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Completely lost intrest in all recreational drugs

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BottleDryer

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Yes.

I don't know why, but ever since I first experienced a gradual reduction of euphoria from opiates/oids late this past year, I found myself not caring if I got "high" anymore, and I'm ok with that.

I don't want to take anything anymore. I have access to a bunch of things that can be used recreationally but I just really dont want to.
They (the drugs) just sit there, collecting dust, and I just stare at them without a care in the world. It's weird.

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I've been using for the past 5 or so years, sometimes conistently ( multiple days in a row to -> weeks and to -> months, go through withdrawal etc. ) Stop for a few days, weeks, months, then continue the whole process again.

The thing is , I never stuck to just one drug, though I do have a preference (opiates) and crack (my favorite drug, but the one I decided never again after a week long binge and going almost psychotic). I've done it all I can say.

So now is now and the past few months I've almost completely stopped all and any intake of any sort of recreational drug. It has winded down, like a train coming to a stop.

I have no more "true" desire to take anything for recreational value.

I never thought I would come to this point.
Again, it's weird.

When I'm bored I usually take something, but now (right now at this very moment) I'm bored and just plainly have no desire in taking anything to positively "augment" my reality.

It's quite an odd feeling. It's dissociating.

Anyone currently experiencing this ?
 
i am going to move this to TDS. it seems like the best forum to encourage your new found sobriety.
 
sincerely good for you op!

sounds like you are getting old..

all the best in your new found life of sobriety, ring it by the neck and dont look back.
 
It's happened to me with alcohol, but not quite with opiates yet.
 
I'm getting there, at least with the more pleasurable things (to me) like stimulants and dissociatives that I started exploring about four years ago. I notice that the positive effects seem to decrease and negative effects increase over years of weekly use, to the point where using them for pleasure gets harder to justify. But I try to carefully keep track of more mundane uses for drugs, like fighting occasional fatigue, and apply them where warranted.
 
I know a guy who used to be the biggest fiend. I mean he really loved it, I thought he'd never kick. And then at some point in his early 40s he just gave it up. He said the hustle had just worn him down to the point where the high meant nothing. The last I heard he was quite content to spend his free time making model airplanes.
 
yeah alcohol and marijuana are like this for me, i don't really care if i ever get drunk again, though i still smoke cannabis it wouldn't bother me if i didn't. Still love my psychs though, opiates are okay but not like they were at first. Don't really like stims anymore either. I guess some people grow out of recreational drug use and some don't. I mostly use drugs to function normally now, not so much for fun.
 
This has also happened with me in the last year.. i will still drink on occasion but i just think im done. I cant really explain it.. exhaustion maybe.
 
It just seems like no matter how many bad things I get myself into because of drugs, it just doesn't matter and I still continue to use opiates. I might for a while, but then the withdrawal process gets the best of me and my cravings get the best of me. People who have been heavy into opiates know what I'm talking about, and those who haven't really don't seem to understand what it means when they're talking about weakness and lacking character enough to just quit. The more I think about it, I might have to take the inevitable step of going to treatment because no matter how many grimey things I do to my family and the people around me, it just doesn't seem to be enough for me to get off the opiates once and for all.
 
RobotRipping said:
yeah alcohol and marijuana are like this for me, i don't really care if i ever get drunk again, though i still smoke cannabis it wouldn't bother me if i didn't. Still love my psychs though, opiates are okay but not like they were at first. Don't really like stims anymore either. I guess some people grow out of recreational drug use and some don't. I mostly use drugs to function normally now, not so much for fun.
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I hear that, since i'm on methadone since october.... I'm suffering from total anhedonia. I can get high on dexedrine and it will start to feel like it did before the methadone for 2 hours then I will puke and feel terrible for the rest of the day.

The only one I like to have now is weed. But I lost all tastes of adventure, libido. All I want is sleep my life away. I blame the methadone. I should have just quit cold turkey like I did before. now quitting methadone will be even worse.
 
yeah maintenance therapy is kind of a double edged sword. Methadone will kill your spirit, sex drive and ambition IMO, at least that's one incentive to go through the horrible withdrawal. I'd blame the methadone too. I am dependent on etizolam and still use opiates occasionally (just codeine and kratom really tho) and there are advantages and disadvantages to it. My sex drive and sleep are all messed up but in exchange i have stability in life.
 
this happened with me with weed, after 5 years of heavy smoking just stopped wanting or caring about it, and more recently with alcohol where it's not a big deal either way, will have a drink or two sometimes but have no real desire to drink or get drunk. Like someone said, it's one of those good problem in life
 
I really don't care about any drugs anymore except for a few.

Cigarettes, coffee, and heroin. And god damn i want some heroin.
 
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