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225 mgs of Etizolam a day? I can't get messed up on drugs like that as I have a job and a lot of responsibilities, but even then to abuse a diazepine to that extent sounds scary.
Well I worked for the majority of this time.. In a call center as a customer service rep for AT&T of all things. I was a damn good employee too, loose & lax with customers.. Much more willing to put up with their bullshit than I would sober. Of course there undoubtedly those few calls pulled & graded where I sounded drunk, but, using my back injury as a guise (and needing to be medicated for it).. No further questions were ever asked due to my performance, until attendance eventually got me canned.
During the course of my 2-3 year employment, it started out earlier with a carisoprodol addiction from online pharmacies.. Abusing around 45 pills a day. Then, when soma was scheduled a few years back, and was no longer offered by online pharmacies via online doctor consults, I moved to fioricet (containing the barbiturate butalbital). This definitely completely resolved GABAergic withdrawal but gave me little to no euphoria as butalbital is an intermediate acting barb.
Well, 45-50 pills a day became the norm again, but when "tram-gate" hit the online pharmacy circuit, online doctors and online pharmacies started tightening up on us addicts getting another bottle of 180 pills every 5 days, I suppose in order to salvage any sort of legitimacy they felt they had left.
While I had long dabbled in the RC scene since 2c-x's could be legally bought from US vendors here in the US (circa early 2000s) I moved to a trusty old etizolam vendor I'm sure 90% of US users were utilizing if they had any sort of sense or value for money. Up until they went under sometime last year.
Problem was, I was dependent on barbiturates. And while a barb will suffice for replacing a benzo, a benzo will in most cases not readily suffice for replacing a barb. In the case of the latter you're only keeping up GABA-a positive allosteric modulation in the brain, ignoring NMDA antagonism, AMPA modulation, & invariably all other areas of glutamate suppression. So no doubt my brain started going haywire. And my etizolam doses
Consequentially skyrocketed in efforts to stave off seizure and discomfort.
This combined with losing my job and dealing with the resulting feelings of worthlessness, a sure fire recipe to land at 225mgday. But for the largest chunk of that period I was a functioning addict as well, it was only the last 12 months where most of these reckless endeavors occurred, with the psych wards and the random black outs and the more obsessive and constant IV use of etizolam. But due to its short duration of action, it invariably made it easy to escalate quick.