Im a recoverying drug addict and alcoholic?

Question

what can i do to take my mind off of drugs and do things without using friends

Answer 1

Keep busy...find an activity or class you are interested in. It is important to keep busy so you don't have time to be bored where your thoughts will go to drugs.  Assuming your friends are not into drugs there is nothing wrong with enlisting their help to keep you sober.  They would want what is best for you.  If your friends are from your using days, then stay well away from them.

Answer 2

You're doing the right thing by asking.  The whole one day at a time thing is hard to hear over and over and over and over.  It's true though.  Today is the only day that matters in your recovery. The effort required to develope new friendships and and a new lifestyle is easier than you think.  It sucks to admit that all of the people I hung around when partying do not care one **** about me as a sober person, but it is true.  It's comfortable to want to go back and pick up where we leave off, but it's sick, and it's an illusion.  Email me anytime.

Answer 3

Join any alcoholism intervention, that would be a great step in order to keep you away from alcohol.

Answer 4

Try keeping yourself busy.Go to a A.A. meetings,Maybe adcare,even talk to a counselor.Get a job if you don't already have one.Think positive and take one day at a time.

Answer 5

Go to meetings.  Ask people there what they do.  If nothing else you might find some "clean" friends to play with.