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

Youth Pastor said:
Drugs artificially produce dopamine in the brain.
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Actually, they tend to induce dopaminergic function without increasing synthesis thereof (in most cases). Some, like cannabis, rather mildly, and for many psychedelics, not really in any relevant way.

In healthy brains, dopamine will decrease as to not cause an overload, resulting in psychosis.
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This tends to occur only with severe overuse of stimulants coupled with sleep deprivation.

Also, with some people, I believe (as in my brother), their brain may not decrease dopamine when the drug is consumed, again, resulting in psychosis.
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The dopamine hypothesis for schizophrenia is ambiguously and incompletely supported: it seems that there's a deeper pathology with neural circuitry that cooccurs with increased dopaminergic function. Instead, it seems that those with a predisposition to schizophrenia are 'set off' by stressful events and large shocks to perception, drugs being a key one. Really, alcohol is implicated in the development of psychosis far more often than psychedelics.

I hope you know my intentions are good here
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Only you'd know. ;) You seem like a nice, helpful person. . .

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I went to the gas station the other day and this random guy just yells "fuck your mother"-junkie , so that's about how "open" I am about my drug use.
 
i never made a secret out of anything i do in front of anyone... even my grandmother knows that i occasionally shoot skag. honestly, i never really gave a fuck who knew. i refuse to be ashamed about anything that makes me feel good. there are precious few things these days i enjoy and fuck anyone who says i can't take my enjoyment where i find it.
 
you'd think confessing to friends/family about recovery from opiates would be happy times

i probably shouldn't have told people who don't use anything more than alcohol

because it's obvious that i've lost the trust of a lot of people, and alienated by others....people i enjoy, it's not that easy to just say ' fuck 'em, who cares', cause i valued their relationships

i feel like as soon as something of their's gets misplaced or stolen, i'm gonna be number one suspect
 
I tend to be as libertarian and open as humanly possible about all of my drug use...opiates, hallucinogens...hell, even poisons and deliriants. Drug use is a private property issue...my body is my private property and I'll do with it as i see fit. But at the same time, I afford that same freedom to others as well. If anyone has a problem with that, that's perfectly fine (and actually, it's to be expected). That's part of being an adult...realizing others will openly dislike your opinions or way of life. But hiding or being timid about one's passions or interests (in this case, "experimentation with consciousness") only promotes misinformation and distrust.

"Secrecy, withholding the signal, hoarding, hiding, covering up the light is motivated by shame and fear, symptoms of the inability to love. Secrecy means that you think love is shameful and bad. Or that your nakedness is ugly. Or that you hide unloving, hostile feelings. Seeds of paranoia and distrust.....We operate on the assumption that everyone knows everything, anyway. There is nothing and no way to hide. This is the acid message." - Timothy Leary

Or as the good sir Bill Hicks more bluntly stated, "Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life."
 
I am pretty much a very secretive person when it comes to drug use, my girlfriend is in the dark about everything other than pot, mainly because we smoke it together.. but
I dont necessarily think that is a bad thing.. the people that know i do drugs are the people i do said drugs with, and i really like to keep it that way.
 
My family and close friends know I use Xanax and Kpin because they are prescribed to me for severe anxiety (though they aren't aware of my levels of tolerance/abuse). Only my hookup and a few online friends know about anything else.
 
My mom knows how much oxy im prescribed(more than her stage 3 cancer pain prescription). My friends know about a quarter of how much i take. The truth comes out in self depricating jokes. The truth is if people like you or u are close. It wont change their perception of you.
 
All my friends know about my drug use, some I might not bring up the fact I have smoked ice or done heroin recently or whatever, but they know I have done that shit before and will again. My immediate family know about a lot of my history with drugs, which is extensive, only my brother knows the full extent of everything, I assume my sister can tell I atleast smoke weed given she is 16 and not stupid. My parents probably deny to themselves that I continue to use much drugs to this day, with perhaps the exception of occassional cannabis use, but they are aware I am prescribed benzo's and pretty much aware I am an alcoholic. I really don't make much effort to hide the fact that I am a pot head to them other than denying it if I am asked (which I never am lol) and I am an open advocate for total drug law reform to everyone from my parents to my employer.
 
Literally everyone. Everyone.

I have tracks that can't be hidden. Got busted shooting up in the bathroom on Christmas Eve a few years ago, after my dealer called 10 bazeelion times trying to find the house I was at. Asshole.

Before that I didn't really care tho. Get strange looks from friends, when in the middle of dinner at a fancy restaurant you open up your bag and rattle out a handful of pills. LOL!

I never really gave a fuck to begin with. Not the best policy, really, I can tell you.
 
Luckily heroin somehow hasnt destroyed me physiologically, i mean me veins in spots arent great, and its really sub derma scar tissue that isnt that visable, i guess it is for me simply bc i know its there. But my eyes are dead give away for hey i smoke budz dood! But i dont even burn much anymore. I want off the methadone and xanax train. Both are being gradually tapered, and honestly i cant wait till i am free of it all. I look forward to when the day comes that having a few bingers will be me breaking bad.
 
i'm starting to become more private about my use, even though i still smoke in my car and thus it reeks. for example a popo pulled me over today and he was like, i really wanna search your car cause it reeks, and i was like, sure if it makes you happy. then we both laughed and he searched my ride and found nothing. i should find a solution to the car reek.
 
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