How do you know you have an alcohol or drug problem?

How do you know you have an alcohol or drug problem?

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you come up with excuses to do said activity

I have an alcohol and drug solution.

continued use in spite of negative consequences

If you feel like drug are causing problems in your life: quit using drugs
If you can't quit using drugs: you have a drug problem

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I think I have a drug problem then.

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When it has any semblance of control over you or when you use it for compensation. If you come off work and you need a beer to relax, you're alcoholic. Doesn't matter if it's just one a day. Alcoholism is like a ladder, it goes from "I need my glass of wine every time I eat dinner" to "I drink a 24 pack a day and will literally die if I go cold turkey".
For example, I am an alcoholic, but I have a pretty solid overall control on it. As in I can choose to stop for long periods of time, set myself rules and restrictions and I don't always drink consistently. Sometimes I drink a beer in my entire day. The other I'll get plastered on a 12 pack I'll drink in 3-4 hours. Sometimes I go two weeks cold, others I'm so stressed out I keep buying booze every day. It depends on my mood and how well my life is going. I drink more if I'm bored so quarantine is really bad on my alcoholism. It had been a year and a half that I had set restrictions to only drink on weekends save for vacations and holidays and was killing that shit, but I went through an extremely steessful and bad career related period in last december and started drinking daily again and, then, we got quarantined and I was already set.

This shit just made my drug problem worse. I would rather be an alcholic rather than a drug addict. I'm doing drugs more often now because the fucking state of PA only has one place to buy spirits from and I need a lot of beer to get fucking drunk off. I hate this shit.

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user, I've been addicted to oxycodone for the past two years. I've been hospitalized twice and sent to outpatient rehab. If you want to quit, then believe in yourself. Personally, I really don't think I'm ready. Maybe that's just a rationalization to justify my addictions. Point is: if you can already recognize your habit as a PROBLEM, you've already taken the first step.

*four years, I started in 2016

It's a problem, yes, a problem I don't want to fix now. I wanted to fix it for other people I was around, kind of. But fuck it. I cut them off already. I don't care anymore. They can fuck themselves.

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Don't bother with weak ass beer and quit drinking alcohol just to get drunk. Every state now has a huge choice of craft or import beer and you can buy it most grocery stores. Look for alcohol content 6% or over, 8% if you want. 4 x 8%neillngrt you fairly buzzed. The important thing here is to find a beer you ENJOY drinking. That way you're not just feeding the addiction you are taking back some control. Of course you're doing it for the alcohol but there are definitely beers that will get you drunk fast AND have a satisfying taste. Good luck getting off the pills, take a benadryl after a few beers and shortly after you will feel fairly relaxed. Plus will help you sleep which definitely helps late night drug /booze binging.

Don't worry about anyone else until you can "fix" yourself. Obviously I don't know your exact situation, but I'm pretty confident you did the right thing.

When you have to take BDO every 3 hours or you have a seizure. Sleep paralysis every time you fall asleep on your back.

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>addicted to oxycodone
I got so addicted to that when I a script for it and fentanyl patches when I had cancer. Then heroin for a while when insurance and doctors wouldn't write anymore. Managed to quit and avoid WD by tapering.

I don't care about fixing myself. I just had forgotten about myself really. I wanted to "fix" myself for others. Truly a mistake. I will do what I want.

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Ahh, thanks good. I've never been prescribed opioids, it's just another in my list of addictions. For about half a year each, I was addicted to Xanax then cocaine. Oxy is just the one I keep coming back to.

They had me prescribed pretty much anything I wanted when I had cancer. I got to switch between benzos like xanax, valium, ativan on a whim. Oxy got upgraded to fent and morphine when it got worse. I was also drinking like a fish because I was sure I was gonna die. Did a bunch of lsd hungover which led me to getting off the drugs.
Can't believe I survived chemo+radiation all those drugs and alcohol.

GL with you if you're trying to quit. Honestly alcohol was harder for me.

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I'd rather be an alcoholic.
I'm not in your shoes, but as an alcoholic I can tell you you really don't.
Addiction is addiction bro. Doesn't matter to what you're addicted unless we're talking hard drugs and super hard drugs.

Addiction is not the same as dependence. "Deciding" to not care is not taking control, only deluding yourself into thinking you are.
I agree with the "You're not ready" point of view somewhat, yet trying before you are couldn't hurt. I mean, it's not like it's gonna take on the first try.

I'm not sure what you mean with that, but in the past I have had serious heart problems with drug addiction I have never had with alcohol. But I take that with alcohol it takes just more years since it is more "passive" in a way.
What's the difference between addiction and dependence in the end? When you're too far gone, everything blends together, kind of.
Regardless, it's not the first try for any of this, maybe the 5th or 6th.

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Dependence is your hands shaking for example. Addiction is using phrases like "in the end" for example. Unless you're philosophizing about it or feeling sorry for yourself, then I'm not interested.

Uno youve got a problem with alcohol when you know the closing time of every liquor store within 20kms and pace around the clock for hours telling yourself why you shouldnt buy more. This then turns into reasons why you should buy more and you end up driving, sometimes drunk to the store to buy more grog 10 mins before closing time.

Also withdrawals is a good sign. Waking up feeling like absolute shit, shakes, sweats, paranoia, depression, glutamine rebound.

t. alcoholic.

I used adderall, weed, and liquor daily for the past 10 years and im fine

Yeah, but long term alcohol is damage to your liver, nervous system, digestive tracks, colon, brain, sight and that's just the longterm from casual drinking and if you really lose control of it you will end up having the shakes which means that if you try to go cold, you will die. At this point you need heavy detox or if you can't afford it you keep drinking until it drops you. Of course that's all the big lines worst case shit, but take it from me. I've drank half of my life away. I'm 31 and I started at 15. I'm a casual drinker and occasional hard drinker and up until last year and a half I was drinking every single day since I was 15. I didn't notice young how it fucks you up because in your early to late 20's you're fuckibg invincibls. Drink a 40 by yourself, wake up next day with 3 hours of sleep. pop some advils for the headache, drink as much water as your body can hold, go eat a burger at mcdonald, take a piss, take a shit and here we go again. Now I'm in my 30's and I'm gradually seeing how it fuck me up. It takes me the entire day to recover from a hangover, sometimes I vomit all day and have accute stomach pain and I'm pretty sure that if I don't help it, I'm going to be getting colon cancer somewhere in this decade because you would not believe the shits man.I love drinking way too much, but I'm starting to really want to rid myself of it because it does me far more bad than good and it does the same to everyone. It's a false promise.

One way to know is when you try selling your moms telly for drug money.

Man, i have drank since like 13. I started drinking daily since like 16. I have known all this shit, but somehow, from time to time I have been able to quite until now. Somehow, from the past 2 years or so it has been impossible to me.Not even casual, At 16 I was already drinking everyday until passing out. Im 27 now.
i think around 22 I started to do drugs and such just because. I didn't even eat, I don't even properly eat today.
I don't even remember last time I had a "real" hangover. It's all cured by some water and after that, more alcohol.
I don't think I even sleep anymore honestly. Maybe I'm not really as bad as some of you, but since I don't experience some of those common things you all do, but still. I don't even see myself stopping this. The main problem is I'm a heavy chain smoker and as I'm almost reaching my 30's I don't see myself reaching another 10 years. I have had already problems with my heart because of drug problems. But I don't want to stop, Basically. So, is it worth it? In the end, we all end up fucking dying and in the same shithole. What's the motherufcking point? A painful death is not more welcome than a "peaceful" one.

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when you start to think about it

>If you come off work and you need a beer to relax, you're alcoholic
yeah. you start liking the buzz and relaxed feeling then after a while youre drinking double pours of 130 proof and not feeling a buzz
id be worse off if my consumption wasnt capped by what i consider reasonable to spend
also post drink anxiety only gets worse

I quit alcohol and drugs, but I can't quit cigarettes and it's doing my head in being a slave to these cancer dicks I keep relentlessly sucking on.

Yes, I read Alan Carr and I have "quit" for three months before but every second was mental torture. What do?