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How open are you about your drug use? Who knows you use drugs?

I'm glad basically 99% of my friends know I'm a big drug user. For one it is a big part of my life because I enjoy drugs on another level than just indulging, so it is important to understanding who I am. Also, I want those individuals be able to ask me any questions about using drugs. My friends know to come to me if they need any sort of information, harm reduction, pharmacology, or whatever before they take anything they are not informed about. I've helped my friends make better choices, so I'm more than happy with being honest with my friends. Also, anyone who I could even consider being a real friend, has to know and be accepting about my drug use. Some might say, this might be limiting with friends, but I have more very close friends than I have friends. So I'm more than happy about the friends i have.
 
Basically i'd break it down into several categories for myself

Opiates: I dont tell no one about this
Psychedelics: only a few close friends and my brother
Benzos: dont really care, I dont bring it up but wont deny using it if someone asked me
Weed: really dont care

now obviously this excludes my parents, people I work with, and random people I encounter.
 
Most of my friends know, I work in McDonald's and most of my co workers there know, eve some of the managers. I have only told very few of my family members about my drugs use and I have a pretty big family, told the ones who I know have taken drugs therefore I was comfortable telling them that I had taken drugs.
 
My friends all know and when I say friends I don't refer to everyone I have ever had pleasant conversations with as a friend, I mean literally the handful of people that I know I can rely on no matter what. One friend is a self confessed pot addict and heavy drinker so she doesn't mind, even though the stuff I use is alot harder she has never judged or discriminated me for it. My other best friend is just a drinker, no desire to touch any sort of mind altering substance but again she has no problem with what I choose to do as long as Im looking after myself.

Boyfriend and I use together and met in a mutual drug crowd. Have never told my parents what I have tried but my dad is street smart and has tried a few things himself back in the 60's so I have a sneaking suspicion he already knows but being the type of person he is he won't step in unless he sees it becoming a problem.
 
All my friends know that I'm using different kinds of drugs for several years, and that's part of my lifestyle. I mean, they wouldn't be "friends" for me if they just ignore something that managed to get such a place in my life. Basically, everyone I meet and talk a bit with is likely to discover it quite quickly, 'cause it's not something I'm hiding or I'm ashamed of. Of course, I speak more freely and extensively about drugs with those of my friends who also use - a large amount of them, actually.

My family is reduced to a very few people. My mother is the only one aware of my drug use (she knows the broad outlines, not all details about substances, quantities, frequency ...), partly because she was the privileged witness of my adolescence and my early adulthood, but mostly because even though she disapproved, get worried and still does not understand what I'm looking for into drugs, she finally accepted it and trusts my judgment.

During my studies and my professional life, I try to be discreet about my private life.
 
Only close friends, they know everything and never judge me (on the other hand.. if I really got into really heavy addiction they probably wouldn't help/recognize either ha!)

Not so close friends know just about weed, and with random strangers I don't even talk about that.
 
I'm way too open with it. I'm sure all my college professors knew I smoked. All of my friends are wildly aware that I have an experimental and somewhat addictive personality. My parents are aware that I smoke weed every day, usually multiple times a day. I wish I had tried to keep it more of a secret throughout the years. It adds a lot of unnecessary anxiety to be fearful of people judging me (I try not to).
 
I'm way too open about it for my own good. I use any drug I can get, soft and hard drugs. All of my friends know I've used a lot of drugs for my 18 years, but most people are interested in my heroin use, one thing I should definitely have kept to myself as gossip spreads very quickly in a small town like this where you get beaten up for using heroin.

Recently I've been hanging out with a new group of people my own age and I've smoked heroin in front of them on multiple occasions because they are liberal-minded and sometimes use drugs themselves, but not heroin. I didn't see any reason to hide it from them, in fact I felt I was doing the right thing because I felt that hiding my habit would make it seem like I had something to be ashamed. But one or two of those people have since passed it on to other stoners. Only a few days ago, my 15-year-old cousin told me he heard I was using heroin. Now he associates with older stoners and druggies but if it was his older brother that heard I know I would be in major trouble as he would have told his parents who would tell mine.

Just last night I was hanging out with the same group of people when two people - friends of people in the group - arrived and took an immediate disliking to me. I've never really spoken to them but I could see they were whispering to each other about me. I was nothing but friendly to them but I reckon they heard from someone within the group that I used and thought I was scum because of it.

I know I've been stupidly open, but I had good intentions really. Heroin users are viewed as lepers in the society I live in and I thought that if I hid my use I would only be re-enforcing that. I really don't fit the 'junkie' stereotype; I come from a respected family, very middle-class. I attend one of the best schools in the country and my grades are well above the national average. Yes that was all very boastful but I'm just trying to create an image here. Lol. Life hasn't exactly been perfect for me but using heroin is a personal choice for me. I think that rather than challenging people's view of heroin users has actually backfired on me - my situation makes it all the more scandalous and gossip-worthy.

Basically, I never gave a flying fuck who knew about my drug use until it lessened people's respect for me. But I guess that the people I should care about won't mind and the people that think less of me really don't matter!
 
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I admit to being a drug user who keeps it quite under self-control and self discipline.I screen who I associate with through personality profiling,It works well for me. I also look for allies that have the same mutual self-interest. I suggest to all drug users apply the risk analysis and threat assessment approach in selecting your compattible people in this subculture.
 
Im quite open with it, and dont give a fuck. everybody i know drinks anyway. a lot of them smoke cigs. if they wanna criticize me they're hypocritical pricks, and ill argue my point
 
Pretty much all my friends/family know I have my cannabis card, as for the prescription drugs, only close friends and family know, and they don't know or understand the extent. As for the hard drugs, I usually only share this info with my best friend and girlfriend.
 
My (ex)boyfriend, my old dealer (now in jail) so now only his wife - who lives in a different city. Looking forward to another summer wearing long sleeves. My family would flip. I'm old enough to know better than to pull this shit.
 
Who keeps heroin use a secret?

So I have been using heroin for a little while only with my brother and nobody knows about my use. Most of my friends use cocaine and ecstasy and drink and smoke heavily. I just feel like if I told people a lot of friends would look down on me, does anyone else feel the same. Or have experiences of taking shit from friends after people finding out you use?
 
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