At my new place of employ, I have been offered coke the last 4/6 nights I've worked (I'm a waitress at a strip club). Sometimes it's the other waitresses, sometimes the dancers, sometimes the customers - but it seems 80% of the people there are coked up on a regular basis.
I have yet to say no because I didn't realize it would be such a regular thing when I started doing it, but now I'm thinking I should put the brakes on lest I get addicted.
On the other hand, I enjoy it, see nothing wrong with recreational drug use, and I don't feel any compulsion yet so I don't feel I am getting addicted so....
My question to all of you is how bad do you think it is, really? In terms of long-term side effects and potential for addiction. I don't feel ANY compulsion to keep doing it yet - in fact I'd prefer to smoke pot over snorting coke any day - but the one thing that worries me is that I LOVE the comedown - which would make me a very satisfied cokehead.
Talk to a doctor about this. None of us are qualified to advise you on such a huge decison as to take drugs.
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No doubt that coke causes you a sense of euphoria. After you use it for a while, it depletes your neurotransmitters and you start to have "downs" like being sad. Then you will start to take more of the drug to counteract that to get you "high" again. Once you get addicted, and you will, it will be very expensive to maintain your habit. The higher the dose you take when you are addicted, you will start to become paranoid and having hallucinations. The longer you take it, the more risk you have for having fatal cardiac arrhythmias and seizures. Which can lead to death!!!
So, I suggest you kick the habit before you get started............
I have a cousin that can't seem to kick it. It is a viscious cycle.
No doubt that coke causes you a sense of euphoria. After you use it for a while, it depletes your neurotransmitters and you start to have "downs" like being sad. Then you will start to take more of the drug to counteract that to get you "high" again. Once you get addicted, and you will, it will be very expensive to maintain your habit. The higher the dose you take when you are addicted, you will start to become paranoid and having hallucinations. The longer you take it, the more risk you have for having fatal cardiac arrhythmias and seizures. Which can lead to death!!!
So, I suggest you kick the habit before you get started............
I have a cousin that can't seem to kick it. It is a viscious cycle.
Thank you. That sounds scary and is precisely the response I was looking for.
It does seem harmless and it feels good when you first start. But you will become "immune" to it after awhile and start to require more of it or something stronger. Then you will be a full blown drug addict. It must not be a good idea if you are questioning it. Peer pressure is hard to avoid sometime. Don't let them get to you if you so choose to decline it.
Just don't start buying it. No matter how much you want it, don't make it part of your regular consumption. The high is really really good, but it's not worth the addictive capabilities of the substance. Keep it special occation.
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I would advise you to stop while you can because not only is coke dangerous but you might go on to other drugs when Coke no longer gets you high. I have known addicts who ruined their lives and almost all of them started out the same way you are doing right now.
No doubt that coke causes you a sense of euphoria. After you use it for a while, it depletes your neurotransmitters and you start to have "downs" like being sad. Then you will start to take more of the drug to counteract that to get you "high" again. Once you get addicted, and you will, it will be very expensive to maintain your habit. The higher the dose you take when you are addicted, you will start to become paranoid and having hallucinations. The longer you take it, the more risk you have for having fatal cardiac arrhythmias and seizures. Which can lead to death!!!
So, I suggest you kick the habit before you get started............
I have a cousin that can't seem to kick it. It is a viscious cycle.
Very true!
Spookie,
I think when you asked the question you knew what the responses would be and this concerns me. Be careful, all I can offer is my own experience with something that at one time controlled my every waking moment.
For 2 years I did not feel the sun on my skin. For 2 years I did not laugh or find many things all that enjoyable. For 2 years I lost the trust of all my friends and family. For 2 years my paranoia was so mounting I can remember peeking under doors to see if someone was coming.... My addiction to coke caused this. It did not start that way, it slowly and deceptively progressed that way.
That was 18 years ago this past May... to this day I can't believe I was able to stop. I was 18 when I became addicted and only used it without worry of stopping for 5 months... the other part of the 2 years was full of treatment centers, NA rooms, and relapses...
I am fairly open minded with things. However, I would strongly recommend that you do not embroil yourself in any manner with this drug.
You are young and seem to have a problem with impulse control. Work on that and carve a healthy future for yourself.
When I was your age I had a couple of people make statements to me that convinced me to not do that drug. One guy said 'unders, don't do it...you will like it too much'. Another time everyone was doing it at a party and I watched all of the people change before my eyes (not a good change IMO). I was offered it and just said thank you but that is not my scene. I decided to go for a walk on the beach. The next day one of the party attendents who had dropped out of college and worked in a fast food establishment asked me why I did not want to do it (as he snorted his morning line). I responded that I just did not have much of an interest in it. He looked at me with sad bloodshot eyes and said "I wish I could say that".
Don't do cocaine. I have lost many, many friends due to that drug. Sadly, I have just discovered 2 more people that I keep at arms length as there lives are spinning out of control due to what was once a weekend activity now becoming a daily activity.
If you decline the line. Eventually they will cease to offer it to you (more for them). When I worked in bars I never knew that some people were doing that drug. Later, I laughed with a co-worker and commented about how they must not have liked me very much to not offer it to me. She responded with 'No, Unders, we just knew that you did not partake in it". Works for me.
Stay in the gateway my child. Chances are you will see many friends pass through that gateway over your life. Just because someone else jumps off a bridge does not mean you need to as well.
Are you still enrolled in college?
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In my industry, cocaine addiction is rampant. I've seen so many bright and beautiful people with incredible future potential, turn into coke addicts. These same people have done horrendous things in order to maintain their habits, including jail time for white collar crimes.
I've been to more than enough parties where cocaine is kept in a large bowl, next to the canapes or crantinis. No, I don't partake.
Stop it spookie. It's one more thing you don't need. You can barely afford food for yourself, nevermind getting involved with a HIGHLY addictive drug.
Count me as one of the people who very nearly destroyed her life due to cocaine. It's an awful drug. And the worst part is that when you start, it seems so fun and not that bad. Like everyone else said, the addiction creeps up on you before you notice it.
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Please stop this drug while you can. My sister has ruined her life and her children's life with this drug. Please take the wonderful advice you are getting here and PLEASE don`t think it won`t happen to you.
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I appreciate all the thoughtful and lengthy responses.
I suppose when I wrote the first post I knew what everyone would say but I wanted my own thoughts confirmed. Of course I have heard the horror stories, have been warned all my life regarding how addictive it is, but I guess I always viewed cocaine as a myth of sorts until I came across it first-hand. In person coke seems far less harmful, which is what had me confused. I had always wanted to try it once or twice, and in the bathroom stall of a strip club with another drunk waitress seemed like the perfect opportunity, but it just wasn't as GREAT as I thought it would, which made me wonder if I even could get addicted. I mean, it was fun, but I didn't feel all that euphoric or high. I was just uninhibited and unafraid, like if I'd been drinking, yet clearheaded all the same. Which, actually, thinking back, actually was great.
Anyway, I am not going to do it again.
I should probably look for a new job, too. Being wasted every night and drunk-driving to and from work sounds like a disastrous lifestyle even to me. Plus it's starting to take an emotional toll on me, to be honest. Being surrounded by lecherous old men and wasted topless chicks for 50 hours a week is killing my ability to properly relate to people.
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