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Originally Posted by Azrayne

That sounds like me. Usually I'll start partying friday or saturday night, keep going till sunrise, come down in the morning at recovery, then head home and bum around till I pass out some time the next afternoon/night. On the rare occasion I go out two nights in a row, I usually stop dosing and try and recover during the day between, it's rare for me to go on a 2+ day bender, I find the crash afterwards just isn't worth it.

Meth addiction is something that creeps up on you. It's definately not 'one hit and you're hooked' like they say. It's once you start using fairly frequantly that you begin to have issues. The problem is you try it once, don't feel any addiction, then keep using because it's so fun/conveniant. By the time you realise you have a problem, the brain has already made the 'meth = happyfuntime' connection, and you'll start craving when you try to stop.

I was lucky and pulled myself out relatively early in the cycle, I didn't realise I'd have trouble stopping until I forced myself to take a 2 month break because it was starting to effect my mood on a daily basis, and I was starting to use more heavily. I was also lucky in that I didn't start smoking it until just before that break, and snorting is a lot less more-ish.

Yeah, that's what I hear about meth. I'm pretty much for the legalization of all drugs, but meth is the exception. Any other drug, with the possible exception of heroin, it is possible to have a completely "casual" relationship with it. Coke is a once every 6 months kind of thing for me. Meth, though, it seems like everyone that does it turns into that guy that's stealing from his mom to get more. Also, it makes people pretty violent, unlike other drugs. I really wish the stuff was just gone from the earth, especially because their are so many cleaner, safe amphetamines out there. With Adderall, it's always the same dose, made safe, etc. It's legit, pharmaceutical grade shit; meth is made by guys in the back of Winnebago's.

Don't you find the short duration of coke a bit of a pain? Having to constantly redose must get irritating, especially if you're in a social situation, and it would be hell on your nose.

Yeah, it is kind of a double-edged sword. On one hand, you get the good aspect of "Doing X amount wont render me useless for the next 2 days" but on the other hand if you want to get stupid for 2 days, you're going to have to pay for it. I will say that coke is one of those thing where getting good shit is so hard to do and happens so infrequently that you convince yourself that "Oh man a gram will only last me for this long" but the reality is if you had some premo grade shit the same amount would last you 4 times as long as the mediocre shit. One thing that's happening a lot here in Vegas is people cutting the coke with powderized lidocaine because it produces that same lip/nose/tongue numbness associated with high grade coke.

Sadly, 5htp isn't available OTC in Aussieland. I do make use of the dopamine equivelant (l-tyrosine) when I'm coming down off meth, and I find it helps a lot. Not that it erases the comedown, but it smooths it out and makes the next day or two a lot more manageable. I've been meaning to order some 5htp online, but it's not really practical. I limit myself to once a month or so with MDMA anyway (in theory, in practice it ends up closer to every 3 weeks or so on average), so the comedowns usually aren't 'that' terrible.

I haven't done X in a year, maybe 2. It's really a social drug, ESPECIALLY a relationship social drug and my girl isn't interested anymore. It doesn't strike me as something I would want to do while playing Halo with a buddy, you know?

Sounds so much more fun than sitting there sweaty, sketchy, sore, your brain running at 10000 miles an hour, trying desperately to pass out. Do want.

Sadly, I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to obtain opiates. I can get anything club/rave related with a little effort, but opiates don't really circle around in that scene. The only dealer I know who probably could have managed it got owned by cops a month or two back and is now in jail.

Yeah, it's so awesome because like I said, it's not a high feeling. It's like imagine you spent a year working out, eating right, that just perfect body feeling. That's how Oxy makes you feel.