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If what you want is pot to help with your drinking, it's being legalized all over the place."Social drinkers" who have a lemon lime and bitters, move along. This is not the thread for you.
Social drinkers who feel pressured to drink more than they're comfortable with, tell your story.
Everyday drinkers who have a glass of wine with dinner, or a beer. You're welcome here.
Self-confessed alcoholics (like me) you are most welcome here. Your advice may help others.
I was a multi-drug user for years, and alcohol was way down the list of my preferred drugs. Just above opioids to be frank. But while I still had drug-using friends I had no problem scoring weed or even better drugs. But then I abandoned my city friends and went to live on a commune where there was plenty of pot, and limited alcohol, but none of the really stimulating city drugs. When I left the commune (bored, but also not welcome) all my city contacts had dried up. A disturbing number of them dead (by suicide more than overdose, as fate would have it) and some gone straight. Then I entered into my alcoholic phase. I wanted no contact with anyone, so the only drugs I had access to were alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. The alcohol got a hold of me, drinking three or four bottles of red wine a day, and but for the internet alcohol would have killed me.
Of course I sought medical advice. But all I got was a referral to Alcoholics Anonymous, and some sleeping pills (benzos, my long experience with drugs told me right away that they were dangerously addictive). Again, nothing in my experience suggested I would take to AA and their total abstinence prescription, I was looking for something more gradual. So I found a contact and started smoking pot again. This worked to greatly reduce my alcohol consumption, but had predictable effects on my employability and prospects for making friends. After a year or two smoking more than drinking, I fell out with my one and only dealer, and was really up against it. Drinking heavily every day would kill me, I knew it in my bones. I had to find an alternative.
So about two years ago I made a resolution never to drink two days in a row. And that is still working for me. I drink about 30-40 standard drinks a week, which isn't great but isn't catastrophic either. I have a strong constitution for my age, for any age really, and at this rate I should at least make seventy.
It shits the living whiskers off me that I'm not allowed to take any drug of my choice. I know I could do better, for my physical and mental health, than still being a heavy drinker. Should I break the law? Should I doctor shop? What is the next move for a life-long drug user who has no power nor intent to give up all drugs, but is stuck with the dumbest drug there is?
Me? I just got sick and tired of being sick and tired. Gave up alcohol completely. One, two or three drinks do nothing but give me a headache. If I started drinking I kept right on drinking. So now I don't start. Went to a shrink who told me I'd just been been self-medicating. She put me on SSRIs and I'm not even tempted by alcohol anymore. I'll toke a joint if someone passed it to me socially but pot never crosses my mind anymore.Feel free to share your stories, but I'd like this to be a "safe space" thread for those who struggle with alcohol and other drugs. If you're one of the lucky people who don't need drugs, spare the condescending advice or the judgement, and just move along to some other thread. Thanks.
If what you want is pot to help with your drinking, it's being legalized all over the place.
Me? I just got sick and tired of being sick and tired. Gave up alcohol completely. One, two or three drinks do nothing but give me a headache. If I started drinking I kept right on drinking. So now I don't start. Went to a shrink who told me I'd just been been self-medicating. She put me on SSRIs and I'm not even tempted by alcohol anymore. I'll toke a joint if someone passed it to me socially but pot never crosses my mind anymore.
My meds work for 6 months to a year then they have to switch 'em up. It's a process, Everybody's different is what I keep hearing from the shrinks.This deserves a second reply. My sister who shares half my genes swears by SSRI but with my record of bipolar disorder no shrink will prescribe them for me. Perhaps I should get over my scruples about "doctor shopping" since it's not actually illegal?
I'm on Sodium Valproate which I practically had to beg for, to get off Lithium. And a lower dose of Lithium still. Also Olanzapine which I'm actually OK with: it's a bit like a low dose of pot day and night. I'm not at all happy with my regimen but if I go off it someone reports me for florid mania (ie, being too happy for no apparent reason) so short of packing a big camper with tinned food and heading out to the hills ... but there I go with the crazy talk.
Your short comment has actually been helpful. I should not be content with the shrink the government assigned me for free. I should spend some money and find one who will serve me better.
My meds work for 6 months to a year then they have to switch 'em up. It's a process, Everybody's different is what I keep hearing from the shrinks.
I used to drink a lot. As someone else mentioned, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. I just quit. Now ill maybe have a (singular) good scotch 1-3 times a year."Social drinkers" who have a lemon lime and bitters, move along. This is not the thread for you.
Social drinkers who feel pressured to drink more than they're comfortable with, tell your story.
Everyday drinkers who have a glass of wine with dinner, or a beer. You're welcome here.
Self-confessed alcoholics (like me) you are most welcome here. Your advice may help others.
I was a multi-drug user for years, and alcohol was way down the list of my preferred drugs. Just above opioids to be frank. But while I still had drug-using friends I had no problem scoring weed or even better drugs. But then I abandoned my city friends and went to live on a commune where there was plenty of pot, and limited alcohol, but none of the really stimulating city drugs. When I left the commune (bored, but also not welcome) all my city contacts had dried up. A disturbing number of them dead (by suicide more than overdose, as fate would have it) and some gone straight. Then I entered into my alcoholic phase. I wanted no contact with anyone, so the only drugs I had access to were alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. The alcohol got a hold of me, drinking three or four bottles of red wine a day, and but for the internet alcohol would have killed me.
Of course I sought medical advice. But all I got was a referral to Alcoholics Anonymous, and some sleeping pills (benzos, my long experience with drugs told me right away that they were dangerously addictive). Again, nothing in my experience suggested I would take to AA and their total abstinence prescription, I was looking for something more gradual. So I found a contact and started smoking pot again. This worked to greatly reduce my alcohol consumption, but had predictable effects on my employability and prospects for making friends. After a year or two smoking more than drinking, I fell out with my one and only dealer, and was really up against it. Drinking heavily every day would kill me, I knew it in my bones. I had to find an alternative.
So about two years ago I made a resolution never to drink two days in a row. And that is still working for me. I drink about 30-40 standard drinks a week, which isn't great but isn't catastrophic either. I have a strong constitution for my age, for any age really, and at this rate I should at least make seventy.
It shits the living whiskers off me that I'm not allowed to take any drug of my choice. I know I could do better, for my physical and mental health, than still being a heavy drinker. Should I break the law? Should I doctor shop? What is the next move for a life-long drug user who has no power nor intent to give up all drugs, but is stuck with the dumbest drug there is?
Feel free to share your stories, but I'd like this to be a "safe space" thread for those who struggle with alcohol and other drugs. If you're one of the lucky people who don't need drugs, spare the condescending advice or the judgement, and just move along to some other thread. Thanks.
I used to drink a lot. As someone else mentioned, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. I just quit. Now ill maybe have a (singular) good scotch 1-3 times a year.
I drink once a month or so but when I do I make it count. **** all yall that says liquor or beer tastes good, it doesn't. I drink it for one reason to get tore up.
Yep, if I'm not working or out with friends, I'm usually drinking and using mj and home. It's just something I just enjoy doing. I know it's not healthy, but it makes me feel so good!"Social drinkers" who have a lemon lime and bitters, move along. This is not the thread for you.
Social drinkers who feel pressured to drink more than they're comfortable with, tell your story.
Everyday drinkers who have a glass of wine with dinner, or a beer. You're welcome here.
Self-confessed alcoholics (like me) you are most welcome here. Your advice may help others.
I was a multi-drug user for years, and alcohol was way down the list of my preferred drugs. Just above opioids to be frank. But while I still had drug-using friends I had no problem scoring weed or even better drugs. But then I abandoned my city friends and went to live on a commune where there was plenty of pot, and limited alcohol, but none of the really stimulating city drugs. When I left the commune (bored, but also not welcome) all my city contacts had dried up. A disturbing number of them dead (by suicide more than overdose, as fate would have it) and some gone straight. Then I entered into my alcoholic phase. I wanted no contact with anyone, so the only drugs I had access to were alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. The alcohol got a hold of me, drinking three or four bottles of red wine a day, and but for the internet alcohol would have killed me.
Of course I sought medical advice. But all I got was a referral to Alcoholics Anonymous, and some sleeping pills (benzos, my long experience with drugs told me right away that they were dangerously addictive). Again, nothing in my experience suggested I would take to AA and their total abstinence prescription, I was looking for something more gradual. So I found a contact and started smoking pot again. This worked to greatly reduce my alcohol consumption, but had predictable effects on my employability and prospects for making friends. After a year or two smoking more than drinking, I fell out with my one and only dealer, and was really up against it. Drinking heavily every day would kill me, I knew it in my bones. I had to find an alternative.
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It shits the living whiskers off me that I'm not allowed to take any drug of my choice. I know I could do better, for my physical and mental health, than still being a heavy drinker. Should I break the law? Should I doctor shop? What is the next move for a life-long drug user who has no power nor intent to give up all drugs, but is stuck with the dumbest drug there is?
Feel free to share your stories, but I'd like this to be a "safe space" thread for those who struggle with alcohol and other drugs. If you're one of the lucky people who don't need drugs, spare the condescending advice or the judgement, and just move along to some other thread. Thanks.
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