Nice People Use Drugs Too

[plasticseam]

Nice People Take Drugs. That's the name of a campaign launched by Release, a nonprofit service and advocacy organization in the United Kingdom. The campaign aims to inspire a more honest discussion and approach to drug use in our society and also to highlight the stigma faced by people who use or have used illicit drugs.

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[fruhlings]

This bothered me too. The fact is, there is a stigma against those of use who use psychiatric medication. I honestly owe my life to prozac (and counseling), and when I hear people railing against these drugs (and it's not just scientologist nutjobs like Tom Cruise) and saying people with depression should be able to over it and pull themselves up by their bootstraps or something it really pisses me off.

This.

[keeperofthekeys]

Yeah, ia. I really don't talk about using adderall/ritalin to treat my ADHD because I'm afraid people will assume I'm just lazy, or abusing them. Or my favorite, "haha, I think I have ADHD too!!!!"

[maladaptive]

I get "you don't seem like you have ADHD."

Maybe it's because I'm medicated and I've had to develop a lot of coping mechanisms to get here? My friends can absolutely tell when it wears off or I haven't been on it for a few days.

[keeperofthekeys]

Yup. Coping mechanisms got me pretty far. But I'm in grad school now, and spending 10 hours a day in one building, plus trying to be competitive in classes? Yeah, not happening.