When a drug addict takes mushrooms/LSD...

[TwanBeezy]

I cannot speak much for LSD because I only tripped on LSD once and I didn't experience too much (I think the blotters were weak) but I have tripped my balls off on several occasions with mushrooms.

Has anybody here that will classify themselves as an addict of some sort (heroin, cocaine, whatever) tripped on mushrooms? Does being an addict make the trip more difficult?

 

[Drownrat]

I'm an alcoholic and the withdrawals I sometimes go through tend to increase the anxiety of any psychedelic and my risk of seizures but other than that I don't have any problems with the psychedelic experience.

 

[Lady Codone]

I fall somewhere between "recreational user" and "addict" but I do use drugs daily in small doses (4-FA & kratom mostly). I definitely prefer feel-good drugs like stimulants and opiates over hallucinogens or weed, though I wish it were the other way around.

Anyway, the drug abuse issue has come up in trips before for me. Improving my health is a common theme when I trip and drug use is just one of the things I could do less of. I feel no guilt about my drug use but see it as potentially harmful to my health, especially while tripping. Most of my trips are 'bad trips,' but more because of the body load than negative thoughts or anxiety. I can definitely see how psychedelics could be useful in overcoming addiction though.

Psychedelics I've used include mescaline cacti, 6-Apb, shrooms, dried salvia leaves, 4-HO-MET and 4-Aco-DMT.

 

[cryptix420]

I consider myself addicted to psychedelics. I trip sometimes daily on drugs like LSD, mushrooms, DPT, ketamine, MDA/MDMA, 2c-x, cannabis, or NBOMe. This kind of use has been bittersweet for me; on one hand it has shown me things (entity contact, ESP, energy, sensing radiation emitted by wireless technology, various new perspectives on love & life) that are priceless to me and who I am now as a person, but on the other hand they have dropped an atomic bomb on my mental/emotional well-being and left me with an intense craving for tripping and drugs that does not cease, day or night. I think about drugs all day every day, then I fall asleep and have dreams about baggies of white powder.

People will often try and tell you that this class of drugs is not addicting, and while it may not produce the physical symptoms of say, alcohol or opiates, they can still produce a very strong psychological addiction. Namely ketamine.........


And yes, I often feel bad about it when I trip, resulting in a less than pleasant trip through my subconscious.

 

[Ismene]

People will often try and tell you that this class of drugs is not addicting, and while it may not produce the physical symptoms of say, alcohol or opiates, they can still produce a very strong psychological addiction. Namely ketamine.........

I wouldn't put K in the same group as mushrooms tho cryptix - if you try to use mushrooms every day(and believe me, I've tried) they stop working.

 

[jakejake678]

i tripped LSD around the same time my H withdrawls kicked in and during the peek besides lack of energy and running to the bathroom pretty often it wasnt so bad until i started to comedown. felt like someone took a baseball bat to everypart of my body, was sooo tired but couldnt sleep. not a good experience. imm off dope now though which is a good thing.

 

[<SpaceHead>]

I'm also somewhat addicted to psychedelics and dissociatives. Although recently I've been using smaller doses of things like 2C-B or 5-MeO-MiPT for casual and frequent trips, they don't carry as heavy of a psychological aspect as LSD or mushrooms so they seem to be much more fitted to casual use. Dissociatives are harder to control though, I've abused DXM more than enough times so far this summer. Although I recently got some ketamine, had a very productive experience with it and so far I've resisted doing more which is very rare for me. Trying to save it for a night where I can get its full therapeutic potential.

Yea tripping and dealing with drug addiction problems is a complex double edged sword. It may provide useful introspection and liberation that could be very useful in overcoming the addiction but then again they are drugs themselves so you're still reinforcing drug use as a solution to your problems. Happens to me a lot, it's all about balance though. I have known two people who quite smoking nicotine cold turkey after an LSD trip that revealed the nature of their habit to them. Ibogaine is the ultimate anti-addiction psychedelic for things like opiates and alcohol, although I've used it twice in hopes of changing my habits with psychedelics/ dissociatives/ pot and it hasn't really helped me that much. Can't fight fire with fire I guess?