A person who tried to quit drugs four or five times before it stuck explains the difference between using and addiction. They credit therapy, talking with others, and major life changes like moving and buying a house with finally making recovery work.
Like, there's a difference between an addict and a drug user, period. Just because you use drugs doesn't mean that you're addicted to them. Yeah. Just because you're addicted to drugs doesn't mean you use them. So it kind of varies in many different ways. But like those tools, my tools were not rehab. And I'm really, really lucky. And I tried multiple times to quit. I would say in my experience, It takes about 5 times for somebody to attempt recovery for it to sink in and for it to start actively working. And I would say that's, that's about my experience, like 4 or 5 times. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I use therapy, I use speaking to other people. Um, for the first time in a long time, I moved, uh, like I live in— bought my house
