My friends mean the most to me but in order for me to quit i have to erase drugs from my life and my friends are the ones i do drugs with what should i do?
andy, you are probably in your teens.
before i suggest an answer to your question, i want to say this to you. many times, in our teens, we do things like drugs with our friends and our friends are very important to us. we like them, and it's a chore to make new ones.
but, what happens a lot of times to people in high school is that a group of friends do drugs, then they grow out of doing drugs and mature and get interested in other things. the only problem is that one or two are left behind using drugs because the way they were made, they get addicted and can't stop. so everybody else moves one, but the one or two can't.
whatever it takes, don't be the one left holding the bag. you might be the one in the group that can't quit after using a while (whether it's alcohol, or other drugs). because friends now, as important as they are, move on and are not friends later.
to answer your question, it's going to be hard, but you are going to need to slowly start making new acquaintenances. one by one. and making excuses why you can't show up for certain things with your old friends.
if you can, get your parents to set a curfew for you or to give you a rule that you can't sleep out anymore. then, you will have a built in excuse to leave when you need to so that you aren't pressured to do things that you no longer want to do.
stay with us and ask some more questions. we'd like to help you through your delima.
Andy,
I don't really have an answer for you, but I do have the same fears.
I am not a teenager, I am 36 years old, and I should be old enough to know better.
There was a point in my life when I realised that dope was getting in the way. I had suspected it was a problem for a while, but I let it get to the point where I lost my girlfriend and my job, probably due to my inattention to both. I decided that I could not give up in the environment I was living in. My friends were generous, which only made it easier to pick up a little dope even when I could not afford it, and then I would feel like a scrounger.
At this point I moved town. I turned to my parents and moved into their house, and got in touch with some old friends I had not seen in years.
And which of the old friends should I hook up with but the dope smokers. Then those friends introduced me to new friends, and now I'm in the same boat.
I need to give up. I don't know how to say no. I don't know if my friends think I am a scrounger, they never say so, so it could just be paranoia.
I want to be strong enough to stand by my promises to myself, but if I cannot turn to my friends, where on earth will I find the strength?
If I leave my friends now, can I come bad to them later, or will I always consider them nothing more than a temptation?
I don't really have an answer for you, but I do have the same fears.
I am not a teenager, I am 36 years old, and I should be old enough to know better.
There was a point in my life when I realised that dope was getting in the way. I had suspected it was a problem for a while, but I let it get to the point where I lost my girlfriend and my job, probably due to my inattention to both. I decided that I could not give up in the environment I was living in. My friends were generous, which only made it easier to pick up a little dope even when I could not afford it, and then I would feel like a scrounger.
At this point I moved town. I turned to my parents and moved into their house, and got in touch with some old friends I had not seen in years.
And which of the old friends should I hook up with but the dope smokers. Then those friends introduced me to new friends, and now I'm in the same boat.
I need to give up. I don't know how to say no. I don't know if my friends think I am a scrounger, they never say so, so it could just be paranoia.
I want to be strong enough to stand by my promises to myself, but if I cannot turn to my friends, where on earth will I find the strength?
If I leave my friends now, can I come bad to them later, or will I always consider them nothing more than a temptation?
BE STRONG GIVE UP AND TRUST ME ALL THE SHEEP WILL FOLLOW!!!!!
