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Originally Posted by tm
i drank like a fiend throughout college, we all did.
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I think drinking while at college/University is almost a requirement here lol.
I can't say I was addicted to anything bar cigarettes but up until I was about 23/24 I'd pretty much take anything that was put in front of me and finish it off (I would never tough smack/heroin or anything like that though).
I took the term binge to a new level, if it was there or in my house I wouldn't stop till it was finished. If I was going to a club I'd have to take somthing, if there was a party I'd be up all night on somthing. This was when I was training everyday at Karate as well, doing weights etc, it wasn't good, I got a reputation for being aggressive and OTT...me and by best freind were terrible, we'd take loads of speed, mdma etc go out and were simply intimidating to anyone. We'd have been training allot of the day, mix this with drink, drugs and a night club, Im suprised that nothing really bad happened to us but we were so supremely confident nothing would...I was a total a**hole at that point. If someone pissed me off I'd just punch or kick them when I was off my face on somthing, the consequneces didn't matter. I was scary to myself and the people around me. It was the whole lifestyle, the drugs were just part of that, the worst part and the bit that brought out the extremes of my personality.
I guess that doesn't sound like the guy you play BF and IL2 with Duke but a few years ago that was me. I won't say it wasn't fun but I never want to repeat it, I could have gone right of the rails so easily. Im glad it isn't like that anymore. I got a handle on things and stopped. I think had it continued I'd have got in real bad trouble and Im certainly not proud of who or what I was or doing. Apart from a a drink now and then I've not touched anything for years now.
I maintain, drugs aren't bad, they just need moderation like everything else in life. Drugs aren't bad, its the experiances you have with them are good or bad. There not bad but if you make bad life choices at the same time then things can turn out for the worst.
The trouble with all drugs, be they booze, pot, cocaine etc is the misinformation about them and the lack of eduction that people have on them. People get told that there bad and get told horror stories of people on drugs yet the drugs had little of nothing to do with the outcome of the situation.
Im ranting now but....
One instance of this was a few years ago when ecstasy was really big in the UK and a girl called Lea Betts died while after taking some. The drug didn't kill her, she was killed by a stomach hemoirrage (sp?) because she drank to much water but the press blamed the drug. Thats a direct result of bad drug education and misinformation.
Wow, that was a post and a half.