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Adolescents and marijuana
I am at a loss . No one really wants to help me and everyone said it's my fault because I let my kid get a license, which gave him freedom to leave small town. Now he's in the throes of loving to smoke weed. I can't reason with him, and he tells me he smokes it, and now that I know what it smells like, He has not hit the other drugs, as far as I can tell. I can tell. He's so close to 18 and I just am not sure what to do to not lose him forever. He listens to underground rap and well, he wants to look like them and well, I am not a millionaire
Read answer →The Illusion of Control
I am an educated person who works in academia and I enjoy recreational drugs and testing the limits of conscious experience. I didn’t start experimenting with drugs until graduate school and I was never a heavy drinker or an early drinker, so my drug use is an adult and consciously made decision. I am very careful to control my use and I will never use any drug that has a physical dependency potential more often than once a month. There are so many other fun drugs out there so I don’t see the need to risk it. Two years ago I tried smoking heroin and loved it. 18 months ago I injected for the first time and it was phenomenal. I get very high potency lab-grade drugs from a source who supplies clean drugs (at a high price).I have injected every 3 weeks since that day. It is a struggle to keep it to every three weeks. I am confused with how I am reacting to this. I am able to limit my heroin successfully, but I crave heroin every day and I think about it very often. As I understand it, to be psychologically addicted I need to be unable to control my drug use (I am in control) but I have never before had this experience of constant cravings and they seem to be getting worse. How would you diagnose this situation?
Read answer →The Lines that Divide Us
I know methadone is not really acceptable in NA. but what about naltrexone implants?
Read answer →Kush and Push
I ate some pot brownies a month ago. I didn’t realize how much was in them since a friend made them but I ended up eating like 6 grams of kush. The high was too strong and it was very unpleasant and it took a long time to go away. I felt a lot of anxiety and I was in a really dark place and it was very strong for almost 18 hours. Since the day I ate I have felt anxious and not right almost continuously. I tried smoking again but it made me feel worse. Can a pot overdose make me depressed for good?
Read answer →Differences Between Drugs & Addictions
How do you look at dealing with the Addiction of Alcohol compared to other drugs? I know some say A drug is a drug. Although I agree to some extent, there are different components that one drug carries from another..
Read answer →Breaking Out or Breaking Down?
I am a heroin user. I dose every 12 hours or I start getting sick. In the last 3 weeks I noticed that by about 10 hours I start getting a lot of hives and then after I dose these hives disappear. Is this normal or am I allergic to not being high (haha). I realize this is a help site but with school and work I just can’t deal with withdrawal now.
Read answer →Gateway Drugs & Outdated Ideas
Is marijuana actually a gateway drug? Do people still believe in this gateway drug theory?
Read answer →Really?
How many nitrous balloons will cause brain damage? If I did 100 would that be enough to effect my thinking?
Read answer →Tripping and Slipping
Is it a big deal if a person is tripping and hallucinating when they stop taking coke? My brother is talking to our dead mom as if she were here in the room with us and he can see her. He is getting off coke now first but I think he was just on a monumental binge since he has to check into jail for 4 months in 2 days and that is why he is getting off coke now.
Read answer →Resistance is not Futile
I’ve been partying too hard since I finished high school 3 years ago. RX, weed, drinking, a little heroin and whatever else, but basically getting off my head pretty much every night. I actually don’t think I am addicted to anything but I am addicted to having fun and the only fun in this town is getting wasted. Not sure how to stop when everyone I know does the same thing and I am too weak to resist when it’s right in front of me. Don’t really have the money to move anywhere. Not sure what to do?
Read answer →Tapering
I plan on doing a very gradual Suboxone taper. I tried a fast one before and it was HELL so I am going to do it smarter this time. I keep reading about people using Imodium and that it takes away a lot of the withdrawals because it is an opiate but here is where I am confused. For example, if I was taking 8 and I went down to 7 and then to reduce the withdrawal symptoms I used loperimide for 2 or 3 days once I stopped using loperimide wouldn’t I feel just like I had when I went down originally from 8 to 7. What I mean by this is isn’t using loperimide just keeping my opiate receptors from returning to normal while I use it and thus defeating the purpose of the taper in the first place? My plan is to do small drops every week to 10 days and to use loperimide for the first 2 or 3 days after each drop. What do you think about this?
Read answer →Getting out of Your Head & Listening to Your Gut
I am not a cocaine addict but I am a regular user and binge user of about half an eight ball per week. I have snorted most weekends for about 4 years. I do not have an addictive personality and I have a very high pressure job so I need this once a week to blow off steam. I work hard and I need to play hard. The proof that I don’t have a problem is that I have the money to afford as much as I want and this is all I ever buy. My self control always amazes some of my, let’s say, NEEDIER friends who can’t stop once they start until they’ve blown their bank accounts. Problem is…my septum is getting really thin and I had a cold this week and when I was blowing my nose and one time a huge chunk of clotted blood came out. Scary. It forced me to look at things closely. I will not let myself become an addict. I have done some research and I plan to sniff saline water after each snort and I think this will prevent further damage, since I don’t use that often, as long as I alternate nostrils every weekend. Even in the worst case situation I can afford the plastic surgery. Question is, a part of me knows this is fucked up. Is it possible to choose to do something that you know is starting to have higher and higher consequences and still call it that you are making a free will choice?
Read answer →When You Can't Stop Self Medicating
I can’t stop marijuana I am dependent in that I need it many times every day or I start to feel quite anxious and ill. I have tried stopping many times but I can’t make it for more than 2 or 3 days before it gets to be too much. It’s weird. Even though I knew that I could not stop I never considered it that I was addicted and dependent on marijuana because I did not really think of the herb as that kind of substance. Last night I went to my first NA meeting. I was really nervous before going in and then honestly the whole time I was there I felt like a poseur who was just smoking herb next to these guys with hardcore heroin habits. I am never going to feel comfortable in that scene but I do not know what to do to stop?
Read answer →Natural Highs
Is there any kind of intoxicating substance that has no negative side effects?
Read answer →Tapering & Titrating
Is it possible to taper off heroin? How low do you have to get too before the withdrawals aren’t too bad?
Read answer →Adolescence and marijuana
Have a son, 17, who thinks smoking weed is fine. I didn't notice it at first, so it seemed like I condoned it. I am now seeing that he won't eat my food,(so skinny) talk to me, be home. He still has good grades, but all his friends are leaving him. He is beginning to lie to look good. I have tried talking. I haven't really taken any thing for I guess I don't want him to runaway or go into deeper drugs?? He's not skipping school. Just being late and becoming truant late... (2 to 7 minutes)
Read answer →Addcited without the High
Can you get addicted to steroids? How can you get addicted to a drug that does not make you feel high?
Read answer →What Your Study Aid Can Do To You... Not For You
I use Ritalin as a study aid. A lot of students do. I’m not ADHD or anything. I am not concerned with getting addicted since I only use low doses and I only use it to increase my focus and productivity. Do I need to be concerned about long term health consequences if I use it 4 or 5 days a week, for a few years?
Read answer →How Much is Too Much?
How much weed a day is considered moderation or an ok moderate habit?
Read answer →No Shortcuts to Recovery
Does the Allan Carr stop smoking method work for quitting alcohol and weed as well?
Read answer →Dependence Vs Addiction
I don't really know where to begin so I'll just start from the beginning. When I was 13 I was prescribed prescriptions painkillers for my ovarian cysts, and over time I became addicted to them. I am now 18, still addicted, and I desperately need help. I don't want to live like this. It's my worst nightmare. I am trying to ween myself off of them but I don't know if that will work in the long run... I was supposed to begin college within the next two weeks, but because of my wish to get off of these drugs, I have to change my classes to the springtime. This is because I REALLY don't want to go to college feeling the withdrawal symptoms... Is this the right thing to do? Should I go ahead and try to get off of these pills by myself? I really feel like I can do it emotionally and mentally. My problem is that I don't know if I should do it myself because I've heard that quitting this drug can cause seizures, and in worse cases, death. Please help me, and if it is ok for me to try to stop taking them myself, can you give me any tips on how to get through the withdrawal phase? Thanks :)
Read answer →Setting Boundaries with Old Drug Friends
Hello, what is the best response from a recovering addict to 'old' drug friends in order to let them know their decision to discontinue that lifestyle and possibly gain support for their choice? Thank you.
Read answer →Cleaning Up
How much will track marks on the forearm go away with time if I stop injecting? Can you laser treat them away?
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