How much does a typical drug addict spend? I dont know about alochol or cigeretes cause i dont smoke or drink. I get Valium if I want it which only cost me ten dollars from the hmo and thats all I take if I ever need it (too afraid of Ambien and Lunesta heard it gives you night terrors)
How much does a coke/crack addict spend a week?
How much does a meth addict spend a week?
How much does a herion addict spend a week?
How much does a pothead spend a week?
How much does a pill person mainly talking Oxy or Vic, plus the others?
I know the first answer would be it depends on the persons tolerance but lets just use as an example one person who has ravaged herself with addictions Crackney Love. Im sure her tolerance his high, I remember Rush Limaugh was taking enough for a small elephant and I figure what the figures were but they were hugh as a kite the cost he was paying.
Can anyone break down the economics of drugs and the costs??????

I'm curious about this too. because some real fucking losers can evidently afford these things.

is this so you can make an informed career choice?

i was curious and did some internetting. it said an average heroin addict spent £110 a week in the uk. crack was more than twice that

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When I used crack, I could easily spend £100 a day, but could only keep that going for one to two days until my money ran out then I'd be borrowing cash for a fix.

When on heroin, at my peak I was spending £60 a day. But my average was £40 a day.

As for pot, when I was a regular toker I'd be spending £40 a day on marijuana.

I'm now on subutex, 6mg, daily, which is free, thank God.

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I'm curious to learn others habits too here. Some people have high paying jobs so can afford a much more healthy habit for drugs.

For example, I know a coke head escort who pulls in a few hundred per day just escorting. I'd like to know seriously how much goes on coke for the record...lol...

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I believe you over the Daily Telegraph. How did you fund it? Did you rob old ladies?

PS It is the amount of pot you smoked that i find most shocking. That is Marleyesque.

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I used my DLA and Income Support to fund it. Then when that ran out I took loans off family and other times my buddy Lee and his mates would sort me out a few lines.

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When I can afford not to be careful about how much I smoke, I spend around £17 a week on tobacco and filters and such. I only smoke 10-20 a day though I think, so it's obviously a fraction of what a heavy heavy smoker would spend.

Now I've lost my job and have practically no money, I've got it down to about £8 a week I reckon; I think I've been more careful about how much I smoke, I've used those skinny filters and I've wasted less tobacco (I used to leave quite a lot that I could've smoked at the end of each one). I think I'm less addicted than I thought. I think that might be the case for a lot of smokers. So, someone with a 'high tolerance', could be able to satisfy their addiction for less? I've smoked for 6 years so I should be at the peak of my nicotine addiction by now.

I don't have any other addictions so I have no idea. I guess it could be true about nicotine being the most addictive drug, it just isn't noticeable because it's comparatively cheap.

i know a guitar player who smokes a "j" as part of his daily wake-up regimine.

Now i'm not sure, but am guessing that each "j," cigar-like thing (forgot what those are called) and bong costs maybe $15 but don't know/could be way off. I know he smokes it often. At least 2 a day/not sure how many more. it seems every break from his daily routine includes another one of those.

I'm not sure if it's addictive or not/never went to that extreme. And companies have clamped down on random drug testing, etc.

The $15 a day is based on the guitar player telling me that guitarist "Dimebag Darrell" of Pantera (who was murdered a few years ago, which was tragic/as he had a great guitar thing going, there, anyway), got his name from a "dime bag," which is a $10 baggie of marijuana consisting of enough pot to roll one joint, reportedly.

So weekly that'd be (and i've upped it to at least $20 a day, with inflation), $140.00, that he sponges off of other people, or where-ever the money comes from (some of it from guitar playing and artwork but the dude doesn't have a regular job or unemployment, or whatever, so i don't know where it all comes from/just don't drag me into it/and they didn't.)

So that's $606.66 a month, or $7280.00 a year, and that's only pot/not any real addictive hard stuff like crack, cocaine or heroin.

1 joint is 5 dollars usually

I spend about $50 a week on weed. If I had more money I would buy more weed without a doubt.

It also depends on who I pick from too, some people will sell me a half quarter for $20, some for $25.

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i used to spend about $500 a week on drugs. E, coke, pills. then i started dating drug dealers and it all was for the free. now, i live a quiet and normal lifestyle. and i have pups to take care of. so, i spend the majority of my money on gas for the SUV and organic foods. those are my new drugs of choice.

Yeah where we live you can get a marijuana prescirtion for anything (me a sore neck sometimes) I know when I was smoking there were alot of coffee shop like pot clubs to choose from. If you wanted the best stuff it cost 110 a week for a quarter of mix and match high grade weed or just all the same kind.
Yeah I sold my SUV and got hybrids and a motorcycle. I dont do organic all the time though.
Im wondering how much people like Rush are spedning on Oxy and who hooks these high paid celebs or celbs that have gotten high chunks of money how far they will go and how much they will spend.
I watch A & E's intervention every week and sadly they show younger and younger people adicted and its real graphic. Like I dont mind seeing the needle and blood licking once but one episode a few weeks ago this young 23 years old they kept showing her shooting up, shooting up and shooting up. Its like she was riding the spike as some kind of dildo or something.
How often if you shoot up do you have to do it? Three times a day? Whats the max a day?

I never did needles - I only used to smoke it off foil. But my buddy Lee used needles. I remember him saying he did £200 worth of drugs in his arm each night and that was a mixture of crack/coke and heroin. I forget if its crack or coke they use to be exact but these guys who shoot up generally have a bad habit.

He also told me this: one time I (me) was using one bag a day of heroin and he said if you ever shoot up don't use the whole bag because you'll OD. Just use like a quarter or third of a bag to start with and that will be enough. He also went into great detail on how to prep heroin for the needle which I'll leave out here.

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there is no max in a day with shooting up. only when the drugs run out or you've had your fill and you save yourself a wake up to begin a brand new day...

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"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” - Stella Adler

I hope no one minds me asking this here in this thread
but someone i am/have been close w/ has started using needles
i have tried to discourage the needles/encourage the tin foil usage just mentioned or even snorting if need be instead but to no avail- basically it ends in an arguement
anyway silvine or cala or anyone else w/ first hand knowledge - what can i do to try to help i don't want this person killing themself and i worry already that it has quickly become now a daily habit though it was not a few weeks back
i am sick w. worry all the time
which is the reason i am up at this early hour

when an addict goes to the needle it's a really hard thing to stop
no high like an iv high

the best thing to do is suggest needle exchange programs

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"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” - Stella Adler

yeah, thats what i figured and thats what i was told as far as the high thats the reason i get told for why it needs to be that way

as far as the needle exchange thing, thats to make sure the needles are clean right? - sorry to be so ignorant about this stuff
yeah, thats one of my top concerns, there was some needle reusage at the time i first found out and it made me really uncomfortable - i think i may have made some progress in that area of insisting that the needles are clean but you know one dirty needle is all it would take

i get the feeling that the suggestion won't go over so well but i will make mention of it
i can't help feeling guilty all the time like i am somehow to blame for contributing to it getting to this point
i keep trying to weigh out whether i will make the situation worse or help it come to a stop if i were to just walk away from it but i don't think i am ready to do that yet anyway
besides which reality is i probably have little to nothing to do with it and its probably all the same no matter what i do
i feel so helpless and useless

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I'm also curious about both the monitary amount, and the percentage of your total money thats spent on it.