Your approx age, drug use, preferences, and changes in those and in any/all drug's effects during that time.

[pcplease]

It'll take me a while but roughly 30yrs old


I was a bad kid ; i walked to the bowling alley most nights to smoke a cigarette and hang out with the town's degenerates as the alley was attatched to a large arcade. Have been able to buy my own cigs since 14 but was smoking cigs and weed by 12, coke and shrooms at 13 (shrooms may have been just after 14, but before my dad passed a few months after turning that age)}. Drank most days from late 13-age 29 and have stage 3 cirrhosis and both hips are artificial due to an alcohol-related (my cause) degenerative disease called avascular necrosis. Basically, people stagger partially because theres so many small blood vessels around our hips that are locked shot when Im running on .15+ BAC 24/7, drinking 3oz of 80 proof just to be able to walk the last couple years. Opiods and laying on shitty hospital gurneys make the pain so much worse one hospital stay (denying alcoholism)


I ordered 40x Salvia on eBay at 12 and parents opened it; i had /have a stoner older brother i dont care to speak about; so my parents obviousliy did not believe the "incense" labeling. It was not purple sticky but some butterfly (?) brand that just came in a baby ziploc, like, ya know, drugs. Thankfully i found where it was stashed, slit a hole in the letter and ziploc, and honestly feel like thats the day i fully grew up/changed into, in a sense.
My father passing about a year later, only my mom, 7yr old younger sis, and myself only people home at the time- not knowing when life insurance shit would kick in = overnight's for mom and having to learn to cook- certainly changed things, but I already felt like 'Me'. Hell I still get compliments and asked about some of the few clothes from around then I managed to hold on to/stash with the right friend during whatever period of homelessness it was. One of which, an illegal eviction (to be fair there was about 100g mdma on the coffee table when the landloard presumably opened the door. My entire belongings were apparently outside for 3 days and much of the clothes were gone

still, of shit i bought from 13-17yrs old, because hipster fashion is just what skateboarders wear/wore 5-10yrs ago.
Since quitting drinking I have learned that cocaine is awesome , at least when Rx'd benzos, propranolol, gabapentin, baclofen. Also, that even just after stopping sweating from a monster morning 0.5g line (along with my 2g+/12oz (CONCENTRATION; think lite or near-beer vs everclear) got the best and most balanced BP/HR reading i've ever gotten, lol. Double edged sword, finding that out, lol. I don't think I'd ever used coke without a minimum of a couple drinks (each standard drink = 14+GRAMS of ethanol for your liver to deal with). I'd only ever done cocaethylene. Since discovering this I can be free of all the above meds (save benzos, albeit at ~1/10 my regular dose), use cocaine, and assuming its just coke/benzocaine, no ephedrine or anything, it's still very relaxing and euphoric.

I am just more partial to stimulants these days , as taxing as anything physical is even with my shiny new titanium hips that are due for replacement no later than before I'm 50yrs old, lol. I can still work 40+hrs as a line cook, but at the end of the day I try to spread my legs just a little too wide (I can go a little bit wider than my shoulders)

 

[Jabberwocky]

From 12-13: I smoked a lot of weed, drank and used DXM, typical teenager things.

From 14-23: I was introduced to heroin, cocaine and meth at 14. I fell in love with heroin and quickly became addicted, it was my main vice until 23. I also used every other drug under the sun here and there, whenever I had extra money beyond heroin. I loved to speedball. I went to countless rehabs, legal woes and my life really went downhill. Dropped out of high school. Street rat.

23-25: I finally got off the hard drugs. Almost exclusively weed and benzos during this time. Dabbled in MXE and a few other RCs. A deep depression and social isolation started here.

25-29: During this period is when I started to drink alcohol quite heavily in a dubious attempt to stay off drugs. Big mistake, alcoholism runs in my father and all the men on both sides of my family. I also began using kratom.

30: Alcohol, weed and kratom. My alcoholism started to get out of control. I became obsessed with psychedelics and started hoarding them. After a 5 month binge on psychedelics, alcohol and sleep deprivation I suffer a psychosis which lasted 14 months. Lost my job, my friends, evicted and was homeless for several months. This was the most traumatic year of my life. I attempted suicide 3 times.

30 - present (34): other than a brief relapse on fent/meth and a few other things, I have continued to drink, I eventually got off the kratom. I only use cannabinoids infrequently and in very low doses due to the psychosis. Mostly just alcohol.

I can no longer ignore what 10 years of alcoholism is doing to my body. I had a liver scare at 32, was pissing brown for 4 days. Constant pain and mental issues. I'm desperately trying to quit and was able to taper down to a point where I am no longer significantly dependent. My alcohol use through the years ranges from 12-20+ units per day. Usually around 12-15 currently.

I left out a lot of details but I'll spare you my entire life story. I have been in some form of recovery for 20 years, and have been actively trying to get sober nearly that whole time. The struggle is real. I was exposed to drugs at such a young age it feels like it's been my entire life.

 

[Neuroborean]

from 13 to 15: a lot of alcohol and a bit of weed, had a bad experience with alcohol (needed b-12 injection) and then I started hating alcohol.
15-18: quite clean, couldn't find weed often so I did occasionally, some alcohol but almost never hard alcohol (vodka, whiskey...)
18-25: quite a bunch of weed, almost daily, almost daily alcohol but mostly only beer/wine occasional LSD and shrooms, but specially during my first college years, I tried mdma a couple times during that period.
24-27: almost clean during this period, just beers and very occasional weed. Then I think about not using weed again, I succeed on that.
27-28: enter kratom and RCs, I started a new period of my drug-usage and drug-oriented research, I love to find RCs and I started trying cathinones (3-mmc, hexen)
28-31: semi-hard RC usage, I start using kratom daily due to emotional problems (gf has BPD..) I tried 6-apb, 3-mmc, a-php, 4-ho-met, 4-ho-mipt, NEP, 4-fma, 3-fea.... mostly stims and some psyches) good period but too hard sometimes
during this period I also try ayahuasca and san pedro.
31-33 (now): I start thinking that using kratom daily is not very good for me, thinking about cutting use, at least half gpd (from 12 to 6-7). I stop using RC, mostly, but I use occasional 4f-mph and 2-fma that feel pretty dissapointing for ADHD. I start using more supplements (nootropics) and herbals. I decide that I want to use more herbals and less synthetics, and create an online shop of entheogens/ethnobotanicals... Almost no alcohol and zero weed during this period.
Gonna use some RCs again, but mostly new psyches, no stims, (well, maybe some, but much more controlled than years ago).

 

[pcplease]

I can no longer ignore what 10 years of alcoholism is doing to my body. I had a liver scare at 32, was pissing brown for 4 days. Constant pain and mental issues. I'm desperately trying to quit and was able to taper down to a point where I am no longer significantly dependent. My alcohol use through the years ranges from 12-20+ units per day. Usually around 12-15 currently.

Good luck, I can attest that besides missing ticking off every new beer/flavor/hop grown in foreign terroir/brewing, Cirrhosis is Cirrrhosis and I'm apparently one bad "shock" like what took you out could get me. i dont have cravings, but am Rx'd benzos. Went back to Lorazepam over real Alprazolam. I really like fluclotizolam and flubrotizolam as they are effective therapeutically far before any subjective effects are felt, even with such short half lives

 

[Floeyoeyo]

Well… I tore the C3-C4 disc in my spine at 11. I had my first Vicodin then. It escalated, more and more spinal issues began to crop up, so more and more meds were given. By 14 I was taking 2 20mg OxyContin ER pills a day, plus 20mg Percocets for “breakthrough” pain. But I started abusing them around this time. At 15, I started using heroin. I was drinking, popping pills, shooting heroin, and doing LSD with my boyfriend. I stopped for a few years, other than drinking and smoking weed and the occasional pain pill. Now I’m 23, and I’ve started using coke and heroin again due to dealing with some other shit in my life. Lots of trauma to deal with, but not enough money to pay for therapy.