After the 'high' or 'trip' that most drugs take you on, there is a comedown. Try not to put it off.

Avoid using heroin, mandrax, speed or benzodiazepines like Valium or Rohypnol to take the edge off. These drugs are much more physically addictive than Ecstasy or Acid.

Your drug-taking could evolve from a party experience to a daily need. Come down naturally. Chill out, replenish your body with food, fluids and sleep. The high could be followed by feelings of depression or anxiety for days after use - prolonging the comedown could make it worse. Your experience with drugs could turn into a nightmare.

If you are spinning out, ask for help from a friend, a paramedic or someone working at the rave or club. If someone collapses - call for help immediately. Try not to panic.

If you're using too many drugs too often, you are likely to end up feeling spaced out, paranoid and depressed. It's Newton's Law of Drug Gravity. What goes "up" must come "down". Your body and mind needs rest, relaxation and nourishment to replace the things that drugs take out, so if you feel you're losing the plot and you've been overdoing it, give the drugs a rest for a few weeks and see how you feel.

Take a look at this for some useful comedown tips: 'All is revealed in the good comedown guide' - Happy Sundays, reproduced from the british dance & club culture magazine, mixmag.

Also from mixmag, is a story on 5-HTP, The 'Anti-Comedown' pill

 

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