Anyone Famiiar With Drug Abuse”cocaine” …and Mental Illnesss…?
Question by Noneya Jones: Anyone famiiar with drug abuse”cocaine” …and mental illnesss…?
Hypothetically speaking….there was this guy I was involved with, and he keeps referencing cocaine”coke” the first time he brought it up, we were discussing a christmas party he went to, and brought up the fact the receptionist kept “going to the bathroom” and I asked him well why did she keep going the bathroom, because i was thinking thats odd and he said” because she kept putting that white stuff up her nose” the second time he brought it we were at a bbq, and said something like “some people be doing that white powder” and I asked him why does he keep bringing up “coke” does it he do it, “he said no but he knows alot of people that does it….this man is 31 years old, and I recently found out that he creates fake facebook profiles and references doing coke..in various ways, and hes up at all times of the night…like 3 , 4 o clock in the morning…Am i looking to far into his statments, or is this something else..he doesnt like me anymore, doesnt call me back, ignores me,…Itold him i loved him yesterday, and I got no response..so I’m feeling a little bad today..;(
Best answer:
Answer by Rowdy
Are people still snorting their lives away? Holy sh!t,you’d think they’d have learned about that from my generation. We pretty much snorted the 1980’s away.
You do not want to be around a coke freak. They’ll lie and use you to get another line to do. This guy sounds like a user to me. Kinda tough to go to sleep when you’re all coked up.
And yes,I’m well familiar with drugs and mental illness. My first wife snorted herself into a stroke,coma and massive brain damage. She can move now,but she has no idea who anyone is from her past and can’t remember anything that happened to her two days ago.
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The Emergence of Crack Cocaine Abuse
Cocaine was once considered the elite’s drug, with a price so high that only the very wealthy could afford it, and thought by many to be “safe.” But during the 1980s, a dangerous and cheap derivative began appearing on the street. This drug, crack, is a cocaine freebase produced relatively safely and easily. Because of its low production costs, crack became popular among the lower classes, leading to an epidemic in the late 1980s, with estimates that over one million people used crack cocaine. The drug’s name became synonymous with gangs, crime, and violence. Because of the intensity and apparent suddenness of the crack crisis, people began to wonder if there were any warning signs public officials missed and how exactly crack spread across the nation. Some even floated the theory that agencies like the CIA and FBI encouraged the use of crack in inner cities. No matter where it came from, crack is a menace that, though no longer “epidemic,” must be combated along with all other illegal drugs.
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Cocaine’s Son: A Memoir
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Unsparing and heartbreaking, mordantly funny and powerfully felt, Cocaine’s Son clears a place for Dave Itzkoff in the forefront of contemporary memoirists.
From the Hardcover edition.Dave Itzkoff on Cocaine’s Son
Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?
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Cocaine’s Son is as much my story as it is my father’s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each other’s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someone’s child or parent.
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