Contains illicit drugs - As far as drugs are concerned, is there anyone else like me on RYL?

bjm5225 · 08-11-2010, 01:08 AM

I just wanted to know if i could start this thread and find out if anyone has gone through hard drug addiction as young as me.
Ive been addicted to heroin, cocaine, mephedrone and oxycodone.
I just turned 18 and all this happened from the age 15-17

I believe i have a pre dispositon to addiction, as i find almost anything i enjoy highly addictive. And i have always glamourised drugs in my mind from a very young age.

Anyway if anyone else has gone through something similar i would love to hear stories/opinions etc
all the meetings i go to are usually full of adults in there 30's and 40's who have had a lifelong battle with addiction and i have only met a handful who were closer to my age

Kitkat :) · 08-11-2010, 01:15 AM

Me.

I'm 17, currently mentally (not physically) addicted to weed and I'm a huge drug-taker. I'm not proud of it but I will do a lot of things.

I'm not glamourising what I've done, but I just want you to know that I am the same. I've done cocaine, ketamine, mephedrone, ecstacy, MDMA, weed and speed. I'm not proud of the fact that I have done all this in a year and a half.

I said I wouldn't do crack or heroin but recently my mindsets changing, though I don't have access to it.

Even when I was young I used sniff glue, petrol, just solvents in general. I did that from primary well into secondary school (year 10) and then I started using drugs in year 11.

Buttercup. · 10-11-2010, 02:27 AM

I do not take drugs, but my aunt has been using hard drugs (cocaine, crack, heroin, etc.) since she was only 12 years old. She is now in a nursing home unable to care for herself at all because of all the brain damage she's done. Please fight your addictions. Do what ever you can to free yourself from them, it is not worth it.

*hugs*

Jess x

shadow-light · 10-11-2010, 02:42 AM

I have never used any illegal drugs. But when I was 16 I did start dating a heroin addicit, he had been using since he was 12 or 13 (I forget which) and most of his friends were addicted to one thing or anyother too - many had been from a fairly young age. So I don't have any dirrect experiance of this, but I have seen others go though it

I have had on/off issues with alcohol and have been to AA a few times, and I have the same issue there as you - that everyone seems to be ages 30-50 and have been abusing the stuff for far longer than I have... Part of the reason I stopped going was that I felt like a fake as I hadn't had the issue for 20+ years (being only 23 now and 18 the first time I went to an AA meeting). I have been tempted many times to use things other than alcohol, but so far I have managed to avoid that

In many ways that fact tht you have recognised this issue before getting to the age of many of those at the meetings is a good thing, it means that hopefully by the time you do get to their age you will have been able to recover

HoiSinSex · 12-11-2010, 05:17 PM

I also had a problem going to AA at first because most of the people there were twice my age and had lost things (family, house, career) that I'd never even had. Once I found Young Peoples' AA, I began to feel like I fit in somewhere, and since regularly going to YPAA meetings, have become more comfortable going to regular meetings where I'm one of the youngest people in the room. Ultimately what it comes down to is that you can't look at the differences - you have to look at the similarities in your stories.

Yan-yan · 13-11-2010, 11:23 AM

Yes I find I have always gamourised drugs since i can remember.
I started smoking weed and sniffin gas at 11. When I was 12 I started drinking, taking speed and experementing with Ecstasy & coke. At 14 I was bad with persciption drugs (Valume ect) I have always vowed I wouldn't take heroin or Crack but just the other night I jumped at the chance of trying crack.

Now my biggest issue is drink & perscription drugs I take speed regually but for some reason I dont see that as a problem, maybe its comparing it to my drinking. I'm only 16 but drink has been a big issue for me since i was 12 I rarley go a day without a drink and I wish I could change but I know that the likleyhood is i'm going to be an alcoholic.

I also take ketimine occasionally.

consequential · 22-11-2010, 04:59 AM

I took drugs 4 years .Speed ,weed ,lsd and ectasy mainly .I would say I was addcited .I have given all this up .I now have major health issues ,Im on loads of different meds.Im convinced the lsd gave me psychosis in later life.I think the ectasy gave me my bowel illness.
Its ok to try drugs (maybe ) but long term use ull end up dead ,on the street selling your body or seriously ill like me.
Is a couple of good night s worth it ? No

SiNcY · 22-11-2010, 11:55 AM

I did a lot of xtc and took one bad pill and ended up in hospital, then starting taking speed and then moved on to coke and occasionally meth(ice). Did coke solidly for a good few months, stopped for one month and then started again and got really bad. Met a new boyfriend and haven't touched coke or speed since. I had one pill on my 21st birthday.

I am now 21 and all this happened between the ages of 18 or 19 and now.

Im here if you want to chat about anything. xox

beautiful_seclusion · 30-11-2010, 02:41 AM

I've never taken anything but alcohol and weed, but I've had friends who have. It's so damaging, it saddens me. Here crystal meth is the biggest problem, it destroys so many lives. I've seen friends neglect their children over drugs, lose everything. I think there are a ton of younger people who are addicted to drugs, but they're less likely to get help. Maybe look for groups for young adults, but also realize it's great that you're trying to stop this before you get to where you've lost everything.

Ami · 30-11-2010, 10:36 PM

I basically "self medicate". Probabaly like everyone else?

Jaada · 05-12-2010, 08:39 AM

I know what you mean, I don't like saying I am addicted to anything, but I know I am.. I used to be addicted to basically every kind of pain killer I could get, then got sent to a group home for my mental issues, SH, drugs, among many others, where I got into even more trouble. I was willing to do anything anyone gave me.. Every day I was doing several different drugs, mainly weed that was usually laced with something or another, pills, coke, shrooms, acid, crack, and had done both meth and heroin everyday for like the last two weeks I was there, before I got moved to a lockdown facility.. I as well glamorized drugs from a young age, and I know now that it is nothing to be proud of. Yet I still find myself mentally addicted to weed, and mentally/possibly physically to coke.. At least I am not proud of what I am doing now, and I have a plan to stop. Which goes into effect this coming Monday.. If you ever want to talk, feel free to PM me;)
<3
Jaada

Artyom · 12-12-2010, 12:58 AM

Im almost 22 now and between the ages of 14-16 I have been in several treatment centers for numerous drug and alcohol problems. You are not alone. I have since stopped all the "hard" stuff and just drink occasionally.

i remember going to AA/NA meetings when i was like 16 and everyone being atleast 30 or 40 years old and wondering if i was the only one as well.

Samzi · 25-01-2011, 09:00 AM

Hello. I want to start by saying anyone can talk to me at any time.

I was using a whole lot of pain pills and weed between the ages of 16 and 21. I was using Oycontin upwards of 300mg a day. I couldn't get out of bed without snorting some, couldn't go to work, couldn't sleep. Then my boyfriend at the time, who was also hooked, revealed that he had bought heroin and wanted to try it with me. I started snorting it, didn't feel hooked, but loved it. Two weeks later I shot up for the first time. After that first rush I was using needles 3-5 times a day. Driving 30 minutes each way to the ghetto of the city for the stuff. One day I got in an accident and didn't have a car to get to the city and I ran out of pain pills and I withdrawled. I hadn't been sober for an entire day in over two years. It was hell to say the least. I was clean for about 2 months and then started using pain pills again daily. When I turned 21 I decided to get clean, I took up drinking in its place. On top of that I went on an Ecstasy binge with a good friend. We were taking 1-3 pills a day for 2 weeks. When we couldn't get any more of that we started using anything we could get our hands on, we needed that rush, that speed, that high. the two of us blew through a ball of coke in an hour, did crack once, countless different prescription pills, inhalents, and I snorted heroin one more time. And of course, alcohol until we black out if we can't get anything else.

I know what its like to be an addict. I'm 21 years old and have been hooked on countless things. I know the pain and the need. You are not alone.

waterfall_of_tears · 26-01-2011, 03:45 PM

Yup. not proud of it at all but managed to get myself addicted to mephedrone when i was 18. I have always been a big weed smoker, not everyday but fairly often. I tend to drink alot aswell. I have taken ketamine, ecstacy, coke and mdma aswell. Managed to get myself off the mephedrone not long after it was made illigal coz it was a nightmare to get hold of round here, trying to avoid the other stuff but still smoking weed and drinking.