<p>One of my closest friends started doing drugs.... Anyway it kinda stunned me at first, he mainly received all this infamous influence from these pot-headed teens that live in his vicinity. Am I supposed to be the good guy and try to stop him? Clearly I think he became addicted. Every time he talks about drugs, he exclaims that its his inspiration. What?</p>
<p>He's going to do what he wants to do. Trust me. You can tell him why you think it's wrong and perhaps get some ex-druggies to talk to him, but ultimately it is his decision. I'd just be there to support him if something happens.</p>
<p>Here is my honest opinion:
If its "drugs" as in something (relatively) less serious like pot and he can still manage to keep his life in order I would just let him go on doing it. Seriously, you may not know people like this but there are people who are able to use drugs while not affecting their professional and educational lives.</p>
<p>But if its something more serious and his drug use drags down the rest of his life and you feel like he's flushing his life down the toilet then I would have a serious talk with him.</p>
<p>Man, Roman needs to reconsider his views on these kinds of things. Drugs, even marijuana, are completely dangerous. Not to mention illegal. You really need to have a talk with him as a friend. Any kind of drug, even if it doesn't have noticeable impacts on someone's life, are destructive. If he doesn't respond or blows you off, get information about how to stop and bring it to his parents or a trusted adult (like a school counselor). It will be hard, mainly because it's "his life," and he can make whatever decisions he wants to or whatever, but the best thing you can do is to try to get him to stop.</p>
<p>^^ I'm telling him from personal experience. I am an ex-druggie and work at a teen crisis center, trust me, I know better than anyone that if you're in that stage, you don't want to hear anybody telling you that "you're ruining your life." Don't you think they know that?? You can talk to people until you're blue in the face about how much drugs hurt, but ultimately most people don't quit until they hit rock bottom or knows somebody who has hit rock bottom.</p>
<p>I know. That's why you talk to them, and then go to the next level: adults who have influence in their lives. In some cases, unfortunately, even that may have little effect because of a lack of parental influence in the child's life. In most cases, however, going to a parent or counselor can create the change necessary, at the temporary expense of friendship. I have also known people in these scenarios who have gone to adults. It has always worked.</p>
<p>If the child has already gotten to this point then the parents have failed somewhere along the way. I've NEVER heard of somebody being influenced by adults to get off of drugs. What are parents and counselors going to do? Talk to them until they are blue in the face, which will do NOTHING. Ultimately, the only way somebody learns is if they see somebody hit rock bottom or they themselves hit rock bottom.</p>
<p>That's not true. A decision to do drugs does not mean a failure of the parents at all. Discipline exists beyond talking to the kid.</p>
<p>What type of drugs?</p>
<p>If it's marijuana, then it's really not that big of deal. Like 99% of the teens at my school have used marijuana at one point in their lives. I mean, as long as he uses drugs responsibly...</p>
<p>Baelor, I didn't say the parents were failures. I said they failed somewhere along the way. Whether that was a breakdown of communication or a failure to notice something wrong. Trust me, normal parents know when their children are on drugs. </p>
<p>And what kind of discipline should the parents do? Ground them? They'll run away. Take away cars, computers, money? They'll walk and steal. </p>
<p>Again, unless you have been at this stage, you have no idea what the mind frame is like.</p>
<p>Let him rot with the rest of the proles. It was the Patriots' intention to have him turn out like this, don't try to interfere.</p>
<p>BTW one of my friends stopped smoking weed because apparently the way it's made now is a much stronger carcinogen...food for thought, just in case any of you got the mental munchies.</p>
<p>Leave him alone if it's pot. Yes, pot is dangerous (as are cigarettes), but most people figure out when to stop on their own. If you see him slipping into the kind of person where he needs drugs to get up in the morning, or notice he's taking stronger stuff, then you might want to give him a pep talk. The reason he's taking it is probably as a stress reliever. Just be a good friend to him--unless he's a bad influence, like smokes around you or is always trying to get you to join--because he's using drugs as a pseudo support system. </p>
<p>I know quite a few people who have been heavily relient on pot (although I tell them not to talk about it around me). They either do it because they're bored and want to have some fun (I'm in a small town...) or because they need a support system. I've never met someone too stoned to move through life as a functioning human. I know a group of people in my neighborhood who smoke all the time, and one of the kids is going to a prestigious science and math boarding school next year. Some of my newer friends used to be heavily involved in that stuff, before high school, and they just sort of fell out of it. It gets boring after a while, from what I've heard.</p>
<p>I occasionally smoke some pot and it's not very dangerous. You'd be amazed at how many people smoke marijuana on at least an occasional basis. People that I know are addicted usually do not have their lives ruined by pot unless they get caught by authorities.</p>
<p>Unless he moves onto crack, heroin, or some other highly addictive/dangerous drug, I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>but he's already tried the gateway drug, no turning back...this is his fate (I love GOP references)</p>
<p>Sorry, if this is just pot, ignore everything I've said. I don't generally classify pot as a drug. I just thought it was something harder.</p>
<p>I can't classify the drug he's utilizing.... How the hell am I supposed to know? LOL</p>
<p>Cause there's a BIG difference between pot and crack lol.</p>
<p>pot and crack? What? </p>
<p>Should I try some salvia? LOL</p>
<p>Uhh... ok. How do you KNOW he's on drugs? Like does he come around you high or does he simply just talk about it?</p>
<p>Well, he simply discusses about it whenever I initiate the issue.
I know he does it for a fact though. </p>
<p>Maybe I should try some halluciniogens....</p>
<p>neh..</p>