<p>You need some peer pressure resistance in your life, Ohhhhh. You don’t have enough. That happens–but you have to find a strategy to overcome that problem.</p>
<p>As I said before, find some guts and tell your coach. That will give you a reason not to imbibe.</p>
<p>Ohhhh you need to do a lot more than to tell the coach. You need to get to a counselor TOMORROW. This isn’t a matter of you having or not having willpower. You need to see someone who knows how to help people with substance abuse problems.</p>
<p>you may be someone who has a pretty low bottom- but in my opinion it is dangerous to wait till you hit it
I suggest you take time and get help now
coke is a lot more dangeous than you realize</p>
<p>Coke is highly addictive, the fact that you could not say no most likely tells you that you may need extra support. I dont want to be negative and say that you cant do it on your own, but it does seem like from your experience this weekend you do need some help to give it up. I realise you most likely see people around you that are into drugs more heavily and still appear to be fine, it can make it confusing when trying to asses where you are at. From the sounds of things you are getting warning bells that you may be heading for a bad place… intuition can be a great tool to use in life. Work with it! As i said before (dont know if it was lost) its much easier to get out earlier than later, dont dig yourself a hole that is too deep. </p>
<p>You have not answerd the question if there are councelling services available to students at your college or not?</p>
<p>Ohhh- Have you thought about talking to your parents about what is happening in your life. Every parent child relationship is different but it might be something to think about.
And absolutely get in to see someone at your counseling center. It is confidential and they can refer you to outside help if necessary. Get help before you get in any deeper.</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.”</p>
<p>This is an example of why you need to go to the counseling center and get professional help. It also would be a very good idea to call or visit some Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings. </p>
<p>If you are serious about stopping using drugs, you’re going to have to stop hanging out with people who use, stop going to and hosting parties where there are drugs/booze available, and you’ll also have to stop drinking. That’s because drinking lowers your willpower and inhibitions, which is what happened over the weekend when you drank and then used coke.</p>
<p>In other words, you’ll need to find a new group of friends and new ways of having fun. Repeatedly putting yourself in situations in which you’re hanging out with drug users is simply paving the way to your continued using.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, you seem to be concerned that if you get help, people will find out about your problem. Have you considered what will happen if you’re busted for drugs or run into some other drug or alcohol-related problem that hits the press? If you’re well known for sports, that would be a front page story on your local and campus newspaper.</p>
<p>What happens if the school finds out via this thread? I just wonder if anything like that can happen.</p>
<p>And what about all the people at the party who were with you while you were drinking and taking drugs? Are you sure that none of them will say something, either accidentally or on purpose, that will get back to your coaches? I would definitely be worried about that.</p>
<p>All the athletes from every sport at the school live in off-campus apartments, so its easy to drink and not get caught.</p>
<p>Drug use is pretty widespread, mostly smoking pot. Before christmas though it was getting pretty ridiculous people would drink every night, take ectacsy, perscription pills and it wasn’t just a select few, it was everybody. I don’t think I know one athlete who hasn’t drank or used any type of drug since we’ve been here, only my best friend whose never drank or done drugs.</p>
<p>Theres a group of 5 of us that regulary use cocaine on the weekends, sometimes I’ll take xanax too depends on how much money I have. So its kept between the 5 of us. I rarely take ectacsy just because i don’t like the come down and its pretty easy to spot someone at a party who’s rolling.</p>
<p>I’ve been very careful not to give away too much information in this thread so that I won’t be found out through the thread, thats exactly why I made up a different user name just to make this post.</p>
<p>My personal opinion is just to enjoy yourself and watch to make sure it doesn’t get out of control. The key is being able to quit, but in the end doing what is best for you. Not everyone who uses cocaine becomes addicted, and if you ask me a gram over two days is not that much when it comes to coke. Obviously if you begin to resort to other means to finance your drug use, or if drugs truly take a toll on your personal life than it is time to reexamine, but I say do what you enjoy and don’t let it get out of hand. </p>
<p>I have a feeling most of the parents on here will disagree with me though.</p>
<p>the problem surfaced when ohh realized it was affecting her life/ that she wanted to stop but couldnt
when you want to stop a behavior- especially when it is a destructive behavior that is dangerous- most people need help- there is evidence she needs help to stop her dangerous behavior- it has already taken a toll on her personal life because she is having to hide it
healthy behavior you don’t need to hide.
I stopped my line of work because I did not want to use coke as a condition of it. I worked in very fast hair salons during the late 70s & early 80s when using cocaine and partying with the salon was expected and accepted. I liked the work, but I didn’t like the partying. Even using coke once a week takes an enormous toll on your body, and more often than that is going to age you rapidly if it doesn’t kill you.
If you do need to resort to substances to have a good time- you might rexamine why you are so uncomfortable with yourself that you need to be altered</p>
<p>gatordan, you are absolutely right that most of the adults will disagree. Perhaps that is because the adults have a little more experience than you and know the horrible things that can come of drug use. And how a person can THINK he or she has it under control until it is too late.</p>
<p>I think a college student who is “regularly using cocaine on the weekends,” and adding in other drugs, too, as well as alcohol, is on a VERY dangerous path.</p>
<p>Ohhhhhh, get to the counseling department right away! Do not put it off until it is too late. And the problem is, there is no red stop sign that will pop up just before you are addicted. And even you get lucky and avoid physical addiction, you can become emotionally dependent (if you aren’t already). Drugs are not something to mess with. And you DON’T need them to have a good time.</p>
<p>Get smart. Get help. (And start spending more time with that best friend who doesn’t drink or use drugs.)</p>
<p>what using meth will do to your body ( and don’t kid yourself- cocaine is not that dissimilar)</p>
<p>[faces</a> of meth](<a href=“Multnomah County |”>www.co.multnomah.or.us/sheriff/faces_of_meth.htm)</p>
<p>Narcotics Anonymous has been very helpful for a teen I know…it is worth a try.</p>
<p>Listen to this. Hope this does not happen to you. That is all I can say.
<a href=“http://www.wbur.org/news/2006/55199_20060120.asp[/url]”>http://www.wbur.org/news/2006/55199_20060120.asp</a></p>
<p>warm and fuzzy, get help, do it now, tell your parents, go to AA. All true, but you keep writing and haven’t done anything. Let’s see, can you say massive heart attack, disabling stroke, encephalopathy, (ok, maybe you can’t say that one), brain damage, dead? how about those things, any of them appeal to you? Dead is easy, the other 4 things just let you suffer for the rest of your life. You keep posting, adding another drug here and there. You are major league. You need inpatient rehab at the very least. I am not warm and fuzzy, and I don’t like denial with regards to alcohol and drugs. get help now, this second, no more posts, or die. bottom line.</p>
<p>whats wrong?</p>
<p>you’re in college
do a little drugs and drink - its a rights of passage</p>
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<p>What makes cocaine similar to meth aside from the fact that they’re both stimulants. The chemicals are completely different, and while I’ve never used meth, from what I’ve heard the effects are quite different, as well as the lifestyle involved. No one is on coke CONSTANTLY for a week straight (meaning no sleep, little food, etc), simply because it would cost well over $1000 to do so. Whereas meth I do not think it is that uncommon thing to do. My bet is the part that truly ravages the body like that is the lifestyle of staying up a week straight, a lifestyle which is not associated with coke unless you have literally endless supplies of money.</p>
<p>If you drink so much alcohol that you are being poisoned, it is likely that you will either vomit, or pass out.
However cocaine will interfere with your bodys protective response and if you continue to drink you may not pass out but instead incur irreversible damage to your liver and other body organs including your heart.</p>
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<p>^^yes, that actually is true. I admit it’s a VERY fun combo, but it significantly increases the stress specifically on your heart.</p>