yes. But there is a lot of dysfunctions that come from long term drug use that is unavoidable and we can deny it all we want but its ther sooner or later

When I am without it's EXTREMELY difficult for me to find the motivation for anything.

I haven't really ran into any major consequences. That is not to say I haven't in the past.h

The only thing is my boyfriend (who is an addict himself and is remaining abstinent through this) does not like me doing it. He didn't know for 2 months that I was using, IVing, daily. Until he relapsed and I broke down and told him.

But it's so damn hard for me to not function at all when I go even 36 hours without.

 

[Allure]

I was a daily meth user for a little over 2 years, smoking mainly, iv when i could sneak it past the ex..... a pretty heavy habit...... i worked 2 full time jobs, several side jobs, took care of 3 kids, spent time with the ex (mainly using and sex tbf....), and maintained a few close friendships...... amazing what you can do with 24 hours in a day...... did pretty well until things started going wrong and i went more than a little nuts. Still use occasionally, but nowhere near that scale.

Pretty functional when i force myself to be semi responsible.

I have major responsibilities at home.

I can't "go big or go home"with my use. But... It's not even hard to go about like my once normal self.

I just get sick of being dependant on it. Without it... Brain zaps, general discomfort, major blues.

 

[Gormur]

I wouldn't have a problem doing tina all day either. Except i'd have to vape it cause it's too sketchy intranasal
I bet i could even do cocaine everyday, i mean provided i could source enough
I do have ADD and dyslexia though. My reactions to these drugs are considered exceptional

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

When on any type of sedative I always end up overdoing it and end not being able to even take care of the basics.
When on stimulants I am actually significantly more functional than I am sober.

 

[2spun4one]

Sometimes I wonder why so many find it impossible to be functional. I go through more meth in one day than many do all week, or even weeks, without appearing to be on anything...at all.

 

[JoEhJoEh]

It depends.... During the week when I have to work with people I just take my Amphetamine because of ADHD and for my sleep problems I smoke a joint in the evenings....

But when I'm really high-dosing benzos during the weekend - forget me.....


JJ