Cocaine Addiction & Recovery Support Group
Cocaine addiction is the excessive intake of cocaine, and can result in physiological damage, lethargy, depression, or a potentially fatal overdose. Though the immediate craving to do more cocaine is strong and very common, this feeling usually subsides in most users within an hour. This craving can, as it has in many users, develop rather quickly into an intense...
Is it normal to replace one addiction with another? My husband was freebasing and has been clean for almost one month (he has also had alcohol issues in the past~when to AA). He has started drinking again, not daily, but a few times a week and he is also smoking pot again. I am scared he is going to spiral out of control again and I don't know what to do!!!
Possibly sit down and see if he will consider meetings or possibly therapy
All of us addicts tend to use in order to bottle up something Some situation issue feeling whatever that we do not want to feel or face or deal with
So we use so as not to deal with it. When we get clean those layers start peeling back slowly as the drugs all leave and that feeling or issue gets close to the top and closer to the feeling it again and we start using other things to not allow that pain through. eventually it breaks through and back we go.
So he really needs to deal with the issues he is not trying to deal with and sit through that pain so he can finally get the recovery he obviously wants.
Oh and Men they HATE admitting they need therapy so you may have to maneuver that slowly :0)
Good Luck
Where are You coming from? Women are the same as Men when it come's to ADDICTION we all hate asking for help when it come to getting Clean! This is a Support Group not a Place to Point fingers and say which addiction is worse then the other. Addiction is just that an addiction.
The point of this Group as I know it is to come here and give support and Good addvice NOT to point out that MEN have a harder time getting help!!!
I apologized for stepping on your toes in the other post but hey back up pk?? You see the SMILEY face after that comment.
I was not pointing fingers i was adding a cute comment Sorry i was not aware that adding a light comment to lighten the mood a bit was a BAD BAD thing Shame on me. Bad me want me to go to a corner now??
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SEE SMILEY I am KIDDING!
Frankly every man I have dealt with and had friends dealt with (actually this was just a topic in a girls support group i am in which is why I said it) has needed a extra push in things Being a man and a addict makes it even harder
Sorry again if the lightheartedness of the comment was lost on you if I could edit I would say SORRY Guys this is said in jest
No time did i say all addicts are running for the doors or running from the doors for help.
It was not really wwhat the topic of my comment was again just like the last one
Sorry that you over analyze all my posts since that one where i seemed to have stepped on your toes
Maybe if you Stop Over analyzing everything I post you will discover Hey we are a LOT alike.
Again Sorry i stepped on your toes i nthe other post. My bad I should have recognized you for your hard work in staying clean I Apologize for making it about helping the OP and sharing my story Us darn addicts and our Egos Again I am not too big to apologize and Again I am SORRY I did not recognize your battle for what it was a hard one.
Dude you obviously have more to work on if this type stuff sits on you like that. Anger issues?? ego?? All that stuff is addiction related believe me when you get it off your back you will be SOOO much happier.
I get it you been here for a long time
i get it you too have been Blessed with recovery I was under the impression that support groups mean sharing each of our experiences and no two addicts recover alike
I am passing on mine just like you pass on yours I may not be a excellent speller typist or writer but I share from the heart and in recovery and support that really is all that matters right? That we BOTH do that??
So come on lets just agree that we both have earned those stripes we both are here for the same thing to help others so that Our battles were not a waste of time.
So come on chill with the attack dog act I ain't into those forum power trip games.
I am a rabbit and have done many geographics, and went to states where my drug of choice changed. For me if there is not what I need I will find something, anything not to feel. But I agree we usually go back if we can to the drug that made it all happen.
I did cocaine since 12 years old, always liked it. But the come down when money ran out was a bummer so I ended up speedballing the last years and picking up a heroin habbit.
For me a drug is a drug if you throw it all in the toliet it comes up sheeet. It was why I had to use to fit on this planet to begin with.
I will have 19 years come 11/2 clean and sober.
I work with Cocaine addicts and will say that it is the hardest of all the drugs to stay clean with. People for years can clean up pretty good pretty fast, and soon forget the last remorseful words. Our brains just cannot accept that more is not better.
I commend the people here that have been able to get their lives back and are carrying the message of recovey.
Time takes time and I have had many hard years clean and sober but nothing as hard as coming to everyday with this demon on my back.
Hope to get to know many of you.. Hugs and Lots of Love Tink