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I get high every day. Is this normal? Do I need to get help?
I am in college at a big party university. I have experienced pretty major trauma I guess dealing with several deaths of family members, including my dad, and a close friend all within the last year. My best friend just had to leave school to go to rehab due to an overdose. Over the past we did coke pretty regularly but not on a daily or even weekly basis. Whenever we could get it we did, and then it would be gone shortly. This year we started buying just one time after another and our tolerance built up so, we decided to try something stronger. We did crack together once but that was it. I haven't done coke in about two and a half months now, and I stopped drinking mostly. My drinking was definitely out of control for a little but now i have no interest in getting drunk and blacking out. I never drank and did coke together though. I smoke marijuana multiple times daily and usually til i fall asleep and I see it is kind of out of control. It is my incentive for nearly everything i do school wise. I sometimes snort my adderall and klonopin, and in the summer I was snorting Xanax and vic and blew-through both prescriptions quickly. I have remained away from coke but I still snort these other things and I always contemplate buying coke just one more time but hold myself back from finding it. I don't know if I should just focus on quitting weed but I really don't want to right now at all. I have found myself fending for more pot, worrying about Incan get more so I don't run out. Sometimes I'll really get the urge to snort something or do coke so I'll just snort an adderall. Sometimes it definitely helps me deal with emotions about my life. I don't know if or how this would be treated or if they treat weed because you can't get physically addicted. But I beg to differ on that because recently for a short period of time I wasn't able to smoke at all and I felt horrible for two and a half days. Exhausted stomach ache headache irritable. Anyway I just don't know what to do that fits my situation to fix the problem if there even is one. Do I need to get help?
Read answer →I'm in trouble with cocaine. Should I switch to crack?
I have only been doing cocaine for a couple of years and I already have a big hole in my septum and you can even see that my nose is starting to flatten out. It really hurts and I know that it is permanent and it makes me really feel down when I think about it. I am trying to quit but it’s really hard. I am using a little less than I used to. I always swore I’d never use crack because that was a line I would not cross. Should I switch to crack instead of snorting while I am trying to quit so that I won’t do more damage to my nose? I cannot afford any expensive rehab right now.
Read answer →My life is going down the tubes. Could it be the weed?
I’ve grown up with a really tight circle of friends. They are more like brothers to me than just friends and I owe my life to these guys. They have literally saved my life on more than one occasion. They would never turn their back on me and I can never imagine turning away from them. We all smoke a lot of weed. it’s like a huge part of what we do. I have started to realize that I don’t really want to be high all the time. I’m 23 now and I can see some of the people I went to high school with are starting to get good jobs and stuff and I’m still just sitting around with nothing to show for myself. I need to get serious about my life but as soon as I get high in the morning any good plans I had to get stuff done and make some progress just gets shelved for another day. So I keep telling myself that I need to slow down with the weed, but I just don’t seem to be able to do it. I mean I want to, but when I’m offered I just can’t seem to say no. I mean sometimes I’ll say no, but eventually I’ll always fold and say yes. I have enrolled at JC for the last two semesters and both times I’ve screwed it up because I missed too many classes and did too little work. And this is all because I was high every day. I can’t keep doing this to my life. So I feel like I am stuck. I can’t stop hanging out with my friends, there’s no way I could do that to them. But I also want to quit weed and get my life together, and I just can’t seem to stop smoking when I am around them. How can I be a stronger person and learn to just say no without having to turn my back on the people I love.
Read answer →My mom is addicted to plastic surgery and it's getting crazy. How can I stop her?
Can a person be addicted to plastic surgery? My mom won’t stop getting stuff done to her face, her boobs, her but even her ankles. I have lost count by now but she has had way more than 10 operations over the last few years. We have no money to pay the bills but she always finds money for surgeries. And in my opinion the surgeries she is getting now are no longer making her look better. She is starting to look weird, like a person who has had too much. I have tried talking to her about it but she does not listen and it is always just one more thing that she needs to fix. Are doctors really allowed to just keep taking money for this? Can’t they at some point say that this is not necessary and not a good idea? I don’t know what I can do to get her to stop doing this. Do you have any advice for me?
Read answer →I think people want to kill me when I smoke pot. Am I OK?
If I get out of touch with reality (not in a good way) sometimes when I smoke strong pot does this mean that I am one of the kinds of people that are at risk of schizophrenia? I know that marijuana can increase a person’s risk of getting schizo in their 20s. When I smoke sometimes it is fine and fun but sometimes I get really scared and I think I am going to die or that people around me want to hurt me.
Read answer →Will my past LSD use cause birth defects? I'd like to have children, but I worry.
I used to do a lot of LSD. I have done more than 500 hits of acid, along with a lot of other drugs, but LSD was always my drug of choice. I have heard many times that doing a lot of LSD can cause chromosomal changes in your body and that these can be passed on to your children. I do not know if this is true or not. I am now in my late 30s and a few years away from the drug life I used to live and I want to have children now with the great guy I am engaged to be married to. But I am worried about my past and whether or not I am going to be putting a child at risk. Should I be worried about mutations?
Read answer →Is there such a thing as an addictive personality?
Is there such a thing as an addictive personality? I have heard this term used for a long time but I don’t know if this is a real medical term or not. I think that if it is real then I must have one. I used to smoke a ton of weed and then one day I managed to give it up – but then I got really into online gaming and WoW and that became like another addiction to me. Then I gave that up and decided to get healthy and got really into exercising and now my GF is giving me a hard time about how much time I spend every day in training; it’s almost like I’m addicted to exercise now like I used to be addicted to weed and I’m just going through life substituting one addiction for the next. I’d like to be able to do something in moderation for once, like a normal human being – but I’m not sure how to change myself, like a leopard can’t change its spots, and being like this just seems to be the way I’m hardwired. I get into something that could be an OK thing (even weed) and then I just lose control over how much I do it until it becomes a not OK thing, and then I move onto the next thing and repeat the pattern all over again.
Read answer →I like to drink wine most nights. Is that addiction?
I left a response under a question that was directed to you. And it led me to ask is having a few glasses of wine or champagne on a weekly basis considered addiction? I will have a drink Friday night (3) glasses ; Saturday night (3-4) glasses. Sunday nothing. Monday maybe some champagne with dinner and then Wednesday maybe (1-2) glasses off wine. repeat. Is this odd? or okay? I definitely feel happier when I pop that cork (chuckles to self) but in the back of my mind I hear my mother saying "OMG You'd better watch yourself You need some prayer" And Im thinking to myself Im young in my mid 20s vegetarian holistic lifestyle yoga buddhist lifestyle let me have my fun. So I guess I figured since I live alone and have no one to bounce the idea off of; let me ask a professional? Am I just paranoid?
Read answer →Are Steroids Addictive?
Are steroids addictive? My brother started using them in high school. He justified the decision as he was going to get big so he’d get a football scholarship. The scholarship didn’t happen but the steroids are still ongoing like 5 years later. Now he’s like the hulk but he can always find some reason why he needs to take just one more cycle. I know this isn’t good for his health but I have tried to respect his decisions over his own body. Now I am wondering how in control he really is.
Read answer →I'm Trying to Quit Drinking and Using Cocaine. Should I Move?
I am trying (and mostly failing) to control my drinking and cocaine. I have a great apartment that is in a very vibrant part of downtown. I can walk to a dozen really great coffee shops and art galleries and great stores and restaurants within 10 minutes from my front door and I can walk to work in 15 minutes. I also share the apartment with a friend who rents it from his Aunt at a very reduced rate, so it is a much nicer place than I could otherwise afford. The problem is that when I walk out at night it’s not a dozen coffee shops that are in my immediate vicinity, it’s 50 great clubs and pubs and bars that line the streets. I love the nightlife so this has always been great, but now that I am trying to quit drinking and drugs I find the constant temptation very difficult to deal with. Should I move out to the suburbs? I am worried that I will move to somewhere boring and terrible and I’ll feel the same temptations I do now…but I’ll be living somewhere I hate. Will moving make it easier for me? Or am I blaming my neighborhood for an addiction that is really just inside me and so wherever I live doesn’t really matter?
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