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There are two methods I know of. Either you stop doing the thing, or you do other things instead. The first requires a presence of mind to enter the void left
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
There are two methods I know of. Either you stop doing the thing, or you do other things instead.
The first requires a presence of mind to enter the void left behind by the thing, that people doing drugs probably lack, since they are, in essence, stimulation addicts. Drugs fill a void they avoid facing. Stopping doing drugs would cause them to face that void.
The second is more amenable, because you can taper off with replacement therapy. Switch to using less bad drugs, or indeed anything stimulating. Continuously replace the thing you're getting stimulation from with another, slightly less stimulating thing, until the thing that is left is sufficiently nonstimulating that stopping and accepting the void feels manageable.
I went from putting speed in my morning coffee to eating a pound of chocolate a day.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoChocolate has a lot of PEA which activates the TAAR1 receptor just like amphetamines. In fact, all amphetamines contain a PEA base - they are substitutes phenylethylamines, for example Alpha-MethylPHenEThylAMINE.
- newbie789 5y agoThe primary effect of amphetamines (that matters) is VMAT inhibition. While lots of drugs hit lots of receptors, and there are lots of overlap because of this, this does not make different compounds equivalent. For example, off the top of my head, mescaline is also in the phenylethylamine family but is a wildly different drug with different receptor bonding affinity and subjective effects. I doubt anyone would want to mix up the two.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoYou are correct. However, PEA alone does have a stimulant effect through TAAR1, and in chocolate it is coupled with other xanthine stimulants.