How to safely consume drugs

by Zoe Khaleel

1 Recreational hits on the weekends?

Cute, but your brain has no calendar. It doesn’t care that its Friday. It just knows that you handed it more dopamine in one evening than a week of rainbows and sunsets. Guess what it starts craving for next Friday. Then Thursday. Then Tuesday. But sure, weekends. Very disciplined.

“I can control myself. I know when it gets too much to stop”

2 Moderation

The favorite word of someone whose mind thinks that “its just a little” is now taking three times the dose for it to kick in a matter of six months. Tolerance builds. Its inevitable. Its biology.

The same dose stops working and before you know it, you’re a roadside junkie because you smoked your cash away.

“So then how else!”

3 “Its for my mental health, it helps me cope”.

The substance that chemically worsens anxiety and depression long – term is definitely fixing it short- term. You have achieved momentary respite.

Pumping painkillers into your body to fix a broken leg can only numb the pain enough to walk. When the magic wears off the broken leg remains, perhaps now worse than before.

But no, you still think you can crack the code?

4 “With friends. A safe environment with people I trust”

Nothing screams “safety” like a room full of people mutually agreeing that the harmful thing is fine because everyone else is doing it. Such friends aren’t safety nets, an echo chamber with snacks and pot.

Nobody wants to be the one who stops first, nobody wants to be the bummer, and so nobody does.

But there is strength in numbers, definitely. That’s also how cults begin.

But you still want to do it. Zindagi na milegi dobara right?

5 “Just once. To try it. How bad could one time be?”

For most people? Yeah, one hit did no harm. But for some people? It did everything. One puff and you just flipped a switch you never knew you had.

It’s a gamble on life where the prize leads to lifelong suffering, because once always leads to twice, thrice and a countdown on life.

But no, you tried it once and you wanna keep going? Safely of course.

6 “I’m not addicted so I can stop whenever”

Then stop. Do it right now. No? you don’t want to? Oh! You don’t need to? Right. You’re not addicted but you just don’t feel like stopping? Let me know how that holds up in five years.

“When I’m older and have a stable life, then it’s safe”

7 The stable life:

Too bad life doesn’t do stable. Life is chaos with        coffee or tea breaks, pick your poison. You want to   plan you’re your usage? Pick a date on the calendar and attach a sticky note?

When man plans, God laughs.

Or do you want to keep that stash for when it gets hard? That sounds like a great excuse to repeat at parties.

So then when!

The answer is never. There ain’t no loophole, no fine print.

You clicked this hoping I would give you permission dressed as information.

You already knew the answer before you started reading.

But if you have already made a deal with the devil then don’t go asking for help from your dealer. Get help right here at Ummeed.