Actually, StaySedated, you weren't getting hippy on me there at all! (And, if you were, call me a damn hippy then).
Meditation is,
on these boards, sorely overlooked as a source of psychological comfort in lieu of the plethora of drug-remedies (illicit and licit alike) we have available to us today. Almost forty varieties of -am (benzo) drugs are readily available to members here, as well as marijuana, alcohol [the most widely whored "drug" in the world] and many others serve as band-aid solutions to problems which are, IMO, predominantly psychological in nature.
I, myself, make use of many (or any) of these alternative options as much as any other.
However,
With knowledge that such other alternative routes exist, I simply must make use of them.
Someone above this post mentioned sex; I know that after the last LSD + MDMA binge I had absolutely puttered out on the ability to have sex comfortably (resultant from my DJ'ing for over six hours a party of 200+ people), sex is ALWAYS an "alternative" option, too. More readily to most are the herbal teas and meditation therapy that you expanded upon. IDK. "Alternative" is the word that always used to throw me. But moving past mere semantics, allowing oneself to experience the emotions we perceive that are uniquely human - pain, suffering and anything else you'd like to classify as hardcore stimulant comedown - can be a revealing and rewarding choices indeed -
especially for the uninitiated.
Doing so will allow one (as has been stated) to save the 'goodies' (opiates; benzodiazepines; others) for more opportune times where they may be used more therapeutically and even more recreationally.
So, by all means, "get hippy" on me. There are times a seasoned polydrug-(ab)user wants and needs to read workable remedies that do not end in -ide, -(p)am, -(a)mine, -(c)/(d)one or -ate
~ vaya