I hate to have to tell you this, but from what I have experienced with my boyfriend, the urge to get the "stuff" gets worse whenever one drinks (a lot of) alcohol. For now, it may be wiser therefore not to drink too much or even better not at all.....

I don't think it's a good idea at all. I'm sorry.

This really upsets me cuz I find alcohol a hard thing to give up even more so than the stuff cuz Its such a casual part of life thats easier to manage. Since I last used ive had 2 days where I had only 1 or 2 to drinks with dinner/lunch and not a problem. I like to have a drink w a meal.. glass of wine whatever. Im Portuguese so its a part of my family culture. Grrr... :-(

Awww I'm sorry.

The misconception about alcohol is that since it's legal, it must be okay. It's not. It's just another substance that can squeeze the life out of you just like any other.

For a very long time, I could not have alcohol without wanting to score some coke. I moved away from that world into a new city entirely. I went on a cocaine hunt the first few months I was here and came up empty. Then I just stopped looking. Once my brain stopped trying to convince me to find it, I could enjoy a few drinks here and there with my new friends I'd made here. I can socialize here and not think about cocaine at all.

But it's a process, and it takes time. I'm thinking you should step back from alcohol, at least while your brain stops making the association between drinking and snorting/smoking.

wow Tolerance thank you! I may have a couple drinks and not use and just go bed SOMETIMES. But the bottomline is that overall I cant even go a week without using. Its a gamble and the odds are not seeming in my favor. Thats the insanity. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Like as if Im really gonna just get a gram and end up going to bed at 4AM. Not even close!

Im down to 2x a week but its not fun anymore I just get paranoid and feel insane and am even experiencing stimulant psychosis that when Im on lack of sleep makes me feel like i might be mildly schizophrenic. It just needs to stop completely.

I want to move out of state and have before and didnt use for my first 10 months. but I wasnt going to meetings or Recovering, I was simply abstaining. And thats only temporary for so long with relapsing being inevitable. It was actually coming back to my miserable city I'm from that was my relapse. And I'm stuck here again and I hate it and now that the cold is gonna be coming, I'm thinking about getting away to another paradise and starting over new. I

so hope that its like your story, Tolerance of getting clean because of moving to a new place and not having a connect, as it was for me when I first moved acrossed America. I really belong on a beach with palm trees! And seeing I'm single with no children I do plan of moving away hopefully in the next month and getting into a residential program. I do think that would be best.

well i cant tell you what the right thing for you is. But if your an addict of my type then my experience is i cant take any mood altering substance. Believe me it was a huge blow to me to who came into recovery at 23 im nearly 27 and i managed to get some clean time but when ever i relapse it was on alcohol then cocaine and it turns out its not what or how much i use it me thats the problem. coz i will use anything to the extreme. But if you feel you can stop taking coke and drink then thats for you to find out but if your like me it wont be a good ending thats for sure x

I agree with firespinner I can't drink or it will set me off . I know I tried to just drink it just didn't work for me I have to stay drug and alcohol free much better life ;-)

I am an alcoholic in recovery almost a month. I have been around AA since last October and had several relapses. I used to use cocaine and then I got into using crack cocaine. I noticed my cravings for the drug after I would use alcohol. It became worse. I didn't want to give up my life which has been a roller coaster ride since the time I was a teenager. Last year I was in County jail three times and basically living on the street. My family didn't want much to do with me because I wouldn't straighten up. I hope you do the right thing. Go with your gut instinct.

I would just like to thank everyone that has commented or cared about this post. I departed the city I was heavily drinking and using at early September and I travelled to a handful of different states I had never been to before to figure out where I wanted to live. I ended up in quite the palm tree paradise, and became the beach bunny I always wanted to be.

I was always semi in denial of having an alcohol problem because it wasnt nearly as bad as many of the drunken slobs I have observed in my day. I ended up with a boyfriend that was having black-out problems on alcohol that I broke up with over so he pledged to give sobriety a try if I'd give him another chance as a sober man. So I pledged to not drink with him to make it easier.

Despite the last 5 weeks of our relationship being basically clean and sober as far as non-herbals go, I decided I still didn't want to be with him so we are no longer together.

Even though I went through a breakup with the worse asshole Ive ever been with especially as far as mistreating goes seeing each and every single one of my exes aside from him were true gentlemen but he was in a whole diiferent category as being the leeching, provoking, angry abuser type... I STILL didnt drink or use.

In 4 days I will celebrate 3 months clean of using or drinking even alcohol!!! I've been toking to be honest. And I believe thats whats helped me get this far. Herbs heal.

For me its remembering my ABC's. Alcohol Becomes Cocaine.

Hi, I wanted to reply to your post b/c it was something I used to have to deal with all the time. I grew up with an alcoholic mother and my first husband was an alcoholic as well, and a drummer in a band.

I read that you are in Cocaine recovery and I must commend you for getting clean with that drug. However, too many times addicts will unknowingly trade one addiction for another.. In your case, it may be alcohol...

Well, take care.

I am SO SORRY! I failed to read your most recent message which let everyone know that you're clean and sober, and that must be a great feeling!! Congrats! That's a tough job..

Suzy

ABC is my rule. Alcohol Becomes Cocaine. It never fails that after a drink or two I'm not the same person that has the commitment to not use cocaine. Thats my experience.

I'm going through the same thing. Its been and on/off situation since I was 23. I'm 33 now. I have a hard time drinking even 1-2 drinks without craving cocaine and breaking down and getting some.

Hi there everybody I new to this, and I need help to stop drinking and doing coke or else I am going to loose my family. And I don't want that, can someone help me out?