Did YOU want to be a junkie when you grew up?
Posted by FancyThought7696@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 81 comments
These commercials scared the living shit out of me.
CookieTX2022@reddit
Junkie is pretty harsh. Definitely wanted to be a forever partier though.
AM81inMA@reddit
Life member of the Too Much Fun club?
Traditional_Isopod80@reddit
Did you end up becoming a forever partier?
AdAggravating8273@reddit
A wise man once told me, "never do a drug that straight men will suck a dick to get more of."
FancyThought7696@reddit (OP)
That’s quite a quote!
LongballG@reddit
Say nope to dope
Feralest_Baby@reddit
No, but I did want to be Kurt Cobain or Layne Staley or Chris Cornell.
DarksunDaFirst@reddit
No, but for a while I was.
I got past it. Though from time to time I do go on a little trip for “religious” purposes.
ouijahead@reddit
When you say go on a little trip, do you mean to the Mushroom Kingdom? 🍄
DarksunDaFirst@reddit
Depends on what medium was available, but that one is usually my preference.
ouijahead@reddit
At our age, Loving sensations of the divine leaves me feeling beat up by the end of it and the next couple days. Wasn’t a big deal when I was young. I could bounce right back. When I was 40 I learned how to extract Divine Moments of Truth. It is so easy people have no idea. Most intense experience of a person’s life. But the truth one sees can last a lifetime and answer so many questions about our existence.
DarksunDaFirst@reddit
I have to agree with you. It is one of those places where you need to have the day after planned out as a recovery day. The jet lag can be terrible.
I have never attempted a Divine Moment of Truth. Maybe this month I’ll put it on my schedule if I can find the correct Travel Agent to cut me a good price.
PrettylightedUMphrek@reddit
Amen to that, I’ve fallen hard from trying to keep way too sober and then a relapse ends up being way worse. Now I’m able to feed the dragon every once in while with some mild extracurricular fun and know that it’s all in moderation. That’s worked way better for me. But I know not everyone can do that, I’m wicked luck in that regard.
bitsy88@reddit
Found the New Englander
Kellzy1212@reddit
I was never scared by the commercials, always thought they were hilariously overdramatized.
What DID scare me from trying any hard drugs, was Requiem for a Dream. Basketball Diaries and Trainspotting, also. Requiem should be required watching for teenagers before graduation.
AffectionateFig5864@reddit
I had an eating disorder in high school and, if anything, Requiem taught me that stealing my sister’s Ritalin might be a great way to suppress my appetite. Took me another 10 years until I wound up in residential treatment, but it worked.
Kellzy1212@reddit
I can definitely understand that. I got all kinds of disordered eating habits from magazines, internet, etc…. Eat 800 calories a day to lose 5lbs a week. If i had easy access to those drugs, i probably would have tried that too. I just abused ephedra until they pulled it off the market. I’m happy for you that you made it through.
GravyPainter@reddit
D.A.R.E. made me WANT to try it
Kellzy1212@reddit
They lied. I’ve never had a stranger give me free drugs. Actually, second thought: maybe at a rave.
FungiStudent@reddit
I got a few free heroin balloons back in the day. Ended up with a $200/day habit. First one is always free!
Kellzy1212@reddit
That sounds like an awful deal. 😕
Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit
I know a way to score free drugs. Medicaid/Medicare. Granted, the free drugs are prescription drugs, but technically they're free drugs
violetstrainj@reddit
Yeah, those PSA’s scared me, too. I feel like we we completely bombarded with anti-drug propaganda.
LordButtworth@reddit
Hello
like_shae_buttah@reddit
I just lived in a bad neighborhood where drug use was rampant and didn’t want to wind up like them.
ManbadFerrara@reddit
Honestly, yeah, kind of. But mainly so I could be this cool grizzled older guy lecturing young people like “hey, take it from me kids, I’ve been there, and you don’t wanna see what I’ve seen.”
Boy, was that ever a bad idea.
ouijahead@reddit
I bet I’m the only one that remembers my school having these guys come talk to us about all this when we were in FIRST GRADE!!! . Jesus ! I only remember one detail. One guy saying he went crazy on a coke binge and took all his clothes off in public or something. I think the other two people were just talking about alcohol. They were trying to scare us straight young. … too young guys. Too young. I had no concept of what cocaine even was and probably did not for many years after that.
NTDLS@reddit
My mom go so tired of me saying “I want to be a junkie when I grow up.” I was probably between 10 and 12 years old, looking back that must’ve been pretty damned embarrassing for her.
ouijahead@reddit
I remember our bad kid in class getting pulled for saying that. We were only second or third grade. Looking back, he probably actually knew what that meant too.
Username5735@reddit
Definitely did not want to be a junkie when I grew up. Still not a junkie so I succeeded. But your brain on drugs makes a delicious breakfast.
ouijahead@reddit
A lot of the younger kids who were also watching television were terribly scared of frying eggs for awhile.
karaloveskate@reddit
Wasn’t those commercials that kept me from drugs. It was movies depicting people on drugs that did it for me. Like the basketball diaries movie.
Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit
I learned it by watching you!
FancyThought7696@reddit (OP)
To this day I never have gotten those commercials. Like there’s this legion of parents smiling crack with their kids lol
Zeke688@reddit
It was a weed campaign not crack
Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit
It was more than just weed. Pops had Junior’s whole little drug stash. Looked like some powder and pills in that little box
Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit
I dabbled a little bit
Embarrassed_Key_4539@reddit
I used to do drugs… I still do, but I used to too
MartyFreeze@reddit
Man, I STILL don't know what I want to be when I grow up!
JPhrog@reddit
You and me both my friend
bitsy88@reddit
I don't want a funeral but if I did, I'd want this picture on the little memorial pamphlets they give out.
graveybrains@reddit
That's the best idea I've heard in a long time
TheAmazingMaryJane@reddit
i never thought i'd be a junkie because heroin is so passé
peekaboooobakeep@reddit
Won the D.A.R.E essay contest one year, getting high the next.
Ok-Training3941@reddit
Yes!! It seamed to romantic. Like a tragic love affair..
cmgww@reddit
The kid running, but then it’s a cop who grabs him from behind…..”no one wants to be a junkie when they grow up”….
ArchitectVandelay@reddit
Trainspotting is scared straight on speed. I barely wanted to live after that movie, let alone do anything ever.
Great movie btw.
Kellzy1212@reddit
Definitely never watch Requiem for a Dream, then. It’s much more devastating.
Josephthebear@reddit
Assth 2 ASsth
PhinePheasant@reddit
I was like “this is great, I’m going to do this.” And never watched the second half of “Blow.”
BulimicMosquitos@reddit
If it means Rachael Leigh Cook would be smacking around my huevos, I’d be willing to give it a shot.
NoContextCarl@reddit
Heroin is so passé
Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit
Nice!
goat_penis_souffle@reddit
Dandy!
Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit
“Mother fucker broke my fucking sitar.”
Stimpinstein22@reddit
When I was younger, I would have a vasovagal reaction (look it up) from any shots/needles. I don’t think I would have been a good needle freak. I got past that through donating plasma in my late 30’s.
Have smoked cannabis for over half my life, though…
YourGuyK@reddit
Just for a short time after watching Trainspotting. Requiem for a Dream ended that nonsense.
BrieFromage@reddit
When I'm cleaning the bathroom, I sing the meth song.
longpurplehair@reddit
Me too, except no one seems to remember it so I get funny looks from my family
irate_alien@reddit
I saw Requiem for a Dream, no thank you
Kellzy1212@reddit
Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit
Opiate withdrawal is worse and crazier than you can ever imagine. More mind blowing than any drug I have ever done.
ButterscotchAware402@reddit
No but here we are...
bk553@reddit
No?
Left_Maize816@reddit
According to mark Renton “ Take the best orgasm you've ever had... multiply it by a thousand, and you're still nowhere near it.”
Country_Gravy420@reddit
Yeah. After I saw these commercials I did. Unfortunately they lied about people handing out free drugs and I'm broke.
Thereminz@reddit
i figured i would see that there was no water in the pool before i jumped off the diving board
thenoid42@reddit
A Phunk Junkee.
Cael_NaMaor@reddit
An assassin for the mob, actually. It's the earliest job I can remember wanting to do
Pantsickle@reddit
Kinda.
LarryGoldwater@reddit
I dabbled in it.
I moonlight from time to time.
I guess what I learned is Junkie is a side hustle that anyone can do.
instant_ramen_chef@reddit
Nah. I got that all out of my system before I turned 18. Well... maybe 21.
regeya@reddit
Thankfully I never really had a good experience with opiates.
But I turned into a real pothead after my last accident. They got stingy with the pain meds, I got stoned.
SanPadrigo@reddit
You can bet your ass if I was 17 at a party and all the interesting people went outside to pass around a bowl I was joining that club. Just blind luck I never got herpes. Maybe wiping the mouthpiece on my sleeve really did sanitize it.
Revolutionary-Good22@reddit
As a kid, I didn't get it.
LifePedalEnjoyer@reddit
I've never done hard drugs, but I should have.
stealy_darn@reddit
Commercials about the dangers of booze probably would have been more helpful for me. Well not really, but you get what I’m saying.
coci222@reddit
This is your brain. 🥚
This is your brain on drugs.🍳
Any questions?
S_A_R_K@reddit
Nope. Didn't stop me though
stations-creation@reddit
The lady that’s trying to light a cigarette over and over and it keeps getting blown out then she moves and you see she’s knocked up.
Josephthebear@reddit