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What kind of rc stimulants are good for staying focused on work.

Hello, I am wondering what rcs are good for doing work. I have adhd and im currently on an Adderall but I lost that strong locked in effect a long time ago. I would like to preface a few things:

  1. I do not plan on mixing my adderall with any other stimulant.

  2. I understand these rcs are often addicting so I would not use it daily only on rare occasions when I genuinely need it.

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u/Specialist-Wait-3498 — 15 hours ago

How does MAL pair with other psychedelics?

MAL by itself is already a pretty awesome drug but I’m interested in mixing things up. At the moment I have 4-HO-MET, 4-AcO-DMT, and LSD. I don’t really want to mix drugs with no forethought, so I’m interested in hearing other people’s experiences.

I’m primarily after intensified visuals and body feel without too much of an intensification in headspace.
Also, would it be recommended to wait until after the nausea of MAL wears off, or should I take both at the same time?

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u/Commercial_Aside3619 — 16 hours ago

What is the closest analogue to PCP in terms of subjective effects?

I have heard it may be 3-HO-PCP or 3-MeO-PCP, but I was wondering how the PCE's come into play. How similar is 3-MeO-PCE to other analogues/PCP? I have a bit of 3meopce coming and wondering if it's worth getting 3-MeO-PCP.

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u/Flaky-Average-8465 — 1 day ago

Boofing hole dose for 2-fxe/2f-nen-dck

Hi i have almost 2gs of this stuff and i want to hole tonight. I tried it a week ago IN ROA around 100mg and really liked it but didn’t come close to holing.

I didn’t found any info for bioavalibillity for boofing. Does any of you have experience for this ROA?

I am thinking about doing 100mg plugged and around 100mg IN if its not enough. Most of the times i wanna hole when boofing I overdo it and just blackout and i dont want this time to be that case.

Edit: I red that you can smoke FXE. Is it possible to smoke 2-FXE too? Would classic crack pipe work?

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u/strainhunetr420 — 20 hours ago

2C-T-7 - Yay or Nay?

Curious if anyone here has experienced 2C-T-7 before and can say whether or not its worth trying. It's stupidly expensive (presumably because of it's rarity, it would be the most expensive trip I've taken by far) and it seems to have mixed reviews. Then again, it's one of Shulgin's "magical half dozen" and I'd be curious to try them all throughout my life.

It seems like this is something that I'll probably never see again, so it's now or never. I love 2C-B, but too much of it can be a bit overwhelming for me, and it seems like 2C-T-7 may be even more intense. How similiar is it to 2C-B?

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u/CyberneticFennec — 1 day ago

Benzo withdrawl with Pagoclone

For a reason thats too long to explain, I have to get off my clonazepam (1 month, 2mg daily) and get it out of my system as soon as possible.

I was intending to use the ashton manual as I have done multiple times in the past without any issues.

But for an upcoming drug test (could basically be at any time beginning today) I have to be clean, so I have not time to Taper slowly.

Even if I stop cold turkey clonazepams half life is so long and after the accumulation in my body I will be positive for probably 4-6 weeks.

So my idea is to substitute with mainly pagoclone, but I also have Pregabalin, phenibut, muscimol and a strong Kava extract.

I am aware that pagoclone is only a partial "gaba a agonist", and that it's half life is not suited for a Taper, and that it's binding to different gaba a subunits.

But it's probably my best bet to just dose 20mg (+/- depending on how I feel) every few hours and hope for the best. And if sleep becomes a big issue I bring out the Pregabalin, Phenibut, muscimol or Kava.

Does anyone know if it's possible to speed up the elimination of the clonazepam out of my system, and does anyone has some other ideas?

Are there any rc benzos that do not show up on a regular drug panel as a benzodiazepine?

Thanks for the help

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u/Flx9999 — 2 days ago

Why do I not see reports of people combining 5-mapb with mdma or mda?

Plenty of reports of people combining it with 6-apb, but not mdma or mda. Is there something particularly dangerous about this that I'm missing? Loved the longer duration of 5-mapb, but felt it lacked a little of the magic.

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u/Baberaham_Lincoln_69 — 2 days ago

I feel like I was addicted to 4-ho-met

I first tried 4-ho-met a few months ago. I got about 5 pills that I believe were 10 milligrams each. The first time I did it with about 4 homies with me. That said the effects were even crazier with weed so we stepped outside and smoked a joint a little bit before my visuals started kicking in (bout two hours after taking a pill) first I felt extremely relaxed. I was chilling on the couch talking shit with one of my buddies when the visuals started kicking in while I was talking to him. My couch has a Southwestern** geometric design **on it which I think really inspired my visuals. But when my visuals started kicking in I saw the pattern moving across the couch like it wasn’t connected. I looked up at the ceiling and my popcorn ceiling started to look like little fish swimming across my ceiling. My homies were glad I was having a good time they ordered pizza that I was too high to eat, they made some pot brownies. It was a blast.
Then I did it the next night. Then the next, and the next. I don’t think it was the drug I was really addicted to but the way it made me think. I didn’t think about yesterday. I didn’t think about tomorrow and I just lived entirely in the moment.
My last time taking it was still in this chain of taking it every day for almost a week and it was just me and my other homie who I haven’t tripped with before he said we should snort two of them up until now I had only taken 1 and still had crazy trips but this time is what made me stop. My homie snorted two 10 mg pills, I snorted one and popped the other. We went on a walk smoke some weed and came back inside needless to say I was tripping hard it started to be hard to stay in the moment I started to freak out after having a fucked up ego death type thing where I saw myself sitting there in my trip room looking like a drooling idiot. My homie who was much higher than me wasn’t even able to hold a conversation when I told him that I was freaking out said “damn dude like this whole night depends on you” which definitely didn’t help.
It was at this moment I realized that I had to stop or I would end up seeing severe side effects like the seizures that are at risk.

I wanted to know if anyone else had an experience like this, if I should stay clear of color, or if it was just too big of a dose for me making a bad trip?
And feel free to ask any questions.

(Sorry I’m really bad at typing long posts)

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u/Scared_Help7606 — 2 days ago
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Friend Passed Away From Stimfapping, I Believe This Post Needs To Be Resurfaced [Repost from r/Drugs]

A post I made a while ago has been reposted by someone with a personal story and outlines the exact reason I posted it in the first place.

Original Post - https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/s/mc4W4Dfjin

OP’s Post -

A friend of mine has recently passed away from stimfapping leaving a family completely torn apart and a Mom, Father and Sister completely destroyed.

The family believes it was standard drug use, however I know the sad reality this person faced and I am devastated I didn’t step up and do more. I am not sure if I tell the family what I know or save my friend and his immediate family the shame and embarrassment.

After learning about the passing and deep diving into the subject I found an old post that I believe needs to be resurfaced as it truly is straight to the point and captures an almost identical path this friend took. The hardest drug I knew he was using was methamphetamine, however we now know it went deeper and deeper.

I truly hope people take this post seriously and really think about the path they are going down:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/s/wMNqua3ZKK

I don’t want to get in trouble for any copyright and give full credit to the original guy who wrote it, but I truly feel it’s the best harm reduction post I have seen on Reddit regarding the matter and believe it needs to be resurfaced.

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u/Character-Potato216 — 3 days ago

Question for stimfappers

I have a question for people who actually stimfap for real like for hours and hours. Do you not feel a strong sense of shame when your doing it. Because I never really truly stimfapped but I can't lie I've jerked off on amphetamines couple of times tho I do stims in general just very occasionally and whenever I'd do it, i wouldn't keep going after the first finish. And I'd always have a pretty nasty sense of shame which would sometimes even make me stop in the middle of it, where I'd be like wtf am I even doing.

Do y'all just not get that at all or does it feel too good on harder stims to the point where you just can't stop or how does it work. I don't wanna shame any of y'all it's just something I always found interesting cuz I can't imagine how I'd feel after hours long stimfapping session.

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u/IndicationGold5988 — 3 days ago

5-MAPB First Time - Far More Functional/Subtle than MDMA

Background:

41M used MDMA approximately 20 times in the past few years, always at raves or festivals and about 70% of the time my wife rolls as well.

I bought a somewhat popular but not the most popular brand of 5-MAPB gummies online.

I am curious and like trying new things carefully, and I was interested in something that purportedly lasts longer than MDMA, which gets me about 3 hours of dancefloor energy. I don't quite follow the 3 month rule, but I do try and space my rolls so trying something new when MDMA is so amazing is a gamble, but the timing and setting seemed perfect:

  1. I tend to do ok at raves on anything that gets me feeling good even if it's not really a stimulant, so decided to try 5-MAPB without a stim this time.

  2. Smallish festival (600 people) and most attendees did not appear to be insanely high off their rockers so it seemed a good time to try 5 vs M.

  3. We have multiple fests coming up and the urge to hit many of them with M is already strong, so may as well choose 5 for one of em. Wife wasn't planning on rolling for this one (she lets me try new stuff first usually)

Setting:

600 person bass festival, last night. Small enough to bounce between stages, but main stage was the plan for the bulk of the experience. With my partner (only on addy), and friends (LSD and they hold their psychedelics very well).

Other substances/food:

Prior day: Adderall, kanna, kratom, beer
Same day: kratom (last dose ~2.5 hours prior) and sporadic beer (last beer just prior to come up)
Dinner: burger 2 hours prior to dosing. I like to wait longer but was concerned about sleep.

Summary:

100 mg felt very mild compared to 150 mg MDMA. Extremely functional, any euphoria felt realistic rather than intense and forced, memory intact, no jaw tension, no come up, no come down. Vision slightly blurred at close range similar to MDMA. Touch felt just as good, but far less urge to hug/touch. Conversation felt fairly normal, just very rewarding and smooth flowing. The lack of stimulation was jarring when one is used to MDMA. My friends could not tell I was high, I even forgot I was high sometimes. Good if you find MDMA too intense or too stimmy, or you need to/want to appear "normal" (except for the saucer eyes).

Lack of intense social/empathetic/lovey euphoria was the biggest downside for me as it's my favorite part of rolling, but sex was amazing.

Timeline:

  • 9:30 - I ate 3 gummies (75 mg). Hanging out at the side stage, poi flowing, dancing.
  • 10:00 - noticed slight vision issues similar to pre-come-up on M, where I tend to dart my eyes around looking at shit. Soon I stopped noticing this. Told my wife I would wait until 75 minutes to decide if I want more.
  • 10:45 - at main stage near the back, planning to shuffle forward over time. Felt very minor something - relaxed mentally but not much "high" feeling, no urge to dance more than usual, slightly less restrained but still felt pretty normal. Redosed one gummy (25 mg). 100 mg total.
  • 11:30 - feel really good now, friends keep running off to grab things from their camp and coming back. Usually this would kinda bother me (just internally, like I'm always waiting for them to come back) especially on MDMA where I want my friends around. Didn't really faze me much, we were more mid crowd now, still no intense desire to befriend everyone around me, but I did feel a strong "goodwill" type of feeling toward people, more like the 2CB "we are in this together" than the MDMA "we all love each other".
  • 12:00 - 12:30 - I believe it was peaking around this time, but it's hard to say since there was zero jaw tension (I had a few suckers for the MDMA nostalgia), zero intense euphoric urge to hug and love everyone, and zero manic frantic crazy energy. Dancing and the flow of energy felt smooth, but I did not have the complete lack of self consciousness I do on MDMA. I did not have the intense urge to better our energetic position or find a crew to dance with - very content kind of relaxed and subtle feeling.
  • 12:30-1:00 - headliner slowed things down a bit and my energy matched.
  • 1:00 - 2:00 - our group found the less-traveled side stage on the way to the "clean portos". Second time peeing on this, while I would not pee at all on MDMA until come down. Movign around, finding portos, finding a new stage, chatting, dancing, basically changing it up and moving around felt as natural as sober, while on MDMA I would be very resistant to move, or at least not think of it and might worry about a new vibe. 5-MAPB moving around and changing the vibe actually felt nice. The entire group loved the band for final set vibes - they had a DJ and kinda jammy instrumentation. It was a little mellow for me but I think I was just past peak.
  • 2:00-3:00 the festival sound ordinance meant we found a dome with music but no subwoofers, which kinda sucked for the DJ but was really nice to get to chat. At this point I told my friends about 5-MAPB and they had no clue I was on anything the entire time. I mentioned it was less lovey and I didn't have the intense desire to hug everyone, and 10 minutes later had the urge to tell them how much I appreciated hanging with them and had a few group hugs. The love is there but it just feels more natural rather than forced like MDMA.
  • 3:00-4:00 on Molly, we would ride our the whole high, feel the come down, go home, make mac and cheese and then sleep. If I am still high on M when my wife goes back to camp, I have the urge to stay out and keep socializing. On 5-MAPB while I was still "up" and wanted to socialize when my wife got tired at 3, I felt an urge to go home and cuddle and experience the last bit of the high with her. We never had sex on M, and first time on 5 we had amazing sex. Of course I couldn't cum but getting hard was no problem and pleasing her was amazing.
  • 4:01 am - sleep came instantly and had the best sleep of the festival. Was worried about lack of sleep due to the long time frames I read about, but it was just as easy as sleeping after MDMA.
  • Next day - insane afterglow, mostly intense appreciation for my wife.

Zero come up or come down was kinda wild. For me LSD has almost zero come up, just smoothly approaching the high. This was even smoother than LSD. I don't get a bad come up on M but I do get a little jittery and have to focus on the come up passing a bit. This I had to try and feel for anything happening and still didn't feel it. MDMA has a distinct - oh no this is coming to an end - vibe. This did not have that, just smoothly lowering until we decided to sleep.

Overall it was excellent, but I don't think I'd reach for it first at most festivals despite the time frame. I might try it with a small bit of my Adderall next time. I think it would be great for my wife, and my friends told me I was selling it hard from my description. I just usually like the intense euphoric love and pushiness of MDMA, but the "comfoort" of 5-MAPB made that not matter so much. If you find MDMA a bit too intense and psychedelic at times like my wife, this may be good for you. Or if you roll at home and in more social or "normal party" spaces.

I will also make sure to wait 4 hours post dinner and start with 100 mg next time, or maybe even 125. The main think I don't like about large MDMA doses is the memory loss, and to a lesser extent the sore jaw next day, and this seemed to leave memory and jaw completely intact.

It's very weird to feel like I forget I'm high, and it's mild, only to have an epic social night, the best sex ever, and amazing afterglow.

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u/aaron-mcd — 3 days ago

I’ve been addicted to 3mmc / 3cmc for over a year now and this is what you should know

Hi everyone,

I want to make this post to warn people about this drug. I got addicted to it and i didn’t realise which effects it had on me until it was too late.
I started using it at raves which was amazing back then. I started raving every weekend and i would party on the whole day after the party (so two days no sleep).

At the time i didn’t see it as a problem at all because i felt good. I didn’t really have comedowns, i was making new friends and having the time of my life honestly. I did live healthy during the week tho, good quality food, supplements, gym.
I didn’t realise i was doing damage to my brain and creating an addiction because the drug was solely linked to raving but yeah if u go every weekend..

It all started falling apart when i moved to Croatia for 6 months. There are no cathinones there and i didn’t even think about that because i genuinely didn’t know i was addicted. When is was there i kinda felt depressed and unmotivated. Something felt wrong and it felt like i was missing something in myself which needed to be filled with whatever. I met some people there and i started doing speed because it’s the most available there. It didn’t hit me the same as 3mmc and i kinda didn’t even like it but i still did it every weekend with friends when we went out.

That was the moment i realised i was addicted. On top of that i created a dangerous gambling addiction but only when i’m high, never sober. I was also masturbating every time when i came home from a party where i used speed and i would redose the whole day and jerk off. My brain was desperate for anything that would bring me dopamine. Because of that i did lose a lot of sexual desire. I also have anxiety and i’m depressed.

I really didn’t realise what i was doing to myself until the damage was done. Now i’m still struggling with 3mmc. I don’t use it often but when i do i gamble and lose all my money and then jerk off. I don’t enjoy it anymore but i still choose to do it.
I just don’t feel happy, i have no intrest in socialising or relationships. It’s really hard and the only thing that makes me feel alive again is fucking cathinones.

Don’t use that stuff really. In the moment you will think everything is fine because you feel fine but the damage it’s doing is real and it sneaks up on you.

I’m doing an Iboga retreat tho in 10 days. It seems to really help fix your brain and addictions.

Practical info:

I was using for 2 years approximately almost every weekend around 2 grams.

If u have more questions just ask, i wish i knew back then what this shit can do to you.

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u/_Trust_your_gut_ — 4 days ago

Alpha-methyltryptamine

So i am going to be ordering a few 25mg aMT pellets. I want to know the most about it because i know it's long acting. Psychedelic. And also a monoamine releaser. If someone would be so kind as to leave a report here and harm reduction guide and dose=intensity. Woukd be much appreciated!

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u/TheNerdyGuy2025 — 3 days ago

Is this RC-induced psychosis or am I correct? [Existential pain]

So I've done a ton of RCs and drugs within the past 2 months, almost every day. I had crazy cocaine+alcohol benders, snorted 8 grams of coke in 5 days, drank about 30 Liters of Vodka, smoked 20 packs of cigarettes, smoked an ounce of weed, took Oxycodone, did some 3-mmc and 4-mmc. And lastly, I just came from a 1 week Meth bender with no sleep. I've been California sober for the past 3 days (I'm drunk and fried the whole time).

Now I'm getting very logical thoughts about existence and religion. A Youtube video about existence convinced me that life is a game and we are all different ends of a "universal consciousness". This theory says that there is one united consciousness in the world and we are all the consciousness, but our ego keeps us thinking that we are individual beings. We are all actually acting the same roles over and over again in this huge game being played in front of us, and we can only see through the illusion if we can achieve ego death. I dont know if i have been able to explain it but it is making so much sense and I dont know if I'm going into psychosis. Help me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy#Definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism

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u/TweakerPOS — 3 days ago

Is there anything that causes disinhibition, anxiolysis, calm, etc? I tried common non-drug solutions, as well as drugs like benzos and nothing worked.

I've been trying to break through hesitation on approaching girls that I tried various things at and went for dozens of trips and told myself to do it but my brain refuses and is stubborn. It's like trying to train a very disobedient animal. I tell it to go talk to her, and it doesn't listen. I aware of everything that's going on but can exert little control over some stuff like this. I did a good job of reducing anger and negative thoughts the past few months. Even on days fear is lower, there's hesitation.

Therapy and prescriber stuff won't work, I already researched what's there for weeks and I see most things have low effect sizes, except a few things like ADHD. SSRIs undermine libido and my entire goal, and they have other downsides. So there's nothing there either.

To be fair, I only did a few trials tried 2.5mg lorazepam, which is equal to 1.25mg xanax, but this is a dose far past some people said put them to sleep, citing numbers as low as like 0.5mg. I'll keep testing but it's not looking good if it hasn't worked well this far.

Meth looks promising but has potential for causing anxiety. It was confounded by problems my latest test. There's only been one test so I can't rule it out hard.

GHB was only tested once outside at low doses, but it gave me the impression at home it wouldn't work. It didn't feel good, it just gave me a mild headache and ataxia.

Kratom is too weak.

Alcohol failed.

Kava failed.

Phenibut failed.

Meditating for 40 days failed. Posture was a problem so I'd say it's not a clean run, but studies also show it mostly only helps with focus. The effect size for stuff like anxiety and depression was very low.

Maybe opioids will help. I heard they give all the effects I'd want like calm, comfort, anxiolysis, etc.

I haven't gotten hooked on any drug so far. I measure, log, and space things out so I don't get dependence or tolerance. If it's as hard as resisting the urge to jerk off, then it'll be hard, because I fail to do that, but I think if I knew it'd be as catastrophic as opioid addiction, I'd most likely be able to resist.

It sucks failing so long at something that is so important to me despite trying, that's why I've gotten this desperate.

EDIT: I know about MDMA, but it can't be used often enough.

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u/Huge-Juice-2075 — 3 days ago