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Anyone else just outgrow addiction?

GetMeOutOfThisCRAP

GetMeOutOfThisCRAP

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It's weird, but I smoked marijuana daily for 5 years then just woke up one day and stopped and didn't even notice I stopped smoking. At that point, I was much more into adderall. I have even totally lost interest in that and probably will just stop returning for the script.

I suppose these substances are not physically controlling like benzos or opies where you pretty much have to take them to carry on about your day, but I never expected to just "stop." Probably the best case scenario for substances that are interfering with your life though.
 
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I’ve noticed something similar but after a long break. I tend to romanticize the “high” during long breaks then when I use again it never lives up to my imagination and I switch to something else (usually psychedelics) 😉.
 
I suspect it's more likely you just weren't "addicted" to Marijuana in that kinda way.

I'm not a fan of Marijuana, I'm a heroin addict. And I've never known anyone to grow out of it. On the contrary, most heroin addicts I know are about a decade older than me because they first started using when it was everywhere here in the 90s.

Whereas Im younger and started my addiction when heroin was much less widely used in the 00s.

Im in my early 30s now. Most other heroin addicts I know are in their 40s. I've never known anyone to grow out of it.

But I don't think Marijuana hooks people in the same way.

But in short, no, I don't think people grow out of addiction. Not the kind of addiction I mean when I use the word addiction.
 
I outgrew multiple addictions.

Stims by constantly taking too much/going into a psychosis.
Benzos/lyrica by taking enough to get into trouble/act in ways that the sober me is ashamed of them.

I now believe that my intention from when it started to be not worth it was to convince it to myself, by acting shit and fucking myself up.
 
Yes. I finally 'outgrew' my opiate addiction after 20 plus years. It wasnt easy, but it just got to the point where I didnt need it any more.

I feel so much better now.


(Mind you, it hasn't stopped me doing other drugs, but at least those other drugs dont make me feel like a slave.)
 
schizopath said:
I outgrew multiple addictions.

Stims by constantly taking too much/going into a psychosis.
Benzos/lyrica by taking enough to get into trouble/act in ways that the sober me is ashamed of them.

I now believe that my intention from when it started to be not worth it was to convince it to myself, by acting shit and fucking myself up.
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I used to not have too much of a stim problem--until my doctor doubled my dose for no reason. Of course at the time I was extremely excited but stone faced so he wouldn't suspect anything. I don't know what it is about stims but they lower my inhibitions like alcoho,l so I just feel it's okay to take more even though it's not until the wicked crashes.


Of course heroin is notoriously one of the strongest addictions on earth. Many people say that "nicotine is the strongest addiction," but more people struggle with breaking free from heroin addiction than any other substance imo. Nodding out does get old though.
 
I shot up some heroin in my twenties, just a few times. It never felt that great to me so I havent done more that insufflating a couple of tickets every few years.

I smoked crack in my twenties and I loved it but left it behind during my hard working career years. I have been freebasing this year because of my access to high quality coke which I cook myself. I havent had any in sevral days and I haven't yet made any plans to get any.

About once a year for the lasy 4 years I get some meth because I love the stimulants. I have also had plenty of non-persciption adderall and Ritalin, on and off over the years. I havent liked any of the samples of meth that I have tried this year so I have stopped looking.

According to the drug treatment center that my parents sent me to when onwas 18, I am a chemically dependant drug addict. That was an official diagnosis.

I have often smoked large daily quantities of cannabis, but the more I smoke the less I enjoy it. So I've cut way back.

In my younger years I was much more enthusiastic about chasing down another dose. But the older I am, the more patience I have, the more I am likely to go to bed early, the less risky behavior I am willing to engage in.

It may be simply an aspect of maturity. I am more and more convinced that addiction is social construct.
 
You didn't outgrow addiction you substituted one drug for another.

But i get what you are saying. I "outgrew" a heroin and needle addiction. Its been about 5 years since i injected any drug including heroin. For the past 5 years i've abused plenty of opioids but only oral or nasal dosage and whether you belive it or not, i only stuck to pharmaceutical pills (an expensive decision).. I think what did it is witnessing most friends "outgrow" being alive and on heroin.
 
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LucidSDreamr said:
You didn't outgrow addiction you substituted one drug for another.

But i get what you are saying. I "outgrew" a heroin and needle addiction. Its been about 5 years since i injected any drug including heroin. For the past 5 years i've abused plenty of opioids but only oral or nasal dosage and whether you belive it or not, i only stuck to pharmaceutical pills (an expensive decision).. I think what did it is witnessing most friends "outgrow" being alive and on heroin.
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I didn’t want to have to be the one to say it lol


But I’ll jump on that band wagon now too.
All I’ve ever done my entire life is replace one with another, believing at the time that the replacement drug would somehow go better than what I’ve left behind, until one day I realise that bugger got me too and then it’s back to trying to find something else to stave reality off with
 
^ yes i know that game. Basically you create new problems due to your new drug and its inherent pitfalls. weed is the only sustainable drug i've found to stave off reality with, but to be honest with ouselves, i don't even know that it does a very good job at staving off reality. boredom maybe.
 
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I smoked weed madly as a teenager for about 5 years and then one day it just stopped working and made me sick so I never touched it again - it felt toxic.

I took IV speed in my twenties for 3 years and then stopped taking any drugs for 15 years. Only started again in my 40s.

I don’t know if growing out of it is the right term but if I have the right climate of no emotional antagonists and an interesting grown-up job to do I stay clean for extended periods until one or the other is no longer there or I stop taking my meds and I get manic. I’ve never substituted one illegal drug for another and I usually go cold turkey by sleeping for a few days (with pharmaceutical help) and then don’t even think about drugs because I’m being happy and fulfilled.

Maybe I could say I have ‘happily fulfilled’ myself out of drugs rather than grown out of them....
 
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^ yes i know that game. Basically you create new problems due to your new drug and its inherent pitfalls. weed is the only sustainable drug i've found to stave off reality with, but to be honest with ouselves, i don't even know that it does a very good job at staving off reality. boredom maybe.
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Weeds become as big of a hassle for me now as some of the others sadly.
Lung disease at 37 means I can only use oils or edibles now, and with every cop car in SA a mobile drug testing unit now, I risk 6 months instant loss of licence every time I leave the house as well.
 
Meth novice 79 said:
Weeds become as big of a hassle for me now as some of the others sadly.
Lung disease at 37 means I can only use oils or edibles now, and with every cop car in SA a mobile drug testing unit now, I risk 6 months instant loss of licence every time I leave the house as well.
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I'm sorry you don't have legal cannabis. keep hope alive. I switched purely to edibles a couple years ago. I still prefer smoking and do on random occaisions, but i want to avoid the whole lung cancer thing...as how i've already permanently damaged other bodily organs with drugs, i'm trying to avoid doing the same to the lungs.

what lung disease did you get? is it from drug use?

having legal cannabis makes the edibles thing so much easier and more affordable. When i lived in an illegal state i only smoked because edibles were just too much of a hassle to make and the weed was too expensive for that route of administration.
 
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I'm sorry you don't have legal cannabis. keep hope alive. I switched purely to edibles a couple years ago. I still prefer smoking and do on random occaisions, but i want to avoid the whole lung cancer thing...as how i've already permanently damaged other bodily organs with drugs, i'm trying to avoid doing the same to the lungs.

what lung disease did you get? is it from drug use?

having legal cannabis makes the edibles thing so much easier and more affordable. When i lived in an illegal state i only smoked because edibles were just too much of a hassle to make and the weed was too expensive for that route of administration.
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Our archaic legal system means that any changes at all are occurring at snail pace, I’ll be 90 before Rec use is legal in Aus.


CPOD of the emphysema variety. Second stage so not chronic yet, and I think it was probably the 25 to 30 cigarettes I’ve smoked a day since I was 14, although there’s probably some weight in the argument that smoking fuck tonnes of bongs a day during most of the same period (mixed with tobacco) also contributed.
Who knows honestly ?
 
I tend to rotate my drugs, like others have said I don't think it's so much "outgrowing addiction" but rather swapping one habit for another. Then again some are clearly less harmful than others. Smoking weed every day is clearly better for you than an oxy or smack habit. Doing drugs daily isn't exactly ideal, but not all drugs are created equal.

I also still get tempted to use opiates again on occasion but regret it very quickly when my tolerance rises fast and I get into withdrawals way quicker than I used to when I was opiate naive. I try to at least keep it to the weak stuff like codeine and DHC though, not touched oxy since I quit my 80 habit and plan to keep it that way.
 
I"m not the kind of addict to replace things personally. I've always had an affinity for only oxycodone/percocet/opioids and stimulants like adderall/ritalin.

I've even attempted snorting heroin (the dumbest idea in my life) and I despised it. I don't know how someone can prefer oxy over heroin but both times I've insufflated the powder it was only opiate body high with no euphoria or nodding. I just decided I would stay away from it and considered myself lucky that I did not like it. My dope crazed roommate at the time said it was good powder too.

Benzos, cocaine, psychedelics, and alcohol are just not for me.
 
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