Just watching a repeat of Jonathon Ross interview with Madonna (missed it the first time around) and the subject of drugs came up.
Made me think a bit, never thought of myself as a 'druggie' but thinking back Ive tried a few things
1) alcohol, as chronicled on this site ive got my issues
2) cigarettes, now a non smoker
3) cannabis, when I was younger. Little, never my choice of drug
(and now it starts getting a little introspective)
4) Heroin, once smoked while in prison, never touched it again
5) Glue sniffing, a couple of times in my youth
6) petrol sniffing. As above
7) poppers,....dont ask, I was young and inquisitive
8) Valium and other benzo's...I could quiet easily regain an addiction to these.
Im sure ive tried other things in my youth but cant recall right now but thats not important.
What have you tried and where are you at now?
Cigarettes in the past
Alcohol, rarely and in small doses these days
Cannabis, I went through a phase about 10 years ago
Vallium Ahh! in the 1970s I took a massive overdose (not deliberate) before going in front of a magistrate (I thought I was going to prison) I collapsed in the court and blue lighted to hospital where I had my stomach pumped, really unpleasant!! the next few days were bliss though. Never touched them again!
Magic mushrooms. Bizarre!! I spent hours laughing at my canary, I had dreadful stomach pains the next day, mostly from all the laughing!!
Cigs....Now on a vaporiser.
Booze.. Real ale when i'm out, whisky when indoors.
Drugs.. Smoked small amounts of resin about 15yrs ago. Tried skunk and was violently sick, not touched it since:-)
Tried a cigarette once with my gal pals when I was younger , couldn't see the joy in it. I drink rarely, mostly on social occasions, but now and again, a small sherry, or port, occasionally a small brandy.
1, 2 and 3
Still do 1 and 2 at weekends. As long as I can keep smoking to social only I'm ok with that, never drink home alone
No 3, I still do occasionally, never at home
Ive never tried nor want to try, anything else.
1...used to drink a lot. Not anymore,unless I go out with my daughter when she visits...she's a bad influence!
2...smoked briefly in my 20s. Never inhaled...a pack lasted a week.
3...dabbled a bit,until a bad experience with some stuff that was bad or laced with something else. Never again.
Never tempted by any of the others. I'm a control freak and need to know what I am doing at all times.
Took Valium for anxiety,and agoraphobia in my twenties. It was bad coming off of them...and I was on a tiny dose.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the *** streets at dawn looking for a packet of Regal King size and a tin of cider.
We're better leading abstemious lives.
I've tried alcohol at least partly out of some sense of social obligation. Otherwise I'm a boring sod having tried precisely nothing else. Once I found a discarded pack of cigarettes with maybe ten left inside and threw it away. Although I was tempted for a while.