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What drug made you were addicted?

booze at first then opiates. I smoked a ton of reefer, but I had to switch to drugs that vacate the system quickly for work testing. Unintended consequences and all that jazz.
 
Opiates...I was prescibed them by huge amounts by my Dr. and at the time I had no idea about opiates at all. The only drug I had ever done was weed. My Dr. just handed them out to me like candy every month. I was given 2 different types of oxys and 2 different types of morphine, huge bottles. Every month I had a ton left over and then he would give me another perscription. So after about 2 - 2 1/2 years I decided to stop my medication not knowing anything about opiates and the withdrawals. I almost died! After I made throught the withdrawals I went to see my primary care physician (not the specialist who gave me the opiates) he told me that he hade already filled out my death certificate cause he thought I wasnt going to survive the withdrawals. After being off of opiates for a few months I really noticed how different I felt on them and after talking to my friends I found out what exactly the medication I was taking was. So now thanks to the Dr. who started me on them I have a small addiction to them. I have no problem quiting them and have many times before but I also enjoy the feeling I have on them which before I never realized how they made me feel except the fact they took the pain away.
 
nfacion said:
Opiates...I was prescibed them by huge amounts by my Dr. and at the time I had no idea about opiates at all...So after about 2 - 2 1/2 years I decided to stop my medication not knowing anything about opiates and the withdrawals...After being off of opiates for a few months I really noticed how different I felt on them and after talking to my friends I found out what exactly the medication I was taking was. So now thanks to the Dr. who started me on them I have a small addiction to them. I have no problem quiting them and have many times before but I also enjoy the feeling I have on them which before I never realized how they made me feel except the fact they took the pain away.
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Don't be too hard on yourself, my friend. You stopped! Good for you. But what you describe is more tolerance and dependence than true addiction. Liking the drug and noticing it's effects on your mind/mood isn't addiction. Nor is going through withdrawal. If you've completely stopped, never take them recreationally and never took more at one time than prescribed...you probably don't have an actual addiction. I'd say you were really lucky! And you're so right...I've heard of lots of Drs stopping prescription drugs like opiates and meds for depression that are known to cause withdrawal without talking to the patient about tapering off or what to expect. It's very rare that withdrawal kills anyone who is using even way more than a therapeutic amount of drugs, but even so, it's cruel of these docs.
 
Draigan said:
I have never met anyone who takes their pain meds daily that wasn't addicted to them. Freaking people are clueless. Id like to see these people cold turkey off the drugs, or even taper and then never again think about the pleasure that the opiate brought them.
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I agree - somehow a large portion of society believes that addiction is something people choose - not the reality that most people addicted to opiates, even heroin, started off as legitimate pain patients and very often still are. And I don't know anyone who enjoys being addicted to any substance...even if the substance is enjoyable and you don't want to quit it, no one wants to "need" it!

I think a lot of the really vituperative folks out there are protesting too much - for all their venom and hatred directed at users - wishing addicts dead and saying overdose fatalities deserve what they got and that junkies "had it coming to them" when they lose everything...well they do seem a bit confused because that same sanctimonious and intolerant junkie-hater usually also has a post about: "oh yeah! I got such bad pain I get more relief by crushing and snorting my pills, and putting heating pads over my patches, and taking benzos...but I ain't some fuckin' loser junkie shootin up." Funny how those of us who can admit our addictions to ourselves, we know how little difference there usually is, if any, between a "Pain Management Patient Using Legally Prescribed Drugs" and an addict.

For me, my addiction very clearly started off as (and to a large extent still is) a fear of pain returning...so I started taking pills before I needed them out of fear of pain and well, it kinda snowballed from there. I'm certain it's a familiar story to many.

User Name Here said:
He seriously said that addiction is rare with the most powerful opiates known to man? This guy should be reported for doling out drugs like that.
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Yup...there seems to be two branches of thought in medicine: everyone on opiates is an addict and addiction is rare.

In medical school they stressed the former. It was very unpolitically correct to worry about addiction - you're supposed to treat the pain aggressively. In some was this is a vast improvement over the former attitude toward pain management which was much more of a "suck it up" approach than a "here, take these". However, while treating the pain, these drs should really keep in mind that opiates, especially short-acting ones, are VERY addictive. But that is not what is taught/in vogue in medicine today.

But what is the deal with so many people/drs actually BELIEVING that addiction and "drug seeking behaviour" are very rare side effects? I have pamphlets accompanying various fentanyl preparations that say that. I've read studies that attest to about 10% of chronic pain patients becoming addicted (tolerance/dependence notwithstanding). This is blatantly incorrect. Not only are pharmaceutical companies just playing fast and loose with the language in the prescribing information/package inserts, but people are actually buying it!
 
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ambien and klonopin. I never really got addicted to anything else. I'm still on ambien, but I got off klonopin. It was really hard though.
 
as a daily thing it was cannabis kicked it all off, then ketamine, then heroin, then alcohol, then heroin again, with lots of variations in between/on top
 
I didn't have a problem with grass, coke or dextroamphetamine. However, messing around with opiates got me bad.

Damn, why do I crave opiates so much?
 
Tramadol and LYRICA! It took a little over two years of daily use of tramadol and lyrica for pain when I realized that first time in my life I am addicted to something. Benzos, alcohol, stimulants or weed has never caused me any noticeable withdrawals so it was shocking to found out how such a “weak” meds can cause so horrible withdrawals.
 
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