It is my OPINION please accept and stop trying to change it.
I have never spoken to you before, to my recollection.
Accept you having an "opinion" - well, yes - but if you want to share your opinion with people on a discussion board - expect to encounter other people's "opinions" that may differ to yours - especially if you are going to make claims about pharmacology and neurochemistry that is just
not based in scientific fact.
If you don't like people disagreeing with you, perhaps you should make a blog. Bluelight is about sharing of accurate HR information through research, discussion and collaboration.
This isn't an insult, it's an honest suggestion.
Offer an opinion on the forum; sure, go for it - if you're wrong about your assumptions, that's no big deal - but when it is combined with a black&white abstinence-style value judgement, sorry to tell you this - but you're going to get called out on it.
You need to
accept that.
Unfounded opinions are fine for
subjective matters - like "do you like 'red' as a colour?"
Crying "I'm entitled to my opinion" does not entitle you to spread misinformation without it being questioned.
I'm allowed to have an opinion just because I was on codeine and not bloody heroin. I do believe you should suffer it as I way of never going back there. MDB has a point with the relapse bit but he was not condescending in his comment to me.
Condescending? What makes you assume I was addicted to heroin? I wasn't.
You have overlooked the context entirely in your histrionics; codeine
is a "mild" opiate - one i never recall having insomnia on.
That what was being discussed, right?
Nobody is looking down on your for your drug of choice.
Claiming that people are being condescending - like acting persecuted for voicing an 'opinion' and having someone disagree with you - is ridiculous.
Telling me "you should suffer" at the same time as saying I'm being condescending? Right.

This makes me wonder if I should even be responding to you at all.
You all say addiction is addiction and I'm not going to be treated different because I was on codeine and not heroin but the moment I have any sort of opinion I'm quickly put into my place of "how I've never been on strong opiates so thus wouldn't know" I find it extremely patronising and offensive.
Again, claiming to be persecuted against when you revel in drama, and all kinds of imaginary social intricacies - have you not picked up on the general atmosphere in EADD?
People call a spade a fucking spade in this subforum, which has always been part of its appeal, but also part of its volatility, and danger- for some.
From what I've seen over the past few months is an incredible amount of patience shown towards you by the good people of EADD. Those that are still posting here regularly, that is.
Surely you are grown-up enough to either;
- have a thick skin about people disagreeing with you - and debate it, let it go, agree to disagree or some other variation on these options
or ;
- realise that you find
other people besides you speaking their minds "extremely patronising and offensive" and either adjust your posting style accordingly, or do whatever else it takes to prevent your feelings getting hurt.
(Note that I am not making any suggestions on what
I think you should do to remedy the situation).
As a former opiate addict, I find your attitude regarding long-term withdrawal symptoms somewhat patronising.
Hence my blunt response.
But
offensive?
Everybody is entitled to be offended, but nobody is so precious that they can never expect not to be offended.
In accusing me of making a value judgement about your codeine use - frankly, I don't care what you have (or haven't) been hooked on - the question of
opiates causing insomnia was separate to the discussion of
PAWS, depression, anti-depressant medications and your take on "suffering" being an important part of PAWS.
For someone with a creative life, job, responsibilities and relationships to get on with, I think your "opinion" is ridiculous, so I told you so.
Your experience in this matter
does seem relevant in this instance - as I
have gone through detox, acute WD and a long, horrible post-acute withdrawal period, so I find your sentiments about it being "something you just have to go through" that i "should suffer" really quite obnoxious - if you've never been through it.
Correct me if I'm wrong though - have you?
I get the feeling you don't understand the context of what you are talking about; PAWS isn't like cold turkey - for many people it is much worse.
If you find my "I'm opiate free and you're not" attitude condescending, I apologise.
There's only one way to remedy that...but I hear the PAWS from buprenorphine are pretty nasty, so I wish you all the best, especially if you are going to refuse any medical help to see you get through it.
I mean that - because I'm about sincere compassion, not your brand of overcooked empathy grandstanding with a generous side serve of tough-love.
Just to clarify, I did not say that you've "never been on strong opiates so thus wouldn't know" in regard to addiction or withdrawal - you are confusing two completely separate parts of the discussion.
What I was saying was that you've "never been clean long enough post-addiction to speak with any sort of judgemental authority on the merits (or otherwise) of post-acute withdrawal". Correct me if I'm wrong - I don't keep tabs on your life story, but that's what the "I'm on suboxone, I've only ever used codeine" comments would imply.
You just swapped one addiction for another? If so, you don't know what you're talking about. Sorry, you might think you do, but you don't.
If you think people should have to suffer for months or years as part of their process of ridding themselves of addiction,
expect to be disagreed with.
If you can't handle being disagreed with, don't post such insensitive crap. It really is rich to claim that you are "offended" when you took my post so far out of context that I doubt you even read it.
I would have thought that someone with your, uh, 'history' on this forum would realise that people don't always agree with each other, because it is a discussion board with a free flow of ideas.
If you are offended by that, it's up to you to come to terms with that.