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Is there anybody that has been clean from drugs for a substatial amout of time?
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I NUK3D U
Bluelighter
Off drugs for 4 months now. Decreasing happiness month on month.
Sry, but it's true.
Sry, but it's true.
xbloodwhipx
Bluelighter
Im not really addicted to drugs but because i can take 5 day breaks with no withdrawl, and i usally only get high on the weekends
Darksidesam
Bluelight Crew
I think ill take them and try new ones for a long time to come yet.
Lol plenty of stuff to do/ experience yet!
I have 1 friend who is nearly 20, Never smoked. Never done any drugs (Not even Alcohol) and hes a metal head.
= O
xbloodwhipx
Bluelighter
I wouldnt be able to be friends with him
fivelinefury
Bluelighter
Ive been down to 5mg diazepam for a couple of months now, after a 5-6 year long addiction taking doses over 100mg every day. It does get better over time. Its so far been about a 18 month long journey and was absolute hell before. Feeling heaps better now 
I smoked marijuana everyday for almost 2 years and gave it up to find a job. I was clean for 4 months and finally found one so I started again. I smoked off and on for another year and then I just started to get tired of it and eventually just gave it up. I haven't had any in 5 months now.
Both times that I've quit, I can't say I felt any different. I was never addicted to it, it was just habit. That's when I asked myself why I still smoked if I didn't really enjoy it.
I'm now working on my methylone use. I recently bought some more and have decided after this is gone, that's it.
The only thing I've ever been addicted to (and still am) is nicotine. I don't even get a buzz anymore, it's just an oral fixation now.
Both times that I've quit, I can't say I felt any different. I was never addicted to it, it was just habit. That's when I asked myself why I still smoked if I didn't really enjoy it.
I'm now working on my methylone use. I recently bought some more and have decided after this is gone, that's it.
The only thing I've ever been addicted to (and still am) is nicotine. I don't even get a buzz anymore, it's just an oral fixation now.
ryand123
Bluelighter
thats really f****n cool man. 6 months is a real long time. what do you do to maintain your sobriety? like do you do meetings?
butterflyk
Greenlighter
I have been COMPLETELY SOBER for two and a half years...i have suffered addictions to meth, heroin, and alcohol so i know firsthand how much these drugs destroy your life. i am bipolar and suffer from depression but at least i am not suicidal anymore...good luck in getting clean-it is hard but it's worth it
Ixchellian
Bluelighter
While it would be excellent if I could be completely clean, my body taking damage during my military career and then falling apart early, makes a "clean" life highly unlikely.
However, I *have* been clean from opiates for well over a year now, closing in on two.... and it all started with the Army doc upping me from tramadol to morphine back in 06-07.
But my quit-point pretty much happened all at once; I decided I was done being a junky, stocked up on vitamins & soup, and kicked with what I had (that'd be Lyrica).
Since then I've had zero desire for opiates..... even the bottle of 60 vicodin I got for a cracked clavicle in the fall last year, was only short about 6-8 pills when I threw the remainder away. I didn't need or want anything to do with them after my shoulder healed enough in a week, or basically when I could sleep ok on tylenol PM only.
But because I *have* to do something with my horrible gut problems & arthritis..... for which I use cannabis. My THC use is limited to what it takes to calm my stomach and ease up pain to a dull roar (along with aspirin, aleve, and ondansetron/zofran). And when I say limited, I mean a single high-grade nug (or enough for a cigarette-sized joint), will last for the better part of a week. I don't share my meds, and I don't smoke with others. If someone else passes a bowl or doober or my way, I'll politely pass it on by.
I did experiment with a month-long, low to sub-threshold dosage, daily regimen of 2C-I earlier this year..... which confirmed my suspicion that it would & does work for me as a long-lasting antidepressant.
But I am nowhere close to as reckless as I was with powerful psychedelics, since quitting opiates.
They are a tool; just as are aspirin, crunches/obliques, wikipedia...... and all of them are dangerous in excess. 8)
However, I *have* been clean from opiates for well over a year now, closing in on two.... and it all started with the Army doc upping me from tramadol to morphine back in 06-07.
But my quit-point pretty much happened all at once; I decided I was done being a junky, stocked up on vitamins & soup, and kicked with what I had (that'd be Lyrica).
Since then I've had zero desire for opiates..... even the bottle of 60 vicodin I got for a cracked clavicle in the fall last year, was only short about 6-8 pills when I threw the remainder away. I didn't need or want anything to do with them after my shoulder healed enough in a week, or basically when I could sleep ok on tylenol PM only.
But because I *have* to do something with my horrible gut problems & arthritis..... for which I use cannabis. My THC use is limited to what it takes to calm my stomach and ease up pain to a dull roar (along with aspirin, aleve, and ondansetron/zofran). And when I say limited, I mean a single high-grade nug (or enough for a cigarette-sized joint), will last for the better part of a week. I don't share my meds, and I don't smoke with others. If someone else passes a bowl or doober or my way, I'll politely pass it on by.
I did experiment with a month-long, low to sub-threshold dosage, daily regimen of 2C-I earlier this year..... which confirmed my suspicion that it would & does work for me as a long-lasting antidepressant.
But I am nowhere close to as reckless as I was with powerful psychedelics, since quitting opiates.
They are a tool; just as are aspirin, crunches/obliques, wikipedia...... and all of them are dangerous in excess. 8)
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villian
Bluelighter
16 months off benzos and over 2 years off opiates.. (decade long habit from both)
I did take Ultram on and off over that time and smoke synthetic cannabinoids as well. The one thing I've noticed is if I'm completely sober that I start to crave alcohol. Smoking cannabis/synthetic cannabinoids even twice a week kills that craving.
I'm actually 100% clean right now though, school is starting up again next week and I wanted to be able to put the most into my classes.
I'd also like to mention the only reason synthetic cannabinoids are being used rather than the real thing is I'm on probation.
If all goes well, by the end of the year I will finally be out of debt. (Had over $15k in CC debt when I kicked opiates) I also only have a couple months until I'm off probation so the state can get out of my business.
It is crazy how far I have came from where I was 2 years ago.
Some lifestyle changes I would personally recommend to anyone trying to heal their bodies post addiction are:
yoga
meditation
walking
good nutrition
only drink water/tea
I did take Ultram on and off over that time and smoke synthetic cannabinoids as well. The one thing I've noticed is if I'm completely sober that I start to crave alcohol. Smoking cannabis/synthetic cannabinoids even twice a week kills that craving.
I'm actually 100% clean right now though, school is starting up again next week and I wanted to be able to put the most into my classes.
I'd also like to mention the only reason synthetic cannabinoids are being used rather than the real thing is I'm on probation.
If all goes well, by the end of the year I will finally be out of debt. (Had over $15k in CC debt when I kicked opiates) I also only have a couple months until I'm off probation so the state can get out of my business.
It is crazy how far I have came from where I was 2 years ago.
Some lifestyle changes I would personally recommend to anyone trying to heal their bodies post addiction are:
yoga
meditation
walking
good nutrition
only drink water/tea
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i had 6 months in a aa program worked steps...
i was happy but in a halfway house...
i got sick of the bs there got drunk went back n got my shit...
n was like peace...
went to jersey for 2 weeks shot sum dope camen to south fl n now im just drinkin n smokin
i was happy but in a halfway house...
i got sick of the bs there got drunk went back n got my shit...
n was like peace...
went to jersey for 2 weeks shot sum dope camen to south fl n now im just drinkin n smokin
DrinksWithEvil
Bluelighter
6 months in rehab 3 years ago, was the best 6 months of my life.
HeWhoHowls
Bluelighter
Jail helped me out the !st time round.
A near overdose helped me the next.
Phew.
A near overdose helped me the next.
Phew.
Kenickie
Bluelight Crew
been off dope (heroin) for over two years now, been with my bluelight boyfriend for about 2 years, never been happier. its up to you if you want to be sober. if you want to be, you'll be happy being sober. if not, you'll hate every waking minute. i love my life. i love my sober life. if it was 5 years ago, i'd hate every second. if you don't want to be happy, you won't. if you don't want to be sober, you won't. it's up to you.
Missykins
Bluelighter
Clean since 2006. I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm happy, but I'm not miserable like I was five years ago.
LogicSoDeveloped
Bluelighter
I wouldn't have agreed a month ago but getting busted helped me in some ways. I haven't smoked weed in a month whereas I was smoking more pot in weight than I smoked cigarettes! I just constantly smoked and felt miserable, anxious and depressed. I'm still having mood issues once in a while but I'm really doing better and am glad about the direction I'm headed in. I'm actually enrolled in college now and I'm excited about life again. I know most people say its impossible to be addicted to weed and I believed that for a long time but for me, being only 18 and having decided a long time ago I'd never try super addictive drugs, weed was problematic. It cost me a lot of money and problems and stress but I'm better off now. People have told me I'm like a different person.
Ive not done meth (my DOC) for over two years and i have missed it every day. I dont know why i cant get over it. Its not as bad as it was but i still think about it every day and i occasionally dream about it. It was awful at first all i did was cry, sleep, eat, and go to work. I even attempted suicide by taking a large amount of xanax, which i had no tolerance to. Just because i did not want to live without meth.
I have done cocaine a couple months ago and that has got me jonesing again. I ended up taking a bunch of Ritalin and Adderall too. That went on for like a month but i nipped it because it was looking to get bad again, and the only reason i did not relapse onto meth was i could not find it and i was not going to make it.
I am prescribed Ritalin for ADHD actually, as well as an antidepressant, and i have taken them as prescribed since then (and before then as well). Generally it has not been a problem....except on the rare occasions when it is. Basically i dont get high off the Ritalin or the SSRI antidepressant i am on...they just make life semi-bearable. But if taking scripts, even as they are supposed to be taken, is considered not clean, then i guess i am still not clean.
I want to be. I tried to go to a counselor. But i quit. I felt like why am i paying someone who dont care about me $75 an hour to tell me "what do you think you should do?" That was why i was going, so they could tell me what to do.
I dont know if i will ever be right again. i sure hope so and i am better, but i am not perfect or even anywhere near where i want to be emotionally.
I have done cocaine a couple months ago and that has got me jonesing again. I ended up taking a bunch of Ritalin and Adderall too. That went on for like a month but i nipped it because it was looking to get bad again, and the only reason i did not relapse onto meth was i could not find it and i was not going to make it.
I am prescribed Ritalin for ADHD actually, as well as an antidepressant, and i have taken them as prescribed since then (and before then as well). Generally it has not been a problem....except on the rare occasions when it is. Basically i dont get high off the Ritalin or the SSRI antidepressant i am on...they just make life semi-bearable. But if taking scripts, even as they are supposed to be taken, is considered not clean, then i guess i am still not clean.
I want to be. I tried to go to a counselor. But i quit. I felt like why am i paying someone who dont care about me $75 an hour to tell me "what do you think you should do?" That was why i was going, so they could tell me what to do.
I dont know if i will ever be right again. i sure hope so and i am better, but i am not perfect or even anywhere near where i want to be emotionally.
12 days here, feeling the same. subs are a nightmare no one should ever have to deal with.
mrs_mia_wallace
Bluelighter
I have fine months off everything but alcohol... not that long.
I got off of meth and heroin. With meth I can't tell you. I did it everyday for years and I guess I just did it enough that I didn't like it anymore. It was very wrapped up into my eating disorder. As I figured that out, my cravings sort of dissapeared. And getting hooked on heroin helped.
I honestly don't know how I got off of heroin. I relapsed a ton of times and it stuck. Suboxone has helped. I don't think there's any magic cure. You just have to really want it and be ready to stop and know it's not gonna be fun for a while.
Alcohol... I can't do that one. I drink once or twice, at the most three times a week. At the age of 23 not touching any drugs is as sober as I can imagine myself to be.
I got off of meth and heroin. With meth I can't tell you. I did it everyday for years and I guess I just did it enough that I didn't like it anymore. It was very wrapped up into my eating disorder. As I figured that out, my cravings sort of dissapeared. And getting hooked on heroin helped.
I honestly don't know how I got off of heroin. I relapsed a ton of times and it stuck. Suboxone has helped. I don't think there's any magic cure. You just have to really want it and be ready to stop and know it's not gonna be fun for a while.
Alcohol... I can't do that one. I drink once or twice, at the most three times a week. At the age of 23 not touching any drugs is as sober as I can imagine myself to be.