I feel you ketaman, I've been there too and no one seems to understand how fucked up and awful withdrawals are, not just the physical side but the emotional side, people don't understand how much it affects and fucks you up, the guilt and worry and fear and shame etc really really hurt. Man I did cold turkey from heroin whilst working out in the mines, 1.3 km below surface doing heavy labour in stupidly hot conditions knowing I had a 10 grand debt, all my money from the shit work I'd done in the stint before had gone into it so i was broke and I was away from my girlfriend who I'd not told and was doing behind her back but missed her so much and was stuck with a bunch of racist, sexist, ignorant, sickening people and man it hurt. But I got through it, just, went on methadone which was perfect at the time but ultimately starting me ruining my life again, switched to suboxone which - I guess a few people here have done the 'done - sub swap, wooo it makes h withdrawals seem like a minor headache huh, jesus - and am now on a stable dose on suboxone which unlike smack, methadone, oxy whatever doesnt seem to make you high at all when you're stable, it makes no difference to me anyway (I'm on 20 mg, so above average dosage wise I guess) and I now I'm out of the nasty game of h addiction, happy and getting myself back together. Suboxe saved my arse, it's no miracle drug but the positives for me far outweigh the negatives, if you're not already on a program and can I would highly highly highly recommend it if you feel like and don want your life to go down the shitter. Maybe start on methadone so you still get a high and feel pretty good (unless you have a fast metabolism like me and start withdrawing after 15 hours on 35mg) and get the high your craving without fucking your life up to get high then drop your dose slowly to around 30 and switch to sub and then get out of the daily routine of getting high and get your life back together. It really worked for me, it won't for everyone for sure but I was really fucken addicted to smack and now 6 months later I hardly think of it. The problem is people have to know so if you have a close family or girlfriend they will have to know your going on maintainence but them finding a used needle with traces of your blood in it are far worse, it's just the bullet you have to bite. Sorry if I sound at all condescending, I honestly dont mean to be at all I just want people to know and I don't have anyone to talk to about this other than my therapist and I just want to help someone whos in a horrible position that I've been in and understand. I got into h in what seems to be a very similar way to you so maybe it'll work for you. If you want to run through any of the pitfalls, pros, cons and I guess tricks of going on ost therapy then pm me and I'll try help. Also I'm sorry for the surprisingly many of you who have dealt with OD's, I've never had that happen to me and I cant even imagine how horrible and fucked it must be.
Ok well changing topic smack is back in a big way, when I started using about 2 years ago (newbie I know) it was sometimes quite tough to track down any quality let alone anything at all. Ive been down the street last few weeks for work and holy shit it has blown up big time, I was fighting off dealers left right and centre and the amount of users I didn't recognise has grown considerably. And Jesus its gettin rough, there are some scary people down there now and it wasn't really like that even a year ago. Now that ice has got so expensive and less common and e is well and truly dead smack use has exploded to fill the hole in the 'I need to get really fucked up on hard drugs' scene. Also the street benzo scene is fucken dodgy and booming, people abusing a (well a pretty badly organised and controlled system) system that actually helps some people, unfortunately I got carried away and am now reducing on diaz and its made it way more difficult for people like me to get genuine help when they need it. Anyway that's my rant, time for dinner!
Ps I wrote this on the toilet, couldn't resist saying it.
Look after yourselves guys!