Is there a better word that doesn’t “poison the well”. I know many people who use drugs recreationally during their free time, yet are productive members of society from 9 to 5.
“Druggies” sounds like hate-speech.
Because you’re an idiot?
Druggies is the word that the OP used. What do you suggest?
Mod Note:
This it out of line for IMHO, don’t do it again.
- Gukumatz,
IMHO Moderator
I don’t know. “People”, maybe?
They don’t, not really, but it’s medical supplies and regs on those weren’t made thinking “wait a minute, maybe there are things for which no expiration date should be set”.
It’s the same with many kinds of preserved food, they last forever and a day but regs are regs.
During my days as a hopeless junkie, I always felt the term “drug sucking pig” was pretty appropriate.
OK. But my circle of friends does not include any “hopeless junkies”. I know plenty of people who on occasion use various drugs in a recreational manner. Do you seriously feel it is appropriate to lump those folks in with the hopeless junkies? Cause if so, I was at a very nice party last night with pillars of the community who are hopeless junkies.
/hijack, back to insulin abuse.
I’m pretty sure the common phrase is “recreational user.”
I was never a recreational user. Nor do I associate the OP’s term “druggies” with “recreational user”. Druggies live to use and use to live.
The thing is, we aren’t talking about people in general, we’re talking about a certain subset of people, and a pretty small subset at that. I’m sure in some circles, just about everyone uses at least a little pot on the weekends. However, I tend to hang out with people who will get fired if their random drug test comes back positive. So most of the “people” that I know don’t use drugs for recreational purposes, and I think it would be misleading to imply that all or most people do so.
And to drag this hijack back to the original topic, I think that only those individuals who are trying desperately for any sort of high would try something like inducing a hypoglycemic episode. And I think that even they would do this only once, since it doesn’t give any benefits, only drawbacks.
But do they maintain their sterility?
I think this shows a huge misunderstanding about the real and perceived risks and benefits of typically used “street drugs.”
Back in the day when I might have been reasonably characterized as a “druggie,” being “really careful” about dosage in the sense that I was confident I wasn’t risking an overdose left a lot of room for copious excess, far beyond what would be a typical recreational dose - I might go through several capsules of MDMA, ten tabs of LSD, a steady stream of joints, a few hits of DMT - all sorts of stuff - without being close to anything like a fatal dose.
The motivation for taking all those drugs was that it felt awesome. Hours of over-the-top euphoria, the subjective experience that perception had been heightened to the point that the intrinsic significance and beauty of everything was palpable. Listening to music or watching a movie was orders of magnitude more interesting; interacting with other people was indescribably multidimensional.
Who gets any pleasure out of hypoglycemia? “Yay, I feel sick and disoriented!”
I was addressing kayaker’s assertion that people who partake of an illegal substance now and then should not be called a “druggie,” by providing an alternate term that was more descriptive than “people.”
I’m diabetic, and I’ve been hypoglycemic on more than a few occasions. You do NOT want to know what it feels like, any more than you want to know what it feels like to beaten with a club.
This may sound strange to you, but I suppose in a way I do want to know what it feels like to be beaten with a club. I want to know what everything feels like!
This is not the same thing as wanting to be beaten by a club so please put the teleportation device down.
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In the first place, one does not pick up a teleporter meant for transporting humans; one steps into it.
In the second place, if I felt the need (as opposed to the desire) to have you cudgeled, I would have someone else do it.
In the third place, if I felt the desire to cudgel you myself, your telling me not to do so would only inflame that desire further.
In the fourth place, assuming I felt no such desire, your mentioning it would only put ideas in my head. Seems unwise.
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More seriously, you only think you want to know what it feels like to be the recipient of a severe beating. Like insulin shock, it’s something best read about.
Use your imagination.
After a bad one, do you feel physical aches for hours, as if you’ve just worked out to the point of exhaustion and a little further? I sure do.
Considering that your body deals with hypoglycemia by releasing adrenaline, causing panic, I don’t see what the recreational appeal would be. Who wants to give themselves a panic attack?
Bodybuilders use insulin as a performance enhancing drug (if taken after a workout, it can increase the rate of uptake of protein and carbs into the muscles, speeding up growth and recovery). But that is not the same as recreational usage.