drugs

getting pregnant with michelle tea

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Catheter Cervix Torture And Absent Dads

Do I know anyone with a good dad?

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Family Drama, getting pregnant with michelle tea, getting pregnant, dads, sperm donors, drugs, recovery

Apr 10, 2013 at 1:30pm | 37 comments

healthy beverages

8 Healthy Things I Started Doing Only Because I’m Afraid Of Everything After Rehab

I want to make it clear to my insides that we no longer believe in the motto, “Live Fast, Die Young.”

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Healthy, Healthy beverages, healthy eating, healthy, scared, drugs, recovery, life changes

Apr 4, 2013 at 9:00am | 147 comments

ihtm contest

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Was Roofied, But No One Touched Me

It started off as a perfectly normal Saturday night, until I was sweetly kidnapped by southern eccentrics, drugged, and given a free sex show until I threw up.

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It Happened To Me, ihtm contest, drugs, roofies, date rape

Mar 8, 2013 at 5:00pm | 67 comments

ihtm contest

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Was A Cough Syrup Addict

I discovered you could get high off cough syrup by accident. There was an article about these kids who had overdosed on it and ended up in hospital

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It Happened To Me, ihtm contest, ihtm raw, IHTM, drugs, addiction

Feb 28, 2013 at 3:30pm | 55 comments

makeup

I Never Did Acid, but I Love These Psychedelic Beauty Products

I may no longer consume psychedelics, but I’ll still smear Day-Glo bright blush all over my face!

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Beauty, makeup, psychedelic, Acid, drugs

Feb 27, 2013 at 10:00am | 79 comments

parenting

I’m A Mom Who Smokes Pot

Nobody bats an eye at the tongue-in-cheek “three-martini playdate,” but there is certainly plenty of side-eye to go around when discussing parenting and pot.

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Family Drama, parenting, pot, marijuana, stigma, drugs

Feb 8, 2013 at 3:30pm | 138 comments

ihtm

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Thought I Got Drugged On An OkCupid Date

I spent the next 48 hours not sure what would be the more troublesome result -- that I had in fact been drugged, or that I had not, and therefore had to deal with this mind-blowing sex deal for what it was.

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It Happened To Me, IHTM, ihtm contest, ihtm raw, okcupid, drugs

Feb 7, 2013 at 6:00pm | 105 comments

pot

Don't Call Me A Stoner

"Stoner" carries a connotation of bearded boy-men waxing shitty poetic about their HS crushes in whatever inane action-comedy TBS can afford to screen.

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Relationships, pot, marijuana, drugs, stoner, stereotypes

Feb 5, 2013 at 11:00am | 209 comments

depression

Generic Drugs May Be Killing Your Cocktail: It Happened To Me, And I'm Going After My Insurance Company

The company line: We nutty/depressed freaks often have highs and lows, after all. Clearly, we unhinged loonies could not be trusted to tell them when our meds work.

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Healthy, depression, generic, drugs, wellbutrin, health insurance

Jan 15, 2013 at 11:30am | 106 comments

weed

How Not To Be A Dick At The Marijuana Dispensary

California is a magical land of medical marijuana, but it is also a land filled with glad-eyed grifters and sneering salesmen (or women) eager to take advantage a naive visitor just out to smoke that good. Let me help you.

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Issues, weed, medical marijuana, drugs

Jan 14, 2013 at 2:30pm | 75 comments

shoppables

I SHOULD BE ON DRUGS, AND YOU SHOULD BE WEARING BOOT JEWELRY

Yes, Virginia, there really is such a thing as boot jewelry.

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Fashion, shoppables, style, drugs, shoes, boot chains, boot jewelry

Jan 4, 2013 at 11:00am | 57 comments

drugs

It Happened To Me: I Was An 8-Year-Old Speed Freak

Being an adult who was drugged as a child is a very interesting experience. I was given meds way before I could comprehend the side effects and consequences.

Amanda Lauren in

It Happened To Me, drugs, adderall, addiction, pills, Cat Marnell, healthy

Dec 28, 2012 at 12:00pm | 53 comments

sex work

What It's Really Like: I'm A Drug-Addicted Stripper

Empowerment comes in the front door when I can make rent in a singular evening. Yet, it leaves through the back door when I blow it all on pills.

Caitlin Thomas in

It Happened To Me, sex work, drugs, addiction, stripping

Dec 27, 2012 at 10:00am | 408 comments

drugs

It Happened to Me: I Quit Smoking Weed When We Had a Baby, But My Husband Didn't

My spouse is still in his love affair with MJ. In all honesty, at times I feel like my love triangle has become one where my husband cheats on his sweet, loving weed with me, the tumultuous mistress.

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It Happened To Me, drugs, marijuana, addiction, parenting, family drama

Nov 23, 2012 at 11:00am | 104 comments

antidepressants

It Happened to Me: I'm Going Off Antidepressants

Antidepressants are complicated. Getting off them is more so.

Kelsey in

Healthy, antidepressants, drugs, depression

Oct 24, 2012 at 11:00am | 133 comments

ambien

I Lit My Kitchen On Fire: The Ambien Made Me Do It

Ambien was supposed to cure my lifelong insomnia problem. Instead, it almost ruined my life.

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Issues, ambien, insomnia, drugs, addiction, depression

Sep 26, 2012 at 1:00pm | 67 comments

drugs

It Happened To Me: I'm Coming Off Benzos

I'm 48 hours into being completely benzo free.

Sarah Waller Martin in

It Happened To Me, drugs, addiction, benzos

Sep 5, 2012 at 1:00pm | 117 comments

drugs

BEWARE, YE SELLERS OF WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDRY, SPELLS AND POTIONS!

The Internet is coming for you. PLUS: Which one of you vixens has sold their underwear online to complete strangers? I COMMAND YOU TO BE HONEST.

Alison Freer in

Fun, drugs, ebay, etsy, harry potter, magic, shoppables, spells, teeth, used underwear

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:00am | 115 comments

drugs

I'm a Marijuana Mom

I’ll never endorse the wake-and-bake approach to parenting, but I can’t see the difference between a glass or two of wine in the evening and a few hits of OG Kush off a clean bong.