M*th addict here (43f), trying to clean up. Instead of buying drugs I went out and bought myself a Lego. At least that will keep me busy for a while.

As of August 2025, the state of Florida has officially banned the Kratom byproduct 7-OH. In Broward County, which includes Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, and the surrounding areas, you can now be charged with a crime for having, selling, or using 7-OH.

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Dependence and withdrawal

Risk of overdose

Products that are contaminated or have the wrong label on them in the market

This new law brings up important issues for people who may already be using Kratom or its derivatives. Stopping suddenly can cause withdrawal symptoms that are hard to deal with, and some people may need medical help to make the switch safely.

There are private telemedicine programs in Broward County that are led by doctors and offer safe options like Suboxone treatment and ongoing medical support for people who are worried about legal risks or health effects. These services are meant to be free of stigma and easy to get to without having to go to a clinic in person.

If you or someone you know is affected, you might want to talk to a licensed medical professional about safer, evidence-based ways to get better.

We have both been addicts for a decade, my DOC is meth, his is fentanyl, do we look like addicts? We pay our rent, go to work, sleep at night, eat, is this normal? Only ever been sober month or two, hes had one and a half years sober time before. Are we just in denial? Anytime I tell anyone im an addict they dont beleive me. Not like thats a problem really but it makes me feel good to get away with being bad. Does this make us bad people?

just a vent that’ll prob be ignored. i know i’m just talking into the abyss here. just need to say this somewhere. anyone who reads i appreciate you.

and now i’m back to cutting on top of blacking out almost all my days off, sometimes at work, from xans. i need 3-4mg every few hours or the withdrawal makes it impossible to live my life. then every day off work is 16mg w a few drinks. sometimes i even do that before going into work and i don’t remember a thing about the day and i know my coworkers have to be able to tell somethings up. i don’t even get the high anymore. no relief. i can’t be helped. it doesn’t matter what else is going on in my life. my memory is so shit cuz of these drugs and my brain barely functions through the brain fog and confusion because i need to take them or suffer the worst withdrawals imaginable. idk. there’s nothing left for me in this world here. i have drugs but they don’t even get me high anymore. they make me feel just.. normal. not euphoric and like everything is gonna be okay like how it used to be. i’m not living my life like this. i’ve tried for years to get off and i always end up upping my dosages. it’s fucking pointless now. i’m just giving in. i don’t think there’s any more point in trying anymore. sorry mom. sorry dad. i won’t be around much longer.

Been on an adderall bender since 9pm Friday, it’s now 12:30 Monday and I still haven’t slept. Pretty much been taking a 15mg IR every 3 hours and I’m scared of this comedown, have barely eaten anything and threw up multiple times after forcing myself to eat, this drug is AWFUL my entire body is clammy and my mind is racing. Any tips for the comedown? Have work in 24 hours and don’t wanna feel like dogshit

I am trying to stop smoking weed and have been unsuccessful. I hate fiction of any kind. I just feel so alone and lost. Why do we have to be human and have feelings I hate it.

Would a heroin addict do meth if that's all he had available, or would they just go through withdrawals until they find some H.

Do y’all ever feel like going insane from all them drugs? This question is no joke

I've been 6 days sober from hard substances and today i got drunk, fell down on my back to a vodka bottle i can move but cant stand up probably will be okay but i feel terryble for what i did again, i always fuck it up please i just want to end this all

I don't have pictures o can take of the progress, but I just wanted to celebrate. I can't tell people around me because they say it's not something to be proud of, that I shouldn't be applauded for acting like a normal person, but I have just reached five years sober off of everything. I was hooked to meth for two years and then oxycodone for three. To the point where I was on the street babbling at random people, throwing rocks and nodding out on the street, waiting for someone to just run me over. I was found my an old man and they let me stay with them while I went through the withdrawals. I was so far out in the middle of nowhere I had nothing. And that's what saved me. I got into therapy and as I met his daughter, me and her got together and two months later got engaged. It's been years and I still have her. I got a trailer and now we have a kid. He is about a year old. And we both are happy. I have a job, and have things I didn't have before. My family still isn't supportive. I never stole or anything from them, I just disappeared and they took that as what they call betrayal, but I know for a fact they wouldn't have helped. Just made go deeper. I don't mean to rant, but it makes me emotional, o thought I was going to die a forgotten nobody, just another statistic while my family told people about me like a cautionary tale. I made it. I did it, and I want anyone else out there currently afraid, afraid that the void is going to swallow them, that there is beyond hope. I know you can't see it. I couldn't see it either. But it's there. It's waiting. If you need someone to hold a lantern in the dark, if you need someone who's willing to sit next to the fire with you in this cold, I will be there. I don't need to know you, I care about you for the fact you live. Just message me. Thank you for reading, I'm just emotional and don't have anyone but my wife to tell. And she's beyond proud. But I want people to know you can make it. That it can get better. Thank you.

I am wondering if anyone has been successful at tapering off of methadone and staying sober? I am dropping 3mgs a months now and don't notice much of a difference but I've also heard horror stories!? Can anyone tell me if it's possible?

I understand that quitting substances requires a lot of time and patience. Hard decisions need to be made in order to sacrifice the old way of life. Basically what is happening is that I find myself separating from old using friends, drugs, and alcohol. But I'm lonely.

I’m at the point where the come down is really not worth the high anymore…..I know easy to say when it’s all said it done. But I think my body is really starting to get sick of my shit. I’ve been on a week long bender ( honestly idek atp) and I think my stomach is really starting to get fucked up I’ve been puking and I just feel like I’ve been hit….migraines. The problem is am I gonna really have the willpower to stop or slow it down

I (18f) am almost 11 months sober from meth. I rarely get triggers or cravings at this point and Im genuinely happy with my life for the most part. Until Im back in my home town.

I moved to a different city for college almost 2 months ago. Things have been immensely better since. I have a schedule and I’m dedicated to doing well in school. And it’s might be surprising coming from a college student but I haven’t drank during the weekdays or even weekends since I’ve been here.

This has been this longest time I’ve been away from home and I thought I would be happy to be back but things are so bland.

All I think about is using while Im here. I keep thinking about how my life was a year/year and a half ago. And as bad as it was all I can remember is how good it felt to get high. Despite how paranoid and angry and sick I got my brain doesn’t comprehend how bad it was. Im craving meth but also the lifestyle i had at the time. Thankfully i no longer have access to drugs and even if I did I know I can’t get high. But the cravings since I’ve gotten home have been awful.

Im just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience.

Edit: I should also clarify the extent of my addiction. I was only on meth for about 6 months. But I’ve been using drugs since I was 13. This is the longest I’ve been sober since I’ve started using drugs.

I started using drugs months ago. My first use was weed and the one EXTACY.

Generally i used to have so many addicts on past Alcohol(at 16) Gambling (from 11) And i quit every one of the addiction i had

But after the feeling of Extacy's my mind changed so much. I felt that happiness.. something i had years to feel.. and after it i searched about every drug and my head after reading what each one was doing was going to try next meth or heroin. I had soo many dreams every day of using drugs(meth especially) and also every day i was thinking about the drugs. There was someone i used to like on my job,and after this drug use i stopped thinking about her.

I tried LSD next and then Cocaine (yesterday 10 lines). And again i feeling like i find my happiness on drugs. I know that im becoming addicted,but im fighting this craving agajn and i know i will win.

But the only problem I feel..is that every time i do a drugs for even weeks im thinking only about the next time im gonna do again.

Its a weird feeling generally and especially with BPD. Sometimes i feel like i wanna have control to the light drugs and doing per 3 months each one and living my life,going on trips alone and everything But also sometimes this is the "dark" thought coming on my head. Feeling like i wanna sell something of big worth(not my house meaning) and just start using meth or heroin and feeling the strongest feeling on the world till i overdose and have a happy death. Cause sometimes im thinking about what life is and things like this.

unfortunately looking in person isn’t an option at the moment, and i have no idea where to start looking online

I started doing drugs and drinking from time time when I was about 13. When I was 15 I started drinking more and more often on weekends with friends then turned into some school nights aswell. I didn’t think it was a problem when I was younger even though I would blackout everytime I drank.

By the time I graduated high school I was drinking every single night, then I started drinking earlier and earlier everyday and eventually was drinking just to get out of bed in the morning to go to work because I would be throwing up and shaking really bad.

I went into rehab for 4 months when I was 19 and I was very depressed there, I didn’t even finish the whole 1 year program because by 4 months I thought thought I had full control over my addiction. A month later I was out camping with my friends and nobody knows about my addiction and I started drinking when I was out with them. 3 days later I’m in a jail cell with my second dui in 5 months.

Since that incident I have been been sober which was about 3 months ago. During that time I’ve been gambling a lot Because I have this empty feeling inside me that I don’t know how to fill. I never actually feel happy I just have this dead empty feeling inside and dont know what else to do. I’ve tried giving my life to god and still go to church but I still don’t understand what it does for people. Still trying to find some purpose to my life but all I feel is empty

lately ive gotten physically sick, got diagnosed and somehow found myslef abusing pills n otc meds. i quit some months ago, well on and off, but right now fully decided to not do it again (money probs lol). and this just hits me, its hard to quit cus i depends on "that" stuff whenever i feel like shit, i use them as a main distraction everytime life went south, in my case all the time lol. when i feel good, my mood is okay, i feel a tad bit happy, then boom not even a minute of those happy feeling something bad happened, my dad yells, i feel sick again, people giving nasty look, stares, people talk shits, etc and i crave those pills again. tried to use other good distraction but yk what they said, we never forget the first one, a bad one at that. its just, why do god keep giving a hard time to whom he already give tons struggle to, i keep wishing, praying, hoping, yearning but i blinked and things gotten harder. it be easier if life is good to me, easier to quit too, easier to be positive and healthy.

I’m a single parent struggling with addiction that is out of control after the other parent passed. They died in 2023 in a horrible accident. I do well for a few weeks and then relapse for a few weeks and then the cycle repeats itself. I’m the only parent my child has and I’m playing Russian roulette with my life and theirs. Why oh why do I keep doing this?? I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself! Are there any other parents or single parent out there struggling like I am??

I was about a week sober, when I was cleaning my apartment and found a bag and I immediately caved in without hesitation. Fml

I (28) met a girl (35) earlier this year and our chemistry was incredible off the start. I felt I could finally be myself around someone, we laughed so much, and got along so well. Had the same love language. We fell in love.

She was very open about her past early on into meeting. dating addicts, using hard drugs, and herself currently being addicted to alcohol and cocaine. Of course I told her that her addictions are not ideal in my eyes, but I did not want to be one to judge her and cause her to keep secrets and use in private. She has had experiences in the past that make her want to be open and not hide her actions. She tells the truth, she is smart, caring and has a beautiful soul. It hurts to hear what she has been through, and it hurts to see her struggle with her addictions.

We had a couple weeks together where we were sober and working out together. It was great. I can tell she doesn’t have a dependency on these substances but she gets triggered by her feelings/environment, wants to escape reality and exist without thinking. She did this a few times over the four months we were together, and told me each time. I tried to be okay with it but it definitely bothered me. For some reason I love her so much that this wasn’t a dealbreaker for me. It’s not like being upset would change what has already happened anyway.

We had some fun times drinking together, talking all night. Looking back I probably shouldn’t have drank with her but it is not a regret, we had great times. Maybe I would’ve been better off being a sober example for her, not sure it really matters.

We broke up recently, her idea but it turned mutual and I support it. She wants to get sober, feels she is a mess, cant allow herself to truly attach to me, and doesn’t want to put me through it before we get even more entangled in each others lives. I’ve read a lot about attachment issues/dating an addict, essentially she is saving me a lot of trouble. I want to wait for her. We are still talking. There’s no one else in the picture, We are still in love, just taking a step back from being in a relationship. I trust her and she truly just wants to work on herself.

I want to help her but I know this is a battle she needs to endure on her own. Is there anything I can do for her? She’s not interested in AA, said she tried it before and the higher power thing drove her away. She wants to get better and Im willing to help in any way possible. Any advice from people who have been in my shoes or her shoes is appreciated

Is it best to just drift off and move on? Seems so wrong, I care about her so much, and it’s not like our relationship blew up and ended poorly. At the same time I don’t want to smother her or control her with possible solutions to her problems.

It hurts, I feel I wont meet someone with this same connection, and I dont even want to. I went against everyone’s advice and got involved with an addict, i know I can’t be the one to fix her. I just want to be there for her and help her be the person she wants to be.