Ironically, people I know who did the most drugs in high school (myself included) are the most successful out of the people I know. The straight-laced A students are all way behind.
Yes, I know kids who did drugs (partied as they say) and have some success in life. I also knew some kids who did drugs and barely graduated or dropped out and did poorly or are just hanging on and a handful who didn’t make it out of young adulthood due to those choices.
What we need are statistics to tell us what is more likely, not our particular anecdotes.
I did plenty of drugs too and am doing just fine as well. Not a million or billionaire, but that is a pretty tough standard to meet.
That being said, only drugs I ever did were weed, acid, shrooms, MDMA, and trying the odd pharmaceutical. Never any opoids of any sort, never meth etc.
And in terms of broad advice, I think not doing drugs is still a fairly consistent rule for good outcomes.
