After six years sober from crystal meth, the speaker still gets cravings and using-related dreams. The shift isn't that they disappear, but that you learn to recognize and accept them instead of fighting them. Many people relapse after a few months when cravings don't stop, thinking they've failed.
I've been 6 years without crystal meth. I still get cravings. I still have using dreams. I still, at the gym, my veins will bring on this vision of a needle and then my body reacts. Mm-hmm. The differences are, is that you are in a better place to process the symptoms, process the cravings, and understand and accept that they're there. But what we find is after 3 or 6 months, you think you should be in a certain place. So you have that craving and you just say, oh, I'm a failure, and you just go back to use. Or this is— I'm hopeless, this is never going to work, you know.
