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[notsmokeymcpot42088]

I did both --- hockey actually introduced me to painkillers which were just given to me for "double shifts"

I dont know if I ever voted haha but I let it be known I think sports harmed me more to be honest. Than again I was drug smart -- sports wreckless I suppose

 

[HeadphonesandLSD]

I did both --- hockey actually introduced me to painkillers which were just given to me for "double shifts"

Same. By the time I was 12 they were handing us pain killers and shooting us up with God knows what to play through pain. I sometimes forget how casually opioids were treated back then. Even my own parents would get me half of a vicodin for minor complaints like having a headache. Liquid hydrocodone for sore throats and coughs. Shots of stuff I forget the name of in your knee and shoulder at intermission so you couldn't feel your obliterated joints and could play on them until the end of the game.

If there is one place where drug use is considered casual and part of the culture it's the locker room. Pain killers and speed were handed out liberally. Not that it was exclusive to us. By the 5th grade we had half the kids in the school lining up every morning like junkies at the methadone clinic for their ADHD meds (legal meth) first thing every morning.

Attending public schools in America is why I got introduced to drugs in the first place. I knew a bunch of people that wanted to drop out by high school that refused to because it was easier to buy drugs inside of the school than it was on the street. Our school reeked of pot all of the time and any kind of pill you wanted was easy to find. Most of the time you didn't have to ask people would walk around handing them out for free.

 

[notsmokeymcpot42088]

Same. By the time I was 12 they were handing us pain killers and shooting us up with God knows what to play through pain. I sometimes forget how casually opioids were treated back then. Even my own parents would get me half of a vicodin for minor complaints like having a headache. Liquid hydrocodone for sore throats and coughs. Shots of stuff I forget the name of in your knee and shoulder at intermission so you couldn't feel your obliterated joints and could play on them until the end of the game.

If there is one place where drug use is considered casual and part of the culture it's the locker room. Pain killers and speed were handed out liberally. Not that it was exclusive to us. By the 5th grade we had half the kids in the school lining up every morning like junkies at the methadone clinic for their ADHD meds (legal meth) first thing every morning.

Attending public schools in America is why I got introduced to drugs in the first place. I knew a bunch of people that wanted to drop out by high school that refused to because it was easier to buy drugs inside of the school than it was on the street. Our school reeked of pot all of the time and any kind of pill you wanted was easy to find. Most of the time you didn't have to ask people would walk around handing them out for free.

Yup had no idea what they were other than "Double shift pills" this was about 10-12 also. They never IV'd me with anything it was all kinda "You wanna play another shift" -- Yea -- "Have one of these" type of deals.

Yes the first time I did dilaudid was after a particularly painful trip to canada where I came back with a bruised rib. Haha my ex got a liter of hydrocodone cough syrup at like 14 for a flu -- when I checked the bottle her aunt was the prescriber haha.

I remember one kid would just give ppl fistful's or ritalin basically just as a gesture of wanting to fit in. Damn schools tried to chase me out and I had good grades (maybe the best in the school at the time honestly, maybe not I wasnt checkin everyones papers)-- it was a weird school -- I had enough credits to graduate a year before anyone I can say that objectively.

Yup HS was the place to get or off drugs --- and meet ppl -- would ya believe me if I said I missed it a little bit