So, I recently read the Wolf of Wall Street. Before he goes to rehab, he claims to be ingesting a holy hell of a lot of drugs. Mainly he is on Coke and Quaaludes. But, he also claims to, on a daily basis, take large amounts of xanax, valium, morphine, klonopin and a few other ssubsstances that cause physical dependence. Let me just put down what, at one point, he claims he was taking in a single day:
- 20 quaaludes
- 90 mg morphine
- 20 mg oxycodone
- 12 somas(350 mg?)
- 6 mg xanax
- 20 mg klonopin
- 30 mg ambien
- 80 mg valium
- pint of scotch
- 1-2 g of coke
Now that is apparently what he was taking when he was rehabbing a spinal fusion and it was never mentioned how long that was his regimimen(I inferred prob several months, at least 1 month). But, afterwards he became a huge coke head(which led him to rehab after he had cocaine induced paranoia and psychosis). Though, he always claimed to need the large amount of xanax and valium, at he very least, to balance the insane amount of coke he was doing. He even mentions - less than 2 days before he ended up in detox for attempting suicide by morphine pills - that upon landing in FL, he consumed massive amounts of quaalude and xanax and valium to balance himself for the landing of the place(b/c he was super coked up at he time). So he's taking a lot of benzos benzos, along with still taking around 20 qualuudes/day, which at that time were all bootlegs, so mixed with other tranquilizers anyway(from my understanding valium was the most commonly used).
Then, after he loses his shit and gets arrested and is sent down to a detox in Florida, there is barely any mention of w/d. He seems emotionally distraught about his cocaine psychosis and doing dumb shit because of it, but he seems to suffer no w/d. In a span of less than 3 days, he is arrested from his home on Long Island NY(or maybe it was his Hamptons home), quickly bailed out, sent to a detox in FL and released from the detox to a Rehab. Upon getting to rehab he seems to be fine, by all means he is practically chipper except being stuck in a rehab for 4 weeks and being in on the mend with his wife.
I just seem baffled that someone could consume massive quantities of benzos and then, in a matter of a few days, really have no ill effects. I understand cocaine physical w/d is rather tolerable compared to w/d from opiates and idk about the w/d syndrome from abruptly stopping use of a large quantity of quaaludes. But, its just hard to believe he could be feeling sharp and all energetic several days after the drug habit he had abruptly stopped.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Think he is way over exaggerating his drug use for the story? Think he claimed to not get w/d to sound stronger than a normal person(he seems to have a little man syndrome, might want to play himself off as being so "mind-over-matter" that he is unaffected by withdrawal)? Or could he just have some innate ability to not suffer w/d from benzos and other physically addictive drugs?
- 20 quaaludes
- 90 mg morphine
- 20 mg oxycodone
- 12 somas(350 mg?)
- 6 mg xanax
- 20 mg klonopin
- 30 mg ambien
- 80 mg valium
- pint of scotch
- 1-2 g of coke
Now that is apparently what he was taking when he was rehabbing a spinal fusion and it was never mentioned how long that was his regimimen(I inferred prob several months, at least 1 month). But, afterwards he became a huge coke head(which led him to rehab after he had cocaine induced paranoia and psychosis). Though, he always claimed to need the large amount of xanax and valium, at he very least, to balance the insane amount of coke he was doing. He even mentions - less than 2 days before he ended up in detox for attempting suicide by morphine pills - that upon landing in FL, he consumed massive amounts of quaalude and xanax and valium to balance himself for the landing of the place(b/c he was super coked up at he time). So he's taking a lot of benzos benzos, along with still taking around 20 qualuudes/day, which at that time were all bootlegs, so mixed with other tranquilizers anyway(from my understanding valium was the most commonly used).
Then, after he loses his shit and gets arrested and is sent down to a detox in Florida, there is barely any mention of w/d. He seems emotionally distraught about his cocaine psychosis and doing dumb shit because of it, but he seems to suffer no w/d. In a span of less than 3 days, he is arrested from his home on Long Island NY(or maybe it was his Hamptons home), quickly bailed out, sent to a detox in FL and released from the detox to a Rehab. Upon getting to rehab he seems to be fine, by all means he is practically chipper except being stuck in a rehab for 4 weeks and being in on the mend with his wife.
I just seem baffled that someone could consume massive quantities of benzos and then, in a matter of a few days, really have no ill effects. I understand cocaine physical w/d is rather tolerable compared to w/d from opiates and idk about the w/d syndrome from abruptly stopping use of a large quantity of quaaludes. But, its just hard to believe he could be feeling sharp and all energetic several days after the drug habit he had abruptly stopped.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Think he is way over exaggerating his drug use for the story? Think he claimed to not get w/d to sound stronger than a normal person(he seems to have a little man syndrome, might want to play himself off as being so "mind-over-matter" that he is unaffected by withdrawal)? Or could he just have some innate ability to not suffer w/d from benzos and other physically addictive drugs?