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Brooksy90280

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Firstly, I’m not a tourist or a troll. I use this site (and coke) all the time.
I’m a student journalist doing a project called “What She Said” where I interview women with different life stories and opinions. I’d really love to hear from an active user and clear up misconceptions. If you’re able to answer some or all of the questions below anonymity is obviously guaranteed (no usernames used)

1. what’s your age, profession and location?
2. What do you use and how often?
3. what does it feel like to be on the substance of your choice?
4. Do you consider yourself an addict? Are you concerned about addiction?
5. what do you do when you’re high?
6. Do you buy into the perception that you become a different person when high? Or do drugs just exaggerate qualities that already exist?
7. Has your drug use ever affected relationships?
8. Have you ever used your body to attain drugs?
9. Are female users portrayed or thought of differently than men?
10. Do you want to stop or reduce your usage?
11. Do you experience come downs? If so, describe them.
12. what misconceptions do people have about drug use?
 
I'm not exactly a woman, but I consider myself to be pretty in touch with my feminine side. My colleagues often refer to me as feminine and say I require feminine products, which I take as a compliment generally.

So, I'm going to move this over to a different sub-forum known as Drug Culture. It's a place where we can discuss issues that don't immediately pertain to the safety and/or health of our peers. It's more for fun. I guess I could probably have just said that the title is really self-explanatory, but that's not my fucking style okay? In all seriousness, I hope you're able to complete your research and get some meaningful and insightful answers to your questions.

Best of luck.
 
Firstly, I’m not a tourist or a troll. I use this site (and coke) all the time.
I’m a student journalist doing a project called “What She Said” where I interview women with different life stories and opinions. I’d really love to hear from an active user and clear up misconceptions. If you’re able to answer some or all of the questions below anonymity is obviously guaranteed (no usernames used)

1. what’s your age, profession and location?
2. What do you use and how often?
3. what does it feel like to be on the substance of your choice?
4. Do you consider yourself an addict? Are you concerned about addiction?
5. what do you do when you’re high?
6. Do you buy into the perception that you become a different person when high? Or do drugs just exaggerate qualities that already exist?
7. Has your drug use ever affected relationships?
8. Have you ever used your body to attain drugs?
9. Are female users portrayed or thought of differently than men?
10. Do you want to stop or reduce your usage?
11. Do you experience come downs? If so, describe them.
12. what misconceptions do people have about drug use?
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I currently work as a solicitor but am doing a side project in the hopes of moving into journalism. I have written some articles for the environmental fashion website Good On You. You can check me out in LinkedIn.

These interviews will be published on my new website “What She Said”, which is to be an independent publication that tells the stories and opinions of diverse women from all over the world. This website is not yet live but will be in the next few weeks. Some of the women involved so far are a Nepalese STEM researcher, and Haitian gender specialist, Brazilian Beauty Queen and female Prison Officer. The aim of the website is to present the differences and commonalities of women of all different ages, professions and nationalities with a focus on human rights.

Participants can choose to be named or remain anonymous. If preferred, links to the participant’s personal/professional website, or a social/charitable cause important to them or relevant to their country can be included.

These answers may be published in full, or may be quoted in a general article on women and substance use. This article would include the opinions of active recreational users, a recovering alcoholic, a dealer, and a drug and alcohol counsellor. Answers may be edited for brevity but the meaning will not be changed.

If requested, participants may see a copy of the article and consent to the use of their answers before it is published. I will also send a link to the website as soon as it is up and running.

Want to be as open and upfront about this as possible, and open to any feedback.
 
I currently work as a solicitor but am doing a side project in the hopes of moving into journalism. I have written some articles for the environmental fashion website Good On You. You can check me out in LinkedIn.

These interviews will be published on my new website “What She Said”, which is to be an independent publication that tells the stories and opinions of diverse women from all over the world. This website is not yet live but will be in the next few weeks. Some of the women involved so far are a Nepalese STEM researcher, and Haitian gender specialist, Brazilian Beauty Queen and female Prison Officer. The aim of the website is to present the differences and commonalities of women of all different ages, professions and nationalities with a focus on human rights.

Participants can choose to be named or remain anonymous. If preferred, links to the participant’s personal/professional website, or a social/charitable cause important to them or relevant to their country can be included.

These answers may be published in full, or may be quoted in a general article on women and substance use. This article would include the opinions of active recreational users, a recovering alcoholic, a dealer, and a drug and alcohol counsellor. Answers may be edited for brevity but the meaning will not be changed.

If requested, participants may see a copy of the article and consent to the use of their answers before it is published. I will also send a link to the website as soon as it is up and running.

Want to be as open and upfront about this as possible, and open to any feedback.
Contact @Tronica
 
Thanks for your message. This is not an academic study, it's an independent project. You can see my place of work, qualifications and past academic institutions in the link to my LinkedIn profile. Research is not for an established publication, it is for a new website run solely by myself which is coming soon. If you could tell me more about how I could get ethical approval I would be very grateful. Thanks again!
 
I just wanna thank you and give kudos for putting all that work into your posts: Tenacious and ambitious. Hope it all works out for the best and take care... pass the mirror, please? 8)

Sorry if posted in bad taste.
<3
 
I just wanna thank you and give kudos for putting all that work into your posts: Tenacious and ambitious. Hope it all works out for the best and take care... pass the mirror, please? 8)

Sorry if posted in bad taste.
<3
😂 love your work
 
. If you could tell me more about how I could get ethical approval I would be very grateful. Thanks again!
Almost all universities require staff and research students to submit their projects to an Ethics Committee for approval if the project involves human subjects. The committee ensures that the rights of the participants are adequately protected in the way the project is structured and the data managed.

As far as I know, undergraduate projects are not normally put through this process and are managed more informally with students simply advised to refer to the University’s published ethics guidelines and make sure they comply.

I am not entirely familiar with Bluelight’s own rules on this and you should consult @Tronica if this project is being conducted through your institution for credit and/or if you intend to publish the results.

That said, if it is an informal personal project designed to add to your journalism credentials and experience I think you approached Bluelight very professionally and very clearly. I don’t see any ethical issues or potentially negative consequences if you proceed as advertised and use pseudonyms instead of respondent’s Bluelight handles. But I don’t make the rules.
 
Hey Brooksy! Would you be interested in interviewing my on/off again Girlfriend Simone? She currently works as an RN for a hospital in Central Vermont. We ended up getting clean together about 5 years ago and used each other, initially at least, as support. I worked at the same hospital for about a month, but ultimately couldn't stand it once I realized that I would likely not find any useable drugs on the job. Simone and I were talking about having kids and starting a family and at that point, most of our money was going to rent and staving off withdrawal.

I have done the Methadone Maintenance Program a few times and tapered off each time pretty much using my own methods and what was available to me. It can be wicked gnarly for folks not familiar with its long-acting nature. You could very easily still be having sleep issues, restless legs, anxiety and depression for at least 3 months post-quitting or more. I can tell you that for myself, when I once decided to "be a man" and reduce my dose by 10mg every other day. I quickly discovered that considering yourself intellectually superior to both the Almighty and creation often ends with a severe lesson in reality. The Jain's often refer to "many-sidedness" as one of their primary principles. One can never understand the will(s) of others, the nature of God or even the many sides of our own consciousness. Medicine is a science and an art, but pain is not something that has yet to be plucked, bottled and quantified in any meaningful way.

For a profession as scientifically based as medicine, the idea that a level of pain can be determined by pointing to different colored faces on a wall by the individual seems like some kind of joke in extremely poor taste. A doctor can always set one up with a standard (wisdom teeth; hip surgery etc.) but the actual potency of analgesia that someone will need might as well be shown through interpretive dance.

I am in pain doc.

How much?

It hurts so bad I feel like even rolling over in bed causes me to cry from pain

So you're able to roll over. Great. It's already been 6 hours since your hip replacement, so I'm gonna go ahead and yank all of your Opioids. Some Ibuprofen and a nice hike might loosen you up?

If I had a gun right now, I would gladly shoot myself in the head. I am in hell. I needed to go up and not down. You mean the pain is going to be worse???

Do you need to go up? Oh good lord, you're an addict. It happened so quickly. You're clearly pursuing higher and higher dosages, so I'm going to cut you off and for good measure alert every hospital within 100 miles that you are a ruthless Opiate addict and are not to be trusted. It's for your own good that the world knows and understands what you have become.

WHAT THE FU....

Hold that thought there Chuck, I was just doing my due diligence by informing the community that it's just a matter of time before you begin engaging in violent crime to support your habit. Statistics indicate that all Opioid users will attempt murder at least once if not more before their 14th birthday. Opioids are known to foster extremely violent urges that often go misrecorded.

It was only when I opened my coliseum treatment center that I truly realized what addicts were like. Some question our ethics, but I question theirs too, so whatever. This therapy we are seeing here is known as Crusading against Cravings. We gently and politely abduct 2-3 junkies off the street every Thursday. We put them in cells for 2.5 days with just bread and water. The gift of desperation is what ultimately produces the victor here.

2 dope fiends on their 3rd day of withdrawal enter the ring. The winner is promised a shot of Heroin. As the first man picks up the broadsword the second man did the same. The first junkie was actually a master fencer and severed his opponent's head from his body while the rules were still being explained. Catching it handily on his hand before making an extremely odious display of his opponent's head as a puppet.

And that's Teen Challenge in a nutshell.
 
Thanks for your message. This is not an academic study, it's an independent project. You can see my place of work, qualifications and past academic institutions in the link to my LinkedIn profile. Research is not for an established publication, it is for a new website run solely by myself which is coming soon. If you could tell me more about how I could get ethical approval I would be very grateful. Thanks again!
I posted the link for you to look at: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/pages/Research_Standards/

I also suggested contacting @Tronica to see where to go from here.

I would be very wary of taking part in this study as a member of BL. It’s for your own private website? Anything could be written as it’s not governed by anyone.
 
OP: many of the questions you are asking have been extensively covered in various threads on Bluelight which are in the public domain.

It would be uncool to go quoting from these threads using the posters’ handles. However I think you could get good background info checking out these threads via the search function. No reason why you could not then PM individuals active in those threads to see if they would like to talk to you more about things on or off the record.

That’s kind of how journalists would approach it rather than academic researchers.

However to @MsDiz ‘s point members have no guarantees that you will only quote them using a pseudonym and they would have no recourse it you did not.
 
OP: many of the questions you are asking have been extensively covered in various threads on Bluelight which are in the public domain.

It would be uncool to go quoting from these threads using the posters’ handles. However I think you could get good background info checking out these threads via the search function. No reason why you could not then PM individuals active in those threads to see if they would like to talk to you more about things on or off the record.

That’s kind of how journalists would approach it rather than academic researchers.

However to @MsDiz ‘s point members have no guarantees that you will only quote them using a pseudonym and they would have no recourse it you did not.
Cheers, thanks for the idea. I know there's a shitload of good stuff on here I could put into an article, but I don't like the idea of using someone's words (especially around sensitive topics) without them knowing.
But Dm-ing people is a good idea.
 
So I contacted the moderator of our Drug Studies forum to inquire what to do with this thread.

I was instructed to move it over to that forum if you are able to get everything sorted out, and to lock the thread if not.

As I'm not particularly involved in Drug Studies and don't know all the requirements that Bluelight asks, I would just suggest you follow the other members instructions posted here to get approval to conduct your survey on Bluelight. Thank you!
 
Here is a exploration on getting ethical approval for independent research. Hope it helps. @Brooksy90280



@deficiT that is my take but let’s let tron rule on this.
 
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