Today our community celebrates reaching 40,000 members. It wouldn’t be possible without each and every one of you who are reading this contributing, and no level of engagement was too small to have helped the subreddit grow. 2024 was the largest increase in membership by a significant margin - Over ten thousand people found us in the last year. For a recovery community catering to a fairly specific population that does zero promotion or advertising, that’s incredible.

It shows us three things: We are a resource that is absolutely needed, we are helping a lot of people and unfortunately the problem is getting worse. There’s a lot more work to be done but let’s feel good about it what we’ve accomplished here already. It’s not like there’s a whole lot of other places like us - If we’re the only show in town, it’s on us to make sure we show up and our continued growth is a testament to you all having done that.

The Atlantic and New York Times came knocking and covered our members this year. The collegiate sector is sliding in our DMs all the time asking for stuff. The staggering uptick in stimulant medication prescriptions over the last few years has brought us a lot of new members needing help and methamphetamine, cocaine and pressed pills are more prevalent and more dangerous than they’ve ever been. If you’re using literally anything and not testing your shit, write a will.

Resources continue to be limited. The professional sector’s got nothing new or exciting going on. Addiction medicine’s best option yields single digit efficacy. Stimulant addiction continues to have high relapse rates and unique challenges in treating anywhere from rehab to recovery programs. We’re still burying a whole lot more people than we should be and the calvary isn’t coming anytime soon.

We fill a unique set of needs for people dealing with stimulant problems - We’re a resource hub, a peer support community as well as tens of thousands worth of people’s accumulated experiences and best practices spanning therapeutic use stimulant medication issues to end stage IV meth addiction. What we’re doing here is important and we can’t do it without each and every one of you. It has taken all of us and it’s going to continue to take all of us.

In 2025, we’re breaking some new ground. For a long time we’ve helped people go and find other solutions.

Now it’s time for us to provide some solutions ourselves.

StopSpeeding is in the process of building a meetings-based and clinically informed peer support recovery program thats going to be created the same way this community was: Putting all of our heads and hearts together and seeing what the world’s largest group of people seeking or who have found recovery from stimulant drugs can do to help each other. It’s very early in the process, this has been teased for a while but with Reddit’s future uncertain amongst paywall rumors it’s time to get this party started.

So put your thinking caps on, get in the lab, go back over what has worked and what hasn’t for you. Get an image in your head of what the recovery program you think can help people looks like because we’re going to be sourcing what we do from you along with the best practices of all the efficacious resources available and ideally none of their bullshit. We’re looking to put together a “board” that has representation from as many recovery programs and ideologies and demographics as possible so if you’ve been clean for a minute, have some goods and want to do a whole lot of work for free, get at me or we’ll be getting at you.

Thank you to everyone here for being part of our growing community, you are appreciated for what you contribute here more than you’re ever going to know. Good luck to everyone in your continued recovery efforts and by all means stick around to share your experience and support as we’re joined by the next 40,000.