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How open are you about your drug use?

spiralza

spiralza

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I don't know if there's been a topic like this recently, but I can't find it here. If there is one, feel free to close this. :)

This is something I've been thinking about for awhile. This forum serves to bring people together and discuss the common interest of using psychoactive drugs recreationally, but this is over the internet, where we can safely hide behind avatars and aliases. I'm sure that in our real world social lives, most of us have a number of friends who use drugs as well...but outside of them, just how open are you about your drug use?

Obviously, you aren't just going to go up to a random stranger and tell them you just got finished slamming a shot of H. I'm talking about non-using friends, family members, acquaintances, co-workers, etc. Do you go to great lengths to hide your use or is it common knowledge? Are you okay with revealing certain aspects of your use while keeping other specific information to yourself?

Yes, I know there's a lot of GOOD reasons to not let just anyone know about your habits, but some people, I've seen, are quite relaxed in letting others know just how fucked up they are. I myself have been known to mention to a classmate here or there that I'm stoned or on benzos every now and then. And at my job, well, almost everyone gets a little silly there, so that's a different story. For a long time I wouldn't even let my close friends know about my short love affair with heroin; everything else, however, I can be a little too open about.

...okay I'm just rambling now. Sorry if this is a bad idea, but this is something that's interesting to me.
 
Im pretty hush hush about it to co workers and people I go to school with, however, lately I just tell people about how high I was this or that night etc etc.
 
I'm open. When I say open I mean that I disclose my use of psychedelics and other drugs to friends, family and co-workers.

When I was dealing hardcore with my Heroin addiction though I kept it hush hush. After rehab things are like, "Well you've been there and we know its a part of you so whatever."
 
I'm completely open with my friends and most of my peers. I'm selective when it comes to my family. But i certainly don't deny using drugs. I am not at all ashamed of who i am or what i do.
 
Too open...especially when I'm drunk.

It blows now, 'cause everyone at my work thinks I'm a meth cook or something, I have no idea where they got that from but I'm guessing I said something stupid when I was drunk.

I just think how funny it would be if someone narced on me because of that, and the police raid my place looking for a major lab or something...and there's not even a scrap of anything lying around =D
 
Not that open, although people get curious when they realize I know a lot about drugs.
 
i dont really go around telling people but if im confronted by someone i confirm or deny a certain rumor they may have heard. but im definetly not somebody who flaunts there drug use off
 
Not that open, although people get curious when they realize I know a lot about drugs.
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I get that too, like, people will be talking about something at work or wherever and mention some stupid rumor about drugs and right away I'll tear whatever they said to shreds. =D
 
im pretty un-open about hard drug use...i'm kinda obvious about smoking a whole lotta weed.
 
I was in class the other day and my teacher was talking about some new form of opiate thats killing off people due to unexpected potency levels and i was like "fetanyl", she was like "yes thats it!" got a lot of stares from that one.
 
I'm not open unless I find out they do drugs, but am sometimes a bit too open when I'm already on drugs and blurt shit. I should really be less open, although people typically describe me as quiet, straight edge, mysterious....only a few people know of me, and only one person online REALLY gets me, knows everything, but no one irl.

Luckily a history of drugs isn't on my record. Haven't told any doctors...hopefully they'll never know cuz there goes my biggest source of drugs.

Actually I guess I'm not that bad about disclosing my drug use. If I was anymore antidrug in appearance and such and never talked about drugs with anyone...I'd have no hookups or anything.
 
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I advertise my drug use all over the place. I talk about it in person, blog about it on myspace, post about it all over various internet message boards with my real name, picture, where I train, where I compete, all kinds of stuff.

Bottom line is that as long as junkies on the corner and goofy stoner types outwardly represent "drug users" drug use will continue to be looked down on and assumed to all be evil addicts that will steal for a fix or just want to smoke pot and jack off while eating doritos all day.

The only way that recreational drug use will ever become acceptable is if people that are healthy, happy, and successful admit to their useage and change the image of the "drug user".
 
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I'm not really open..my mom knows and a few close friends know..other than that no one in my family knows and it will probably stay that why...I would have to get really close to someone to let them know..
 
My close friends and father knows all about my drug use. My mom knows I smoke pot and tried other drugs and about my opiate addiction. My extended family knows I smoked pot because I got in trouble for it and my parents told their parents who told everyone else.

I don't tell strangers anything about drugs. When I overhear random people stating incorrect facts about drugs as truth I'll usually correct them.l I dress somewhat conservatively in jeans and button down blouses with chucks or black heels so I don't look like the stereotypical drug user. It makes me feel more comfortable talking about drugs in public since we all know that nerdily dressed white people don't do drugs ;). Seriously though I have noticed that if I'm well dressed people are a lot more receptive to me correcting me than when I'm dressed in festival clothing :\
 
I'm a business professional. NO ONE knows of my coke habit. Not close friends, not family, and certainly not my co-workers.

I guess this is between me, my dealer, and you guys now.

Btw, been lurking awhile. Joined today.
 
my family knows. my close friends know but most of them are users too. my co-workers, my classmates, no clue. by my appearance & my interests (music and such) people can pretty much guess that I smoke pot and might've dabbled in some other stuff, which is funny, because I don't really smoke pot anymore. i don't think anyone has me pegged for a doper, i don't get roaring fucking high in public, long-sleeved shirts, etc. psychedelics i think people probably know that i have used 'em because i pretty openly identify with a certain subculture and sometimes lapse into hippie psychobabble from time to time ...
 
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Extremely "unopen."

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Indeed. The way it should be IMO. Being "unopen" keeps the doors to drama fucking closed.
 
I don't tell people unless i know them well. I don't want it to ever be a first impression, because i know what those lead to. If i tell people how much i actually do and enjoy drugs, it'll be to someone i know who's opinion of me won't change because of it.


I guess it's a little paranoia...mostly i just don't want to put up with the shit that stigmatizes drug users.
 
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