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Looking like an Addict. Lifestyle v. DOC v. All drugs

doppelganga196 said:
I can usually tell if a person is likely to have ever 'tried pot' in their lifetime.
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Please elaborate. Do you mean you can tell if someone would say yes or no to pot, or do u mean you could tell ppl who have tried pot apart from ppl who haven't? Can you tell from a quick look at a stranger whether or not he has EVER tried pot? Impressive...
 
i look like a quintessential junkie..
whenever i go out in public i only wear black hoodies -my fav's are especially my slayer hoodie or my hoodie with the rib cage print on the front/back- and i only have jeans that i wear for work so theyre all dirtie/rattie with holes and what not.. as well i look unhealthy.. just like an addict in general; guess its cuz i am..
about a month ago i was sitting on a bench in downtown having a smoke whilst waiting for the man, and a dude in a business suit came up to me and asked if i was alright, and if he needed to call an ambulance.. guess it was cuz i just looked so fucked on meth.. had a black eye too and im sure that didnt help..
 
Its odd some people are easy to spot some are not. When im on H I look like a ray of sunshine , smoke some herb I look like im squinting and cannot control it, Speed im just to overly happy with the most mundane things, but on hallucinogens as long as I dont have the giggles im good. Of course I take very good care of myself mentally and physically.
P.s I think Im an addict radar as well its got me stuff before like a hunch "bet that guy has something" then I walk away ready to do something. Body Language is the best way to tell when you match it with the words they say as well. That goes for just reading people addicts cunts ect ect.
 
The best way to tell if someone is an addict is to hint at drugs in the conversation. Unless you're the dude's boss or priest most people, in my experience, tend to enjoy bringing the topic up.
 
doppelganga196 said:
I can usually tell if a person is likely to have ever 'tried pot' in their lifetime.
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So can I. I just assume everyone has tried weed and it turns out I'm right... about 50% of the time[1]

[1]http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1821697,00.html
 
Opiates completely changed the look of my face. Other than just the skull shapeI think there is a certain look people get when their an opiate addict. I can see it in my brother at the moment. It is very hard to describe. I have a good eye for addicts! I would say once you've been a junky you can spot a junky pretty easily. Not just in the look of the face though, lots more too it, a lot in the aura.
 
mami said:
A similar thing can be noticed in cigarette smokers and alcoholics. Even sharply dressed, I think I can detect someone's drug use with small margin of error
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I'd have to disagree with this idea from my personal experience with abusing drugs. I've got a picture of me taken two days into a Mephedrone binge this time last year (my lowest point with drugs, thus far...), I should look an absolute wreck, but because I generally took care of my appearance and health, even at my most unhealthy times (eating/vitamins on a binge, runs commencing morning after first sleep in 3 days, continuing all week, mostly for the reason of feeling back to normal asap so I could get back on the stuff, but still), and had to look nice to go to the casino I look very well to do in the picture. I'd say I've always been able to sport an effective 'mask' so that only people I want to know I use, know I use.
 
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I'm not what you'd call an addict. But there have been times due to the nature of my work shifts that I've beeen up for 3 days with no more than 9 hrs sleep, with the aidof prescribed adderall & caffeine. How did I look ok? Since my job is very physical, I guess my "hardworking" look overrode my "strung out" look.
 
Bojangles69 said:
You can't tell and please don't tell me you can. You likely just assume that a lot of insecure/shady looking people are on drugs, and maybe got lucky once or twice actually identifying addicts.

But if I showed you 20 pictures, with addicts randomly mixed in, I guarantee you couldn't pick out more than 10% of them. I'm not trying to be mean I mean just listen to what you're saying. Addiction has A LOT of parallel side effects that can be associated to a long list of other disorders. I do think sometimes they have similar behavoirs, but those behavoirs can be caused by too many other things.
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I agree with the pictures test, but let me have a 2 minute conversation standing close to those same twenty people BLINDFOLDED and I will ID a way higher percentage. It's not looks, it's body language, it's behavior, it's the way someone handles themselves, etc...
 
The Druggie "Look": Lifestyle v. DOC v. All drugs

People always guess that I'm at least 10 years older than I am. Even when I was 16 someone thought I was 24. The thing is, at my age (23), I consider it a compliment.

Wait. Is it?

I see people who are 35 but look 50 and it's sorta obvious that drugs were the reason behind it. Am I too following down this path? The thing is, I always associated that with being a junkie (not to say I haven't done my share of heavy drug use.)

Anyways, my question is this. Is it the fact that some drugs make people homeless. Is it because of certain drugs (deviated septum from coke, meth mouth, track marks from H, etc). Or does heavy substance abuse (even just weed) cause it.
 
Abusing anything heavily causes it.
food=fat people.
exercise=built people.
booze=yellow people.
smoking=stinky people.
plastic surgery=Michael Jackson.
Tada!
 
^
"healthy body sick mind(working over time)
healthy body sick mind
too hectic too hectic
its just a matter of time
sick body sick mind"
-op iv

i couldnt say for sure, but id guess there are many ways different drugs destroy different parts of the body + excessive cell death, the stress of that life and shit that comes with it, untreated factors that may lead to drug use(mental. physical, emotional).
this isnt a fact though for everyone,,, and id say certain people become homeless with drugs, not the drugs make them homeless.
i am 32 and people guess im 22-25 upon appearance, but, when i was 15 people would guess the same early 20's also, so...
around 14-15 is where i had my first try at iv cocaine, and E, lsd, H,,, then heavy alcohol later(19-20) - blah blah misery.

ive noticed life long pot smokers will have more defined wrinkles, or facial lines rather... from grinning so big?!?
:D

these are my immediate assumptions, im interested to see what others say.
 
panic in paradise said:
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ive noticed life long pot smokers will have more defined wrinkles, or facial lines rather... from grinning so big?!?
:D
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I've noticed that on video, lifelong pot smokers do have more defined wrinkles. But my friends, who smoked for 3-8 years or so, all have more defined wrinkles.

I've been a pothead for about 2 years and for a teenager I was pretty smooth-skinned. Pot gradually caused mild wrinkling around my eyelids, redder, veinier eyes, and a thick, full feel to them. They also receded into my skull, sometimes I felt pain from what I thought was my eyes receding so far back, or nearly exploding.

The longer I smoke, the longer it takes to go away. It makes sense that long-term pot smokers will have long-term pot wrinkles.
 
nothing usually scares an addict into stopping: not even death, or jail, or losing what you value most in your life.

the one thing that really scared me into stopping was the way i was starting to look.

after a 5 day run with meth and xani bars, i got up and looked at myself in the mirror. i didn't know who i was. i looked fucked up. i looked like a tweaker. i felt disgust and sadness for what i was looking at. i didn't see the pretty little 24 year old i am. i saw a fuckin' gross, broken down, aged to shit, monster.

that was a major turning point for me.
 
mami said:
It's more of an essence. It sounds pseudo-sciency, but guesses hit close.

I don't think I'm as beautiful as I could/should be. And I look older.


[[Mostly, I take pharms (sometimes overusing, all prescribed).]]

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A similar thing can be noticed in cigarette smokers and alcoholics. Even sharply dressed, I think I can detect someone's drug use with small margin of error
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Drug users quickly begin to appear worn-out and used-up. I hold myself up as a foremost example. My eyes are hollow sockets. When I make expressions, my face cracks into the fissures of someone a decade older than I am (20). In large part, aside from the physical deterioration directly incurred by my body's processing of the drugs themselves, the aging of my face owes itself to my inability to sleep.

Drugs have destroyed my capability to sleep properly. I lie in the darkness for hours and hours. I do not become lost in thought; I writhe in thought. Or rather, a hollow simulacron of what my thinking used to be. My thinking lacks the richness and texture which characterized it prior to my habitual drug use. I was usually oblivious to the outside world because of how absorbed I was in thought. All this insomniac time spent lying in the dark is wasted, because I am perpetually mentally exhausted; it's not as though I'm contemplating in a meaningful way anything worthwhile.

Generally, I'm too aware of my breathing and heartbeat to be able to fall asleep. My constant drug use has subjected my body to extreme states of stimulation and sedation, over and over again. Notice how I divide "my mind" from "my body," as if there were any genuine difference between the two! I feel like the prisoner and enemy of my own body!

godlovesugly said:
nothing usually scares an addict into stopping: not even death, or jail, or losing what you value most in your life.

the one thing that really scared me into stopping was the way i was starting to look.

after a 5 day run with meth and xani bars, i got up and looked at myself in the mirror. i didn't know who i was. i looked fucked up. i looked like a tweaker. i felt disgust and sadness for what i was looking at. i didn't see the pretty little 24 year old i am. i saw a fuckin' gross, broken down, aged to shit, monster.

that was a major turning point for me.
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Have you quit since then? Do you look better in the mirror? I've resorted to slathering my face with glycolic acid and other creams and unguents. Doing so allows me to look in the mirror without feeling like I need to cry (if nothing else, it provides the illusion of progress). However, it does nothing to address the miserable life I'm leading, which is causing my face to look that way in the first place.

After a year of playing around with pot and alcohol, I commenced an orgy of self-destruction: massive intake of amphetamines, followed by insatiable consumption of benzodiazepines (after those amphetamines started making me psychotic), smoking pot heavily all the while. Throw in some opiates now and then, and a few months of heavy binge drinking.

Trying to quit using drugs when my body is so accustomed to so many of them is painful. I don't know where to begin; my attempts at cold-turkey cessation leave me sleepless for days on end until I give in again. I am wedded to the philosophy that any drug use at all is permission for unrestrained debauchery, such that my only alternatives (so far) have been unbridled usage and puritanical abstention.
 
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I've noticed that people who are heavy drinkers tend to have bloodshot eyes, blue bags under the eyes and a very pale complexion overall.

People who have used stimulants recently tend to have a yellowish complexion with blackish bags under the eyes.

Just my experience, though.
 
I have had my share of looking scraggy as all hell. Depending on the severity and intensity of my drug use and what particular drug I was doing at the time. Although, when I got into recreational Methdone use, 99% of family and friends didn't know what was going on. All they saw was me getting really really skinny and because I had a graveyard job that kept me running around most of the time they didn't see anything wrong with the weight loss, much less think I was taking enough Methadone to kill a donkey. Then after the Done trip I discovered cocaine and OMG I really didn't care if you knew. I lost 10-15 more lbs, stayed up usually 1-2 nights on end, could never breath thru my nose, and started looking and feeling like an Olsen Twin. Coke was something I could never hide from people so I didn't try to hide it.

Looking back on it now I am surprised that I never got picked up or arrested. Had many close calls and everytime I would tell myself,"This is it. Better get good and fucked up cuz with the shit on your person, you are going away for a long long time." But thankfully the person I ran around with looked a lot more strung out then me and had a couple of cops tell me to take her home and take care of her, not knowing that more times then any I was higher then her, but was able to keep cool under pressure. lol If there is one positive use for cocaine it is taking away any inhibitions or fear you may have. At least that is the way it operated in my brain. Never got the creeps or paranoia.
 
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