I work in manufacturing, and the number of people who are alcoholics and stoners at work is probably 5-10%. The number of people who are alcoholics and stoners at home is probably 50%.
Restaurants. The vast majority of the cooks are not Late life fancy Anthony Bourdain, but early life drug addicted hungover Anthony Bourdain
EDIT: Thanks for the Most Upvotes I’ve ever received. Also, yes to people in the industry this isn’t news, but when my parents found this information out through my stories and others, they were literally shocked, I think the older generation still saw it as “artistic”
Not always ILLEGAL drugs, but K-12 teaching. One of the reasons I quit was because I saw so many teachers developing a “home is where the wine is” lifestyle after their first few years. At one school I was gifted alcohol on my first day as an “joke” because I was “going to need it”. In the education community, alcoholism/drug use absolutely exploded during the pandemic, when teachers had to work from home with increased levels of stress, decreased support, and constant access to substances. A lot of teachers are also hard partiers outside of work hours because of the stress. Very few teachers are going to show up to teach children while on drugs, but some people I knew definitely did that stuff routinely on the weekends as a way to blow off steam. It takes a lot less time than actual self-care.
I’m sober and in the 12-step community. The amount of teachers in my meetings who are recovering from addictions developed during the pandemic- every possible kind of addiction- is insane. I am very happy I switched career paths.
Once I got into dental school, our eyes were opened by the Wellbeing Foundation, an arm of the Missouri Dental Association. A couple of guys who were addicts (had been in recovery for years) came and discussed substance abuse and just how wild it can spiral. After talking to a friend and mentor who has been sober from opioids and alcohol both for 45 years, he talked about how many healthcare professionals from all disciplines there were just in our little rural area (no names or personal info, of course). Crazy to me still that people I would have never suspected, and so many of them were the high functioning type A go getters.
The mental health field. Most of us have some lived experience ourselves, that combined with the secondary trauma we experience on a daily basis leads many of us to turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms.
The real answer is, way more people use substances that are illegal or of dubious legality than we care to think. Much of it is socially acceptable (pot smokers in states where it’s not legal), so we tend to overlook it.
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Politic
Anything stressful
Stay at home parent
Nurses lmao
Anyone in a call center.
Police
Government
Life
I work in manufacturing, and the number of people who are alcoholics and stoners at work is probably 5-10%. The number of people who are alcoholics and stoners at home is probably 50%.
Doctors
Construction and line cooks
Kitchen staff. You’d be surprised what Gordon Ramsay’s not showing you.
Law firms. Holy moly.
Food service
CEOs.
Scaffolders
Chefs and doctors.
Lawyers
Restaurants. The vast majority of the cooks are not Late life fancy Anthony Bourdain, but early life drug addicted hungover Anthony Bourdain
EDIT: Thanks for the Most Upvotes I’ve ever received. Also, yes to people in the industry this isn’t news, but when my parents found this information out through my stories and others, they were literally shocked, I think the older generation still saw it as “artistic”
Believe it or not, orchestra musicians. Adderall, painkillers especially. It’s a very very competitive field and they always have to be at 110%
Trump Cabinet
Kindergarten teachers and nuclear plant operators.
Sales – I used to work in sales and my coworkers did coke on the daily.
Amongst other things.
Guess every profession by the looks of the responses 😎😜
Uk law
The police department
Illegal only in that they aren’t prescribed to themselves, but my understanding is that anesthesiology has a disproportionate number of drug users.
DHS Child Welfare
Cooks. You’re not opening the kitchen after hanging out with the servers all night without bumping lines in the bathroom apparently.
All of them. I’ve learned two things as an adult:
1: Cheese is prohibitively expensive
2: Everybody does cocaine
Line cooks and car sales men.
Nice try FBI !
Software development
Every profession.
IT
Service industry workers.
Lawyers.
All of them
Kitchen work. I was pretty shocked when I saw how prevalent it was.
Mortgage industry
Military amphetamines
Police free reign on whatever, usually coke
Healthcare is basically instant access to prescriptions
Lawyers are notorious coke and poppers guys
Wall Street and finance, Wolf of Wall Street shenanigans
Teachers booze
I’m thinking nurses because of Nurse Jackie. I’ll bet it’s hard being around all those drugs.
Police.
Politicians
Hairdressers
Finance
E.R. Doctors
Not always ILLEGAL drugs, but K-12 teaching. One of the reasons I quit was because I saw so many teachers developing a “home is where the wine is” lifestyle after their first few years. At one school I was gifted alcohol on my first day as an “joke” because I was “going to need it”. In the education community, alcoholism/drug use absolutely exploded during the pandemic, when teachers had to work from home with increased levels of stress, decreased support, and constant access to substances. A lot of teachers are also hard partiers outside of work hours because of the stress. Very few teachers are going to show up to teach children while on drugs, but some people I knew definitely did that stuff routinely on the weekends as a way to blow off steam. It takes a lot less time than actual self-care.
I’m sober and in the 12-step community. The amount of teachers in my meetings who are recovering from addictions developed during the pandemic- every possible kind of addiction- is insane. I am very happy I switched career paths.
Any profession that doesn’t have to issue random drug test likely has quite a few on some kind of drug.
Chefs
All of them!
I’ve done call centre work. 80% of the people there are high or drunk. It’s literally the only way to mentally deal with 50 calls an hour
Once I got into dental school, our eyes were opened by the Wellbeing Foundation, an arm of the Missouri Dental Association. A couple of guys who were addicts (had been in recovery for years) came and discussed substance abuse and just how wild it can spiral. After talking to a friend and mentor who has been sober from opioids and alcohol both for 45 years, he talked about how many healthcare professionals from all disciplines there were just in our little rural area (no names or personal info, of course). Crazy to me still that people I would have never suspected, and so many of them were the high functioning type A go getters.
Teaching. Not actively while in the classroom but I’d say easily half of teachers I worked with used marijuana recreationally or medicinally.
Teachers. At least in Texas. Their union doesn’t require drug testing
Lawyers.
Judges. If you really want to party, go where the judges go.
Also, your IT staff are all definitely alcoholics.
Lawyers. Holy fuck.
Classical musician
Medical field
I’m guessing teachers? They have to be on something to endure it, Jesus Christ.
Lawyers.
The mental health field. Most of us have some lived experience ourselves, that combined with the secondary trauma we experience on a daily basis leads many of us to turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms.
Tesla CEOs
The entire trucking industry. From the drivers to the dock workers to the brokers.
Air Traffic Controllers according to the documentary, Airplane!
Cops, they dont have to be drug tested
Truck drivers
Construction. Paving company employees doing my driveway were hitting the crack pipe on breaks.
The real answer is, way more people use substances that are illegal or of dubious legality than we care to think. Much of it is socially acceptable (pot smokers in states where it’s not legal), so we tend to overlook it.
Linemen especially on storms. Cocain, adderall, vyvanse
Is this the thread where we all find out that most of the people we interact with daily are on drugs most or all of the time?
Truck drivers
Truck drivers