i feel like anyone who smokes tobacco at least does some kind of illegal drug once and awhile
Wow, that's a really "interesting assumption." My own sweet Mama smoked cigs for forty years before giving it up C/T, and she would not know an illegal drug if she were sitting in front of a pile of them at a table. The vast majority of people I know who smoke cigs don't do drugs at all. But whatevs, your experience and mine might just be really different.
The old saying "it takes one to know one" definitely applies, and recently, I have been helping a friend suss out the extent of her boyfriend's (douchebag) opiate habit.
He works a decent job, but never seems to have any money? Check.
Receives badly coded text messages about "cookies" and "candies" being available? Check.
His sister broke her arm and came home to discover half the Lortabs in her prescription bottle missing? Check.
I also inquired as to whether he was "getting sick" or "too tired to go anywhere" often and at random times, and she reported that yes, this is indeed the case.
Mood swings? Yep, you betcha.
He is now on suboxone, and has to be pee tested in order to stay with his sub doctor. Dumbass had smoked some weed, so had my friend, (his girlfriend), pee in a cup, which he managed to sneak into the office for the piss test. Of course, no marijuana was found in the pee sample,
but neither was any suboxone. (Have I mentioned that he is both a dumbass
and a douchebag?)
To sum up, many opiate users employ sneaky, furtive behavior, and are always broke, regardless of the fact that they ostensibly make more than enough money at their jobs to cover basic expenses. I have fallen so far off the wagon myself that I can't even see the wagon's dust anymore, but I am realistic about it and know exactly what I am. Business gets handled before I indulge my addiction, I don't lie about it, and I don't get other people involved. This asswipe thinks he can hide it from his very intelligent girlfriend, but with my help, he isn't getting away with anything she doesn't know about. I hope she dumps him, which she eventually will, but I wish it would be sooner rather than later. Last week, some random guy at a restaurant came up to him and started beating on him just because this complete stranger could tell he was a douche. Some pharmie opiate junkies are among the coolest people you'll ever meet, but this guy isn't one of 'em. (I tend to believe I fall amongst the good kind, LOL.)
