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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

Drinking to forget...

Many of us have turned to drugs and alcohol in order to self medicate. We turned to it as a coping mechanism, to dull the pain of things that we have gone through. At the time it helps obviously, but once your high wears off the problem is still there. Drinking and drugs don't make the problems go away, they just make them temporarily 'disappear'. I'm just as guilty of it, using benzos and heroin to self medicate my pain and to help try to erase the mental anguish of certain things. Now that I got on maintenance, the problems are still there. In the long run it is best to try and embrace these bad events, understand them to the best degree we can, and do what we can to resolve these internal/external struggles.

The Dark Side forum on here is a good place to talk about thiskinda stuff.
 
I'm you'll find many people here who have done / do that.
I'm guilty of it myself on occasion. Not something I'm proud of, nor do I make a habit of it.
Mostly its related to death, I have a hard time coping with that.
 
I quit drinking 7 years ago but when I did drink, I would drink to get hammered & forget my problems & of course have fun. Like Brokedown stated above, your problems are still there the next day. For me tho, alcohol would give me hangovers the next day but opiates dont. Yes my prblems are still there the next day no matter what I take but I rather hide my problems with opiates than alcohol.

Only problem is if you try to hide your problems with opiates, you will increase your dose weekly & monthly to the point where you will be out of control. I take Vicodin for my back pain & throw a Soma in there to give me a mellow & relaxed buzz. I dont want to be the guy that keeps increasing his dose just to get high but I may get there some day.

Problem with drinking alcohol is eventually when you drink & drive, you may get caught with a DUI like alot of people I know. I dont know anyone getting caught for driving under the influence of an opiate, knock on wood.
 
I can be a pretty heavy drinker sometimes, especially if I'm going through withdrawal and whatnot, and before I ever started taking any opiates I use to drink and smoke weed ALL day Everyday for several years. I never tried to forget anything when I drank. for me it was more like. I have a shitty pisspoor attitude about everything, and a horrible temper. and fly off the handle at every little thing. and want to hurt people on a regular basis, I simply just don't like people in general and want to fuck everybody up for no reason, now take someone that really is an asshole and well, you have a hospital trip just waiting for one or both of us.
BUT when I would get really drunk, that aggression seemed to go away, I felt more happy and calm, I know this is the opposite of how it effects most people, but that's just how it is for me. when I was straight sober normal,. I was the meanest most hateful person in the world, and when I got smashed I actually became a decent happy person.
that's why I would drink.
 
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