# What is your worst experience with alcohol/drugs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774 "2016-09-24T22:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/21 "2016-09-26T15:24:30Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > College, 1983. UCSB (Santa Barbara), with the campus right along the ocean, it was a bonfire party on the beach. Too much alcohol for me, I didn’t get sick but I lost my common sense, and a sober and too loose girl (Mary B\_r\_en, are you still out there?) who had a crush on me but I didn’t have one on her. By the morning I wished I hadn’t had so much to drink. Wished we hadn’t gone so far, so fast. > > You can’t go back to holding hands when things have gone too far. What’s worse is, she turned out to have serious problems and, in the words of her former boyfriend when I later realized she had issues and so I asked him, was a total nut case. > > Ortega Dining Commons, UCSB, early 1980s; Jay and Mary B\_r\_en (before that party), and then later Mary B\_r\_en and me. Great. Trouble. What a bad scene. I hope she is okay now and that she has processed her complex issues. > > Too much alcohol. Never again. Ever. > [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > What do you mean by **too loose**? Are you implying she had too much sex so that her vagina was no longer tight? B/c along w/ being a horrible thing to say about someone that you have no right to judge, it’s also medically inaccurate and shows a longstanding and glaring ignorance. I hope you didn’t pass this nonsense on to any kids you’ve had, sounds like you were a poor enough friend to Mary in taking advantage of her feelings when you felt like it and judging her sex life when you weren’t part of it. > > \ I wasn’t making a medical assessment, I was making a behavioral assessment. Maybe the phrasing of too loose wasn’t the best. What I meant was that she was somebody who (a) knew I had quite a lot to drink, so she knew I wasn’t in my right mind, (b) was quite sober herself, so her thinking wasn’t very alcohol impaired, and (c) when later she had walked me back to my dorm room out of concern for my well being - when we were alone in my dorm room, only a few feet from the beach - out of my extreme horniness I made advances towards her, and after her surprise at what my intentions were, she took her own clothes off in about two heartbeats. So, too loose? Yeah, she was pretty loose. Slutty? Possibly, yes. Were my actions that night too loose? Yes. I have every right to judge Mary B\_r\_en, _who she was **at that time** _, because I had direct experience with her that night and for some following weeks because from that night we started dating, we started a dedicated relationship (by that I mean a not open relationship). Likewise, Mary has every right to judge me and who I was at that time. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/22 "2016-09-26T17:58:11Z")
I was a binge wine drinker. Came close to killing myself a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/23 "2016-09-26T19:37:07Z")
Salvia is pretty intense, especially when you don’t know what to expect. A friend read that you had to apply high heat and lots of suction on the pipe. The four of us sat in a circle laughing so hard we were drooling and had snot running down our faces. Interestingly we all shared the sensation that gravity had started pulling towards the left instead of downwards. People from the rest of the party were coming into the garage to see the sketchbags who were getting high on weird stuff and then snotting their faces. The high lasts 15 minutes at most, but you have a pretty crappy come down. You feel dopey and have a headache. Your night is pretty much over. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/24 "2016-09-26T19:43:52Z")
I have no idea how many ativans I took over a three day period and have no idea what happened in during that time. Never touched them again. Why party like that if you have no memories. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/25 "2016-09-26T20:21:03Z")
Having an alcoholic father ! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/26 "2016-09-26T20:31:54Z")
As Babe Ruth allegedly said, I had a half case of beer, two large pizzas, and an apple, and boy, was I sick! So I quit apples. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/27 "2016-09-26T20:32:14Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I was slipped a hit of acid while working a grave yard shift while in the Navy. Began to freak out, the guy that gave it to me tried to keep me calm. Spent most of the night locked in a store room, finally started feeling normal about 6 am. Showed up at quarters looking like crap. Fortunately had the next 3 days off. Never saw the guy that slipped me the acid again. Your initials in real life wouldn’t be HN, would they? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/28 "2016-09-26T20:33:08Z")
Running out. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774/29 "2016-09-26T21:46:34Z")
Without going into details I’ll just say that the slightest whiff of Old Crow bourbon still make me nauseous more than 50 years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-worst-experience-with-alcohol-drugs/766774.md?page=1)