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

^Yeah opiates are so low key, especially if your friends don't know about opiates and tiny pupils. Opiate use isn't as common here in CA like it is in the East Coast, so people don't normally expect you to be on them. I've never been called out for having small pupils, by anyone, although my brother knows sometimes.
 
I've used opiates for over five years now every day pretty much and not a single person I know knows about it. Good in a sense, but kind of a lonely way to be as well. Lots of times I feel like I'd like to tell someone, because I think lots of my family and people I know think I'm just pathetic or something, I'm thin, pale, no friends, not involved in any activities or anything, I just work and sit at home the rest of the time. That's all changing here now that I'm getting off. But all the same, lots of wasted time. But if I sit back and think logically about it, I think it's probably ultimately by far for the best that I never told anyone or they never found out because of the stigma it would attach to me.
 
I used to walk into my art classes with short sleeves and tracks running up my arms. More than one I knocked an isle over too, in the midst of a nod, so I'd say I was pretty open about it at school. I felt bad for this girl in my math class. She always had to pick up my pencil for me. Otherwise my drug use is no secret to my family. Unfortunately
 
I say you only get one life...
As long as you have an idea of what your getting yourself into

Let us explore, let us go deeper.

however no i dont openly admit this to people i should perhaps haha
 
Basically everyone. I mean, I keep it away from my jobs, but it has spread through my family (that I'm a continually user over 9 years), and through my friends. I really don't mind my friends knowing, really it is a must. If you are really someone I consider a friend, you know about my drug use to an extent (basically I use more drugs than the avg stoner). Noone knows just how big of an addict I've become. Thats for me to keep secret and deal with I guess.
 
my co workers know(most of them, including one of my managers) because either they smoke weed or they dont care(and i can trust them). my mom denies that she knows i currently am. my closest friends. my bf and his friends that we have smoked with
 
I'm one of the few in my town who uses anything besides alcohol and pot so I mostly have to keep it to myself. And by mostly I mean that there are some drugs that freak people out if I mention it (cocaine, opiates) and there are others that people think are "cool" (shrooms) and then there's the grey area of synthetic psychs like LSD. Even with the "milder" drugs tho I still get looks of pity/shock/awkward looking down upon because I'm a girl and still kinda young and I guess it breaks they're stereotypes. People are fuckin judgmental...it sucks.
 
My friends all know I use, not my parents though.

When I go out drinking with my friends I usually have no problem busting out rails in front of them. Only 1 of my friends does coke, but all the ones who don't basically are on the "Everyone has their DOC" wavelength. Most of these guys get drunk 2-3x a week, whereas I get drunk once every 2-3 weeks.

Everyone at my work, managers included, knows I smoke weed. But everyone at my work, manager included, smokes weed so it doesn't matter. A lot of my coworkers know I do a lot of acid and coke as well, not my managers though :P
 
i have a lot of anger regarding my family - however i choose now not to use them as an excuse. as i am in my early 20's and want to overcome. it seems to me that i have known so many people who could have potentially been heroin addicts but had a safety net growing up- my safety net was heroin for a long time. i don't think it's okay, but people who don't consider me a freak for it but still love me are obviously considered special and i will never lie about my past with them because i don't need to. and not needing to is such a relief.
 
Pretty much everyone, though it's kind of an unspoken thing w/ my family (much like my homosexuality). It's nothing I'm proud of or ashamed of, it just IS. Luckily my line of work could give 2 shits what I do w/ my body on my off time (which is how it SHOULD be).

I'm all about "coming out" of the drug closet no matter the consequences. It was once illegal to be gay, too, until a few brave people took back control of their own bodies, minds and souls. That's what it comes down to at the end of all the drug war hooplah--your right to your own body and mind.

I wish more people were out and proud in America! This country is sorely in need of some positive drug-using role models.
 
My using buddies, my sister, my GF. My mum knows I'm no stranger to weed. My bosses know I tried weed, because I suspect they did it themselves ;-)
Few of my coworkers and bosses suspect I tried shrooms, but hardly "know".
Overall, I am not very open about this, because in my country any drugs considered hellish, but sometimes I babble too much about psychs to unrelated people, and they surely understand I've done psychs.
 
Lady Codone said:
Pretty much everyone, though it's kind of an unspoken thing w/ my family (much like my homosexuality). It's nothing I'm proud of or ashamed of, it just IS. Luckily my line of work could give 2 shits what I do w/ my body on my off time (which is how it SHOULD be).

I'm all about "coming out" of the drug closet no matter the consequences. It was once illegal to be gay, too, until a few brave people took back control of their own bodies, minds and souls. That's what it comes down to at the end of all the drug war hooplah--your right to your own body and mind.

I wish more people were out and proud in America! This country is sorely in need of some positive drug-using role models.
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lol, i got nothn against people choosing to do what they do to there own body but by no way do i think it is a good idea to encourage drug-using...
 
Only two people know about my current drug use. My using buddy and my dealer.

My family and friends dealt with the pot, the drinking and coke (way back when....), but I think slammin' dope might throw some over the edge. I'm too old for these shenanigans.
 
Lady Codone said:
Pretty much everyone, though it's kind of an unspoken thing w/ my family (much like my homosexuality). It's nothing I'm proud of or ashamed of, it just IS. Luckily my line of work could give 2 shits what I do w/ my body on my off time (which is how it SHOULD be).

I'm all about "coming out" of the drug closet no matter the consequences. It was once illegal to be gay, too, until a few brave people took back control of their own bodies, minds and souls. That's what it comes down to at the end of all the drug war hooplah--your right to your own body and mind.

I wish more people were out and proud in America! This country is sorely in need of some positive drug-using role models.
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Amen. There's a similarity there with you and myself, how my family treated my drug use and being not-quite-straight -- it was the elephant in the room that no one ever spoke of, even when my parents were picking me up from police stations for drug charges and never having a boyfriend over but always having that tomboy girl over, if you know what I mean...

Drug use is always seen as a failure of a human being but it doesn't have to be that way...

There's always a huge scandal when someone admits they've used drugs but there's no hoopla when someone admits to drinking a few cocktails, what gives? If DARE could show us what responsible drug use looked like, I think we'd be in business. I'm certainly not the person for the job though.

Like the past few presidents we've had have been seen as failures of human beings because Clinton smoked the ganja (but didn't inhale, God forbid!), Bush and his cocaine/alcoholism history and Barack Obama and his being a fucking SMOKER?!... I think he's also written about using cocaine in college or whatever in one of his autobiographies...

Good, Harm Reduction role models. I'm sure we could find someone here on BL.
 
I have two different lives basically, and thus the people from each know varying amounts of my drug use. Where I live my friends there only know i dabble in psychedelics, they don't know i eat drugs almost every weekend, and shoot up occasionally. My friends from where i grow up and visit most weekends know that I'm willing to do most drugs and experiment with new ones often. They think I have stopped shooting up though which isnt accurate. My parents know I have done various drugs, from having to pick me up from the hospital on various occasions. They don't know the extent of it though thank god ahah.

I agree with rabidrabbit, drug use shouldn't be such as big of an issue as it is. Everything in moderation and its fine. If you're smart with your intake there should be no reason why someone can tell you what you can and can't put in your body
 
I always openly speak out when it comes to drug decriminalizaton or legislation, bur I keep most of my use to myself.

All my coworkers and friends know I smoke weed regularly and am pro-drug, my opiate problems are only known by my immediate relatives, and the full scale of my substance adventures is known only to me.
 
Who do you share your drug use with, and to what extent?

My boyfriend knows about all of my drug use, and is fine with it. He is aware I'm responsible.

However, last night, my dad (who was in a horrible motorcycle crash and nearly died, and now lives in immense amounts of pain) and myself discussed his options for pain management. He is on a ton of opiates, and they recently took him off of morphine after he complained that he didn't like how it made him feel. He is now on fentanyl patches, which are not his cup of tea either, and dilaudid. I told him if he lived here (he is in America) he could be prescribed marijuana. He was a tad bit hesitant, but finally admitted that, early on, he was smoking quite a lot of pot to help with the pain, and help him to eat because he lost so much weight while he was in an induced coma and recovery. It was finally time, I thought, to let it out that I smoke pot, and buy various drugs to use both recreationally, and to treat my own medical issues (currently not insured, and not covered by government health care, so I cannot afford a doctor for my chronic pain and anxiety/agoraphobia/depression).
I was a little nervous, but he was completely supportive. We then spent about twenty minutes discussing the benefits, and awesome feelings, of marijuana and other drugs. I was so relieved.
My mother is aware of some of my drug use, and is okay with it, but as my stepdad works for the government, I'm cautious of what I share with her.
My sisters are also aware of my marijuana use, but nothing else, and they all smoke it as well. They are the "it's from the earth" types, so I don't push anything else really.

So, I'm just curious as to how open you are with those that are close to you, or your family, with your drug use. I have been told I'm too open. I've also been told I shouldn't tell my parents, but, I have a feeling people that tell me that would change their tune if they knew my parents. Heh.
 
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