[craig r]

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I used meth almost daily for a year and a half. It was easy to quit once I decided to do it. The physical addictiveness of meth is way overrated. The only reason it's hard to quit is that it so distorts your lifestyle that it requires an almost complete break from your life to get off it. In the months after I quit meth I was so bored I thought I'd die.

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I know that the physical addictiveness of coke is also possibly not a huge problem. I know that there is no physical reason that you need to go to rehab in order to quit coke. In fact, I was talking to some people that go to AA (some were ex-heroin junkies and some were alcoholics) and they had told me that the only drug that you had to have medical attention if you quit is alcohol. I was suprised by this, because I always thought that you could die if you weren't given proper medical attention when quitting heroin. I know opiates are physically addictive, but I think it is physically possible to quit on your own without dying.

As far as your "boredom" when you quit meth, I think that is fairly common for most stimulants. I know with coke it can last up to a year before you start feeling better.

craig