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[beenyweeny]

so i have this friend. he has a drug problem. he takes loritabs like their pez, he drinks like a fish, and he smokes weed like hes auditioning for the next cheech and chong movie. i guess i should state i was friends with him before this problem started. when i met him, all he did was drink occasionally without going nuts with it. Hes a really good

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[caharsiveen]

this all hits so close to home. but narcotics especially loritabs are so addictive and soon it becomes more of a physical dependency with physical withrawl symptoms and if it gets that bad its no good. and although they are so addictive usually if he is taking pain killers, smoking and drinking all the time he is just avoiding being sober and that is a whole other problem involving depression and what not. the shittiest thing about situations like this is they will get defensive or they will say "im addicted and i dont care." but it affects everyone and every part of their life, not just them so they should care.

i recently dated someone who is like this and i started to fall in the same hole as him, luckily i pulled myself out of it before anything too serious happened. but, it ruined our relationship because i was sober and he couldn't be. the hardest thing to realize is as much as you show them you care or want them to stop, they have to do it on their own. and some people it takes a really bad fall for them to just...see.

i will be thinking of you, good luck<3

[beenyweeny]

Thanks so much for telling me about that. anything helps to hear from other people's perspectives. The worst part is that the only reason its gotten so out of control is that he had a really bad knee injury and got prescribed loritabs. after the injury, he was in so much pain that he was taking extra and then he would still be hurting so he smoked weed one day and realized how that helped the pain too. the school year's almost over and I know that he is going to go back home where he can get weed even easier, but the thing is that hes going to be getting the surgery for his knee this summer and theyre just going to prescribe him even more loritabs. before all this stuff with his knee, he wasnt anything like this. its amazing how quickly it just pulled him down.

Im really happy to know you were able to pull yourself out of it. Thanks again.