# Can anyone raise their virtual hand on these boards and say,"I don't take drugs?"Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468 "2007-10-29T17:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/61 "2007-10-30T13:25:06Z")
Caffeine Alcohol Weed All are great drugs. I take the occasional aspirin or anti-inflammatory when I have a sports injury, but only if I need to be somewhere where I can’t use the weed to treat it. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/62 "2007-10-30T13:42:43Z")
I can raise my virtual hand. No recreational drugs (just 100% not interested). No coffee, no caffeine, no refined sugars or artificial sweeteners. No meds, not even headache tablets or painkillers - never seem to need them, don’t even keep them in the house. I just want to add that I don’t see any of this as a virtuous claim, or that I think ‘my way’ is better than anyone else’s. I don’t. Whatever works for you, works for you. I seem happy enough with the way things are and don’t seem to feel any need to change. I like to lead a pretty stress-free life, and to get really good sleep, and to enjoy exercising and having plenty of energy, and my way seems to work for me. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/63 "2007-10-30T17:17:28Z")
[QUOTE=Phlosphr] For then last two posts, if those are the only drugs that you take, that’s quite good and nearly drug free. How do you folks that only take caffeine and/or OTC cold meds feel day to day?? [/QUOTE] I feel fantastic, most of the time, as I eat pretty healthily. I have a cold right now (which is a pretty rare occurrence for me), and have taken an OTC remedy for the last two nights to enable me to breathe, so I could sleep. I drink tea daily, and may have an acetaminophen or two once every couple of months for a headache. Oh, and I have allergies to animals (mostly) so if I know I’m going to be around them, I’ll take a pill for it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Jeez I forgot to mention, I do drink occasionally as well, but usually only when we’ve got company or are at a party. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/64 "2007-10-30T19:01:20Z")
I’m at work, but I’m secretly all whacked out on coffee, diet coke and decongestants. The colors, man! The colors! ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/65 "2007-10-30T20:02:00Z")
Well, I am pregnant right now so I am much more drug free than usual. Other than my vitamin, I don’t take anything. Early on I took a few Tylenol and Tums. I guess occasional caffeine, but that is mostly cut out too. But I would say for the last 6 months or so I qualify, and during my first pregnancy as well. Come delivery time though, all bets are off 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Toast\_Museum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@Toast\_Museum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toast_Museum)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/66 "2007-10-30T20:08:04Z")
I went for twenty years without any drugs at all ever. But now I have a quarter aspirin a day as recommended for your heart. And a glass of champagne on New Year’s Eve, that I never finish. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/67 "2007-10-30T20:09:49Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] I’m at work, but I’m secretly all whacked out on coffee, diet coke and decongestants. The colors, man! The colors! [/QUOTE] Well, that coke does fuck you up. I havent\* had the diet kind, although my understanding was that regular coke was a strong enough diet drug in the first place. You must be wafer-thin! \*I cant type apostrophes anymore. It pops up a “Quick Search” thing. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/68 "2007-10-30T23:46:09Z")
No prescriptions, no caffeine, no recreational drugs. Never have. I have to be near death to take a Tylenol. I have been on antibiotics and pain killers a few times, of course, but these were exceptional circumstances. ETA: Alcohol is pretty much gone since we got kids. I probably have about a drink per month, unless exceptional circumstances apply (family visiting) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/69 "2007-10-31T03:57:11Z")
I think I can raise my hand here. I’m not on any medications, don’t drink coffee or soda, rarely have alcohol or tea, and don’t smoke or do any recreational drugs. I find that rather depresing, since with a list like that you’d think I was in better physical shape than I am. But I’m working on that. ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/70 "2007-10-31T15:56:51Z")
I drink a lot of coffee, I take the odd Paracetamol when I have a headache. In the summer I use an OTC nasal spray, Beconase, without it I would be miserable until winter hits. No alcohol, smoking, prescription or recreational drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468/71 "2007-10-31T18:31:34Z")
[QUOTE=MJinks] In the summer I use an OTC nasal spray, Beconase, without it I would be miserable until winter hits. [/QUOTE] Sweet, sweet Beconase - how I love thee! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-raise-their-virtual-hand-on-these-boards-and-say-i-dont-take-drugs-poll/424468.md?page=3)