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Either way, smoke week and forget the painkillers. If your 22 and cant imagine life without them consider what its gonna be like when your in your mid 30s like me, twice in and out of a methadone clinic, addicted to opanas but on the needle rather than oral and augmenting it with heroin. I hadnt taken a pain killer at all until I was 21 and that was vicoden. Was 24 before i took my first oxycontin and didnt realize there were better pain killers than morphine until I was 25. Was 26 before I snorted anything and that was a xanax. Now I work in long sleeve shirts in New Orleans in July when its 110 degrees to cover the track marks running up both arms from 2" inside my shirt sleeve at my wrists all the way to my upper shoulder, shoot opana until I run out, then shoot dilaudid till it runs out, then recently moved up from nasal and smoked heroin to IVing it too to make it the rest of the month until I get a new script. I didnt even drink in college, didnt smoke pot until I was 20, was an officer in the army and first got on pain killers for a sciatic nerve I couldnt function without having medication to numb. I was the text book example of the guy who would never end up where I ended up.
If you seriously can function on weed and dont need the pills do yourself a favor. Get the fuck off the pills. It doesnt get any better than it is right now for you. Your young, your body can bounce back and you said it yourself that you dont need the pills. Well, I dont need the pills for pain anymore but I sure as shit need the pills. Ive spent literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on pain killers, have collapsed veins, will likely die by the time Im 50 and all because I innocently went from one little tiny step upward to the next until there was no going back. The Methadone hurts more to kick than anythng Ive ever experienced and the reason I got back on the dope the last time was to kill the pain of methadone withdrawal.
In short, there is no easy way back once you reach a certain point. If your already a junkie then by all means lets talk about how to maximize your effects from what youve got because as a junkie stopping isnt an option. Its all about making the best of what you have which in my case is learning how to make an Opana last 10x longer which meant the needle. I know of very few opiate users under 25yo who cant still take the option to go back. Had I listened to people givng me advice when I was in my late 20s I would have never been here. But I have an IQ of 145, was a Cavalry Officer, graduated wtih a 4.0gpa and get paid 6 figures for what I know as opposed to what I do. I thought I was smarter than the next guy and that the rules didnt apply to me. Well, they do apply to me. And you. And all of us. Im not trying to imply your an idiot or too dumb or young and naive to make good decisions....im trying to imply there wasnt a textbook example of someone who should have been able to avoid the position Ive found myself in than me myself and yet here I am. The junkies I know arent living on the streets....theyre some of the smartest people I know. To their detriment and mine, we all thought we were smarter than that and that we werent subject to the rules that applied to everyone else. Sadly, thats not the case with us nor is it the case with you. Im asking you to consider the shitty existence Im living in compared to what my life should have been and realize you have teh opportunity to do something I didnt do....GET THE FUCK OFF OPIATES NOW if you dont need them. If you can get by on weed and are apprehensive about a change in lifestyle after 5 years of having your oxy's imagine thats your absolute best case scenario for a productive life and fight through the changes living without meds you yourself said you dont need. You can ignore me if you like but Id wager 95% of us serious addicts were "in control" of our addictions when we started out. The truth is no one is in control of their addictions or they wouldnt be addicted. Look up the definition of addiction for God's sake. Theres no such thing. There is only a lie you tell yourself to justify your own lapse in judgement so you can do what you want to do without feeling guilty. Im telling you from experience that leads to compromise after compromise until you suddenly have no control whatsoever.
If you can stop, stop. If you cant, get comfortable on these boards, get over your issues with nasal admin and learn proper IV tech. Your whole life is going to end up being one big opiate circle of get,use, crave, get, use , crave, die. And thats a fact.