<p>Ohhhhhh, if your face is that well-known, then there is no point in trying to hide. You might as well confront the issues in your life immediately with your coaching staff and campus health professionals, before your roommates/substance abuse partners dog you out…and they will!</p>
<p>You might be red-shirted for a year while you clean up your act, but you, your team, and the college community in general will be in a better place if you just go ahead and handle your business now !!!</p>
<p>Sneakin’ and creapin’ isn’t gonna work for you. The campus grapevine, and eventually both on- and off-campus media will hear about it.</p>
<p>I think gsp is on to something, ohhhh. Have you read “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey? I immediately thought of him when I read your OP.
I think you should google him, read all about his appearance on Oprah, the success of his book, and what came after, and perhaps it will inspire you to do the right thing. Good luck!</p>
<p>Dear Mr. or Ms. Ohhhh: You need to follow the general line of advice in this thread, and immediately seek counseling somewhere at your school. There is a limit to what we parents can do here. We don’t know you, don’t know the nature of your school, don’t know what else is going on around you. You need to be in a discussion and dialog with someone who knows or can find out what factors are involved, including your personality, and provide useful and relevant help. As much as we parents would like to help you, I think that we’ve reached the boundary of effectiveness.</p>
<p>You need to see someone at your school. We can only suggest who that might be, and we’ve done that. The rest is up to you. Good luck!</p>
<p>if you really don’t like where you’re heading, simply take some time off from everything, do something else for a week and go sober to clear your head and put everything in perspective to realize if you really have a problem. If you’re not able to go a week sober, then you might have a problem and should seek to change your situation. </p>
<p>I have my share of experience with some of the “harder” drugs myself, and for a time was involved in what would be considered some “extremely high risk behavior” involving them, would you mind sharing which drugs you are using? Is it a physical addiction to opiates, or something like cocaine where the addiction is largely mental?</p>
<p>gatordan it doesn’t matter which drugs he’s using. Addiction is addiction whether it’s to a drug or a behavior and Ohh shouldn’t attempt to go it alone.<br>
The best aspect to the scenario at this point is that he/she recognizes that he has a problem.<br>
I’ve never heard of a college that didn’t have a counselor- he should go there ASAP.</p>
<p>only someone who’s never heavily used drugs would say that, I used cocaine fairly heavily for a while back there, but I still wouldn’t want to **** around with a hardcore heroin/opiate addiction and the true physical withdrawls associated with it. </p>
<p>I wasn’t trying to say any drug addiction is easy, but it’s best to have a frame of mind with what you’re dealing with.</p>
<p>OOHHHHH you have taken that ever so difficult first step…</p>
<p>NOW - take the next one - get help!!! ASAP</p>
<p>EVERY school has SOME sort of health clinic/counseling - be it on or off campus - and will be confidential - so just take that step in that direction - NOW</p>
<p>I’m actually female, and was brought up without many restrictions on what I could do, so I started drinking when I was younger and out with my parents, but then as I got older I tried a few drugs, but didn’t really think about taking them again.</p>
<p>Now I’m in college and at first occasionaly smoked pot, then took aderall to help with homework and studying for tests. Then one of my roommates broke her collarbone and was perscribed Vicodin so we used to either take it or snort it and drink at the same time. Then we wanted something more and I knew someone who could get us coke and extacy, so we bought some but didn’t use it because we were in season and their were rumors of suprise drug testing. But now were out of season we’ve been experimenting with them occasionly not even every week but I could see it going that way.</p>
<p>So right now its not a really bad problem, I can just see it going that way and wanted advice. I think I’m going to try and speak to my trainer first.</p>
<p>I know I’m gonna take some flak from this here, but that doesn’t sound too bad to me, but I don’t know you. It’s all in your personality and what you can handle, opiates (of which vicodin is one) will not develop a physical dependence if you just use it once a week, and speaking as a former coke head, once a week is nothing, try using an 8-ball a weekend, and end up selling to make your money. I never had any councilling, or anything, and now only drink, smoke, and pills once in a blue moon.</p>
<p>But as I said, from my personal poitn of view your use seems relatively tame, but if you feel yourself going out of control just stop, and as I said, if you really CAN’T stop, then you have a problem, not physical but an emotional addiction.</p>
<p>So right now its not a really bad problem, I can just see
it going that way and wanted advice. I think I’m going
to try and speak to my trainer first. </p>
<p>OHHHH you are playing a very serious game - and thinking it is now not a really bad problem - you are kidding yourself.</p>
<p>Now that you have identified that you potentially have a problem - do something about it - and you know what you have to do - GET HELP and SUPPORT NOW.</p>
<p>I guess I’m surprised - what is your athletic program? My D is D-1, and her athletic department sends all athletics random email - they usually arrive in inboxes by 8:00 p.m. - to report for mandatory surprise drug testing. Each athlete is tested at random several times during the year, and failure to report for the drug test is an automatic positive finding. Most of her teammates avoid foods containing certain ingredients because they believe these legitimate foods may result in false positives. </p>
<p>She has said to me that some of her teammates will smoke marijuana during breaks, but they schedule their drug use very closely to ensure that nothing shows up in testing, which equates to maybe ten days during the school year when they can abuse drugs.</p>
<p>Perhaps this is unique to her school, or to D-1, but…again, I am surprised.</p>
<p>my point was, that if that’s all her use is at this point, there may not be a need for the whole trainer councellor all that **** yet. You could probably handle it on your own, which for the third time brings me to saying that you should just force yourself to take a break, decide right now that you’re gonna go X number of days sober, and if you cannot do it yourself, THEN you might want to seek outside help. </p>
<p>Yes, drugs can be a big problem, but I was able to deal with it myself, and am completely under control now, some people may not be able to do that though.</p>
<p>****** Yes, drugs can be a big problem, but I was able to deal with it myself, and am completely under control now, some people may not be able to do that though. </p>
<p>EXACTLY the point!!! that some people cannot</p>
<p>exactly, which is why I proposed that she take a self prescribed break from everything, and that if she cannot make herself do that, THEN seek help. I’m not saying that no one needs help for drug problems, but I’m the type of person who would rather try to solve my problems on my own before asking others for help. But by all means, if she believes that she NEEDS help, than she should seek help.</p>
<p>it sometimes takes 3, 4, 5, 17 times trying to quit before your body and your brain gets the message. Seeking help is always the first step. Personally I just called my father and said “I cannot deal with this drinking anymore.” He came and picked me up and I haven’t drank since. (this was after 7 years or so off and on of trying to quit) You will know when you are ready to quit, I thought I would never be, because drinking was the one thing that I was better than everyone at, but it was slowly ruining my life.</p>
<p>I suppose the difference between drugs and drinking is that drugs are illegal. Health risks aside, there can be tough consequences that come with drugs. I know of some really smart students who now have criminal records due to drug use. Their family etc found out due to needing help with court cases and it was just a big mess all around. One person never told their parents about court etc but later was a visa to the US for a family trip that lead to the whole family finding out. Obviously we all think we will never get caught but people do get caught!</p>
<p>This past weekend was pretty hard not to do anything, 2 huge parties one of which i hosted. I didn’t drink nearly as much as i usually do but I’m dissapointed that i took nearly a gram of coke over the 2 nights. I didn’t buy it but people offered it to me from times before when I’ve let them have some of mine.</p>
<p>So I went into this weekend with the intention of not doing anything, but in the end that didn’t happen.</p>