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nineyearsclean |
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Shyt. I'm like that too Tom. Shyt.
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Penel0pe |
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I'm an addict who doesn't use, because I know what happens when I DO use. Once I get started, I can't stop.
As far as meth is concerned, I've known a few people who used it and it scared the shyt out of them, and they said "Noo thanks" when the next opportunity came around, so there's a few out there who can say no. I'm not one of them. I am not cured - I am just not using today. If I picked up and tried to get a bag so I could just get a bunch of stuff done, let's say, it's all over but the crying for me. I'm gonna be back on the shyt RIGHT NOW, tomorrow, and it'll be just like it was before. I know it because I've been there, done that. I'm always gonna be an addict - but it doesn't mean I always have to be SICK. I can accept it for what it is, and then do what is necessary to keep my life intact - stay clean - or I can go use tonite. Experience has more than proven that choosing to go use "Once" doesn't work for me. It's all or nothing, because I'm always gonna be an addict. I can't just use a little, if I use at all, once I start, I can't control how much I use, how much I spend, or how much I risk in order to stay high. I chose nothing today. I decided that for today, I shouldn't use, and then I didn't. |
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danimal55 |
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What Pen said.
I choose nothing...a choice that isn't always easy Some months back I decided I wasn't an addict and went to great lengths to persuade myself and others that my ego generated delusion was rational and logical. [not knowing WTF either of those terms meant] BIG mistake on my part...first of all I was born drunk and addicted to nicotine, followed by decades of whatever chemicals I could get my hands on....my drug of choice being MORE. In light of my recent history....[not pretty] Immnna keep my addict hat on, or else it's....... Hi Ho Hi Ho it's down the tubes I go! trust me......I't s long road back....if we make it back.
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NoMore4Me |
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In going back to your initial question 9, I wanted to touch on this.
As you know my drug of choice was heroin and speed, back in the day, the speed was coke. When I first kicked heroin, I still toyed with the speed, still coke. Then I stopped and started working on life stuff. Then later, got high again, on coke.. snorted it. I got messed up because I had so much clean time, it made me really paronoid, it was not a good high. I vowed never to touch the stuff again. I was done with heroin completely by then... still am. Then as time went on, I wanted to get high again, and did some crank, then some ice, then some go-fast. The crank was powdery and like yellowish, the ice was clearer and harder, go fast was white powdery but corser than coke. Some say all that is meth. IMO, it isn't.. maybe the ice. Anyway, down the road, I ran into some meth and I had some good clean time, year or so, I don't know. The meth was new to me and in a different state, I wanted to be careful. So I did a small bump. It was cool. Then I did some more. It was still cool but I stayed up for all day and was down to do more of the day and later in the day, more of the dope. Eventually, I ended up really messed up on that stuff. It got real intense at one time and it did not take long. I think I had maybe scored three sacks by then. I stopped and said, "enough of that stuff". Then the very last time I did it, I knew what to expect so I only got what I wanted to do some like on the sneak. It was my intent to just get high so I could be high, some stuff had happened then another death of a loved one... I just wanted to get high. And pot in my book, I can put the mota down and I'm cool. so back to your meth question. I won't ever do heroin, I can say, "I can bank on that." Pot, I can take it or leave it, no biggie to me really once I get my mind set. I'll always be an addict or some sort or another. So I can say that IF I had to choose a "drug" to do... excluding pot, because to me, that's not "dope", it'd be meth. I think IF I ever relapse again, I can honestly say if I had it coke, pot, chiva, meth, pills all out there and had the choice... and I was down to relapse, I'd do it with meth. The meth I've seen and done is sort of corse and white colored. I didn't like the others. Again, I'm no meth expert, but I've seen dope and I can see the difference in the stuff. I don't know where it came from, just where to get it. I hope that sort of answered your question about once a "meth" addict always a meth addict. On a final note, I don't want to be doing any dope and I think IF I relapse, I make the conscious choice to do so. I choose not to, so I'm cool staying away from all dope. |
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extweekerbell |
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I think I will always be a meth addict - I'm just not in active addiction right now , I am recovering. I have been clean for 1 year and 4 months but I still find myself thinking like an addict. When I get stressed I think "God I wish I had a xanax" or sometimes I think about trying to get a prescription of adderall so I can be wired but kinda on the up and up since it would be prescribed. I choose not to act on these thoughts because if I got a script of xanax I would end up abusing them as I have in the past and if I had the adderall I know I would end up back on the meth and the needle right where I left off and it was not pretty. But through my HP and 12 steps I am recovering and clean. I hope that the longer I am in recovery and the more clean time I get all of the "addictive behavior and/or addictive thoughts" will go away completely. |
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JrsHubby1 |
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I will say that I just happen to be lucky enough to have survived a TERRIBLE life experiance! As some of you know not only was I a meth addict, I was prolly
more addicted to making it too!!
Life has taught ME that....Meth Is Meth!!.. It is just made outta different stuff in all kinda ways! NOT any part from start to finish is good for you PERIOD!!!! Imo "ICE" ...Will take more than any other kind of speed! That not all people are addicts. Ive know people who have tried meth and never touched it again!! Ufortunately I was not one of them! I can NOT control meth! The only choice and control I have is to NOT DO IT !! Meth beat, kicked and flat stomped the shyt out of me, I think I only need 1 whoppin like that!! That in NO WAY is there a "successful "meth" addict !! What kinda comment was that???? Sorry but when I was using the ONLY "successful" things I managed to DO, was make and do meth, and F*** everything up in my life!! The only success I got from meth, was OUT! There may still be an "addict" in me?? The one who wants to use, I am stronger than him, and he cannot use without ME! If shareing my experiance with others makes me an addict , then so be it IM AN ADDICT! I will never be a Meth user again!! Good Luck and B safe!! Geo. |
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le grumps |
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I actually disagree that everyone who dabbles in meth gets addicted to it.
I am not just talking about people who try meth and don't like it, either. I know a lot of people who used it, but didn't use it all the time and they seemed to stop whenever. Of course for them they were mostly into alcohol, maybe alcoholics, maybe not. You can do drugs without "using them". The only way to know if I am really "always an addict" is for me to pick up meth again. I can't be certain what'll happen, but I am pretty sure I know what'll happen. I won't want to stop. |
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forget suzette |
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I'm a meth addict.
....I wake up and think about it every single day of my life. If I see it, my heart will race, the inner dialog will start up, suzette will rattle her cage. I'm not an alchohaulic. ....I could care less if I ever drink again. I have a 5th of tequila sitting in the closet....that's been there for almost 3 years. it might as well be a bottle of styrofoam macaroni. I'm not a coke addict, I never think about it. ........but, if I see it, it reminds me of meth. the dashboard lights up....and I tell myself, it's not speed. ....but if I make the mistake of forgetting how bad i hate it and go on the VISUAL of the "white powder" and actually DO coke.... ........ I'm a coke addict that day. but not the next. |
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luvepiphany |
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Can I have your styrafoam macaroni if you do get some?
I'm addicted to packing materials preferably bubble wrap-I only find that in very special dumpsters |
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le grumps |
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ROFL.
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