Which drugs have you used recreationally?

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

Sorry "Thumbs down" guy. Alcohol is a life destroying substance for a lot of people.

You can drink in moderation? Good for you. I can too. But millions of people CANT and it leads to pretty terrible shit.

It belongs on this list just like any other substance that can be abused.

While I've never had a real problem with drinking or gambling, I think those would probably be the hardest to shake because they're both legal and heavily marketed. Once I made the conscious decision to quit coke, it really wasn't that hard for me. I simply deleted all the coke idiots from my life and stopped going to the places I had done it or acquired it. The physical need part bleeds away quickly, and after that it's all in your head. It's not like you constantly see ads on TV for "Pure Colombian" or "The Champagne of Crack," or pass businesses dedicated to the sale or use of coke all the time, or pass a group of people standing outside the office freebasing on your way to work. And at one point early on I tried going to a couple of NA meetings, but they didn't help me at all. Sorry, but sitting in a circle with a bunch of druggies talking about drugs just made me want to go get some drugs. And I've watched an idiot ass gambling junkie who had a non-working wife and baby drop his entire paycheck into a video poker machine at a bar, and that was completely legal. I was practically begging the guy to stop. It was like talking to a wall.

I will also say this - when I first partook in every single addictive substance I checked on the list, I was already drunk at the time. And all of the most dangerously stupid things I've done in my life involved alcohol. Is alcohol a gateway drug? Abso****inglutely. But it's not going away, and neither is gambling.