What Drugs have you done and why?

[PDJane]

11. I am not addicted to anything but tea at the moment.

I don't drink alcohol or pop (the latter is completely out; I'm really sensitive to corn products). I tried speed in my misspent youth, and loved it, but that is a problem, I have discovered, with depression. Didn't take it more than once or twice. I do take Cymbalta. May end up using pot for neurological pain, if I have a choice between that and the heavy neurological drugs.

I once worked as a transcriber on a temporary basis during a study of drug-addicted minors. It was enough to make me tired, heartbroken and wary of anyone offering drugs of any kind. I don't think that I can bear another tale of a child given drugs as an adjunct to sexual abuse. Please, if you love me, not one more.

I have known too many alcoholics, as well. I've managed to avoid that.

Truthfully, I have been addicted to the prescription pad; a neurologist was layering drugs after an accident. I tossed them away, went through withdrawal (mostly slept through it) and woke up starving. That's the very last of that. Interestingly, when I stopped, I had no cravings. I was told that meant that I wasn't truly addicted in the way that most addicts are, if that makes sense. I apparently was addicted because of the constant care and feeding of that addiction by someone who should have known better.

I don't know how you can possibly manage those few people who are truly addictive personalities. It's been my experience that if you take away one addiction, they tend to develop another kind of addiction, or an addiction to something else. We need a much better handle on that particular illness.