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Meth use
If a friend says she only uses meth on weekends but she has lost a lot of weight is it likely that she is actually lying to me and she is actually using it everyday and is addicted to it. She is 5 foot 6 and she used to weigh about 140 pounds. I do not know what she weighs now but I think she has probably lost 20 pounds or more over the last 3 or 4 months.
Read answer →Ivory Wave - How dangerous are bath salts?
How dangerous are bath salts? I read in the paper that a woman lost her arm and half her chest from a flesh eating bacteria she got from shooting bath salts. My friend is using bath salts regularly to get high and I am worried about her. I showed her the article about the flesh eating bacteria but she says that it’s only a problem if you inject. She only snorts. Is she in danger?
Read answer →Binge Drinking and Alcoholism
Can I be addicted to alcohol if I only drink on weekends? I thought alcoholics needed to drink every day or they’d get the shakes or something. I never drink during the week but I always drink on the weekends. I drink a lot on the weekends and I can’t seem to stop myself even though I know I need to slow down? So can a person by a weekend only alcoholic or is that impossible?
Read answer →Money as a trigger
I have a problem with crack. I have been trying to quit using but every time my payday comes along I just can’t resist the temptation of that cash in my pocket and I don’t stop until the whole thing is gone. I have tried having my work do a direct deposit into my girlfriends account but I would always end on the phone screaming at my girlfriend to give up my money. Eventually she’d fold and give it up. Who wants an angry crack head calling you at work screaming for money? Anyway, having someone else hold onto the money doesn’t seem to really help me. She isn’t my girlfriend any more but I have learned that if I have money having someone else hold onto it for me doesn’t really work because when I know I’ve got it I just crave so hard and I won’t stop until I get it. So what do I do? I’m a pretty good bodywork guy so I’ve been keeping this job for the last 6 months and I am really trying to get my shit together but every two weeks like clock work I just go on this bender and even though I swear it won’t happen again it just does, every time. I try the NA thing but it’s no good against the feelings I get on those Friday afternoons when I know I’ve got money to burn.
Read answer →dip
Is using dip a good way to quit smoking? I know that cancer organizations can’t exactly recommend this method but is it at all a practical way to go? The gum doesn’t really work for me because I always still want a smoke after but dipping gives me even more of a buzz than smoking a cigarette does. I don’t really enjoy a dip though because I find it kind of gross and I am not very good at spitting and aiming. The idea is to break the smoking habit by switching to dip for a few weeks and then gradually weaning myself off the dip. It’s the habit that I have the most trouble with,,,smoking on coffee breaks and with morning coffee etc ect.
Read answer →Honesty in detox
I want to try to detox off norcos at home. My doctor prescribed to me but I have been supplementing without his knowledge. From everyone I have talked to getting some valium really helps for the withdrawal symptoms. I wasn’t to ask him for some valium but I am scared to admit that I have been abusing the opiates he has been prescribing. If I tell him this will I get put on some sort of list for people who doctor shop or are addicted to opiates or anything? I am very worried about how this might affect my health insurance because I have secondary conditions that require a lot of expensive treatment and I cannot afford to risk my insurance.
Read answer →Cocaine Use At Work
I caught my business partner using cocaine at work. He laughed it off as something he never does but it shocked me totally to see it and now that I think back it would explain some of the erratic behavior and poor work performance I’ve observed over the last couple of months. I thought he was just having a hard time with the separation he’s going through with his wife. I respect him as a person and I care for him, but we have always had a very professional only working relationship, whereby our personal lives were our own business and not very relevant to the workings of the company. However, our financial fates are very intertwined and though he is a very skilled architect if he fails to live up to his potential or his promises then I could be in very deep trouble. I don’t want to make more of this than I should. I have never done drugs, but I get it that not everyone who does cocaine is a drug addict. But how can I tell if he has a drug problem? I need to know if it’s a recreational thing for him or if it’s more, and knowing him I am not going to be able to ask and get a straight answer. So what are the signs I should be looking for?
Read answer →Pot is still pot
I am a 15 year old competitive downhill skier and I am aiming to be on the junior nation team by next year. I train really hard and I also have school responsibilities and sometimes I find that it gets to be a bit heavy and hard to manage. I find that smoking a little joint most nights helps me to feel a lot more relaxed about things and it gives me a little break to look forward to at the end of the long day. One of the junior coaches caught me toking last weekend at a training camp and he asked me how often I smoked and he freaked on me when I told him I smoked most nights and he threatened to tell the head coaches unless I agreed to stop. I said I would, but I am not sure I really want to give up the only thing that keeps me from losing my mind. I guess I understand how smoking even a small amount every night could hurt my lung capacity and my performance , but what if I switched to eating pot brownies? Would that have any impact on my performance? If I ate a pot brownie most nights but made sure to stop for a couple days before races, how could that hurt me at all?
Read answer →Addiction and having children
I am 28 and I am 7 months clean. I go to AA and NA at least once a day and I am starting to take on jobs at meetings. I am not sure if I am ready to have kids or not but I am starting to consider it and I am so blessed to even be in this spot right now considering the trainwreck my life was not so long ago. There is no family history of addiction in my family other than my own. I did all drugs but I was mostly into crack and crystal. What I want to know is now that I am not using any more are any kids that I might have at an increased risk to have birth defects or behavioral problems or anything like that? I have heard people say that meth can cause DNA damage and mess up your chromosomes and stuff but I am not sure if this is true or not? The guy who told me this was a pretty smart guy who had a masters degree. But he was also a junkie.
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