Well done PV - even if your not 100% yet the fact that you managed to get a nights sleep shows your on the mend. Now your getting well its natural to want to get back into positive routines and social situations but dont rush things. Of course its better to be out bouncing around on md rather than turn into a trampy old horse faced junk fuck like me, but take it easy - mdma / clubbing hangovers are what started me using heroin regularly and could be a potential relapse trigger, especially during the early days.
As for chipping.... well, I wouldnt advise it at this stage anyway. If you have accepted your addiction then you must have some insight into how difficult it is to control ones use. Id say for those that are recovering from a proper habit, the chances of a full blown relapse if you continue to chip are around the 100% mark. After I developed a full blown habit in 2004, I used for 3 continuous years untill I was arrested, sacked from my job and struck off. I then had to do my first rattle in the spring of 2007 once all my money ran out. Despite the fact that I was no longer physically addicted to heroin, I never stopped chipping, and with a reduced tolerance and with the world under the impression I was 'clean' I managed to overdose in my girlfriends bathroom with about 10 other people in the house.
Despite this, I still didnt stop chipping - I managed to go a month without using a couple of times but never any longer than that. When my girlfriend decided to punish me for my very occasional but contiuing heroin use by sleeping with someone else and throwing me out (may 2010) i relapsed completely for four months, after which I did another cold turkey by heading off to Crete fot 2 weeks.
But even after getting home - I still carried on chipping! This time however i was saved from a full relapse by the drought, which gave me a full 6 month break and a chance to sort out a good job and things with the girlfriend. But once the heroin was back, the chipping started again. I managed to keep my use as infrequent as possible but by the spring of 2013 my personal and professional life suffered a complete collapse, leaving me with no girlfriend, an untenable postion at work and no other choice other than to return to my parents home at the age of thirty - four - to find my mother dementing from her alcoholism. I relapsed completely again, and despite several attempts, i couldnt make it through a full cold turkey this time around due to my mothers constant needs and her challenging behaviour.
With no money to sustain my habit, I maintained myself on AH-7921 for a couple of months, but after 10 years of revolving door dependence, I finally diid the 'adult' thing and surrendered myself to drug treatment and methadone maintenance, where I remain today, going nowhere faster than Ive ever achieved on my own.
Sorry for yet another long winded and boring post - but I just want to stress that for most ex addicts, chipping is ultimately unsustainable and will likely lead to a full relapse if not next week or next month, at some point.
PredatorVision - you deserve to pat yourself on the back for what you have achieved so far but give your mind and body a rest for a month or 2 before exposing yourself to any drugs and bear in mind what ive said before using again - getting clean is hard but do - able. Based on my own eexperiences so far staying clean has been impossible, even with what turned out to be a 3 year break from total dependency in the middlle of it all
Sorry for wittering on but Im here to share and bore and Im entertained by the sound of my own voice.
Stee