General Chat

coz I am soooo square, but I an't about to jump out the window and try it now at 39, so I will stick to me fags and chocalate...lol

Good on you, Uzzi!

Be happy

Sue x

Hayley why are you boring ?

Amanda I can't do your post justice at the time I am on ( I am still high from talking to my Uncle ) I will not forget it and I will come back. I hope that others can be there and all I can do is say Sorry


Rose I intend on rolling my OH it's payday !

god I am sooooooooooo boring ...

Uzzi, roll your OH !

Keep writing though

Rose thankyou for coming back

I would like to make a joke and say I am orf for a spliff but not sure how it will be taken, OH is due home soon, these days he is the only high I need.

see my thread I am in love

but I understand both sides of the drug problem which we re talking about ( death or life) I have seen more dead then alive. or it seemed like it !

Folks I will be back but I need to roll my spliff and kiss my OH ......or is that roll my OH and kiss my spliff :-)

Dope ( wacky baccy ) until 1990 .
I've also dabbled in acid , speed , cocaine .
I tried Heroin a couple of times but it was in a desperate attempt to stop my then partner from going down the road to destruction. It didn't work . He committed suicide nine years after we split up because he couldn't escape being a junkie ? Hated himself ? I'll never really know the answer to that one .
Personally speaking I can see the allure in drugs ( especially for the younger generation , they think themselves SO invincible ! ) but I've seen far to many people go down the serious road and not return. It's a mugs game at the end of the day , in my opinion .

Amanda

Hi Uzzi

Far from being ashamed, I'm enormously proud of my brother.

He achieved more in his lifetime than I have ever done.

Young children (my only daughter included) loved him - he kept her absorbed with historical tales of the north east which have never left her - and which motivated her right on to her doctorate in history.

I'm not aware of anyone who had anything but good to say about Gareth.

That he fell victim to his addiction is so sad - and, to my mind, is reason enough to have no truck with all drugs - full stop.

Thanks for caring


Sue x

I just went to get chocolate :) !

Maybe I was never interested in trying drugs because I was addicted to sex lol.... that's a flippant remark, but in a way it isn't? From my perspective at the time when a lot of kids try drugs I was wrapped up in the things I enjoyed which made me feel really good...early on that was music, later it was 'romance'.

Like Sue, I know people who can and have taken 'soft' drugs from time to time and come out unscathed, but also people who never moved on from 'soft' drugs, who found that, addictive or not, they couldn't live without them and whose memory, personality and ability to function normally were severely damaged..... the ones I knew who did take hard drugs are generally speaking not here to argue for or against.

I have to go with the opinion that it is much easier to avoid finding out how hard it might be to give up drugs, by not taking them in the first place.... that was my choice. I just really would not wish the agony of trying to give up on anyone , or their families.

Edited because I think I put in a 'double negative' lol and made it confusing

Suezian like with most things ( even my fathers funeral ) I try to find a laugh

what the hell did pernicious mean ....Okay ( I put that in for others also )

it means causing insidious harm or ruin,

I spare a thought for a lot of addicts, alive and dead. Reformed or not. You obviously are one of the few who it matters to instead of being ashamed.

Thanks Uzzi

In my opinion this whole drug thing is pernicious

I quite accept that many people can give it a try and come out the other end, unscathed

But spare a thought for the others (my brother included) who get seriously hooked - and end up dead.

Sue

Rose I am well aware of your opinions and the way your thoughts lie.
I do not have a problem of you putting in your two an half pence worth cos I believe you have a lot of sense to say. So go for it.

Jane goodnight we will see if the thread is still here later

Suzian what you share here can only help others, if it helps I lost my exBIL to an overdose (Suicide) and my friend to an accidental one. Not sure what was better the overdose or the friend of OH who hung himself.
I actually love dragons and collect them but I have never ever chased one

I wouldn't presume to tell an adult what to do or not to do but if drugs came up in conversation with youngsters then I would just relate one experience.

A close friend was almost beaten to death (I didn't even recognise her when she knocked on my door at 2 a.m.) Her drug fuelled OH had just found out she had flushed his supply. A few of us had to smuggle her out of Spain so she could receive medical treatment in the UK and get away from him.

Not an experience I would ever forget.

x

It might be time for me to bow out of this one Uzzi :)) I am quite 'definite' in my opinions on it and don't want to upset anyone. We all make our own choices in the end,

as far as what I tell my son goes...I tell him I haven't personal experience of what drugs might or might not do to me, but tell him what I have seen them do to others.and that I hope I never have to see drugs do the same to him.

sorry Julie, ( shit must put the spliff out lol ) I did take on board your comments but I have to own up that I had no answer.

My apology I should have said that at the time

Most of my friends in my late teens had a puff every now and again.......and not one took anything stronger than that !!! so in my experience it doesn't lead to anything stronger.

I guess we were happier and more comfortable in the *pub* culture ultimately ......having a few drinks..... than we were in the *club* culture when e's and all that were so available.

I haven't had a joint since I was about 23......wouldn't have the stuff in the house with the kids about now either......but I'm not ashamed of my experimenting.......just glad I didn't try anything else.

When the time comes I guess I'll hold my hands up to it and admit it to my kids........but I really don't see it as a big deal as in the scheme of things.............I'd obviously rather my girls didn't drink, smoke, have a puff or have sex til they're at least 30 (lol) but realistically they'll have a dabble with things and the fact that I'm human and have been there to see the signs and guide them through won't be a bad thing ultimately imho xx

I'm not sure about this, folks

I lost my brother to an overdose of methadone when he was just 30.

A clever guy, a practising solicitor - and he tried so hard to get off his heroin habit he'd acquired at Uni

But, in the end, he died alone.

I very much doubt he thought "I've never tried anything stronger than coffee ........ oh, good idea, here's a dragon ready for the chase"

So, for some of us - addictive personalties probably - the price is too high.

Sue x