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The stereotype 'drug user'

Charleston_Car

Charleston_Car

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What kind of ideas do the words 'drug user' bring to your mind?
has it changed how you look at yourself?
 
I know quite alot of drug users that dont look anything like a drug user would look. In fact, they look like they never use.
 
I think of all people as either drug people, or not drug people.

Doesn't matter if the person is actually using or not. A drug person has the natural tendency to use beyond what is needed medically. They may have a fear of using due to childhood experiences like parental abuse of drugs/alcohol but they are still a drug person in nature.

This is not something that one chooses in my opinion. You are either a drug person or your not. If your not then you will never really use, may have an occasional experience for one reason or another but you won't stick to it.

If you are but have stayed away from them for whatever reason, you can very easily slip into it if say you get injured and need pain meds for a lengthy period of time.


In contrast to what most people think about drug people, I tend to look at them as the only type of person I can really stand to deal with. Even then there are a lot of them that I don't want to be around due to their particular habits, but non drug people can never be on my level or have any understanding of it.

I envy them in a way for not having this infliction that plays a major role in ones life, but on the other hand I feel that they are by nature ignorant and as such are incompatible with me at best, and a danger to me at worst.
 
Weirdo at work who works alright but there is something off. (Opiate?)
Guy who goes to the bathroom alot, drinks too much. (Amphetamine)
Too social and flexible. (Opiate)
Someone who never stops working. (Amphetamine)
The person with no anxiety. (Xanax)
Long hair, eats too much. (Weed)
Seems lost and out of it, says huh a lot. (Alcohol)
Steals things, sweaty person, always wears long sleeves. (Heroin)
Plays too many games, sometimes stays up all night. (Amphetamine)
Watches too many movies, forgets all of the plot. (Weed)
Sleep too much suddenly, always sleepy, get fat suddenly. (SSRI)
 
Now that my eyes are wide open to the drug using community, I realize that majority of users are your average normal looking, average life, middle class folk. I also notice that younger and younger generations use more and more drugs. Back when I was growing up, I heard of one person doing E once, my entire school career, and it was like shocking news. Now, almost every person I know does or has done E. Also, the rave culture is exploding and becoming more popular, appealing to younger and younger folks, etc.. I went to a rave the other day, an all ages one (Skrillex, Seattle) and I just couldn't believe what i was seeing. BABIES. Little freaking kids everywhere, rolling balls, making out, light shows, Vicks, etc.. I couldn't believe it. I felt old...
 
I think you probably are either genetically or environmentally affected in such a way that this decides wether or not you will use drugs and how easily addicted you might be. I can tell someone who uses/is involved in drugs from someone who isn't.
 
savethecheerleader said:
I think you probably are either genetically or environmentally affected in such a way that this decides wether or not you will use drugs and how easily addicted you might be. I can tell someone who uses/is involved in drugs from someone who isn't.
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Your right on about that. We can always smell our own from a mile away. I think all drug people can do this.
 
Ripamaru said:
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Your right on about that. We can always smell our own from a mile away. I think all drug people can do this.
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i totally agree, thats so true. it takes one to know one. i can spot someone who uses drugs a mile away whether there high or not. you just know.
 
to me there is no stereotypical drug user, I've met too many different types of people who used too many different types of drugs and the only thing many of them have in common is that they use drugs.
 
If you're talking "Newspaper stereotypes" then all you need to do is check the Daily M/Fail website for all the scaremongering stories.
But to be honest, everyone's a drug user in some way. There's the few that don't even touch Caffeine, but there is no stereotype.. or atleast there shouldn't be.

There's all walks of life that use substances, legal or illegal, so you're not going to be able to pinpoint someone straight off.

But I would agree 100% with savethecheerleader that it's all to do with the "Nature / Nurture" type affair.
If you're genetically pre-determind to have problems with addiction (parents / grandparents who have had problems with addiction) and/or have had a life which makes one crave escapism from the modern world then you'll likely find that they'll cover their life up with mountains of substances.

I seem to be one of those, but I still wouldn't say that I'm the "living on the streets, robbing an old lady, can barely be understood verbally" sterotypes that documentaries and newspapers like to cause mass-hysteria about.

I would say "Shouldn't this belong in the Lounge?" but I doubt you'd get any proper, informative discussion there ;)
 
As far as the stereotype of a drug user, you just have to watch any of the documentary type shows on tv that are so popular right now, but between my job as a criminal lawyer, and just plain common sense, i know damn wel that "users" come from every walk of life, every race, creed, color,etc. I think that there are groups of people that stereotypically do certain drugs, but i have been surprised on more than one occassion when i run across a person and find out that their doc was not at all what i would have guessed. For example, I dont normally associate a 32 year old stay at home mom with three kids in a suburban golf course neighborhood as being a crack user, but like i said, i have been fooled more than once.
 
Well, with respect to someone being "predisposed" to use drugs, I agree to an extent. Both of my parents were opiate addicts, whose addictions developed seperately. All four of my grandparents had problems/were/are dependent on GABAergics at some point in their lives. I would have to say that I am genetically "predisposed" to have the tendency to use drugs, seek them out, become dependent on them etc. It is kind of a family thing. We like(d) our drugs, especially GABAergics, and opiates.
 
silvercrimson said:
i totally agree, thats so true. it takes one to know one. i can spot someone who uses drugs a mile away whether there high or not. you just know.
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Yes, as I once heard about hot streaks:

Pussy smells pussy.

I think this is just the same. You can sort of tell your own.
 
I'm gonna take this moment to formally thank Methadone84 for introducing me to that video as well as the comedy trio that created that video. real class A stuff
 
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