Tips for recovering my sober social life?

[Disocio0]

Let me know how you got your sober social life after drug abuse. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[opium]

it will never be the same, ill be up front with you now.

It will improve, but will never get back to where it used to be.

I had an addiction to cocaine and opiates. Had a 6 month clean streak, relapsed and now a 3 week or so clean streak. You'll have to lose a lot of friends, cause they can be triggers. you wont be able to hang in certain places, triggers. Really puts a strain on plans youll make.

for the two weeks ive been clean, all ive done is work and hang at home. Im almost scared to go out, because i might hit a trigger and relapse.

everyone ive talked to in recovery, thats serious about it, never feels the same socially. Its weird man.

Id hit up social events where there will be a gathering of people who wouldnt normally be drug addicts.. (Like hit up volunteer work, or a fair, not like a club where you know there will most likely be drugs there.)

Good luck Recovering you social life man, im in the same boat as you.

 

[SineWaveSoldier]

Well you can be in recovery and have a social life. Absolutely. I just saw pics of my friends in a halfway house at a bassnectar show.
I have fun with sober people. You'll get used to it. It will be nice to have normal conversations and have some halfway reliable people in your life.
But umm... lacking social interaction leads me to the bar sometimes.
If you want to do it the whole way and eliminate your old friends, good for you, its completely possible and can be fulfilling.
Fuck people in the program do more social shit than i ever did.
*edit I've been to NA conventions and some community events also. Dude just the little shit like going and having lunch sober and just chillin without that monkey on your back may seem frightening and foreign at first; but you'll start to enjoy it. Enjoy taking a walk without having to meet up with someone or go hustle shit to get your day going,

 

[T. Calderone]

I was just having this conversation with my ex-husband. It's too hard for my son to be around his old pals yet they still come around. I guess they don't have NA for teenagers and I hate to see him struggling.

 

[Pagey]

There's just a couple people that I don't see anymore but luckily for me, most of my old friends (and new ones for that matter) never really did drugs anyway so I was mostly alone in that. For me it's more about avoiding emotional triggers really. But if I can avoid those I'm fine.

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

I still go to bars but I don't drink any alcohol at all. I'm OK if friends want to drink or get drunk I just choose not to since I haven't gotten drunk or abused alcohol since this past summer.

I don't go to AA since that's another form of control but if others want to go to AA/NA that's fine with me.