Episode Overview

Warning: this episode will feature me being highly vulnerable and also has many drug references

Disclaimer: this episode contains general advice based on my own experience. It is not meant to discredit and advice from medical professionals or to be used as a sole treatment plan. I highly recommend seeking the help of qualified professionals if you are wanting to give up a drug addiction, or reach out for me for more personalised advice.

For this episode, I wanted to bring you something that has played a big part in my life. I wanted to share a part of my part that has impacted my life in such a big way and a topic that I know oh too well. I wanted to open up, break down and just let my heart pour out because many people see me as I am now, but very few of you may know the journey that I took here, so I thought I would share a part of it with you.

In today’s society, drugs are accessible, reasonably cheap and get you a quick result. The drugs are gaining intensity, highly addictive and extremely difficult to give up. Today I will tell you how I went from spending hundreds of dollars every weekend on drugs to the place I am now and show you WHY we shouldn’t just write people off if they are addicted to drugs.

Welcome

Welcome everybody to today’s episode. I am super excited, but also mega scared to bring you this show. My adventures with drugs are something that I am reasonably open about with most people and yet for some reason, sharing them online seems completely different and terrifying! Maybe it is because I am still yet to process everything, maybe I am scared of what is going to come out of my mouth as I talk, but either way, we can both be surprised by where we end up.

I didn’t Plan on Becoming an Addict…

For the better part of 5 years, drugs played an important role in my life. It started so innocently with some marijuana, then an ecstasy pill, but before long I found myself deeply entrenched in a life where I relied on drugs for many things and was constantly needing to feed my habit.

I didn’t plan on becoming a drug addict. I wasn’t sitting in class as a 6-year-old boy contemplating what I wanted to be when I grew up, then decided that “addict” would be a good job title and career path. The thing is, nobody does. No one plans for the life to go that way and it is the exploration of my own experience that has brought me to this realisation: desire and desperation lead to drugs. When you have an overwhelming desire and no other way to fulfill it, drugs can be the solution. If you want to fit in but don’t have the communication skills, drugs can help you. If you want to feel happier but lack the tools, drugs can help you. Don’t feel like anybody supports you? Drugs will…

Drugs will happily slot their self into many areas of your life and fill the voids that you have – if you allow them to.

A Problem With Drugs….

One of the biggest problems that I see with drugs is that we severely constrict what we consider drugs and we often allow others to do it for us and we just follow along. Most people allow the laws to dictate what they believe is okay and what is not when the reality is that we are all addicts, but that is a topic for another time. We view people that do the drugs that we consider “bad” in a negative light, whereas those who use the drugs that we determine to be okay escape our scope. We push some people to the side while we have sympathy for others and most of the time it is our own judgement that creates the difference, not the facts of the situation. Rather than focusing on the semantics of what is good and bad, maybe we should be asking questions into what leads somebody to take dru