do you self-medicate?

[DirtDawg]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



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[Peter]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.

I want to hear about you ODing on melatonin and being hospitalised.

[duncvis]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



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that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

[Peter]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



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that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

I'd be tempted to stick a little amphetamine in the water cooler.  Would they fire everyone then?  Including themselves?

[Tesla]

Poppies!!

[Peter]

Yeah, poppy-seed buns would be a good one.

[odeon]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



</confessional>

that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

I'd be tempted to stick a little amphetamine in the water cooler.  Would they fire everyone then?  Including themselves?

They'd have to prove intent, I think, and that goes for every such case, policy or no policy. In practical terms, I doubt that is a problem unless you catch two dozen people high on amphetamines.

[SovaNu]

what if you take amphetamines legally? or say medicinal pot?

[SovaNu]

Just ask renaeden what happened when she used recreational substances...

what happened when renaeden used recreational substances? she became really sober?

[SovaNu]

Caffeine calms me...

He's a weird one   my brother in law get high like he's smoking pot when he eats food with MSG in it 

It's not uncommon with Autistics apparently, that some chemicals have a counterindicative effect. One of my friends' brother is Autistic and his parents gave him coke (the drink) to calm him...

Coca Cola calms me but I think it's more of a conditioning thing for me

i love coke but when i drink it, which i rarely do, i get really sick, my heart races, i feel like i've been poisoned lol. i get stomach cramps and headaches and get tired but can't sleep at all and my mind starts to race. sometimes i drink a bottle and forget it has caffeine. big mistake.

Yes, I have to keep MSG out of our diets. I have avoided it, myself, for about three decades, because of the smell, but I only recently (about two years ago) made the connection to the kids' dietary sensitivities. The shit is poison!

it confooses me. it occurs naturally in some food but then they stick it in some other foods.

[odeon]

what if you take amphetamines legally? or say medicinal pot?

I suspect you'd have to have a paper from your GP telling them that you need it to function. Then again, if I really needed that, I'd be upfront about it.

[SovaNu]

i'd hate to be in a job they do drug tests on people, it's fucked up like they're even telling employees they can't smoke, even at home.

[odeon]

They can't smoke at home? That's fucked up.

As Dunc said, I can understand drug controls in places where your work affects the safety of others, but that's about it.

[SovaNu]

they want healthy employees. but i don't see them telling fat people to stop eating. how the hell are we allowing them to dictate out lives, i mean where is the world going? people have to stand up and refuse to take that shit.

[odeon]

they want healthy employees. but i don't see them telling fat people to stop eating. how the hell are we allowing them to dictate out lives, i mean where is the world going? people have to stand up and refuse to take that shit.

We need the money. As simple as that.