I can’t raise my hand either. Psych drugs and mild painkillers, plus sleeping pills for me.
I don’t take drugs. Not now, anyway.
If you mean not ever, then yes, I most recently took ibuprofen for a knee problem in high school and have taken antibiotics for infections as recently as two years ago (stepped on a nail). I have had alcohol on, let’s see, three occasions in my life, so if that disqualifies me then that’s that.
I have taken Tylenol, but mostly or all when I was a kid and I can’t remember the last time I took any.
No caffeine. I drink pretty much just water and milk. No coffee, tea, or soda. I did have a caramel Frappuccino once when I was in 10th or 11th grade.
No prescription meds and no cold medicine or anything.
I too wonder what the point is. I dislike drugs, (except caffeine.) Do vitamins count? I could refuse to take any drugs - but then I might get a stroke and die. So, being totally anti-drug seems as absurd as being anti-chemical.
To parse it a bit:
Recreational - clean
Alcohol - clean
Prescriptions (diabetes and cholesterol meds) - guilty
OTC meds (claritin) and dietary supplements - guilty
Others (e. g. caffeine)- guilty
I raise my virtual (not to say virtuous) hand. Mind you, I’m not opposed to drugs in principle, but I have the world’s most insubordinate stomach, such that I can’t even stand caffeine anymore. Maybe when it recovers a bit I’ll go back to a limited amount of caffeine. But I don’t take any prescription drugs, and alcohol is as verboten as caffeine is for the moment. I will take an aspirin if I get a headache, but it’s not that frequent.
Guilty - to the tune of 1/2 aspirin, a cup (sometimes 2) of coffee and a glass of wine per day.
Better living through chemistry, baybee! Ibuprofen (bad knee), sleep aids, caffeine, alcohol (BEER!), and 3 prescriptions(NOYB).
There was a period of my life when I took almost no drugs…my teen years. I didn’t even take Advil back then for my cramps, and I never took any other drugs, never drank, never even had coffee.
These days? Two drinks a month, seven coffees a week, Advil once a month, OTC cold medicines when needed and that’s it.
Never did any illegal drugs. Never smoked. I’ve probably taken half a dozen aspirin and maybe a dozen decongestants my whole 30-something life.
I do drink occasionally, usually just 1 to 3 beers.)
Do vitamins & supplements count? If not, then the only “drug” I take regularly is caffeine. I take OTC cold medicines and pain relievers when necessary, but I take vitamins (pre-natal, Vitamin C, calcium, iron, & omega-3s) daily. Oh, and the occasional beer or glass of wine.
Nope, sorry - antihistamines every day and Advil a few times a week. I could live without any of that; when I was in high school, I rarely took anything for pain, but then I decided to stop trying to be all hardcore about it, and I’m less miserable for it.
No caffeine (except in chocolate), no alcohol, nothing illegal.
Unfortunately, the OP’s definition means that water is a drug, cows’ milk and olive oil too. I’m sure there are more.
Don’t normal foods have compounds the human body can’t synthesize? Plants have cellulose and chlorophyll, for example, which so far as I know, aren’t things that a human body can create on its own. Am I missing something from your definition that narrows it down further, because otherwise I suspect basically anyone that eats is a drug user.
Other than during periodic illnesses, I can raise my hand.
I have no active prescriptions (other than for vitamins, which I am discounting for purposes of the OP given that it’s possible to duplicate my vitamins through diet alone - it happens I generally do so, but the vitamins are rather in the suspenders-and-a-belt category since my husband and I are attempting to reproduce and being *absolutely sure * I have plenty of folic acid is called for). I do not smoke (and never have). I do not drink (and haven’t for years). I do not use any recreational pharmaceuticals (and never have). I do not drink coffee or soft drinks (tea occasionally, but if I drink juice or water instead I don’t miss it - no noticeable caffiene withdrawal).
Three weeks ago, I was taking an OTC cough suppressant (I had a nasty chest cold - it was either take the cough suppressant or not sleep at all), but since then, nothing. I occasionally take other OTC drugs, but very, very sparingly and at rare intervals (almost always in response to illness, although I treat my occasional migraines with major doses of caffiene) - I have a severe drug allergy that dictates extreme caution in using OTC meds.
It’s been minutes and minutes.
OP clarified not long after:
We are dependent on certain chemicals (e.g. essential amino acids) which our bodies can’t synthesize. Wouldn’t your definition include such substances?
Quartz, ignore my last comment. I think I missed your point.
I don’t eat or drink caffeine, smoke, or use recreational drugs, BUT I enjoy light social drinking every week, and take the occasional Tylenol/Advil for head or body aches. Assuming my one-a-day vitamin doesn’t count. In the spring I get such killer allergies that medication is not just preferable, it’s necessary to function. Otherwise I’m fairly unaffected by big pharma.
I drink coffee (and tea on occasion) and now and then a glass of alcoholic variation.
For the uncommon instance where I have pain severe enough, ibuprofen.
So, I can’t say my bod’s drug-free.
But …
No regular prescription meds, no tranquillisers or anti-deps.
I don’t smoke (second-hand smoke makes me ill).
No illegal drugs, stuff bought from the corner shop, that sort of thing.
Aside from the caffiene, some alcohol (getting less and less, 'cause it’s boring), ibuprofen and antibiotics whenever my lungs pack up, I’m clean. Been that way since I gave the brief bout with anti-deps the boot in Oct 2001.