General Chat

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :-)

Keep writing though

Uzzi, roll your OH !

god I am sooooooooooo 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 !

Hayley why are you boring ?

Good on you, Uzzi!

Be happy

Sue x

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

Nothing boring about you Hayley :))

Thank you Uzzi for the acknowledgement..........it was a bit of a blurt and I had been thinking I'd delete it ...........but it's part of who I am . Been through the mill and come out the other side jobby ...........lol

Amanda x

~~~~ to Sue................and Hayley you are not boring at all..........far from it : ))

Thank you Rose :)) And Niece of Mad Aunt Amanda :-)))

I don't take drugs...never have and never will......haven't read any other posts just in case anyone feels like hanging me :-))))

Hayley...............just for the record...........I don't think for one moment that my name sake the mad aunt Amanda ever took any drugs what so ever , bless her......she was just mad in a thoroughly lovely eccentric way : ))

Amanda can you please climb to the top of this tree with this rope thanks hun....** gurns at Susan with numbers **