How addicting is crack/heroin?

[iluvtruenos]

Over the past two years, my friends and I have been hanging out, doing stupid 16 year old stuff, and just generally having fun.

Then we tried drugs. At first it was kid A, who tried pot, liked it, then brought it into our circle. Friend E tried pot, and really liked it. Now he's addicted, and in under two years can go through an eigth in a day. Weed has caused him to lose his job at BestBuy, and lose his parents' trust. I tried pot myself, and still occasionally do it, but make damn sure not to drive, or do anything while gone. My friends do the exact opposite.

Fast forward to two weeks ago. During school, E sent me a text message to pick him up from college (he's a year older than me) because he felt like crap. At the end of the school day, A called me and told me E is in the hospital for ODing on painkillers. At the hospital, they do a drug test, and find massive amounts of pot in his system, and all the usual stuff that's in painkillers.

On Tuesday before school he and his friends got together and did acid. Thursday crack and heroin. I've heard stories that those drugs are a one-time thing, and you're addicted. Just today, I stopped and thought about my life. My friends are quickly becoming drug addicts, and the groups of people I hang around with have some part of their lives revolving around drugs. Frankly I'm disgusted. I don't want to hang out with them anymore because I know that it will lead to lies, stealing, and using. I don't know if I should just cut it off and start new, or how to not fvck up.

I want to go to college for engineering. I do not need the weight of a drug habit to drag me down and ruin my chances at life before they get airborne.

I guess I don't know what to do.

No cliffs, sorry.

 

[Mill]

Drugs are certainly fun for awhile. Then you realize they are not worth it.

There's no truth to the rumor that "you try a drug once you're addicted." Total bullsh!t.

Oh, and stop doing drugs!

 

[KillerCharlie]

Try your best to get them help, but when it comes down to you, you must cut them off. If you want to be successful in life and get that engineering degree, you can absolutely not follow their habits. It's as simple as that.

 

[meltdown75]

stay away from the chemical crap! keep your nose clean too. and no doobies until you're 18!

How addicting is crack/heroin?

well the old saying about heroin is that once you try it, you're hooked.

crack users, on the other hand, have been known to "chase" the high, doing crack until they are completely emancipated. the user basically turns into Gollum - a Crack Gollum!

 

[Finns14]

Pot has no addictive substance in it your friends are just worthless

 

[iamtrout]

They are not your friends. Ditch them. Move on to better things. What year are you?

 

[Mackie2k]

Drugs are stupid......

Stay away from them, you can't help them now.

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: Finns14
Pot has no addictive substance in it your friend is just worthless

Mental Addiction.

 

[Brainonska511]

Maybe at least express your concerns to them, but if they don't listen, just move on. They'll only drag you down.

 

[5150Joker]

Drugs = bad.

 

[zixxer]

I have dealt with this exact thing.


STOP hanging out with them. As much as people here will (probably) tell you to help them, etc they will not listen.


The best thing for YOU is to find new friends, stat.

 

[iluvtruenos]

Senior.

I am really thinking about just dropping contacts with them and cutting my losses.

I do not need to be undermined by a substance that is temporary, whereas a degree is permanent.

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: Mackie2k
Drugs are stupid......

Stay away from them, you can't help them now.

Drugs are fun, it's unlikely anyone is going to stop something they enjoy. Drug abuse isn't fun, it's bad.

 

[Nocturnal]

Sooner or later you'll realize that your education and future is more important that feeling good for a few moments in life. Maybe, maybe not. Hopefully you won't be another statistic.

 

[iluvtruenos]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Sooner or later you'll realize that your education and future is more important that feeling good for a few moments in life. Maybe, maybe not. Hopefully you won't be another statistic.

That's what I plan to do. Going to be very hard though, as we've gone into fights together, got plastered together, helped each other with girls, homework, we're as close as brothers.

 

[deepred98]

yeah drugs are bad and all
but..
pot doesn't really screw you up that much
i have a friend that is pretty smart and has worked his way through quite afew AP classes under the "influence"

don't do heroin, crack, or meth or any of those things cause they really screw you up

 

[Taejin]

Originally posted by: Finns14
Pot has no addictive substance in it your friends are just worthless

next thing you know you'll be splitting hairs.

 

[yobarman]

It happens to all of us. At least half of your childhood friends will fall off due to drugs, drinking, or general laziness. I know too many people that had a lot of potential but just become burnouts. You just gotta keep your better friends close because you can't save them all.

 

[sash1]

I was friends with all the drug addicts. Half of my friends aren't in college right now. Their just chillin' out in Maine doing drugs for a living. Don't bother me, they're still good kids and I'm not abandoning my friends. Meanwhile, I'm at Wake Forest doing well for myself. I only got "addicted" to pot--though you really don't get addicted to it. I haven't smoked in 2 months now, so whatev. If you value your friendship with them, then don't abandon them because they went down the wrong path. Just because they're all druggies doesn't mean you have to be.

`K

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Mill
Drugs are certainly fun for awhile. Then you realize they are not worth it.

There's no truth to the rumor that "you try a drug once you're addicted." Total bullsh!t.

Oh, and stop doing drugs!

I'll agree with Mill here.

It all depends on the person. Maybe some people out there try heroin once and get addicted, but then you also have people who can't control their smoking, drinking, or eating.

I've gone to parties and done coke and heroin a bunch of times, and I never felt any sort of addiction. But the time came when I realized that I wasn't really having fun doing it, so I turn that stuff down now, and don't even drink very often.

 

[DaTT]

<tyronebuggums>Joe Rogan, you may not know this, but I smoke rock"<tyronebiggums>

I hope they wake up and grow out of it. I did. I used to use acid heavily and anything else herbal. It took a very bad experience on mushrroms to snap me out of it, but I did and I'm way better off. I don't associate with those friends anymore.......but man, did I have some good times back in the day.

 

[iluvtruenos]

Originally posted by: deepred98
yeah drugs are bad and all
but..
pot doesn't really screw you up that much
i have a friend that is pretty smart and has worked his way through quite afew AP classes under the "influence"

don't do heroin, crack, or meth or any of those things cause they really screw you up

Yes, but obviously, pot is a gateway drug, as my friend who was once a pothead can be considered a crackhead.

I know that I can turn down their offers, I have enough self-control, but just the thought of hanging out with a person who does not care about anything except where to get his next 'fix' is disturbing and very depressing.

 

[Sphexi]

I smoked pot for a while, through most of highschool and a year or so into college. I had one friend that couldn't sleep at night unless he smoked up a bit, and then he got his girlfriend into it. I never cared that much about it, I could go months without a puff, only really smoked when hanging out with people.

He started snorting stuff, trying out acid and whatnot, and at some point right after I got out of college we basically just stopped talking. He was going through some stuff with his parents, still living with his dad, and I told him that if he needed somewhere to crash or just hang out, he could come to my place (I lived by myself in a 2bdrm). He never took me up on the offer, and never called back. I hear he now lives in low-income/subsidized housing with his girlfriend and his newborn baby (that apparantly has no problems, despite their rampant drug use), and he's gone through quite a few jobs.

Point is, I hung out with this guy for years, we knew each other since elementary school, and for all of the years we smoked pot I never felt "addicted" to it, and it never effected any other part of my life. If you don't think you can handle hanging out with these people without it effecting your schoolwork, then simply don't hang out with them. Just start phasing them out over time, start missing their calls, skipping hangout times, make plans then break them, and start finding new friends. Eventually they'll just stop bothering and you'll be free.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos

Yes, but obviously, pot is a gateway drug, as my friend who was once a pothead can be considered a crackhead.

I know that I can turn down their offers, I have enough self-control, but just the thought of hanging out with a person who does not care about anything except where to get his next 'fix' is disturbing and very depressing.

It's good to see that government sponsored propaganda still works on people that aren't very bright. It's probably for the best, though, as I doubt that people who believe that stuff would be able to control their drug use.

 

[bonkers325]

:thumbsup: to you

lead the good, clean life and be happy about it