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These 25 People Took Drugs and Destroyed Their Lives

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I dated a girl who lit up the room with her smile, and was wonderful to be around. Her coworker gave her a few free lines of coke, then offered to start selling it to her. Within a month, she owed him most of her paycheck by the day she got paid. She’d call me up, crying, because it had been a half hour since she’d done coke and she already couldn’t handle the need for more. I broke up with her, but would see her randomly at club nights or concerts for years…but I never saw her smile once in that time. Coke broke her as a person.

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I ate a quarter of mushrooms over the course of probably 10 hours by myself. I found an ingrown hair on my tummy-tum & decided to pop it. Well, this is where the shrooms turned on me. I had gotten it out, but I was convinced there was more. So I kept at it until I saw what looked like a worm come out & start wiggling. Then I felt this really hot flushing feeling come over me & start coursing through my veins. I immediately started to panic. So I ran upstairs to my room & laid on my bed. The red sheets I was laying on started to seem like a blood red sea that I was sinking into & I was getting really hot. I kept trying to tell myself that it was a bad trip, shrooms won’t kill you, & that I was going to be alright. Not working. So instead I sat in corner & rocked myself to sleep saying “Jesus is love” over &over. I don’t even believe in God. Then I passed the f*ck out & swore off shrooms.

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Had a few friends trip on acid one night when someone’s parents were gone. This guy’s stove elements are always red, which is a silly design choice, but an important one. Buddy wanted to scare another guy so he slammed his hand down on one of the other burners as they were making perogies, making him think he burnt his hand. Suddenly, the guy goes blank and goes into a full on bad trip, he was convinced everyone else were cops trying to catch him for killing all of his friends in a perogie fire. Ran out of the house banging on neighbors garage doors yelling for help. Luckily nobody saw him and one of the other guys was able to get him back inside and calm him down, but this occurrence has convinced me I’m probably fine without doing acid.

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6 months into a meth and amphetamine addiction and do a massive amount in one go. Spent the night running round these dark woods hiding from shadow people. Literally the worst night of my life crouching behind trees and watching them skulk in the shadows. Lasted about 6 hours. At one point the bad trip evolved to aliens coming down from the sky to kidnap me. It was as real and vivid as day. As I hadn’t taken a hallucinogen it wasn’t expected and I couldn’t tell the difference between reality and not reality. When dawn broke. I walked home crying as I didn’t know what was going on. I got home and the day after took an overdose.

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A friend of mine went to a music festival with a different group of friends. One of those guys did DMT and passed out for about 7 minutes. He woke up freaking out because apparently while he was out, he lived an entire lifetime as a mayan boy/man…. lemme repeat myself.. he lived and ENTIRE lifetime as another human being from another time and place. He described waking up, going about his day everyday. He slowly grew up, found a wife, had kids… all that. Then we just woke up. He was kinda depressed for a few weeks apparently. Stuff is just nuts.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.