First Weekend

"Sometimes in life it feels a battle just to keep going until the end of the week. For so many of us, Friday night represents an opportunity to let off steam without having to pay the consequences the next morning. Many times people have told me, especially those quitting weed without any proper support, that their minds have tricked them at this stage. The most common deception is to start thinking that somehow you’ve proven that you can quit and so it’s therefore okay to start smoking again. But what would be the point of that? You are, and would continue to be, just as trapped and addicted as if you had never stopped at all.

Alcohol and other mood-altering drugs are highly addictive substances; substituting one addictive behaviour for others is a recognized and familiar syndrome, known as cross-addiction."