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use of cocaine

by suehome, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
I have been using cocaine on a recreational basis for several years now.  I am not addicted I could quit if I wanted to, however I feel like it has not caused me any harm but my fiance seems to think it is causing me damage.  I am a little high strunk at times but its just my personality, I do smoke, and a few years ago I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and started taking medication methot... just started a new type of medicine.  I think the cocaine helps me deal with the pain and I don't see why I need to stop using. Can you tell me more facts about using only sometimes but not addicted. His family is trying to make him think that I am psychotic because I use.
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by vikequeen, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
I have a question anyone know if Librax is addictive? It had librium in it and something else, I take it for my IBS, it gives me no high so in my definition any drug that gives me no high is not addictive lol just kidding sorry to hang on the above post but this darn thing never lets me post thks Baddgirl

by Thomas03, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: suehome
Hi Sue,



The web is full of sites documenting cocaine's effect on the brain. Let me just say this: cocaine causes physiological changes in the brain that cause you to crave cocaine whether you had a great experience with it or a terrible one. How crazy is that? The more you use it, the more you will crave it. That goes for casual as well as chronic use.



Chronic use of cocaine over time damages your ability to experience pleasure, sometimes permanently. How crazy is that?



You owe it to yourself to go to a couple of Cocaine Anonymous (CA) meetings - not necessarily to speak or commit yourself to anything, just to see the human devastation that cocaine leaves in its wake. I am a veteran of many, many AA/NA and CA meetings. I have never - never - seen so many broken people in AA or NA as I have in Cocaine Anonymous.



Like most people on this forum, I had my affair with cocaine. I know why you like it. But cocaine destroys people and none of us are immune.



You don't use cocaine because you're psychotic. You use it because you're human. You can also stop using it for the same reason.



Thomas

by suehome, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: Everyon This
I know I could quit, I just don't think I  should quit doing the things I enjoy because my boyfriends family is pressuring him.  He is 40 years old and still letting his mother try and tell him what to do.  I don't think he can expect me to quit cocaine when he smokes marajuana on occassions and he has even done coke with me.  His family started accusing him of a coke problem because he lost a lot of weight when we started dating.found out it was his thyroid, we are getting married and I will quit my cocaine use before we try to conceive, however Thomas can you tell me how long it was before you quit, and knew that you were over your cravings for cocaine.

by Thomas03, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: suehome
sue, I used sporadically over a two-year period. I only used when I was gifted some coke by a friend who dealt. Thank god I couldn't afford the stuff on my own. But even a weekend fling with coke left me craving the **** out of it. I eventually used it less and less often. For me, the craving only lasted a couple weeks. I think it depends on how often and how much you use.



If you don't mind, since you posted them, I must say that your reasons for using are pure, USDA choice bullshit, which is to say they're similar to the ones I had for using. 'Fact is, all reasons for using cocaine are bullshit. Cocaine is a drug with only one purpose: to addict people and turn them into customers.



You deserve better than that, sue.



Thomas

by suehome, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: thomas
Thanks Thomas for your input.  Two weeks I can do that I was under the impression that kicking my habit would take longer.  I have on occassions stopped using for months at a time, so I guess I really don't have a problem, because if it only takes 2 weeks for the cravings to subside than I am ahead of the game.  Thanks again.

by rodewc, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: thomas~sue~
Sue, that is complete and utter BS. I call a spade a spade. Thomas is dead on. There is no excuse for an excuse. Unreal. I feel like I have read/watched an episode of SNL, or at minimum listened to one of my kids' lies (x-cuses) for myriads of things. Are you 4 real? I think not. Wake up. You are in for major misery. If this is harsh, so be it.~

by oxic, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: suehome
I certainly am not going to beat you up for using; but just for calibration purposes.........you are my mother-in-law, twenty five years ago.

Now at 51, she doesn't even have a pot to **** in, and virtually everyone has cut her out of their lives, but she could stop anytime.

She's had to go thru the worst detox and follow-up, cause her "casual" cocaine use led perpetual coke use to vikes and a lot of other goodies, but she could stop anytime.

Her family wouldn't even take her in, from staying in the equivalent of a crack house, but she could stop anytime.

She's lied and hurt abolutely everyone she has come into contact with to feed that vorascious appetite for coke, but she could stop anytime.



She'd like to tell you this first hand, but she has just made a 22 hour bus trip back to her hometown, to try and make amends with her parents, that want absolutely nothing to do with her, and finish filing her bankruptcy(sp?), but she could have stopped anytime.....



Scaring you will never prevent you from doing what you gotta do, but, holy **** are you in for a destructive future with that ****!!!



percs

(I've also watched first hand, as coke swallowed up a couple of my close buddies: one serving 5 years for selling;; and another former power-lifter/athelete, who never leaves his bedroom, to be with his blow, bigscreen TV, and beer)

by Chezz2, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: Percs
Percs,



What a compelling story you tell. Of course those of us that have been here and "there", know the situation you went through first hand.

What a way to describe what a "hell" of a life someone can lead through "but...I can stop anytime".



I hope she gets the point before she becomes yet another MIL, battling the same issues as yours 20 years from now. Statistics and human intuition tell us it is inevitable, unless she gets the message now. And what a message you portrayed.



I hope she gets the point and realizes that is the route she will chose if she continues down the road she is on...



Chezz



PS Nice to hear that you and the wife will be able to have some "alone" time in the coming weeks/months ect.

I hope your MIL continues on the recovery path she is going down and that life treats her well. We all know she has led a pretty hard life with the addictions she has.

by peaz, Mar 30, 2003 12:00AM
To: percs
Powerful post,  guy.  It's these types of "real-life" anecdotes that bring it on home ......I was shaking my head in disbelief throughout the entire post; not that I didn't believe your account.  Rather, because I knew damn well it was true. We addicts are a ******-up lot.......but it doesn't HAVE to be that way. Lots of us are living proof.

   Good luck to your MIL , and you and the Mrs. take care.  Love, Peazy



P.S.  Does this mean we won't be having the Reunion in the next couple weeks at your house???

by Erika_Ann, Mar 31, 2003 12:00AM
To: SUEHOME********
I have to say something because I have had Rhematoid arthritis now for 20 years. Im 31 and have been through multiple surgeries and therapies trust me on this one. Any harsh drug such as that will eventually deteriate your joints. and the arthritis is already doing that so why would you want to make it worse? I'm not trying to tell you what to do I just have had it so long that i hate to see others suffer with it and do things to make it worse. I am here for you if you need to talk. I understand.

Please take yourself and be gentle.

Erika

by theGolden1, Mar 31, 2003 12:00AM
To: Sue
If you and your fiance are planning to start a family, you will both want to be in the best possible health. Any drug use would be counter productive.(no pun intended) Take the good advice you find here and get out while the gettin'is good ... your life is waiting for you .... Goldie

by finkboy, Apr 02, 2003 12:00AM
IMHO, Coke is worse than any other pill or substance that is mentioned on this board.



I know of no other substance that made me smoke my own toenail clippings.



I know of no other substance that would make you want to sell off a family member, or any other earthly possesion for one more fix.



It is a lethal lolita that will tell you everything you want to hear, and drown out the voice of reason.



RUN, do not walk away from this hiddeous substance.  It damn near cost me my life as well as my freedom.  I was one of the lucky ones, and only got away by moving from California to Texas and joining the military.



As an addict (and we all are, or we wouldn't be here) there is nothing I screwed around with that had a hold on me like Coke.  You can tell yourself different, but you would be lying.



Play any tape out to the end with cocaine and let me know how it turns out.....

by Duragesic idiot, Apr 05, 2003 12:00AM
To: Finkboy
I just have to ask, "smoke your own toenail clippings"?? Is that a joke or slang or something or do people do it for some reason? Defintaely not judging here, had my run ins with whitey, got down to 82lbs(my mom said I should stop doing so much aerobics! Ha!) I went for a commercial for an angency that had used me several times in the past, they took one look and sent me home.

That's not even a bad "life wrecking" coke story, but it's mine.

Opps, got off on a tangent, so what about those toenail things?  I'm really curious

The idiot

by finkboy, Apr 06, 2003 12:00AM
When I started to Freebase, we ran out.  I then combed the carpet on my hands and knees and found something that looked reasonably like a piece of crack.  It was not.  Nuff said....

by Roxy30mg, Apr 06, 2003 12:00AM
Wow, cocaine now this is a drug I've had way too much experience with.Whe I first started using coke it was back in the eighties. I started sniffing it. This seemed harmless enough at first