How to Have Fun Without Drugs or Alcohol

Many people feel that drugs or at least alcohol are needed to have a good time. That life would be boring without them. Though at first this may seem like a truth to someone trying drugs or alcohol, look at any of the thousands of people stuck in the cycle of addiction and you won’t see a fun, happy time being had there.

For those that never got into drugs and alcohol you will find it easy to hang out with a group or friends and do different activities that keep your life fun and rewarding. But for those just starting a sober, drug-free life, it isn’t so simple. Probably the old group of friends is still out there at the parties and raves surrounded by drugs and alcohol… yet staying at home alone is not an appealing prospect either.

Everyone has to find out what works for them but here are some ideas of things that can be taken up alone or with friends to begin a life that can be sober yet fun, happy and even adventurous too. Useful links provided!

• Learn to do something you have always wanted to do, it could be cooking or playing the guitar, learning a new language, taking acting classes or whatever ideas you have.Something that you always wanted to do but never quite made the time for.

• Go for a hike or long walk, England is lucky to have its public right of way maintained and there are paths just about everywhere that can be explored and enjoyed. Or you have places like theNational Trust scattered all over the country.
• Take up some exercise or learn a sport. Whether it is as simple as the gym or an aerobics class or as adventurous as skiing, surfing or skydiving or all of the things available in between like football, cricket, rugby or snooker, there is sure to be something that you can get into.

• See a movie, a gig or show. Going out to these types of places can be fun and not necessarily saturated by drugs. If you are in London there are thousands of things on offer, if not then look into what is available near you.

• Take a road trip or go on holiday. Find some drug and alcohol-free friends and hit the road and explore a new area. It could be a day trip, a long weekend or a week-long adventure but whatever it is there is always joy indiscovering new places. 
• Take up some art form whether it’s painting, drawing, sculpting or photography. Or if you truly don’t feel you have the artistic skills, you could always do something as simple as adult colouring books! Being creative is a great and soothing experience!
• What about volunteering? You probably have skills and abilities or at least time and attention that could be put to good use helping others. Helping another can be an extremely rewarding experience.
• Get involved in some local activity, whether it is a Zumba class, or a night of cards, arts and crafts, book club, or pulling out the old Magic cards there is definitely something happening near you that you can get involved in.

I hope that some of these are appealing to you and give you some ideas of how to meet new people if you need to, or get into activities without the drugs or alcohol of the past. If you do stick to it I am sure you will see that a sober lifestyle is not a boring one, but rather filled with fun and energy to direct whichever way you choose.

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A Dangerous Time to Be on Drugs

Today, more than ever, is a dangerous time to be addicted to drugs. Not only are there more drugs than ever before, but the purity, potency and even the chemical makeup of the drugs can very widely, thereby greatly increasing the possibility of drug overdoses or other severely bad reactions.

A couple of generations ago there were really only a dozen street drugs generally available and their strength and effects were fairly well known by drug users. Times have now changed though, with a multitude of synthetic drugs being made month to month, with new pharmaceutical drugs escaping from a controlled medical environment onto the street, and with many drugs being adulterated with dangerous chemicals or other drugs. All of this means that the drug user is often playing a game of Russian Roulette, never knowing when the hammer is going to fall on a loaded chamber.

There are now literally hundreds of different forms of non-prescription, synthetic drugs on the market. Not all of them are even illegal because the drug manufacturers keep changing the chemical components of the substances to stay ahead of the legislation which attempts to outlaw these drugs. These ‘legal highs’ though, are just as dangerous as many of the illegal drugs out there and sometimes more so.

Many formulas out there don’t even have names but are just known by their research numbers such as 251-NBOMe, or HU-210. Synthetic cannabis for example just in 2013 was found to have 29 new different forms! This is out of the 81 total new synthetic drugs or forms of drugs found in the UK alone. When the chemical composition of what the user smokes, injects or eats varies widely, it can often occur that the effects of those drugs are equally unpredictable. There are records of these and other synthetic drugs causing psychotic breaks, suicides and even homicides.

But it is not only synthetic drugs which can have unknown effects. Today it is very common for more “traditional” street drugs, such as heroin, to be laced with other substances. For example, the prescription drug, Fenytal, many times stronger than heroin, is sometimes added to strengthen the high which the junkie gets from his heroin hit. That added boost can easily cause an overdose.

This is why now, more than ever, it is a dangerous time to be buying drugs and using drugs.

If you know of a friend or loved one who is abusing drugs, don’t wait. Contact Narconon so that we can work together to get that person into a programme to free him from drug abuse and its attendant risks.

For more help on educating someone you know 
against these legal highs or getting help 
for someone who is already addicted, call us on

00800 808 5749

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