Oh boy... This brought up so many bad fuckin memories. Having more drug dealers in my phone than friends... Buying shit online and hoping it arrives... Or that it's even real. Going through someone new and praying it's not straight fet. Not to mention spending several hundred dollars a week so I could function.
I never went through doctors for my stuff, everything I bought was online or through the streets. I was addicted to opioids-opiates and Benzos for... Idk years... Fuckin years!
Quitting bars for me was way harder. But I was taking 4,5,6 bars a day at the end. By the end of my opioid addiction (same time) I found a kid that I could buy his whole sub script for a few hundred bucks. 90 8mg subs would last me all month. Wayyyyyyyyyyy fuckin cheaper than buying hydros and percs, oxy 30s and all that. Went from spending $300-400 a week to that a month. That was pretty huge.
But as far as quitting... You have to want it. I've seen people on the methodone or sub program for years and years and years...
The only way to stop is to stop!
I did something similar, I went from 3 subs and 4 bars a day to as little as possible. I would wait as long as I could until I felt like I was going to lose my shit... Then take a sliver of a piece of sub and a broken piece of a bar. Every time pushing myself to wait longer and longer. It was like a really fucked up game I was playing with myself.
How much torture could I go through before rewarding myself as little as possible.
If course I had set backs... Of course I lied to myself and took a whole sub and whole bar and said I didn't... But I kept working at it and trying to get better.
The mental aspect of quitting bars was fuckin brutal... The physical aspect of quitting subs was... Painful.
Especially since after going to long without subs my stomach would go and I'd end up playing a game of chicken with my toilet


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But eventually it gets better... So much better. You think about them less and less, your first thought in the morning isn't "where's my shit, I need my shit, do I have enough shit to get me through the day"
Some people swear by the cold turkey method... I couldn't do it. I tried.. I couldn't. I had to wean myself off painfully but slowly. It took about 4 months and then about a week of feeling like shit to break free. That was 3 years ago now.
No matter what road you take it's gonna suck, but just keep thinking about how great it will be to wake up without that monster inside!