takemetoyourleader
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Personally man i dont think u have a probelem but i do agree with Ho Chi the stimulants will start to wear on ur brain and heart after a while
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I Need Opinions On My Drug Use
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That said, I think its really good that you're asking people with experience for advice rather than proudly hoofing it by yourself like I did.
Cane2theLeft
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There is no way to predict who will become an addict and who won't. When most people start to use/drink enough to negatively affect their obligations (school, work, family, social life, etc.) then they pull back or stop but addicts keep going despite these either because they deny the impacts/otherwise rationalize them or are aware and are past caring.
While there is no way to accurately predict who will become addicted (even with heroin, over 75% who try it do not become addicted), the most accurate indicator is how early someone tries drugs, how early someone gets into 'harder' drugs and how early they start using drugs regularly.
At your age, your prefrontal cortex isn't developed and this diminishes your capacity to understand and appreciate long-term consequences and make decisions accordingly. If you are regularly using drugs during this time, you'll arrest aspects of your development and exponentially increase the likelihood of having problems with drugs as well as psychologically and even physiologically down the road.
In my view, whether or not your use is responsible or problematic right now is irrelevant because if it's continued indefinitely, the incidence that it inevitably will be is essentially guaranteed.
It's easy to use at your age without experiencing a lot of consequences because you aren't financially supporting yourself, responsible for taking care of everything in your life and overall you essentially have a safety net under you so it's easy to take the risks you're taking. I am not saying you individually are not responsible at all, but given the circumstances, that can give people a false notion about the sustainability of their behavior when they are not experiencing the full consequences.
I suspect that no matter what is said here that you aren't going to even consider altering anything significantly so this is likely all futile and already knowing on some level that this is a problem, you're looking for reassurance to ease your conscience about what you're doing, but I can not implore you enough to really try to step back and consider this from other perspectives because right now your's is quite skewed.
While there is no way to accurately predict who will become addicted (even with heroin, over 75% who try it do not become addicted), the most accurate indicator is how early someone tries drugs, how early someone gets into 'harder' drugs and how early they start using drugs regularly.
At your age, your prefrontal cortex isn't developed and this diminishes your capacity to understand and appreciate long-term consequences and make decisions accordingly. If you are regularly using drugs during this time, you'll arrest aspects of your development and exponentially increase the likelihood of having problems with drugs as well as psychologically and even physiologically down the road.
In my view, whether or not your use is responsible or problematic right now is irrelevant because if it's continued indefinitely, the incidence that it inevitably will be is essentially guaranteed.
It's easy to use at your age without experiencing a lot of consequences because you aren't financially supporting yourself, responsible for taking care of everything in your life and overall you essentially have a safety net under you so it's easy to take the risks you're taking. I am not saying you individually are not responsible at all, but given the circumstances, that can give people a false notion about the sustainability of their behavior when they are not experiencing the full consequences.
I suspect that no matter what is said here that you aren't going to even consider altering anything significantly so this is likely all futile and already knowing on some level that this is a problem, you're looking for reassurance to ease your conscience about what you're doing, but I can not implore you enough to really try to step back and consider this from other perspectives because right now your's is quite skewed.