i suppose the enitial reason istarted getting high was simply because it felt fucking incredible. I started out at age 12 smokin weed and cigarettes, By age 13 , i was driven by something deep inside to do ANYTHING i could to achieve an altered or numbed state of concienceness. weed and inhalents mostly at that age, with an occasional vicodin in there. After a while i had made so many sacrafices and bad choices to achieve my altered states that gradually, i relized that i was getting high to hide from on the disapointments in let downs in my life that was caused by my drug use(if that is not a vicious circle, i dont know what is). Im not a full on dope sick junkie, I hold a 9-5 job, and they have never drug tested me even though if the suspect me they will do so immediatly. But im way beond a light drinking, smoking occasionally, recreational drug user. I am the middle ground, not the worse case senario of drug use, but i would definatly say im an addict - to tabacco, caffiene, and weed mostly- and then booze, coke, pharm. ampthetamines, benzos, opiates, datura, and dxm on the side, the only things i can think of that i've never tried are crack, meth, and pcp. And i want to try meth and pcp, lol. In my 8 years of drug use ive done anything i could get my hands on that i thought could numb or discact me from the horrors of having to get out of bed in the morning and face the reality ive made for myself.