Escaping what hurts you the most by doing what you already know:
Drugs:this can get you stoned or turn up dead instead.
Alcohol: this can get you drunk ,give you a heart-attck,liver failure or,etc.
Sex:this can feel amazing, give you a disease uncurable,a disease that will slowly kill you and you will die very young,or get you pregnant.
But the one thing you cannot EVER escape is your own mind. You may be drunk,Stoned,or even having causual hook-ups.And the second you aren't, your mind is replaying over and over like a record on a record player the same exact reason why you WANT and desperately NEED a way out from your peronal reality.The reason why you keep ecaping.....