Reddit reviews Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction: An Essential Guide to Getting Clean

Come up with a plan to stop using or, at least, severely restrict your use, and stick to it. You are showing warning signs of your life getting markedly worse, despite your obvious high intelligence and drive. The common denominator is a substance that you think you can handle. Nobody plans to jump off a cliff, but you are headed toward one. I'd recommend Russel Brand's book about addiction, even if you reject 12 stepping out of principle. One of th e first thing he says is the most golden lesson you can absorb when dealing with highly-addictive drugs: "Do you have a plan?"
 
Apologies if it seems like I'm trying to scare you or tslk down to you. I'm a grad school dropout who has made poor choices on meth-like substances, but I'm human and so are you. It's very hard to control your behavior on drugs that get you this high, especially if you fall into the trap of redosing, which is a feature and not a bug of most NDRI's. If you have to use, make it physically impossible to go on a bender. Keep small amounts and space out your usage. Get a timelock safe and throw away the key if you have to keep a stash. Get a calendar and track your usage. Write down the reasons why you use. Become familiar with your urges and behaviors (your witnessing one of mine that is unhealthy: the desire to "fit in" to communities by "helping" others). Learn how to substitute activities that are fulfilling (meditation is boring af at first, but it can help you see your emotions without acting on impulses, which is key). Drop friends who enable using and, when you are ready, talk to friends who don't use about your struggles so you can see what "normal" is. Be kind and forgiving to yourself. You will break your rules, but when you do...enforce consequences. This book supposedly has guidelines for harm reduction if you are going to use. If I ever fall back into my habit, which is likely because I know myself, one of my rules is "no using for more than one 24 hour period." (I have went on several days-long benders, and it wasn't pretty.) See the harm before the fun and nevet lose sight of the consequences of having too much fun. If you're like me, you are making these choices because you are hurting. I hope you are healing, too.