Owen Wilson attempted suicide...

[Nicky]

When you go to those Hollywood parties, the drugs are constantly in your face. I hear that if you try Heroin once, you get instantly hooked. To go to rehab for that drug means multiple rehab visits. There's a huge relapse percentage with Heroine.

 

[Maximus]

I guess I don't understand, is how you try it the first time?

Owen: "Yo Max, wrap this rubberband around your arm....hold this spoon...melt this rock with a lighter...suck it up with a needle...then shoot it in your arm...you'll love it."

Me: "Yeah, Owen...ummm....sounds great....go f--k yourself!"

 

[_amon _ones]

^Exactly. I like being in control of my own faculties. And the "everyone else is doing it...come on" and peer pressure approach just shows that you have no willpower.

 

[cdt]

My friends did coke at a poker party and were smoking weed...I was like wow you guys are pathetic. They didn't remember much from the night before, but they did remember they paid me :thumbdown

 

[James]

You know whats the cool thing to do?? Opium.

 

[chiefwahoo]

I agree with you Max, I don't know how you can decide, "hey I wanna jam this needle in my vein and get really ****ed up!"

My only drug experience over the years was pot. That shit was everywhere in college and I tried it quite a few times. Had a couple of bad paranoid experiences and decided it really wasn't for me. I had some friends who occasionally did 'shrooms or dropped acid and that stuff just seemed to weird for me to even consider trying.

The closest if been to coke is when I was down in New Orleans with a bunch of friends. My one buddy was pretty drunk and was trying to buy pot off a guy on the street (probably not a great idea in New Orleans). Well he somehow ended up buying some coke and me and another friend just grabbed it and tossed it in the garbage. Fun times!

 

[RuanuLaw]

Drugs are bad any way you roll em'. And @ any time, anyone can get hooked. Do I do em'? Maaaaaayyybbe. But I won't mess around with heavy hitters like Heroin. That is just messed up.

 

[_amon _ones]

The problem that usually happens with addicts is that they start out on something like pot, then it doesn't work anymore, or get them high enough anymore. They start to build up a tolerance. Then they start trying harder drugs to try and achieve the same highs. Those addicted to speed move to coke and eventually crack. Thoon pot move to exctasy and heroin. Once your at the harder levels, you pretty much lose everything: friends, family, house, car, job, etc. At that point there is only 2 ways out: get clean, or die.

 

[chiefwahoo]

While we're on the subject, if you've never seen "Intervention" you should check it out. It basically profiles addicts (drugs/alcohol/food/gambling, etc) and how their families attempt to organize and intervention and get them into treatment. It airs on A&E Friday nights at 10:00.

http://www.aetv.com/intervention/

 

[KingJamesMVP]

What a shame. He's one of my favorite actors.

 

[The Oi]

Coke is actually pretty fun. It's a social drug and it truly does make you ridiculously confident in yourself.

I've done it three times over a 3-4 year period and dug it. The only issue with it for me was that I got very depressed in the morning and because you're so amped up, you can't sleep the depression away.

 

[Nicky]

While we're on the subject, if you've never seen "Intervention" you should check it out. It basically profiles addicts (drugs/alcohol/food/gambling, etc) and how their families attempt to organize and intervention and get them into treatment. It airs on A&E Friday nights at 10:00.

http://www.aetv.com/intervention/

It's kind of messed up to say, but I love that show. :uhh:... Only because you get to see what it's like from both sides.

Some of those people are truly messed up. There was one episode in which I've seen that rehab did nothing for the person, and she actually got kicked out of the rehab program and ended up in jail.

They should revisit all these people in a years time to see what their life is like now. Because it just seems that they do it for the show, and after it's all said and done, they don't care... I'm always interested in the long term affect of their actions. Maybe it's just me though.

 

[chiefwahoo]

They should revisit all these people in a years time to see what their life is like now. Because it just seems that they do it for the show, and after it's all said and done, they don't care... I'm always interested in the long term affect of their actions. Maybe it's just me though.

Funny you mention that Nicky, they are doing that starting September 14:

20 - Follow-Up 2
Friday, September 14 11:00pm ET
Saturday, September 15 3:00am ET

This second "follow-up" episode will allow for a much deeper investigation of life after the intervention, as we revisit some subjects several weeks later to see if their intervention was successful. Included: alcoholic wife and mother Cristine; heroin addict Audrey; and brothers Brooks and Ian, both cocaine addicts.

 

[Style]

Damn. I don't get why these guys get addicted to that stuff. You hear time and again, from recovering addicts and the evidence of the overdoses (Layne Staley, Shannon Hoon, etc, etc), yet they still try it and get addicted. Maybe it's just not in my character, but I just don't understand it.

Come on dude, there are no maybes. You know this.

The reason people do drugs or alcohol is, by and large, they are fun. That is not to say they don't come with serious consequences, but I can tell you that people don't do drugs b/c they're looking for a miserable time. I'm not condoning it, but some of you are acting like it's a mystery. People want to have fun.

 

[_amon _ones]

Some do it for fun, some do it for escape, some do it for social reasons. I understand this. I've seen it time and again. But, there is a big difference between between pot and heroin. I don't think people, even abusers, consider heroin fun. Heroin is an escape. People who use it are trying to get somewhere that pot can no longer take them. They no longer want to be in or can handle this side of reality. They don't have to think or do anything. You won't die, and you may enjoy the highs from something like alcohol or pot. But once you step into the realm of something like crack or heroin, you are no longer in the recreational realm. It's like stepping from the poker table at a casino in Vegas, and moving on to Russian roulette in a Vietnamese POW camp. You cannot win. It will destroy you.