My Roommate Does Drugs

<p>I'm an international freshman who recently moved in with my roommate from th US.</p>

<p>As I soon discovered, my new roommate does drugs almost every day. In fact, there probably hasn't been a single day when he doesn't do any drugs. And it's not Marijuana I'm talking about. He once showed me an impressive collection of ecstasy pills, liquid LSD, extracted THC and some other illegal drugs I haven't even heard of.</p>

<p>So now I'm very confused. We seem to get along OK, but I don't feel comfortable with his excessive drug use. There have been evenings when he sits in his bed and gets amused by staring at the walls of the room.</p>

<p>But what I'm the most concerned about is that he may get me into trouble, because if he keeps living like this, he is likely to get caught one day. If that happens and the police raids our room and finds all his drugs, I'm pretty sure that I'll get in trouble as well.</p>

<p>What should I do now? I don't want to get my roommate expelled, which would probably happen if I reported this. I also don't think that talking to him is a solution, because he would most probably just keep using all his drugs stealthily. As for counselling, I don't think that he would be interested, because he obviously thinks he has no problems with drugs.</p>

<p>It would be great if I could simply change my roommate, but the college won't allow that unless I tell them what's the problem.</p>

<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Obviously the first thing you should do is talk to him. Now if that doesn’t work, you have to do something else. But the first thing you should do is try to resolve it between you two. Maybe he has somewhere else he can keep his stuff, and only has it in the room because he thinks you’re find with it.</p>

<p>He does them… By himself? That’s messed up. He probably needs help. If you notice that he gets worse and worse throughout the semester, you may want to find a way to discreetly get help for him. If he keeps it under control, I guess you should just leave him be.</p>

<p>^Well, I don’t think LSD is a social drug. Given, I’ve never done LSD.</p>

<p>Maybe he deals, I can’t really imagine having an entire vile LSD. If he’s not hurting you, it shouldn’t matter. But if it bothers you, say something. </p>

<p>I personally wouldn’t care if my roomie did drugs, because if the room was searched, it would be obvious it was his stuff. As in, if they found drugs, they would all be in his desk. </p>

<p>Plenty of people smoke weed alone, it’s not that weird. If he’s dropping acid all the time alon, that would weird, but I doubt that would happen. </p>

<p>It’s tough for straight edge kids to room with casual drug users. And vice versa. Make sure he;s being respectful.</p>

<p>Chill out. You won’t get “raided” and even if you did, you’ll be fine in all probability. You should ask to try some of those doses.</p>

<p>You really can’t drop acid all that often; the tolerance buildup is quite quick, and users typically can’t take more than 1 trip per week (very rough estimate.) You might take 200mcg Sunday and feel great, but if you took it again Tuesday, there’d be no high at all. MDMA has a similar problem, though less extreme; it’s possible to take it daily, but most addicts looking to get ****ed up every day will use something else because of the high tolerance.</p>

<p>^^, ^^^</p>

<p>The problem is that he CAN get in trouble. In many states, if the drugs are in a room- both people are responsible, unless one person absolutely confesses to it. Chances are, that won’t happen. If it were just pot, that’d be one thing. But harder drugs can get people in trouble.</p>

<p>Tell your roommate to get the crap out of YOUR (as in BOTH of you) room. If he does not, then get a room change and tell them exactly what’s wrong. Look, I have plenty of friends, good friends, who do drugs. They keep their drugs out of the room if the roommate requests it- and the only one who didn’t ended up getting arrested before the year was over. The good news was that he confessed that the drugs were his, but his roommate was arrested too before the cops had the whole situation straightened out.</p>

<p>I agree with romanigypsyeyes. And you know, this is a personal thing, but I made the choice not to be involved with the world of drugs and all it entails, and when someone in my life takes that choice away from me by putting me at risk of getting in trouble for their activity, I do something about it. I wouldn’t want to report him either if there was any way around it, but I would definitely talk to him and explain it makes you uncomfortable that they are in the room and it is your room too, and try to get a room change. If that doesn’t work, it’s up to you whether or not you want to escalate further. When it comes down to it, the fact that he does drugs is none of your business, if you want to try to get him help that’s nice, but it’s not your responsibility. What is your business is the fact that there are illegal drugs in your room, and you have no way of preventing him from saying their yours if he gets caught. I would not want to take any risk in getting tied up in that sort of thing.</p>

<p>Yeah I’m with Romani as well. I’m not anti-drug but I also wouldn’t wanna risk getting caught up in a huge legal fiasco because my druggie roommate kept all his stuff in our room.</p>

<p>Thanks for advice.</p>

<p>Unfortunately I will never be sure if my roommate actually keeps his drugs out of the room. I cannot really imagine any other place where he could hide them so he would definitely be tempted to keep them in the room. </p>

<p>And since I don’t know him very well, he might lay to me about where he keeps his drugs. Getting arrested is the last thing I would want to experience.</p>

<p>Just tell him flat out that you won’t say anything if he promises to a) keep his drugs among his own things (in his desk, dresser, etc.) and b) own up to all of them if they were ever found.</p>

<p>^bad advice. Do you honestly trust that someone who uses drugs regularly will follow through with a promise of any kind?</p>

<p>He uses LSD, Ecstasy, and THC extract, those are hardly “hard drugs”. Don’t equate them heroin and crack because its not even on the same level. To says he is a untrustworthy person because he uses said drugs is a little unfair. I would talk to him to make sure they are hidden or if caught he confesses to it. If you are absolutely freaked out maybe get him to sign some sort of release stating that those drugs are his and only his, and he takes full responsibility for them if they are found in the room (though I do not recommend it).</p>

<p>Now if he is selling stuff out of your room, then I would probably ask for a roommate switch, because that is something you do not want to get involved with.</p>

<p>Drug users are scum of the earth and should be locked up in prison forever.</p>

<p>I told my roommate to not keep things in the room, she still did, nothing happened. My current roommate lets me keep whatever in my room, and obviously in the crazy chance a cop would search the apartment, I would 100% admit to everything. Drug users aren’t liars. Huge assumption.</p>

<p>lol, this one time some friends and I were gonna light up in a park. My one friend owned the weed and paraphernalia. He was prepping the pipe in my other friend’s car (we were all in it) when suddenly two cops and a police dog show up. The dog had detected drugs, and as such they had cause to search.</p>

<p>They searched the car and found the weed as well as the pipe, and began asking us whose weed it was. I wasn’t gonna snitch my friend out, but my friend wasn’t owning up to it either. It was until they charged the owner of the car (my other friend, the one who didn’t own the weed) with possession of weed and paraphernalia that he fessed up, but by then they said it was ‘too late’ and they didn’t charge him. They claimed they were able to charge my other friend since he owns the car and as such should know what’s in it and whose stuff is in it. Now he’s gotta go to court for it. Chances are good that he’ll just have to go to some drug education class but still, it was a pretty ugly thing to do.</p>

<p>You know or are learning what kind of person your roommate is. If he seems like a trustworthy person, you don’t have a problem. He can do his drugs, and if he is caught, he’ll admit to having them. If he doesn’t seem trustworthy, you just might want to be more careful. I always say it’s best to talk to people first. Tell him you’re uncomfortable, and decide on a solution. It’s unlikely you’ll get him to throw everything away, but there must be some middle ground. </p>

<p>Furthermore, many people do lots of drugs and are never caught. If he is smart about it, I don’t think he will necessarily get caught. He may, but it’s not inevitable.</p>

<p>I would find a way to change rooms. Your roommate has a problem; don’t let it become yours.</p>

<p>You’re worrying about it. You shouldn’t have to.
Talking to him would be the most obvious thing to do, and if nothing comes out of it such as he stops having the drugs in your bedroom, you should get a new roommate.</p>