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What is more addictive than drugs ?

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SapphireDingo

2 drugs

21 hours ago
BenderBRoriguezzzzz

Drugs 2 the electric boogaloo

18 hours ago
Mostly_Armless42

Drugs 2: the Search for more Drugs

16 hours ago
Scrotum_Tennis

2Drugs2Furious

13 hours ago
0R_C0

2Drugs2Furious: The druggies drift

10 hours ago
RezRising

Drugs 3: The Search for Spank.

(Spank's our local dealer)

15 hours ago
SnowStar_24

Omg I literally just laughed so hard I cried 🤣

13 hours ago
BonoboSweetie

As funny as this sounds, polysubstance use disorders are pretty horrible.

14 hours ago
Seabrook76

This guy drugs.

16 hours ago
lovely-peggy349

This actually made me laugh

17 hours ago
Blast-Mix-3600

2 drugs at the same time

11 hours ago
meezy-yall

You beat me my like a minute, well played

11 hours ago
appreciator-of-boobs

Boobs

22 hours ago
tryintobgood

Username checks out

22 hours ago
ChrssPaull

Boob connoisseur

21 hours ago
Tooligan13853

Booboisseur

19 hours ago
uabassguy

Boobasaurus

18 hours ago
Any-Pomegranate-7544

Boobasaur - the tit pokemon. It carries a boob on its back right from birth. As its body grows larger, the boob does too. 

For some time after its birth, it uses the milk that are packed into the boob on its back in order to grow.

Moves: Growl, Sweet Scent, Vine Whip, Sleep Powder

17 hours ago
KorvKung69

r/usernamechecksout

21 hours ago
Individual_Card4409

I have boobs and I too appreciate boobies

19 hours ago
No-Jackfruit512

Must see these boobs to believe you have them .

14 hours ago
Individual_Card4409

Here (.) (.)

14 hours ago
No-Jackfruit512

Deflated ballons

13 hours ago
NotThisShipSister

( . Y . )

8 hours ago
Dangerous_Cover_6088

so fake. omg.

7 hours ago
Turbulent-Bit6420

me too

12 hours ago
send_mea_boob

Agreed

22 hours ago
EXE-SS-SZ

you two know each other? or just related?

21 hours ago
Rude_Lengthiness_101

Boobs come in pairs so of course they're related, siblings perhaps

18 hours ago
pdirth

.....more drugs.....but snorted off of boobs.

19 hours ago
PlayfulDot_OF

Grabbing mine.. yes

21 hours ago
DefinitelyButtStuff

Don't forget butts

16 hours ago
[deleted]

[deleted]

13 hours ago
unsalted52

Ass > boobs all day any day

14 hours ago
[deleted]

[deleted]

22 hours ago
Formal_Pangolin_3821

You beat me to it. Going cold turkey on love was worse than any drug withdrawals I've ever tried.

21 hours ago
TippayAy

The heart ache (literally) hits different

19 hours ago
Aggressive-Coat3543

Idk, I kinda had a messed up childhood and I’ve never been able to love someone in the way you are referring but, benzo withdrawals are pretty fucking ass

19 hours ago
4-Inch-Butthole-Club

Yeah I’ll take heartbreak over delirium tremens any day.

18 hours ago
PlantMediicine

You clearly haven’t gone cold turkey on fentanyl then. Imagine having that same feeling of love except it’s always readily available for you to use whenever you want it. You could have that feeling everywhere you go, while doing whatever you have to.

17 hours ago
Formal_Pangolin_3821

I haven't fucked around with opioids at all. But as a medicine student, never having smoked a cigarette and never imagining doing drugs... The end of a 9 year long relationship made me seek help in most other drugs, and I've had withdrawals from MDMA, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Cannabis, Benzoes, ketamine, and probably a lot others I forgot about. That breakup gave me an identity crisis, severe depression and made me feel empty, unlovable, alone and just, idk.. The period of the breakup was the worst period in my life, and it drove me to previously unimaginable lengths. Drugs can give you "love", and I bet opioids are amazing at specifically that. But the loss of a partner I had been with for 1/3 of my life since late teen years, came with a lot of consequences I didn't consider, but consequences which turned out to be essential for living in my case. I couldn't hug or cuddle someone, and there was no longer this one person I could confide in and talk to about past/present/future. I don't know how to describe it, but going cold turkey on all that at once, that was the worst pain I will ever have to endure, and nothing can come even close to that. And I am very certain of this.

16 hours ago
PlantMediicine

I completely feel you on that. The one person I loved, treated like my wife, was loyal since day 1, and was going to marry left me in the most immature heart shattering way possible. This was right before I had to have a reconstructive double jaw surgery. My mouth had to stay strapped shut for six weeks after the surgery. Recovery was six weeks. Covid was just announced the day I got out of the OR and back to my couch at home. I was prescribed 500 mg of liquid Vicodin (a months worth). It took the pain and loneliness away. You know how it starts most of the time opioids anyways. You don’t even get that high anymore and the only time you will is when you step up to heroin or something stronger. I’ve done just about every single drug as well and countless benders. The one thing that was my replacement through that hole left in my heart I’m going to what I went through was that warm cuddling feeling of warmth all around my body with euphoria and not a single care in the world because I felt amazing. Until it started fading away. Then it became into a disease. Now that disease has made me lose five years of my life now. I’m recovering still. I still have nightmares about her and all the brothers I lost to this day. I’m on methadone. I tried going cold turkey off of fentanyl over 60 times. Even with comfort meds, I would need a hospital. Eventually I had to get on methadone because that was my only treatment option left that I had not tried, and it actually worked. I’m still working on sobriety today, but I’m still also taking liquid heroin on a daily basis until I am slowly tapered off of it. I was chained to it for years and now I’m chained to it still. Even while recovering.

15 hours ago
Iamnoobmeme

Or porn. Anything involving sexual gratification. Or connection.

18 hours ago
bajajet

You are right and also Social media: Many people experience withdrawal symptoms when they stop using social media, and it can negatively impact mental health.

19 hours ago
Lower_Investment8847

While I would agree social media is definitely addictive, it is not even comparable to the level of addiction that comes with drugs.

18 hours ago
bluumerrr

Validation/Attention

22 hours ago
Zotoaster

I swear I think I've been a narcissist my whole life because my mood varies wildly based on how much validation and attention I'm getting

18 hours ago
ThisIsMyCouchAccount

As much as people try and shit all over it - everybody likes it in one way or another.

Some people need it from everybody. Some people would move mountains just to have a parent acknowledge them.

12 hours ago
ElegantClothes5229

facts.

5 hours ago
apiso

Oxygen. The withdrawals are brutal.

21 hours ago
laughing-or-crying

I stopped using it once for a few minutes during a seizure and I died! It fucking sucked.

17 hours ago
ensygma

3 stars, wouldn't recommend.

8 hours ago
mizinamo

And they hit even faster than water withdrawal.

17 hours ago
chease86

That's not what I've heard. I hear it's like SUPER easy to give up for the rest of your life.

8 hours ago
gojimjam

Honestly, between doomscrolling Reddit for hours and craving that next sugar rush, it's a toss-up. And let's be real, the internet has basically weaponized dopamine hits in a way that makes drugs look quaint. Even if boobs are the OG distraction, modern addictions are way more insidious because they're socially acceptable. We're all out here chasing little hits of serotonin in different forms.

20 hours ago
RottedHuman

Internet addiction has nothing on drug addiction.

17 hours ago
Slackjaw_Samurai

I’ve never seen anyone hooked on Facebook getting arrested for breaking into abandoned houses to rip copper wiring out of the walls.

15 hours ago
Patthecat09

Internet is also way more affordable

15 hours ago
DrFaustPhD

Sure, but I've seen kids fail out of college because of their online addictions plenty of times. More than I knew kids that failed because of drugs, that's for sure.

13 hours ago
Slackjaw_Samurai

I agree with you, internet addiction and online escapism is a big problem. but people have dropped out college for all sorts of dumb reasons. However, probably not a lot of people sell their body on the streets, steal from their parents or rob liquor stores at gunpoint to pay for their Fortnite addiction.

13 hours ago
DrFaustPhD

Valid counterpoint. There are probably some corners of online that cover some of that in extreme situations (gambling, OF/egirl "relationships"), but I agree that those situations don't appear to arise as often as it does with severe drug addictions.

13 hours ago
Late-Button-6559

So still drugs?

18 hours ago
Rude_Lengthiness_101

Hmm im not sure, internet has never made people go into withdrawal where they seize and die, vomit, spasm and have severe suicidal ideation and keep relapsing as their body is literally breaking apart. People literally overdose, recover from this near death and continue, so they fear death less than the withdrawal as their mind sees that fentanyl bag as necessity for survival and goes into shock when its gone

18 hours ago
Economy_Amphibian112

Try taking a cellphone from a teenager and see what will happen

17 hours ago
Rude_Lengthiness_101

a temper tantrum, just like taking a candy from a toddler. not comparable at all when drug withdrawal is that AND much more

17 hours ago
lambdawaves

The internet makes drugs look quaint? You ever tried heroine?

18 hours ago
foofie_fightie

Heroin

Wonder Woman is a heroine

16 hours ago
Minimum-Lie-6102

lol I hate when people mess this up

16 hours ago
PennStateFan221

They’re not as insidious as fentanyl. You can’t overdose on the internet and stop breathing. The worst that happens is you become an asshole and maybe depressed or anxious. Drugs can do that too, but always with the risk of death or legal trouble. Facebook doesn’t make you wake up in a ditch, stop paying your mortgage, and lose your house and family.

15 hours ago
YouthEmergency1678

My screen addiction is almost as bad as my nicotine addiction and more severe than my alcoholism. Shit's insane. I can function pretty well if I have ZERO screens in my flat, but put a phone or a laptop somewhere in my flat and I will be GLUED to my screen during every free hour of the day. 

15 hours ago
That_Purple288

More addictive than drugs? For a lot of people, it’s actually validation likes, comments, attention. That instant hit of feeling seen and appreciated can hook you way harder than any substance.

22 hours ago
ComprehensivePeak943

One of the realest comments here.

20 hours ago
bobbery5

Guilty as hell.
I crave validation from strangers since I don't get it enough in my offline life.

14 hours ago
p1ll0w_pr1nc355

sex imo

22 hours ago
Sexy_smile

A lot of people would choose drugs over sex.

21 hours ago
[deleted]

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19 hours ago
R1CHARDCRANIUM

I used to. At my worst, you could have the most beautiful person on the planet willing and ready on one side of the room and a blue on the other and I would’ve taken the pill each and every time.

15 hours ago
LemonPartyW0rldTour

That’s me. I used to enjoy drugs much more than actual human interaction. Having toxic traits like avoidance and self-isolation made it easy to choose them over sex.

14 hours ago
MrFaeron

Opioids are way better than sex

14 hours ago
lowketyrux

Chemsex better

20 hours ago
CrzyGirll

Social media

6 hours ago
ValRosenstein

porn, and it's easier available

22 hours ago
knic989900

And free

14 hours ago
RandomRedditor0815

Sugar is the right answer here.

22 hours ago
gold328

Does this differ person to person? I would consider myself to have a highly addictive personality but cutting out sugar has always been very easy for me, never really found myself with the urge to have sugary things.

21 hours ago
liquidsol

Sugar triggers the release of dopamine, so it’s rewarding. It may not be as addictive as heroin, but everyone (including kids) are using sugar.

Sugar is addictive in nature, also. It influences animal behavior to spread seeds and pollinate. Winnie the Pooh’s dopamine receptors had a particular affinity for honey.

21 hours ago
Pablo_Eskobar

Doing my best to give it up terrified of diabetes. Struggling with the fizzy drinks though!

18 hours ago
Ideal_Collector

I would also add salt into that list...

21 hours ago
Particular-Jello-401

Salt is necessary for survival.

21 hours ago
TwiztedNFaded

so are sugars...

19 hours ago
LeggyWalrus24

You can survive without eating sugar as your body can make them by itself out of protein. You can’t survive without any salt intake.

18 hours ago
LostInSpaceTime2002

Do you have actual experience with any of the more serious drugs or are you just guessing?

20 hours ago
abejando

It's just objectively untrue lol even the weakest of recreational drugs are far more addictive

21 hours ago
Linuxlady247

Praise - stroke that ego

22 hours ago
Curious-Lobster-4629

A loving relationship. No joke, I read somewhere years ago that dealing with breakup is neurologically & physically closer to an actual drug withdrawal than we realize. Something something oxytocin & dopamine levels wish I could remember the actual explanation

21 hours ago
ohhfasho

Interesting. I just ended my 15 year relationship with my wife because she had been cheating on me. And I have to tell you that, the first few weeks were an absolute blur and I was incapable of doing fuck all anything. It certainly felt like I had died

8 hours ago
SuddenMagazine1751

Oxytocin beats everything.

Dopamine is fun, Serotonin is lovely, Oxytocin is all consuming. Dopamine is easy to regulate with drugs or even food, serotonin works more like a "basin" so u can empty it out way easier. Oxytocin i dont know if u can get from substances.

All are signalsubstances ur brain puts into you to make u do stuff.

Dopamine from when uve done something u feel that u need to do. Trick to boost this is writing lists of shit to do and then checking them off, this triggers more dopamine in a lot of people, why therapists tell u to do that.

Serotonin is the Chillax substance where u feel at peace, meditation, looking at something beautiful, having all ur stress wash away.

Oxytocin the only thing i dont know if you can get by substances but this is also the one that hits me hardest atleast. the moment when u spend a night with ur crush for the first time. Man nothing beats that. Wondering if this is why some substance abusers say they get saved by a spouse/gf/bf.

Dopamine -> Reward system
Serotonin -> Feel good system
Oxytocin -> Love basically

19 hours ago
WarriorsQQ

Gambling

22 hours ago
Randori2na

Bet you it’s not

18 hours ago
UrMomIsBeautiful_5

While it’s probably not the most addictive, it’s definitely one of the most devastating addictions

19 hours ago
WarriorsQQ

Yes i can confirm....

19 hours ago
Elemeno_pi

The dopamine hit of moral outrage. Scrolling just to hate strangers, chasing the rush of being right, while your cortisol spikes and relationships crumble.
At least heroin won’t make you post cringe.

21 hours ago
notches123

As someone who has actually been addicted to drugs the only thing remotely similar is being in love. And being heartbroken is the closest I have ever experienced to withdrawal from drugs. Not physically obviously but in terms of coping with being alive they were horribly similar.

21 hours ago
Fruitgamer45

Reddit

22 hours ago
EuphoricDilemma

Anything that produces dopamine in high doses can become addictive, even more than drugs. For example adrenaline junkies, they are addicted to adrenaline but alcohol does nothing for them in some cases while other people fall into alcoholism. Sex or pornography are also common addictions without the use of drugs, social media…

Idk if sugar would count 🤔 probably yes since it is not classified as a drug however it does have the withdrawal effect drugs tend to have, I do need to look that one up, but yeah

22 hours ago
ThisIsMyCouchAccount

A big part of ADHD is - in really simple terms - a broken dopamine system.

Sometimes I view my ADHD as kind of its own entity inside me. And I think it's a junkie. It will do whatever it takes to get the next hit regardless how negatively it will impact me.

12 hours ago
Mayhem4256

McDonald’s French Fries

Ba da ba ba bahhhhh

22 hours ago
beepbop3546

sleep

22 hours ago
GreenLurch

Gotta love Dopesmoker

20 hours ago
Real-Aside-6837

Unchecked power/influence

22 hours ago
olismismi

ironically - love & loneliness

22 hours ago
Initial_Hand5792

Cats

19 hours ago
SnowStar_24

...tell me about it 😆

12 hours ago
Loose-Database569

Pornography

22 hours ago
Home_zero

Definitely porn. Don't know a lot of guys with drug addictions but every guy I've been with has had a porn addiction at some point in their life.

21 hours ago
lilsquibbles

Gooning and pornography.

20 hours ago
mangotangowango1

food

22 hours ago
stirringmotion

music

22 hours ago
LindsayOG

Music ON drugs.

21 hours ago
SpaceTraveler221

1 Sugar

2 Power

3 Boobs

21 hours ago
Thestar_dust

I believe that anything that gives us pleasure can become an addiction, without it necessarily being a drug as such...

19 hours ago
Patient-Public9728

Comfortability

19 hours ago
Dani_abqnm

Food.

22 hours ago
freakytapir

Money and the power one derives from it.

20 hours ago
-Ammonia-

Your Phone

19 hours ago
R1CHARDCRANIUM

Food.

I’ve been addicted to drugs and I’ve been addicted to alcohol. I’ve quit them all and struggled to do so. 11 years sober in the 20th of this month. Food was my largest struggle. I ballooned to 430 pounds and struggled each and every day to address my eating. It took a stomach tumor and the removal of my stomach to drop the weight and a lot of therapy to change the eating. I’m between 195 and 205 now and even though I literally cannot fit the food in there, I still tend to order food like I used to whenever I do actually go out to eat or hit the drive thru. It’s been two years since I’ve reached a healthy weight but my inner fat guy still screams at me all the time. My inner drug and alcohol addict does from time to time, as well, but the fat guy is much, much louder.

The emotional and physical connection to food is an addiction, in my opinion. Even if some do not agree. It was, by far, the hardest one to kick. Opiates were child’s play compared to that beautiful bitch, Wendy.

15 hours ago
Entire_Captain4662

Porn

21 hours ago
Local_Cantaloupe_378

A toxic codependent relationship that you cant escape from without major pain and suffering.

21 hours ago
Clappying

Golf

16 hours ago
Remote-Researcher-90

U can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness

14 hours ago
MapAggressive885

self harm

10 hours ago
seonghwacat-ears

Online shopping

10 hours ago
blanco_mandingo

Eating pussy if I’m being completely honest

19 hours ago
AntiquePussyEater

Can confirm

19 hours ago
blondiebaddie99

Sex

22 hours ago
stinkiepussie

Sex on drugs

17 hours ago
hiddensalafiyah

Love

22 hours ago
Wanna_face_you

Women's

22 hours ago
[deleted]

[deleted]

22 hours ago
HeartlessShooter9

Sports

22 hours ago
Spectating110

infatuation

22 hours ago
sneha_slayy

love

22 hours ago
bathtubzen

shame

22 hours ago
Few-Regret4002

sex

22 hours ago
Jttwife

Junk food

22 hours ago
Pratishthaaa

Reels

22 hours ago
Repulsive-Bobcat4595

Kitty

22 hours ago
Muted_Lengthiness_31

Pussy and sports gambling. Also alcohol.

21 hours ago
Expensive-Track4002

Great sex.

21 hours ago
adiene-domo

cats.

21 hours ago
Radiant-Inevitable24

Fapping. Haven’t been able to quit since my first time. I successfully quit drugs and alcohol.

21 hours ago
lilnickyv6

Food 100%

21 hours ago
hmmmmmidkaboutthis

Toxic relationships. It’s like crack.

21 hours ago
shanethebyrneman

Gambling is as addictive if not more addictive than drugs.

20 hours ago
hashlettuce

Sugar. There are so many obese people around and other obese people telling them its ok. Big sugar loves it!!

20 hours ago
dancinadventures

Question is so generic

Caffeine is a drug

Alcohol is a drug

Meth is a drug

Heroine is a drug

Nasal spray is a drug

20 hours ago
LazyBearZzz

Video games

19 hours ago
inziellc

One hit from a like, a compliment, or a ‘you did good’ and suddenly we’re chasing approval like it’s oxygen.

19 hours ago
Choice-Stop9886

self harm

19 hours ago
MoistDebate6306

Self harm

19 hours ago
SwTerThanShuga

Porn This one is pure wolverine claws 

19 hours ago
SaxWeeb23

Dopamine

19 hours ago
MizWhatsit

Having a shlt tonne of money.

19 hours ago
SmellOfParanoia

Air, brainrot, validation.

19 hours ago
mmhxly

music

19 hours ago
Fantastic_Joke4645

Social media. Way more users than drugs.

19 hours ago
Kitchen_Effect_8023

Sex

17 hours ago
Inkspotten

Fun women

17 hours ago
ACDrinnan

Death. Once you try it, there's no coming back

15 hours ago
Few-Office-1111

I am guessing cell phones or the internet since a majority of people are on it multiple hours a day every single day and they don’t realize it’s unhealthy.

15 hours ago
penandpad5

Codependence

14 hours ago
angryschmaltz

3 drugs

14 hours ago
Massive-Corgi-491

Corgi

14 hours ago
Mission_Charge_7658

Sex

13 hours ago
gay_anime_guy

Cuddles

13 hours ago
1bunchofbananas

The pineapple Costco sells. I swear it's crack

13 hours ago
R-K-Tekt

Blowjobs

13 hours ago
i-fart-butterflies

Doing absolutely nothing

12 hours ago
Not-a-thott

Sex

12 hours ago
Top-Dentist7555

Porn

12 hours ago
MountainDeude

Porn

12 hours ago
Loud-Yak7950

Sugar

12 hours ago
yehmen45

Porn

12 hours ago
MsBlades

Pizza dipping sauce

12 hours ago
Unlikely-Gas2903

Definitely our phones

11 hours ago
SmashPotatoes12

Anxiety

11 hours ago
aneonnightmare

Power

11 hours ago
Severe_Broccoli7258

Sugar

11 hours ago
Sensitive-Cap-6252

Food

11 hours ago
coagulandia

More drugs.

10 hours ago
cashewbiscuit

Life.

If you try to quit, you die

3 hours ago
SalamanderLive6098

watching Aubrey Plaza videos

2 hours ago
BloxxyVids

"that damn phone"

2 hours ago
imneversleepingg

Food/Sugar addiction, i’ve been addicted to every drug type, still addicted to speed, nothing compares to an addiction to the dopamine-pumped every day necessity

2 hours ago
M2IK2Y

Sugar. No really. Stop eating sugar for 3 wos. (I know its hard its in everything) but you'll learn sugar is gross. We are all litgerallh addicted to sugar. Its worse than coca cocaine,crack meth cigs. Coffee. Its bad. I only last 6 months.

1 hour ago
SavingsBest

lowkey bro aspartame im so addicted to diet coke and i think thats why

1 hour ago