#active addiction

[hellscape-halogens]

Tell your addict friends you're proud of them.

Yes even if they are still actively in addiction.

Yes even if they relapsed. Idc if they've been sober a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade.

Yes even if they don't plan on or feel comfortable quitting/going into recovery.

Yes even if you don't think their addiction is serious, or if you think their DOC isn't "that bad."

YES even if they have been to rehab or detox multiple times.

July is disability pride month, and addiction is just as much a disability as any other. Addicts are people too, please do not forget to advocate for us too. Not every single illness is something you can uwu-fy, infantilize, or glamourize.

#drugs #sobriety #addiction #addiction recovery #active addiction #disability advocacy #disability pride month

[futureless]

is anyone else deep in active addiction right now yes or no

#i think i’m ok #euphoria #active addiction #substance addiction #addiction #heroin addict #substance abuse #black tar heroin #heroineindanger #borderline tag #talk tag #tag #bpd tag #text tag #diagnosed bipolar disorder #borderline personality disorder #take care #cptsdwarrior

[lesbienyu]

also, while I'm talking about addiction, I feel like a lot of non-alcoholics, including other addicts, do not understand the difficulties of coming off booze at home.

when I came off heroin, it fucking sucked. I basically lived in a wooden chair for days because if I got too comfortable I'd shit myself. I hallucinated, puked, sweat, and ached nonstop. It took a while to get over, but I did, and I didn't need to see a doctor to do it.

With alcohol, however, you can die if you get to the point of having Delirium Tremens (DTs, if you're hip to friends of Bill). It is hard to tell if you will have DTs- there isn't really a formula, and past experiences mean nothing. I got DTs days after quitting after drinking six to ten beers a day for months. I got DTs after months of being sober then going on a two week extreme bender. If you have chronic alcoholism, it can be unpredictable. Normal alcohol withdrawals suck, it's like an extended hangover, sort of, but worse, but DTs have you seizing and hallucinating and it's no fun. You should not detox from serious drinking problems without medical guidance.

However, having serious alcoholism to the point of DTs often comes with difficulty in being able to hit detox. There's often avoidance - my uncle refused care for years because he was afraid to know the damage he'd done, or to be judged, or to worry our family. He is 60 and rejecting a liver transplant with a few months to live now.

For me, recently, it has been lacking insurance, and being unable to afford to miss work. And I am a semi-functional/arguably functional alcoholic- I have a full-time job, volunteer, just finished a book, and I still can't coordinate treatment due to cost. My addiction is p gnarly, but people who cannot work or care for themselves or function while in active addiction are dealing with worse barriers to treatment and being viewed a lot less respectfully than me and just all around being treated like shit on a shoe, when, imo, what I have to deal with to even begin to coordinate care is inhumane, I really cannot speak to their struggles.

And I'm not saying alcoholism is worse, but I do feel like it's treated like "diet drug addiction," like it can't be as bad as heroin or coke. it isn't for some, but it is worse for others. and I feel like the idea that "alcohol isn't a real drug" is really scary, because it's one of few whose withdrawals can kill you, and do so with little warning after a certain point in addiction. this isn't even going into alcohol-related injuries (shout out to the drunk guy who fell on me and gave me a TBI, and for all the bruises I gave myself while drunk), but like, idk, I feel like no one ever wants to talk about the dangers of alcohol, and, if they do, they're called a narc when it's a really serious topic. There's way more barriers for coming off alcohol than people expect- not necessarily more than other drugs, just that people underestimate the risks and the various roadblocks

#alcoholism #active addiction #addiction

[ghostigoods]

It's 3:37am, and I'm high on coke, and laying in bed in the dark with friends sleeping on my floor, headphones blasting music into my ears. I'm smoking cigarettes from between the sheets, drinking my favourite flavour of monster with matted hair, thinking "how did I get here?" Not in the physical sense, but in my life. It's weirdly comforting, the flavour of addiction, resorting to an old friend to release my pain, to rise above my emotions, even just for a moment, but I'm just waiting for the guilt to creep in. Here's to no longer being 3 months sober.

#tw addiction #addiction #active addiction #cocaine #coke addiction #writing #vent #bpd vent #vent post

[sassynsavagebackup]

talk about a difference

#Addiction #Then #Now #It's real #Active Addiction #She #jelly roll #I am her #She is me #Never thought it would be

[windows93p]

Lmao typical methadone clinic shenanigans. It's the speed peepee dance. Ive definitely been there but I made sure to stay home!!! For obvious reasons.

#methadone #drug addict problems #druggie #active addiction #speed dance #crack

[gleek4twd]

If anyone has gone through supporting someone through active addiction please reach out to me cause I'm not experienced enough to know what I'm doing, if its actually helping or not

#addiction #alcohol #active addiction #i cant loose him #my best friend #withdrawal #cold turkey #alcoholism

[daytripperoverlord]

Today was shit

Kñonopin and soju blackout time???? :D

#addict at large #active addiction #benzothoughts #soju time

[anaaxiety]

kinda wanna take a lethal dose of fent, I'm so confused about my life and where I'm going, everyday is such a burden and I'm so tired, I hate feeling fucking depressed and suicidal cause I feel hopeless about the future. But alas, I keep going everyday. where's my trophy lmao

Probably gonna cave in and say fuck my healing nose piercings and snort my o

dose of fent instead of popping or smoking (can't smoke it rn cause I'm with my grandma atm and she'll notice and smell it even with the windows open) and maybe a fat line of tramadol to chase it and calm me down. (I'm not using alone and I managed to get narcan so I'm somewhat ""safe"") I just need to nod and then everything's gonna feel okay and like a warm blanket. When I'm home full time again I'm def gonna smoke my shit again but snorting is also so nice, the ritual and the pain, the rush when you know you're gonna get high is addicting in and off itself. Ofc shooting up and needles are addicting, but for me whenever I see powder, a card or a straw I instantly feel the urge to cut a line and sniff lmao

#drugblr #drugs #addiction #drug blog #addict #junkie #girls who do hard drugs #drug addict #girls who do lines #girls who snort #fetty #fentanyl #fent #bpd vent #bpd thoughts #actually borderline #actually bpd #active addiction #junkie girls #my ramblings #bpd problems #hard drugs #drug abuse #opiate addiction #opioid addiction #opiaddict #opioids #opiodaddiction #nod squad #nodsquad

[futureless]

trigger warning: substance abuse and addiction

okay i rlly need help guys like i know it’s inevitable that i’ve got to get sober one day, eventually but how am i supposed to do that? like i can’t even imagine living a life sober… what else is there to do? like isn’t that extremely boring? what am i supposed to do all day? and when i am sober, i’m disgusting. when i’m sober, i’m lazy af, i don’t clean, i get extremely fat, i don’t do anything productive at all, i really don’t even get out of bed or shower. but when i’m on drugs, i’m productive, i get up & shower, like i’m all-around better when i am on drugs. so why get sober?!

i don’t know what i’m asking for exactly but i’m currently broke & coming down & it’s fucking horrible & im also going though a breakup so i am severely depressed right now.. like.. severely

#active addiction #substance addiction #substance abuse #sobriety #txt #borderline personality disorder #bpd problems #why do i exist #borderline stuff #who am i #bpd tag #bipolar mania #cptsd problems

[lesbienyu]

once again repeating HAMS, SMART Recovery, and Women for Sobriety are great twelve-steps alternatives

#active addiction #addiction #female addicts #meth #heroin #cocaine #xanax #pls use HAMS esp if you plan to keep using

[theminecraftbee]

honestly i do think etho is one of the funniest hermits in hermitcraft vault hunters and its at least in part because he's not making videos much, so we mostly see him in the videos of other people. which means that it feels very much like "one day etho was still kind of uncertain how the game worked and living in a pile of shulker boxes and we looked away for a minute and suddenly he's level 70, has an op lucky hit build, one of the most coherent and lovely bases on the entire vault hunters server, and knows more about the game than iskall, how did that happen." like every time we look away from him we look back and he's gone even more insane. it's so funny,

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft vault hunters #ethoslab #like basically all the hermits that stayed active on the server got a little addicted #but mans both got super addicted AND did it while we weren't looking at him. what is he doing.

[chronicallycouchbound]

People who use drugs deserve love and kindness.

Abstinence is not the only form of recovery. AA/NA doesn’t work for everyone. Sometimes people choose to use instead of meeting other needs, which is valid. Some people use for recreational purposes. Some people use for medicinal purposes. Some people who use have substance abuse disorder. Treatment looks different for everyone. Not everyone needs or wants treatment, for various reasons. The only thing Naloxone enables is breathing. Active use is not shameful. People who use drugs often also deal drugs. People in recovery should not shame active users. Active users deserve love. Active users deserve someone to check in on them, get them safer use supplies, and get them pizza. Active users deserve to be listened to. They deserve better than to have that be the first time anyone ever treated them as human since they began using.

Let’s care for each other.

#chronically couchbound #tw drugs #recovery #narcan #naloxone #harm reduction #harm redux #drug usage #addiction #active users #people in recovery #harm reduction saves lives #naloxone enables breathing #abstinence #alcoholism #substance use #substance addiction #safe use #safe use supplies #harm reduction is mutual aid #mutual aid #community care #narcan saves lives #AA/NA #narcotics anonymous #alcoholics anonymous

[dog-teeth]

something to recognize that choosing recovery again and again is difficult work, and you are not weak for faltering

#comics #hey proud of myself for completing a multi page comic even if its not that long #i realized i tend to operate under made up rules about the art in a comic being super consistent and it limits me #so i tried letting myself be looser with it :> #i hope this makes sense let me know what u think i feel so incoherent lately #hope everyone is doing well !!! havent been v active but i just got a flatbed scanner so i should be able to post some drawings soon :O #been UNWELL super unemployed i am in the slime i am seeing the skull #digital art #autobio comics #ask to tag #self harm cw #self harm tw #addiction cw #addiction tw