Drugs - xoJane

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

Michelle Tea — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:30:00 -0400

Do I know anyone with a good dad?

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

Caitlin Thornton — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:00:00 -0400

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

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

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0500

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.

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

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:30:00 -0500

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

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

Caitlin Thornton — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

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

I’m A Mom Who Smokes Pot

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:30:00 -0500

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.

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

IHTM CONTESTANT — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:00:00 -0500

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.

Don't Call Me A Stoner

Chloë — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:00:00 -0500

"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.

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

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:30:00 -0500

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.

How Not To Be A Dick At The Marijuana Dispensary

Chloë — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:30:00 -0500

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.

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

Alison Freer — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:00:00 -0500

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

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

Amanda Lauren — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:00:00 -0500

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.

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

Caitlin Thomas — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0500

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.

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

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:00:00 -0500

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.

It Happened to Me: I'm Going Off Antidepressants

Kelsey — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:00:00 -0400

Antidepressants are complicated. Getting off them is more so.

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

Laura Buchwald — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0400

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

It Happened To Me: I'm Coming Off Benzos

Sarah Waller Martin — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0400

I'm 48 hours into being completely benzo free.

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

Alison Freer — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:00:00 -0400

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.

I'm a Marijuana Mom

Sarah Eyre — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:00:15 -0400

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.

It Happened To Me: I Got Sober, My Husband Did Not

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:32:24 -0400

I figured we could weather anything together. What we couldn’t handle was a heroin addiction.