“For some people quitting foods, say chocolate, can be as hard as kicking heroin is for a junkie. Food hooks people by triggering the exact chemical reactions triggered in the brain by hard drugs. Or nicotine. Or alcohol. Or shopping. Or sex.” SexFoodAlcoholQuittingShoppingHeroinJunkieFoodieNicotineHard Drugs Author:Rebecca Skloot
“After my sentencing from the judge, I started getting drug tested regularly. As a result, I had to stop smoking weed. In place of weed, I started doing other drugs that stayed in my system for shorter amounts of time and were harder to detect. It started with nontraceable substances like mushrooms, acid, and 2-CB (a derivative of mescaline), but it quickly turned into hard drugs. While weed was detectable on tests for up to a month, hard drugs were only traceable for a few days or a week at most. Ironically, the drug tests which were meant to discourage me from drug use, turned me on to hard drugs.” WeedHeroinThe GovernmentThe SystemHard DrugsThe Government Is Not PerfectDrug TestsGateway Drugs Book:Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose