I don't think that it has hindered me personally at all, but it did serious damage to one of my RL friends that I used to play live with. (You can blame this on EQ or maybe it would have just happened anyways, who knows)
He started taking pills to keep you awake (i don't think Aderol was a drug yet) so that he could camp stuff late at night and this lead to coke which then lead to meth. He became heavily addicted and got a "girl friend", some chick that he was able to fuck because he could support her meth addiction. She convinced him to move to Florida and about 6 months after that he ran out of money and she didnt need him anymore. So she had some of her friends beat him and rob him of everything except his phone and his car. He sold his phone quickly for meth money and was living in his car. He then sold his car for meth money and was living on the streets. 2 months of living on the streets and he called his brother to wire him money so that he could take a bus home. Not surprisingly, he spent it on meth. He called his brother again for more money to take the bus and his bro told him that if he didn't use the money to come home that he would never speak to him again. Amazingly he took the bus home and went to rehab and was clean for two years. Then he got back into it and I haven't spoken to him since. That was 10 years ago.
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