Coke and great weed
Hello everyone. I am new to this community. I am 46 and have struggled with drugs all my life. Cocaine is my doc and is also my gateway straight to hell. It has taken a lot from me over the years, and after my latest divorce, I just continue to relapse about once or twice a week. After a 5 year clean from C run. And pot, oh man, I love weed. And now that I discovered vaporizers, it just makes it all better. It's funny, pot has never been the problem for me. It's the coke. Oh and I am ADHD, and tend to go to extremes. I am a crazy nut right now, I lost my dignity, again. But I can get it back. I know I can.
Sounds like you love your drugs.
However, you posted on a sober website which leads me to believe you want to stop.
I wish you the best in your recovery and sincerely hope you stop for good.
Good luck my man.
However, you posted on a sober website which leads me to believe you want to stop.
I wish you the best in your recovery and sincerely hope you stop for good.
Good luck my man.
Yes I do want to stop. I am sick. Depressed , and alone. As I said I did have 5 years clean from coke. I loved my wife that much that I didn't need it anymore. I have always used pot and really don't know how to even begin to stop that. I really just want to kick the coke
welcome keeper, one thing I have learned from reading here is that it is all or none.
addiction is addiction is addiction...
giving up the C and keeping the W is by no means a sure fire solution. altered states is altered states. if you keep the tch eventually Mr C will make it back into your life.
my 2 cents.
addiction is addiction is addiction...
giving up the C and keeping the W is by no means a sure fire solution. altered states is altered states. if you keep the tch eventually Mr C will make it back into your life.
my 2 cents.
welcome keeper, one thing I have learned from reading here is that it is all or none. addiction is addiction is addiction... giving up the C and keeping the W is by no means a sure fire solution. altered states is altered states. if you keep the tch eventually Mr C will make it back into your life. my 2 cents.
Hi Keeper of Keys
No experience with coke but I stopped using weed after 30 years.
Don't you get tired of the fatigue, the zoning out, of doing nothing?
Or the gnawing need for a cone, the panic when you run out...the hunting around in the carpet for crumbs?
I chose my drugs over my partner twice. Lost two careers as well.
I wanted to escape my life and myself.
I'd fix one addiction only to fall into another.
Sounds like you might be in the same bind?
D
No experience with coke but I stopped using weed after 30 years.
Don't you get tired of the fatigue, the zoning out, of doing nothing?
Or the gnawing need for a cone, the panic when you run out...the hunting around in the carpet for crumbs?
I chose my drugs over my partner twice. Lost two careers as well.
I wanted to escape my life and myself.
I'd fix one addiction only to fall into another.
Sounds like you might be in the same bind?
D
I used to 'love' weed, but it's all part of the addiction trick. You don't need it, it makes you think that it helps your anxieties, keeps you calm, makes you more creative etc. when I stopped it felt like I'd been living in a cloud and it was great to get out. It's like you see the world in HD when you stop and after a few weeks you feel more alive and full of energy. Personally I don't think using weed is such a good idea after quitting one addiction, it didn't work for me anyhow... It goes around in circles.
Hi Keeper of Keys No experience with coke but I stopped using weed after 30 years. Don't you get tired of the fatigue, the zoning out, of doing nothing? Or the gnawing need for a cone, the panic when you run out...the hunting around in the carpet for crumbs? I chose my drugs over my partner twice. Lost two careers as well. I wanted to escape my life and myself. I'd fix one addiction only to fall into another. Sounds like you might be in the same bind? D
Well my advice is to think about getting free of all your chains...why go through the hard yards of kicking coke only to keep smoking weed?
If nothing else, weed never made my resolve to stay clean and sober stronger and it did nothing for my common sense either.
I was terrified of reality...but when I actually faced it it wasn't that bad.
I spent a lot of time in a kind of prolonged adolescence...now I'm the man I always wanted to be - I think that was a more than fair trade
D
If nothing else, weed never made my resolve to stay clean and sober stronger and it did nothing for my common sense either.
I was terrified of reality...but when I actually faced it it wasn't that bad.
I spent a lot of time in a kind of prolonged adolescence...now I'm the man I always wanted to be - I think that was a more than fair trade
D
Hi Keeper, I got diagnosed with ADHD at age 34 while I was in rehab for booze. Smoked a lot weed and snorted enough coke to make Tony Montana gasp too. I was given meds for the ADHD and my cravings for everything else disappeared.
Drugs like Ritalin are actually very similar in chemical make-up to cocaine. Hence why it's called "kiddie coke". Many undiagnosed/untreated ADHD sufferers self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. It is a neurobiologcal disorder that affects your brain's reward system and levels of dopamine. You are artificially raising your dopamine with the drugs.
I haven't touched coke or weed since I was put on adhd prescription meds and the quality of my life has improved drastically. I suggest you at least talk to a doctor about your ADHD.
Drugs like Ritalin are actually very similar in chemical make-up to cocaine. Hence why it's called "kiddie coke". Many undiagnosed/untreated ADHD sufferers self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. It is a neurobiologcal disorder that affects your brain's reward system and levels of dopamine. You are artificially raising your dopamine with the drugs.
I haven't touched coke or weed since I was put on adhd prescription meds and the quality of my life has improved drastically. I suggest you at least talk to a doctor about your ADHD.
Hi Keeper, I got diagnosed with ADHD at age 34 while I was in rehab for booze. Smoked a lot weed and snorted enough coke to make Tony Montana gasp too. I was given meds for the ADHD and my cravings for everything else disappeared. Drugs like Ritalin are actually very similar in chemical make-up to cocaine. Hence why it's called "kiddie coke". Many undiagnosed/untreated ADHD sufferers self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. It is a neurobiologcal disorder that affects your brain's reward system and levels of dopamine. You are artificially raising your dopamine with the drugs. I haven't touched coke or weed since I was put on adhd prescription meds and the quality of my life has improved drastically. I suggest you at least talk to a doctor about your ADHD.
Hope that in time
you will have the true desire
to be clean and sober
most of us former drunks and addicts
truly enjoy this
after a lifetime of suffering
not to mention
what we did to others
MM
you will have the true desire
to be clean and sober
most of us former drunks and addicts
truly enjoy this
after a lifetime of suffering
not to mention
what we did to others
MM
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Yea , ,,,,this , this right here ^,
...that thinking just about killed me.
I think it's a benefit , in a way , to quit more than one drug,
As a kid, I was pretty much bullet proof , but later booze and weed were my addiction.
Booze just about killed me , but I went ahead and quit Booze and weed at the same time , ....I figure weed to be a sort of circuit breaker, ....actually I quit all processed sugar , not only for the long term benefits , but also as a circuit breaker.
Gives me a little heads up , something's not right , so to speak .
keeper , ....you're not unique, man. I get where where you're coming from . I started , like you , at 14 working for my Uncle hanging rock, and eventually worked commercial carpentry jobs , and later operated a Glass Co.
.....You know how the workman's comp runs just under steelworkers for that , ....and the reasons why.
Dr Topspin , always in the house . Who knows better than him how to cope , what's always going on inside , huh ?
Think about it keeper , think about the circuit breaker idea , it works , it works for me , anyway.
It can for you too.
You're sittin' in a sweet spot man , ...you got a chance to grab hold of a life second to none.
Welcome to SR , this place saved my *ss.
...it can for you too
...that thinking just about killed me.
I think it's a benefit , in a way , to quit more than one drug,
As a kid, I was pretty much bullet proof , but later booze and weed were my addiction.
Booze just about killed me , but I went ahead and quit Booze and weed at the same time , ....I figure weed to be a sort of circuit breaker, ....actually I quit all processed sugar , not only for the long term benefits , but also as a circuit breaker.
Gives me a little heads up , something's not right , so to speak .
keeper , ....you're not unique, man. I get where where you're coming from . I started , like you , at 14 working for my Uncle hanging rock, and eventually worked commercial carpentry jobs , and later operated a Glass Co.
.....You know how the workman's comp runs just under steelworkers for that , ....and the reasons why.
Dr Topspin , always in the house . Who knows better than him how to cope , what's always going on inside , huh ?
Think about it keeper , think about the circuit breaker idea , it works , it works for me , anyway.
It can for you too.
You're sittin' in a sweet spot man , ...you got a chance to grab hold of a life second to none.
Welcome to SR , this place saved my *ss.
...it can for you too
Coke was never my doc so I can't speak to that part of your battle. Well done for tackling it! Weed, well I stopped smoking it after 22 years of daily use and my anxiety was reduced about 90%. I used to think it helped with anxiety too but it turns out that was one big fat lie my addiction told me in order to keep smoking it. Weed was causing most of mine. It got worse before it got better but it did get better, after several weeks. I clearly remember that during withdrawal I convinced myself I had an anxiety disorder and weed was the only thing holding me together all those years, was fearful of a breakdown without it. Then the miracle happened and I broke through to the other side and all the stress of life seemed more manageable. Yes I'm lucky but I also worked really hard at my recovery this time.
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