Gabapentin adds a lot to everything.
Tbh, if you're seriously going to try a new drug and are looking at gabapentinoids, phenibut is both more easily accessible without a prescription and more recreational. It can get you wired up like a mid-range dose of Adderall with a smaller amount, but gets sedating as you go higher. It's chemically more like baclofen, but the phenyl ring isn't halogenated, giving it a pretty unique and generally euphoric effect profile. You can get it as either the crystalline hydrochloride salt, or a powdery free amino acid that doesn't taste as sour and isn't as caustic, but runs a risk of overdose due to the lowered threshold for effects. Either one takes a while to start having noticeable effects, with the HCl salt taking around 2 hours, so first-time users fuck up pretty often anyway. Again, very sedating at high doses. It can literally make you drop out while walking if you go too high.
There's also 4-flouro-phenibut, which is decidedly similar to baclofen (the phenyl group is halogenated with a flourine rather than chlorine atom). Incredibly potent and highly sedating, if that's your thing. There seem to be a lot more GABA-A receptor effects than most gabapentinoids (so, a little more like traditional positive allosteric modulators or weak agonists; benzodiazepines, z-drugs, barbiturates, partially alcohol, etc.). Others are primarily active at other receptors, like alpha-2-delta subunit containing transmembrane calcium channels and GABA-B. The more GABAergic activity, though, the higher the risk of extreme, hellish withdrawals if you become chemically dependent. All gabapentinoids can send you on a trip straight to Hell on Earth, but I feel like 4F might be more prone to triggering full-blown delirium tremens. At least one case of baclofen withdrawal directly causing death has been documented in the medical literature. It involved a guy receiving a high dose from an implanted pump, but 4F is one of those ungodly research chems you'd expect to see causing an adult Tyrannosaur to nod off in
Jurassic Park.
So, yeah. Don't do 4F. Actually, don't do phenibut either. Absolutely do not take pregablin recreationally unless you dream of being a drunken Scottish football hooligan and hope to one day die in a negligance-induced crowd crush. Take gabapentin as prescribed if necessary. But if you're going to do it...I mean, genuinely be careful. Phenibut-like gabapentinoids can have ridiculous biological half lives, leading to a legitimate possibility of chemical dependence with 2-3 uses per week. Crystal meth might legitimately count as harm reduction if you're doing pyrovalerones, though, so yeah. Live free or die, no step on snek, fuck it we ball, etc. I'm struggling to find a way to help you drill your way through rock bottom without at least some upper tertiary education in chemistry and physics, though. You are
not getting anything that makes you feel alive from Skinny Ted's Trailer Park Pharmacy. You have to do this in your own
Silent Hill-looking bathtub. Any ten year old with a bat and a T-ball can do a poorly measured Birch-like reduction to strip a hydroxyl from an alpha carbon right next to a phenyl ring, you're playing in the majors now, and you're gonna change the world for the worse. We're talking permanent covalent bonding at the mu-opioid binding site, full serotonin agonists, substituted tryptamines with whatever alkane you can find, shit measured in
nanograms, Schedule I substances on the motherfucking CWC rather than the CSA. Drop some Datura seeds, learn some calculus before the Hat Man comes, and buy some p. chem textbooks, because you are going to have to become a chef in Hell's kitchen, and you're getting the shit beat out of you by Satan if you mess up here.
Or, y'know, maybe seek help. Maybe that.
