How can you tell if someone is on drugs?

[kajunfriend]

If someone is on drugs what how can you tell?  What does dialted eyes mean? I think the drug being used is oxymoxin? Not sure if I am spelling correctly. Heard the name metioned, I think this might be the drug a friend is using.

[shane]

Hi Everyone. I've been catching up reading the forum and thought ii'd get back in touch. Skip, I see your still active and helping all you can. It's funny how the names change on here but the situations are all pritty much the same. Addicts againts this desease!!! Everyone shows up on the forum after their addicted,to bad people couldn't read it before they started down this long hard road. See what their getting into. Proabably  do the same thing anyway. I know I would have.Does anyone know how long hydrocodone stays in your system regarding a urinalysis? Iv'e been clean for about 3 weeks but had a minor relapse two days ago. I'll have to have a **** test and was kind of worried. Thanks to all. Keep posting. And remember if you thinking of taking more JUST THIS ONCE, STOP AND THINK!!!!It's just not worth it. Just alot of guilt, and no bang anyway. Love. Later. Shane
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[jennyfla]

What a story!  Never think for a moment that your friend's death was your fault.  You know better than anyone that no one is responsible for another's actions, it is the person himself, no one else has that kind of power.
I'm sure you were only doing your best to spread the word of your new found knowledge, and to help him best you could.
It would have happened whether you were in his life or not, believe me!
Take care, hope you're feeling better today!
:)
Lv Jenny

[hippy]

hey everyone,
seems to be a lot on this popst.
well it 6 am eact coast time and im off to work in a few min.
ash be real careful fith that flexerel it is real good for sleeping at night, but don't try 2 or more  it will knock you out.peace.
angst, i knew you were a nurse, but i did not know that you eworked with
cancer patients. now that is a lot of pain, just to watch,

peace.
tex you seem to be feeling better, all that writing, hope all is well
peace.  got to go to work, i am at temple U .  this month

[skipper]

hey thankyou:
something awful like this tends to make me feel isolated-abandoned.i know i'm not the only witness to misery and mystery but it sure can get to feel that way....

the end of the line that sticks most with me happened the first
summer i was clean. i went back ot Mpls to visit several old shooting/using buddys that cleaned up around the same time as me. i learned from one the other had already gone back to shooting dope (he couldn't even wait to see what i was like clean!) of course i had to run off at the mouth with all this "program talk." i think i made this friend feel real bad for relapsing. of course i felt entirely justified. the next day i felt real bad about the way i talked and acted out. when i returned to the apartment i'ld left my relapsed friend at, i saw him being hauled away in a coroners van. i try to remember this whenever i witness myself going judgemental. life is short...even shorter for an addict...must learn how to be friend that brings help and light and not judgement and scorn.... that was back in the summer of 1979. i still have to watch my mean mouth. things can be said, that will never be able to be taken back....

keep an angel on your shoulder
kip

[lifeisbetter]

Hi Ash! I'm so glad your back and trying again. Did I ever tell you I detoxed at least 50 times or more until I got it. (I think I got it, well at least today I do.)

Hey Meagain, the depression was the worst of it for me. All I can say is it will get better. Keep trying! It's so encouraging for me to see how determined you are.

and Zoe your right! Only your friend can say whether he is an addict or not. Its best to encourage him to stop and then drop it. He knows your concerned and he'll hopefully come to you for help when the time is right for him. Thats really all you can or should do for him. Consequences seem to be the only motivator for addicts to get clean. Let him stumble and just pray that he'll learn.

[lifeisbetter]

Kip,I'm so sorry to hear your friend is suffering and your right it isn't "fair". Angst and tex3, I too have seen alot of tragic things in my life both personally and professionally. In my first month as a nurse I was assigned to a floor called IMC (intermediate care.) It's the floor that people from ICU are sent to when they are expected to pass away. I tended to, and wrapped, over thirty bodies that first month. Needless to say it was an overwhelming experience at best. Yet I started to sense something familiar each time I witnessed someone pass. I realized that, regardless of how they passed they had a commonality, whether they died in their sleep,or holding my hand or during a code with alot of commotion going on. To me, at the moment of their passing, it looked as if something had actually gone away. Not just the vital signs but that the person went somewhere and the body simply looked pain free. I probably sound like an idiot but thats what I saw.
      I've come away with a better uderstanding of the word powerlessness. Not one of us can control when or how we'll die. Which led me to the belief that there is a force that has all the power and control. I think his name is God. Unfortunately we as a human race will probably never find "the reason" people are made to suffer and why things are so unfair. I try not to ask that question because I believe there are simply some things we are not meant to know. Not yet anyway.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.