The Unlikely Mix Of Drugs And Dating

The Unlikely Mix Of

Drugs And Dating

by Jana Corley

It seems everywhere I look of late I’m finding men who are fine specimens of manhood, who are either snorting cocaine or smoking crack. Last month, I went out with a guy for the first time who seemed like a great catch.

He was a handsome attorney driving a new Jaguar with a personality to match, but he offered me some “coke” before we could get to a stoplight.  I refused and requested to go back home. I was too turned off to continue the evening or the encounter. SMH…First, there was a shortage of men, now there seems to be a shortage of men who are not on drugs.  Here are other voices on this subject.

 

 

Lara: “Two years ago, I met the most wonderful man standing in line at the movies.  It was my first time going to the theater alone, and I was nervous.  We began talking in line, and it turned out to be an instant attraction between us.  He was a doctor, who like me was a Sci-Fi geek and l felt like God had finally smiled on me. He had a great sense of humor and we ended up dating and really connecting as a couple until drugs overtook his life.”

Sandi: “Two years ago, my honey man was a happy-go-lucky accountant who got hooked on drugs and couldn’t let go. When we began dating, I watched him dissipate slowly from a real hunk to a shadow of a man, as cocaine became an obsession and he lost everything, which included me.  A year later, he overdosed and died on Christmas Eve.”

Cecelia: “Recently,, my brother took this very refined schoolteacher out for the first time to a very refined party given by her peers and she disappeared shortly after their arrival.  She claimed she was going to the bathroom, but she was gone so long that he became concerned. When he went to look for her, he found her in an upstairs bedroom snorting cocaine with three other women and a guy. He was shocked, but he was even more stunned by the public exhibition of tears she put on when he left her at the party.”

A recent report on drug overdoses showed 70,237 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2021.  Opioids—mainly synthetic opioids (other than methadone)—are currently the main driver of drug overdose deaths in this country. Opioids were involved in 47,600 overdose deaths in 2019 (67.8% of all drug overdose deaths).