I was introduced to the wild world of cocaine about 8 years ago when I was DJ’ing most weekends, attending 21st birthdays & the rest of it. It’s scary how much of an impact my social surroundings/peers have on me and this drug. I’ve always been the loud, outgoing, easy going guy and have felt this pressure to hold the conversation & keep the vibe going in social situations as others kind of sit there and let me. Now I’m 28 and finally pursuing something I’ve wanted to do since I was 15 - learn to fly airplanes.

As you can imagine, drug use and flying planes (although both can be seen as “flying”) don’t go well together 🤣 and the governing body for aviation has strict regulations. During my initial medical I explained I had tried drugs, but didn’t let off the amount over the years of frequency (once every few weeks) I quickly realised I shouldn’t have said anything because now I sit here having to do a hair test before I can proceed any further with my flying lessons. The hardest part? My next 5 months….

September: - Big sporting event on

October: - DJ’ing a mates wedding (friendship group notorious for cocaine use)

November: - Mate’s bucks party (also notorious for cocaine) - Same mate’s wedding - Work Christmas party

January: - My birthday - 2 x Music events

🥹😅

I don’t see my cocaine use as “problematic” however I know I have to stay clean for at LEAST 3-4 months before getting that hair test. It’s been 2 weeks since I last used and it’s going to be a challenging few months. Has anyone faced a similar situation to mine? I’d love to hear how you handled yourself and hopefully got through the other side!

Posting this here because i dont wanna worry my friends :)

Ive been clean from heroin for around 7 years but recently a bunch of things that usually cause me to have cravings have been adding up (visiting the city i lived in when i was addicted, lonliness, stress, bullying, finding used needles on public toilets,etc.). Im genuinely scared im gonna relapse. I dont know how to describe it but i feel like im doing things i dont want to do, like that "addiction me" (how my therapist calls it) is doing that.

Ive been texting plugs if they got something, ive been drinking again almost daily (which i always do when i have intense cravings), smoking more and thats kind of the closest ive been to relapsing in years and i'm scared because i dont wanna get addicted again.

ll maybe have to see a psychiatrist for other reasons but im wondering if i could ask him to prescribe me meds that ease the cravings but arent as bad or addictive as real heroin, just so i could have something for "emergencies". Is that even realistic? Does anything like that exist? Should i talk about that? Especially cuz im not 18 yet

26F. I was first introduced to it back in high school on a trip with friends. At the time, I was a heavy weed smoker, so I didn’t really care for it.

Fast forward to now, I quit smoking weed about a year ago and somehow found myself picking up a bag instead. At first, it was just a gram or two for nights out when we were drinking. My partner does it with me, and honestly, she started doing it more since being with me. Lately, I’ve noticed myself using it more often, even when I’m not drinking.

The thing is, my life isn’t falling apart because of it. I have a great job, an amazing partner, I stay out of trouble, and I support my family. Because of all that, I tell myself it’s “fine” to do it. But I know deep down it’s not, especially when I’m doing it on a random Tuesday night. I wouldn’t say I’m addicted yet, but I can see myself heading in that direction.

What are some good ways to cut back? I’ve heard of using a reward system—like giving myself something positive for resisting the urge—but I’d love to hear other strategies

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https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/tucker-carlson-introduces-alp-revolutionary-new-nicotine-pouch-company-2024-11-14

https://tobaccoreporter.com/2024/11/18/tucker-carlson-launches-nicotine-pouch/

https://www.wsj.com/business/tucker-carlson-interview-nicotine-pouch-2327797c

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Hello out there I just need some advice on DT's. I've been on a 6 month binge on clear and finally sick of it and want done with it but worried about the detoxing. Any pointers or things to do or take to help me and also how long does it take to get out of my system. Thank you

I’ve been on and off 7OH for about 6 weeks, taking 120–160mg daily. Usually I’d go 5–7 days in a row, try to quit, sometimes make it 24 hours off, but never past 48.

Today is the day. I took my last tab 3 hours ago. Only have taken 75mg today and 75MG yesterday.

Since I took breaks in between, will that make withdrawals any easier?

When should I expect the worst of the WD?

Any advice or experiences would help a lot.

Not much to say, just that I decided recently I was going to stop using cocaine and MDMA. The cocaine was not terrible, but bad enough if I got a hold of a gram and is also just around sometimes. The MDMA I was doing way too much for what it does. The desire to stop hit kind of fast, just got tired of it all. I am taking this serious.

There is also the nicotine addiction. I am down to pouches or gum, trying to stick mostly to gum as less compulsive with that. I've tried stopping before, but I tend to return back to it. My brain is kicking around thoughts of cocaine, a form of cravings I assume. I kind of think the nicotine is also playing into this. I decided might be a good idea to just dump the nicotine right now as well, hate being addicted to it and what that entails (needing it all the time, needing it first thing in the morning).

I tapered down quite a bit yesterday. I was hitting the pouches and gum a little too hard. I'm feeling the withdrawals. My brain is foggy, feeling a little irritable. I guess I am just venting. I also know if share like this, if to "internet strangers", it helps keep me in line and on task.

My mom's on coke and my dad's on heroin.

They say they aren't, but they are. Been finding bottles for ages with foil on top of them. Dunno how they're used, but I know they're used for cocaine. In arguments I've heard my dad's on heroin from my mom, found needles in cupboards occasionally.

Anything I can actually do here or should I just forget about them? I'm moving on to university in 20 days and I'm not really sure if I should just leave them to it. They don't seem to care, I know they've been doing it for years now and I honestly don't even know if I love them any more. In and out of jobs, making my life a misery, always impoverished.

Any advice or anyone else in a similar situation? Please?

I'm 29 Male and working in tech remotely. It's quite isolating although I spend time with family and hang out friends occasionally. I play video games online after work and also spend too much time on social media.

There’s one particular girl (28F) I keep following. We come from the same background (tech-savvy, and same religon background) and have mutual friends, but we don’t know each other personally. But looking at her social media, she is quite beautiful and she seems to have everything I don’t — Freedom, confidence, a big social circle, a good career, traveling with friends, and constantly hanging out with new people.

I’ve even found myself checking her family’s and friends’ profiles if she’s tagged in their photos. Watching her updates has turned into a way for me to compare, escape, and almost live through her life instead of my own.

This has been going on for years, and I know it’s unhealthy and I can’t seem to break the cycle. Even when I delete social media, I end up reinstalling it again. I’m also struggling with loneliness.

Has anyone else gone through this? How did you stop? Would professional help be a good step?

I’m in the uk so it’s legal but I have trouble going through the day without it I know I’m probably am addicted but it’s hard to admit to myself if you think I need advice? I know I’m young and I don’t want to destroy myself just to feel normal

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I just need to scream into the void, I’m in tears right now and I’m so sick of feeling this way.

My mom is a crack addict, she has been ever since I can remember. I’m 27 now and I deal with her relapsing several times in a year, she’s never had two years clean, she always relapses. This has ruined so much of my life. I turned to drugs and alcohol myself, I have a very addictive personality, I was able to quit but it takes so much resilience every single day, and I get it, I’ve stumbled several times myself… It’s hard. Addiction is a disease. I understand that.

She’s been to rehab numerous times, I’ve tried just about every angle in the book - anger, sadness, rebelling, cutting her off, nothing’s worked. She’s ruined her life, she had a good life. She’s been to therapy, we’ve done group therapy, I even went to live elsewhere when I was a teenager and cut her off, NOTHING I DO WORKS AND ITS MADDENING. I feel so fucking helpless and useless all the time. My step dad left her after 10 years of the same lying and using shit, they were supposed to get married. They went on trips all the time, had a house together, and they LOVED each other, it was damn near perfect. She has family but they’re all either addicts themselves or she’s burnt bridges with them, I’m the only one she has left and it fucking weighs on me. I don’t know what to do. She says she’s suicidal constantly, and when she’s done lying to me, she comes to my house to detox. I feel like I can’t say no, she literally says she’s obsessing about killing herself when I say no. Like what the fuck? Her mom died when she was 19 to addiction, she knows what it’s like to lose a mom. I’m so fucking scared of her dying and it being my fault. I know it “wouldn’t be” but it would be impossible not to feel that way. I’ve written her letters, cried to her, fought her, I swear I’ve tried everything. It’s so fucking exhausting. It’s completely ruined my life. So many highlights in my life are shadowed by her relapsing and ruining it. She even lies to my face WHEN she’s high, it’s fucking MADDENING. i have her location and she’s obviously going to her dealers, and she will turn around and say she didn’t. like she never tells the truth. she does eventually but the lying to my face just fucking gets me, it’s so fucking disrespectful. like just BE HONEST.

I don’t understand why this has to happen, why these were the cards we were dealt. She’s a beautiful person when she’s sober. I love her more than words could ever describe.

I just want my mom. I wanna hug my mom.

I come from a difficult drugs background, I started with weed when I was 14 when I lost my mom, I’ve been a weed smoker for 10 years now. I always fluctuated with alcohol and cocaine, sometimes I would do, sometimes not.
I had a 3 suicide attempts over the years since 2016 Most recently in March I started to do alcohol almost everyday and cocaine (I was working in a club environment). Some things started to go wrong in my life and I started to fell depressed again, around June I decided to try heroin and I had done cocaine earlier that day, had a start of a bad trip, could not walk had to drag myself into the shower and vomited the whole night and sleep there.

I stopped with heroin after that day but keep with cocaine, alcohol and weed regularly. Also added Vallium on the mix when I couldn’t sleep On July I decided to quit everything, I indeed succeeded with vallium, alcohol and cocaine, I’ve stopped cocaine for 2 months now, was easy, alcohol is been 1 month.

Weed I was keeping often 2x a week, but at some point for me the effect was not strong as before, so I started to to a “dust joint” sprinkling heroin on my weed joints.

Last week I told my friend who came to my house to take away the heroin and the weed, so I would not see it again. I also avoided contact with everyone that do drugs.

I am a very religious person, so I made a promise that I would be sober of everything until 31st of December as a way to strength my mind out of it.

Also in the meantime I got Herpes, so the drugs make my immune system sensitive and cause outbreaks, so I also stopped for the sake of my health.

Today is been 10 days, I was doing fine, but now everytime something goes wrong or I get depressed I fell the urge to take all of my mind with drugs, but I can’t, I don’t sleep, I overthink all the time.. I don’t know what to do, I have 3 bottles of alcohol in my house, I didn’t touched, I think I will give away honestly.

But I don’t know what to do, I’m felling the urge of take the problems of my mind and they don’t go away, I fell empty, my mood is shit, I’m going insane.

Hello, my boyfriend relapsed and is currently detoxing. does anyone know of any telehealth clinics that prescribe suboxone? Something that is affordable. He is so sick he can barely do anything

Hi everyone, I’m here to talk with people who are addicted to Coca Cola. So…. I fell in love with Coca-Cola when I was 8 years old and at first it seemed to me a nasty soda. Later, a couple of months later, I was able to taste it and drank it all the time. I've been drinking Coca-Cola for 10 years now and it's wonderful. For me, it's like my “favourite dish” that you can eat for a long time. Only sometimes I stop drinking coke when I feel like I don't want to. I want to share it with others and find out if it's normal, what's harmful and why I love coke?

Maybe my body lacks vitamins or it's just my love for caffeine and everything is fine, besides I've tried other sodas and I don't like them very much like Coca Cola and I've tried different energy drinks but I still don't like them

I need advice stopping this addiction

This is going to be a long one, sorry in advance for poor writing I really need to vent. For some background, I started dating this guy back when we were both 15 and we are now 20, we’ve had a rocky relationship and we’ve been on and off ever since high school, up until a year and a half ago we got serious, he moved out of state and we had to do LD for a while. I ended up moving across states with him and his family after a couple of visits, I left college, my family and friends and found out I was pregnant mid May of this year. He told me about his PA around a year ago and he said it had to do with the fact that we had such a rocky non intimate relationship at first bc we never fully got there, and we also went a year of no contact which only gave him depression and made him crave intercourse and intimacy even more. October of last year we began to be intimate with each other and he told me he occasionally watched P when I couldn’t help him finish bc I was sleeping or simply taking long to respond. January of this year came around and I visited for the first time after he moved we had intercourse almost every day I was here(I was here for a month) I went back home Feb and came for a second visit during, April and decided to just stay. I first found he was looking up OF content creators on twitter around June, I asked about it and he said it had been a long time ago but it still didn’t sit right with me. The end of June I found an email, which happened to be for a local hook up site. He also said it had been from a while ago, he lied. July 04 I found his OnlyFans account, where he spent HOURS and hundreds on dollars on, and his secret twitter account where he happened to follow over 100 P stars/ OF content creators he tried lying but I found receipts and I went through each conversation with the hundreds of women he talked to and jerked off to and all the dates were EXTREMELY recent. It broke me, I was absolutely devastated and honestly rage filled. Told his mom, told his older brother and I stayed he agreed to change and to work on this problem. 2 weeks after that I found out he was jerking off to random women on IG reels that would pop up or that he’d search up. After that he came clean and told me he had also been looking on TT and he didn’t even feel guilty or regret that he simply liked to make himself feel good and that these women would turn him on and the things they were doing to themselves would push him to touch himself and the urges didn’t make it any better.

(TMI but I kept having intercourse with him after everything, I thought I wasn’t screwing him enough)

Fast forward to August, I kept finding things he would search up, or pages he would open on Facebook,TT, IG, Threads, all women. None that look anything like me. Today I decided to go through his phone and as soon as I opened instagram he was on the search bar, I scrolled through his reels just to find out it was filled with women again. I open TikTok just to find he was looking up things on there too. He said he doesn’t get turned on by them anymore and that he hasn’t jerked of to them , that he keeps looking at them to grow tired of it and fully stop, he confessed that he still wants to watch P and continue to jerk off by himself to all the things he usually did but that he won’t because he’s changed and has more self control ,but my gut tells me he’s just lying again, and again.

I want to buy a ticket home and just never look back, I’m disgusted with myself. Some days I can’t even look in the mirror, I feel ruined as a woman, I don’t feel pretty at all, I hate everything about my body and the way I am. I resent him and feel so much rage towards him. I feel like I can’t trust him at all, not at work, not when he showers, or takes 15 minutes while taking a shit. When he compliments me I feel nothing but shame, when he tells me how sexy I am and how much he loves me I remember how he told them he loved their bodies and how sexy they were. I’m now half way through my first pregnancy and he simply doesn’t want to change. What am I supposed to do?????

I’ve supported him, I comfort him every single time, I still screw him daily, and I’ve tried being more understanding and accepting of EVERYTHING. I told him if I found anything else I wouldn’t forgive it and I’ll pack up and go on the next “slip up” cuz that’s all it’s been to him, but every time I find something he argues that he hasn’t looked at anything and that he doesn’t feel the need to but there’s always been something that points to the opposite of what he’s saying, feels like it’s js another thing pushing me to leave. I love this man with everything in me, but I think I love him enough to leave him and I think I’m just about to I’m just missing the courage and the balls. I need advice on what to do, his phone is already restricted and I have full access to it. I haven’t told his mom or his brother that he’s still doing it, and I have absolutely no one to talk to about this. It’s gotten to the point where I hate waking up every day, I feel gross after having intercourse, and I can’t stop feeling depressed and saddened by this.

I caught my partner using drugs, hidden in chest of drawers. He has now hidden them elsewhere. I’ve searched high & low to see if he is still using (I know he is as I saw txts between his friend). What are some common hiding spots in bedrooms??

tmi/ tw/

so i decided to go on mat a year ago. almost 18 months. prior to i had a 4 year addiction to dilaudid oxy morphine

i snorted most of the time. i knew my nose was getting fuckedup but didn't know what doctor to see, problems would come and go and id forget

anyway i started dating someone recently - we were being intimate i lightly

barely hit my face on him. and i start gushing blood out of my nose

it's dim light and very evident im bleeding. i couldn't tell where from

also!!$$ he hates junkies. his words. so i never got around to saying im in recovery but i guess ill leave that story out.

in fact. i dont even want to participate on this with this person.

i'm so broken. and i cant deal with broken people right now

Not to quote tool but why can’t we just be sober. Literally. I am sliding. Idk. I’m really not even that bad I’m really not. I’ve seen bad I grew up around real bad. But it’s unacceptable. But I’m accepting it. Every day. I’m tired of it but I keep doing it. It’s started to cost me things. Relationships mostly. I can see it and I ain’t done shit about it. I literally feel like I’m watchin in real time it steal my life. And as mad as I get at it I feel like I haven’t gotten mad enough at it to stop. Maybe mad ain’t the answer. But what is. I know what it is i ain’t retarded. This just seemed like a good place to vent. I’m gonna get my head out of my ass soon hopefully. It all starts with drinking though. If I stop that everything stops. I just gotta slow down and think somehow when I want a drink

hey guys this is a weird ask- i feel like someone who lost it all will only be able to offer the kind of “guidance/tough love” that won’t attack me because…. they get what im trying to say.

long story short, i am a recovering, high functioning addict. so while i was sleeping in cars… i might’ve been laying there uncomfortable but i sleeping just fine. i chose to be there i didn’t “have to” be there- i knew if i called my mom crying she would come save me essentially.

so with that being said i have a firm grasp on a lot of things... so i know i might just sound like i need a break, unfortunately i was never taught they why’s i was only ever told what i was doing wrong. i dont know how to take a break????

when i think of taking a break i think of laying in bed because im lazy or tired i guess? which usually turns into bed rotting. despite knowing this will turn into bed rotting, i say “i’ll give myself a limit” to build structure. okay then i end up bed rotting all day. then i go into depression.

i’m tired of living this cycle. instead of bed rotting i should be outside touching fucking grass. i know i should do better. i want to do better but i dont.

i pulled my hair out of my head the other day because i was frustrated and rushing and i tried 3 times i fix this issue but i couldn’t get it. as a grown ass adult i fucking know better and should choose to do better but i don’t only hurting myself in the end.

THIS IS A PATTERN I FEEL LIKE I CANT BREAK DUE TO EVERYTHING ELSE. I NEED TO CHILL OUT OBVIOUSLY.

okay all jokes aside i absolutely love my hair. after i did that i sat down and cried because i was shocked really. i feel lost because i know it’s wrong but i keep doing it and i know i deserve better for myself in the name of keeping the peace for my mental illnesses.

i keep doing it for some reason. i can’t figure out why.

please. if you’ve been here, what was the first step you took to start picking yourself.

i don’t know self love. i know what it’s “supposed” to be. i know at some point in the journey i need to stop and water myself. i don’t know how to… or maybe it feels uncomfortable.

i just want to choose to do better so eventually i can be better. i know that starts with me… i just need a little push in the right direction. i don’t know where to start from here.

wanna start this off by saying im very self aware and i never really liked it enough to do it each day until i started really struggling and resorted to using it as a means to survive, im a downers type girl, im 18yo and when i was 17 i fell into meth addiction which led to psychosis pretty much the entire time i was on it, 5 months, it ended with me in the psych ward, i went off it for 3 months after and relapsed once during, since relapsing i reconnected with someone who has been a massive support person but uses meth, i didnt use meth just ghb pretty much everytime i hung out with him except maybe 3-4 times in the past 4 months, i totally would stop if it was having a negative effect on my life and i do when it gets to that point (as well as said support person talks w me about it), i just dont see it having a negative impact if im being careful with it, is this just an addicts way of thinking or can i party every now and then, i need some opinions

Son is turning 19. Battling addiction to drugs. Just started going to na last week. Says he wants to be sober but doesn’t want to stop getting high, feels like he’s going to lose his friends. Says right now he feels hopeless. Says he hasn’t liked who he’s become but he’s worried he might not like the sober version of him.

Trying to say and do all the right things but not really sure what to say or do as I haven’t been in this situation before. My mom heart is breaking.

Any advice on best ways to support him? Things to say/not to say? I’d appreciate any suggestions as we begin this sobriety journey