A Quick First Post

I simply want to explain my current situation in relation to my drug use, seeing as that is what this blog is about. I will detail my mental health problems in another post, as it is intrinsically linked to the majority of my drug use.

I am 26 years old as of this post. I have been using drugs since I was 16. However until I turned 20, the only drug I had used was alcohol, and I was a very casual and infrequent drinker. Soon after I turned 20, smoking cannabis for the first time made me realise the incredible potential of conscious-altering drugs, and since then, I have used many different psychoactive drugs.

In my early 20s, I experimented with a large number of drugs. I used various psychedelics such as mescaline (a drug I still think is incredible), to dissociatives like high-dose dextromethorphan. I also began my continuing love affair with opioids at this point, starting with tramadol I found in my family's medicine cabinet - soon I was pilfering oxycodone and codeine from sick relatives' prescriptions.

At this present moment, it would be best to describe myself as a 'problem drug user'. I hold no illusions about the damage drugs have done to my life. I have been injecting heroin for close to three years now. I have been on an opioid replacement therapy programme for two years; the drug of 'replacement' being methadone. I still use intravenous heroin daily.

With this blog, I wish to explain my own motivations for my drug use, and just how drug use is not a 'black and white' issue; it is a matter of shades of grey. That is what I want to illustrate with further posts.