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Cocaine Could ephedrine be an alternative to cocaine?

BigDiggerNick

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So my friend is trying to get off cocaine, and so I was wondering if ephedrine would help with the withdrawals. If it can't, is there another easy to obtain, non addictive drugs that would help him out? Also can you even get ephedrine from cvs or wal-greens anymore? I looked under the diet pills, but non of them say ephedrine in the ingredient list. Or maybe he should just try to get an adderall prescription....
 
no, may help with feeling fatigue though, its an edgy peripheral stimulant, at a low dose it's better than coffee IMO tho.

id go for the addy script personally.
 
IMO, quitting stimulants cold turkey is too hard and may lead to relapse. Ephedrine is edgy and jittery, but it gives you some energy and focus. Not much euphoria to speak of. Better than nothing if you need to get things done.

Benzedrex (propylhexedrine) was my OTC stimulant of choice before discovering research chemicals. Just don't overdo it.
 
^right, though Propylhexedrine is pretty addictive itself, and despite what some people say, its not a weak stimulant. It's effects are kind of similar to Methamphetamine and it lasts a pretty long time.

I struggled with cocaine for years as well. Our situations might have been slightly different as I had been using it with heroin the majority of the time in the beginning, though over time I began to crave that rush so bad that I'd sometimes JUST buy cocaine (telling myself I'd figure some way to get 'right', later). Surprisingly, this summer, as I was walking around trying to find someone to buy blow or crack off of, I ended up settling for Adderall instead, which though I had always liked, was not what I was looking for (shooting Adderall is insane and a waste). However, I ended up using it, and my cocaine cravings went away. Better yet, I also finally felt productive again. I felt like sleeping beauty must've, just after being kissed by her prince charming (though the prince was an oral syringe, and the kiss was the dissolved amphetamines shooting up my anus). Anyway, before I go on a rant, I stopped using cocaine or any other IV stimulant, and just used Adderall IR 30mg/day all the way to the present moment, rarely raising my dosage above 30mg, and often only dosing 20mg (or 22.5mg if I have the 30mg ones with the four scores) only.

I don't want to say that this would work for you, so go out and get a prescription for Adderal, Dexadrine, Vyvanse, etc..as Amphetamines are known to be very addictive themselves. However they've been a god send for me and I know quite a few other people that had serious addictions to stimulants. I would like to add that drugs like Methyphenidate and Dexmethylphenidate (Ritalin/Methylin/Concerta and Focalin/Focalin XR) are much more similar in effect to cocaine, especially if you sniff coke (Ritalin doesn't give a bellringer or hardly even a rush0.
 
1-3 doses of White Vein Kratom. This is stimulating, is an antidepressant, and an analgesic. He is depressed, fatigued and sore, so he needs an energetic analgesic and this is perfect. Using non-euphoric stims is probably the worst thing he can take because they provide only the shitty part of recreational stimulants.

He shouldn't "just get an adderall prescription," one might as well just start smoking crystal meth to get off crack.
 
^that is a better idea actually, though kratom may soon be gone :(

i'd personally just get an addy script but im a drug addict so you know...
 
Hell no. Ephedrine is useful for a little boost in the mornings, or before working out, and that is pretty much all its good for. Ephedrine will leave high-seekers shaky, panicked, confused, and probably worried about their heart/blood pressure. From personal experience, I'm not sure if others have experienced this, but ephedrine only triggered cravings for my stimulant of choice precisely because ephedrine gave a small amount of stimulation and reminded me of the high I could get off my drug of choice. Since your friend is trying to get off cocaine I believe it would be wiser if he stayed away from stimulants - even light ones - to help keep his cravings at bay
 
ephedrine IMO is like taking adderall and having all the negative effects and no euphoria, or like taking adderall without the d-amp...its just oging to give u physical stimulation, no euphoriua...rather unpleasant
 
Ok so my friend decided to go with what crashing said and do the kratom thing. He's still waiting for it to arrive over the internet. If that doesn't work he's probably just going to go to rehab. But the kratom is probably cheaper so that first.
 
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