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Why did you start using drugs?

Why did you start using drugs?

  • Stress

    Votes: 69 19.1%

  • Peer Pressure/Influence

    Votes: 61 16.9%

  • Curiosity

    Votes: 303 83.7%

  • Mental Health Problems

    Votes: 86 23.8%

  • Physical Health Problems

    Votes: 21 5.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 46 12.7%
  • Total voters
    362
lordreven333 said:
This is somewhat a stupid question but this is bothering me a little.some people say things like you use drugs to escape reality or something Idk what they say something of that sort but I don't understand it someone please explain that to me.
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Well it's safe to say that drugs can create an altered state of consciousness; someone who was not satisfied with the way their life was may use drugs in such a way that they become completely separated from reality (this usually being a very gradual process). Their only focus needs to be obtaining and using particular drugs, and perhaps feeding an addiction, and not experiencing the responsibilities you and I necessarily may face.
Circumstances that necessitate this occurring can understandably be very difficult to deal with, and hence the reliance of drugs negates the need to actively deal with the situation.
Hope this helps :)
 
I started using because of social anxiety.

It was back in high school.. one morning i took 15 mg of hydrocodone.
went to school and i was talking my head off, and had no anxiety at all.
felt great..
but you know it went from 15mg to 100mg or so, everyday pretty fast..

my first addiction.%) haha
 
runner17 said:
I started using because of social anxiety.

It was back in high school.. one morning i took 15 mg of hydrocodone.
went to school and i was talking my head off, and had no anxiety at all.
felt great..
but you know it went from 15mg to 100mg or so, everyday pretty fast..

my first addiction.%) haha
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I can relate to that although I never did opiates til quite some time after highschool. But I did go to school drunk and stoned a lot, and a few times on mushrooms or acid which was CRAZY lol. I don't know how I kept it together, I don't think I would be able to now.
 
nuttynutskin said:
I can relate to that although I never did opiates til quite some time after highschool. But I did go to school drunk and stoned a lot, and a few times on mushrooms or acid which was CRAZY lol. I don't know how I kept it together, I don't think I would be able to now.
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Yea well i never went to school on acid or mushrooms..

The closes to that i got was a few times on DXM with sum friends.
Skipped every class and walked around the school with hugh eyes..
I did take the end of the year state test on dxm..
Which was a bad idea,
but atleast the test didn't count against you or anything ;)
 
I had never tried drugs or alcohol and never even had any friends who had, so I knew absolutely nothing about it. I was raised in Utah in the LDS church (all my family and friends were mormon), so, naturally, I was brought up hating druggies.

In my freshman year of college, I dated a boy who I immediately fell in love with. I knew he occasionally drank, but I didn't care. After dating for five months, he invited me to come to a party with him. He told me there was no pressure, but of course I ended up drinking and once I was drunk, they passed a joint around. I was too drunk to really get mad at him or freak out, but the next day I was a little pissed that he didn't tell me he smoked weed after 5 months of dating. But instead of breaking up with him, I decided to do research on it. and then I asked him if I could try it, just because I felt I needed to give it a chance. After all, if he did it, it couldn't be bad, right?

so I tried it. I liked it well enough, but it never became a big deal to me until he and I broke up and I became an emotional wreck. that's when I fell in love with marijuana. and now I'm starting to try the other stuff. :)
 
Professor Potato said:
Well it's safe to say that drugs can create an altered state of consciousness; someone who was not satisfied with the way their life was may use drugs in such a way that they become completely separated from reality (this usually being a very gradual process). Their only focus needs to be obtaining and using particular drugs, and perhaps feeding an addiction, and not experiencing the responsibilities you and I necessarily may face.
Circumstances that necessitate this occurring can understandably be very difficult to deal with, and hence the reliance of drugs negates the need to actively deal with the situation.
Hope this helps :)
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^^^^^^^^^^^


Great explanation!
 
Curiosity. I smoked weed for the first time and instatly fell in love with drugs. So (in order), I popped Codeine, popped Oxy, popped Codeine again, popped Oxy again, then Morphine. All within a month.
 
In attempts to forget that I exist and disassociate from my body, or be high/drunk enough to feel no shame for.....things. To just be happy. that's the only time I can forget shit and be happy.
 
For me it was to just have a good time, recreational, something to do in this boring life. I treat drugs like alcohol. Most people go out drinking at the weekends, I pop pills/smoke weed at the weekends... no biggy ;)
 
Some friends were about to smoke some weed and invited me to come along. Never had any kind of drugs before. I was fairly open minded and had nothing against drug use so I went along, quite glad I did.
 
I'm surprised that ;peer pressure isn't voted higher,,,,

Idk about you guys buyt when you started using certain drugs you were with friend. Im sure some people try out of pure curiosity by themselves. Thats rare though because where did you see people first booting shit up it was prob your friends and they prolly hit you the very first time.


I answered peer pressure but the reason I started smoking alot of week was basucakkt for recreational purpoes. I do try to smoke every day before whatever I do if I have bud lol.
 
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Stress - I had a very stressful home life as my parents were (and still are) extremely strict, overbearing, religious nutcases. I couldn't breathe the wrong way without being punished for it. Absolutely no privacy. I was expected to succeed at everything I did, act a certain way, dress a certain way, listen to certain music. I couldn't be ME. There was no relaxing at my home, it was a constant environment of tension, anxiety, fear, and hatred.

Curiosity - I have always been a very artistic and creative person, and also very interested in the inner workings of the human mind. Naturally mind-altering substances have always been extremely interesting to me. From the first time I started hearing about drugs as an adolescent, I had to find out as much as I could about them and eventually started experimenting. There has always been a certain romance about drugs for me, even the ugly parts of them.

Mental Health Problems - I have had moderate to severe anxiety and depression my entire life. Many of the drugs I have tried/used regularly were a way to self-medicate or to escape my feelings.
 
Until a few months after I turned 21, I was in a straight edge hardcore band, straight edge crew, etc. Then I met a girl who changed all of that. Totally got me (unintentionally) to reevaluate everything I was into, and doing at the time, and I realized that I was totally not into it at all. Ended up drinking an entire bottle of champagne on New Year's Eve, and passing out on the floor with her. I loved the way it made me feel, the way it changed the way my mind was working, everything. I had always been curious about entheogens, and ritual drug use, religious application, and the connections between substances and the occult. So I started trying things, initially almost strictly in ways related to either my personal spiritualism, or artistic expression. Since then I have tried q handful of different things, in different settings, with different intentions, and have sort of figured out what I like and dislike, and what works for me when and where and why...

Maybe not the most exciting, or interesting story about why I started, but it has expanded my perception in different ways, and for me, drugs have become a tool, that I can use, another piece in my psychological arsenal, to better experience my time here on Earth.
 
pb2003 said:
Idk about you guys buyt when you started using certain drugs you were with friend. Im sure some people try out of pure curiosity by themselves. Thats rare though because where did you see people first booting shit up it was prob your friends and they prolly hit you the very first time.
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I had my own opinion before "scouting" for friends that did drugs. The first drug I obtained was LSD, and it was the only drug I ever wanted to do, until I spoke with some near friends about what they had tried, and their effects. I don't think I apply to the peer pressure option.
 
Mine was to escape reality and see it in a different light, and like i got involved in HS. Plus I mean it didn't help that the "social clique" I was with were active users of pills. It just made shit more fun and still does. Different world completely, it spices up life. I'm not an addict at all, just in a controlled love affair with MDMA.
 
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