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When do you become a addict? Where do YOU draw the line?

NuM!NouS said:
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Originally Posted by StagnantReaction

negatives outweigh positives.




I third that.
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+4

also, like someone else said, when i think at the beginning of the day 'this is gonna blow because ive got no ___'
 
when are you old? we can all agree that some people are young (an infant for example) and other people are old (120 year old women for example) but if you try to define exactly when someone becomes "old" you can't do it and if you ask different people you will get different answers. i could say a lot more on this topic but a lot of it has already been well explained in above posts.
 
Back in September when I walked 10 miles round trip through the woods and a dark highway for a bag of dope. I ended up shooting it in the middle of the road under a street lamp after mixing the shot in the bottom of an old soda can I found and some water from a nearby stream. Thats when I said to myslef this has got to stop.

Now I just chip and am no longer physically dependant on heroin. I just like to use from time to time. That antic is far in the past. Guido has a reputation to keep =D
 
When I have to think about whether or not I have gotten out of hand with something... I am out of control.
 
It's such a thin line, really...the Thinnest line of all, the line between use and abuse...said Irvine Welsh...

I think it's a bit like guido said....when you find yourself doing stupid, very stupid and dangerous things that you would NEVER normally do to get a hit....

when you find yourself prioritizing and obsessing about the drug in question.

when you need it to even leave the house

when you stop cold turkey and you're in for a world of shit

when you hallucinate unless you dose...

when you lie, cheat, steal even your closest mates to get a bit more of the drug in question.....

I think you're pretty addicted by then...

for me, non addict use, as in casual user, means the use may vary in when you do it, why, and how often...as in you don't really program a time and a place, it just happens, then you don't think about it for a long while, then, when the occasion arises, you take a dose...

when it becomes systematical and an every day, around the clock thing...you're fucked.

I have driven 300kms while withdrawing from GHB to get another bottle of it, and then drive back another 300kms while passing out...no fun...
 
According to my addiction specialist, your addicted to drugs when you take them because their fun. I dont agree with it but thats what he says. The fun is addicting so when you find drugs fun (which is basically your first time) that is when he thinks your addicted.

I think your addicted when it starts interfering with your daily life and you choose drugs over things you normally wouldnt like hanging out with family.

I dont know when its time to draw the line, I guess when you realize you have a problem.
 
I know I'm edging into addiction when I repeatedly try to save my painkiller prescription but it's gone in a few days to a week and then I think about (and usually end up going out and doing it) buying shit off the street.
ClubbinGuido, that's a fucked up story, man, that sucks. Glad you're out of that period of your life.
 
looking back a few years now, I guess I was bordering on and maybe even was addicted to meth, I'm still trying to decide.

It was still fun - except I did it every day or atleast every second day.
I would sit on a couch with a chick I was friends with and smoke that shit for 2, 3, 4 days straight. Even to the point of pretty much excluding other people from my life or even doing anything else.

We'd sit and think what's something we can do that will only take 45 min, cos we'll need to hit the pipe again by then cos the buzz will be wearing off.

I guess that's addicted, but I also remember thinking I need to stop doing this shit eventually and within 3 - 4 months I was back to a very much recreational user, using only every 3 or 4 weeks and that was pretty easy really, no withdrawals, not psycotic episodes, maybe I was just lucky

*shrugs*
 
burn out said:
when are you old? we can all agree that some people are young (an infant for example) and other people are old (120 year old women for example) but if you try to define exactly when someone becomes "old" you can't do it and if you ask different people you will get different answers. i could say a lot more on this topic but a lot of it has already been well explained in above posts.
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Well said. People often start by assigning themselves identity labels (old or not old, addict or non-addict, etc.), then unconsciously assume standards that justify them. Some people find it more difficult than others to consciously interrogate those standards and re-asses their identity labels.

I don't really have a firm 'definition' of addiction per se, but there are a variety of things I avoid in my personal use:

-Physical dependence
-Likely withdrawal symptoms if I were to go cold turkey
-Negatives outweighing positives regarding the subjective experience
-Extremely unpleasant side effects
-Negative effects on work, school or my personal life
-Excessive cost
-Extreme difficulty going without
 
i draw the line when it comes to searchin on the floor for meth, or whatever. never goin back to that!
 
sylvan Wanderer said:
^^^I can really only speak of weed as the others I have tried I have always done once and forgotten about taking soon afterwards as I have an addictive personality. I treat those times as special.

As for weed...I realize I've entered a grey area when smoking has gone from a "should I do it" to "when am I gonna do it" in my head. I am known for binges and than long fasts due to this definition.
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you can't really be addicted to weed
 
when it starts to impare the rest of my life... taking it irresponsibly say.. when i have to work the next day.. and im up all night doing drugs...

when it starts geting like that ive learned to just walk away from it all and stop... but that took time to learn lol
 
Personally I draw the line between use and addiction once tolerance creeps up on me. As soon as I either have the desire to use more than usual or the high is skimp I usually don't immediately stop my use but I either decrease the dose the next day or just stay at the insufficient, skimp dose until I get bored with it and stop for a few weeks.
 
I knew I was addicted when I started driving my dealer around just for a free shot after I had put all my spare cash up my arm.

I don't agree with the whole "negatives outweighing possitives" thing. I'm an addict but I know how to deal with the shit that needs to be done (bills, relationships, etc) before I get fried, and while my addiction is sky rocketing that is only because my pay rate is rising at the same time which says something for all us functioning addicts on here.
 
I felt that I was psychologically addicted to heroin, when I were no longer able to make reliable plans not to use on a given night. A couple of months after trying heroin, I often woke up and went to school on a friday morning thinking "I'm not gonna use tonight" and sure enough that same friday afternoon/early evening I'd be on the lookout for smack.

I didn't progress to dysfunctional addict before I had been using on/off for a two year period. I started to skip classes unless I could score, go to work while very high, snort heroin in the bathroom and taking excessively long breaks as a consequence.

-Psyko
 
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