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Misc What Age Did You Start Using Any Substances (including tobacco, pot, a drink, etc)

Age?

  • Under 12

    Votes: 14 36.8%
  • 13-17

    Votes: 18 47.4%
  • 18-24

    Votes: 5 13.2%
  • 25+

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • Total voters
    38
The first number is the age I first experienced the substance, the second number is the age I started using it with any regularity; if there's only one number, I immediately began using it frequently:

Caffeine - 6.....13
Nicotine - 11.....19
Alcohol - 16
Prescription Opioids - 15.....19
Weed - 17
RC's - 17
Benzo's - 15.....20
Amphetamines - 22
Cocaine - 21.....(never really used regularly)
Heroin - 24
Methadone - 22
 
Till my early twenties I was active member of a juvenile rowing national team.Quit and from rowing canal,the next year was with a syringe in my vein in the dirty city toilet.Destiny
 
Started smoking cigarettes at 17. Weed and pills started at 18. I graduated to meth when I was 24. Stopped for 4 years and started again, balls to the wall.
 
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