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@Kryphex Vexor I would make sure you know what I'm describing before telling me I'm wrong.
We are describing two different phenomena here. I felt that the context of our conversation up until that point made it clear that we weren't discussing the acute tolerance that you're referring to.
Yes, you are right that Opioid tolerance exists. Stand up and take a bow my friend.
What we are describing is the more complex, long-term phenomenon that exists when users use Opioids chronically over long periods of time. We are not discussing issues like "respiratory depression" we are discussing the usefulness and subjective pleasure associated with them.
I'm sure you've been there and done that. You clearly know enough to step to someone who has lived it more times than you can count. If you start tripping about people you know who have died from overdoses as if I have not endured the same, well I'm not going to stand for that shit. We all have experienced loss dude. Get over yourself with that comment.
Someone who uses Opioids for years can never go back to what it once was for them. That is what we are talking about. I daresay you're the only one in this thread who didn't realize that. We are catching you up now.
You start using Opioids for the first time, maybe it's 2-3 months before your first runny nose, 5 months before your first minor "man I have the fucking flu" and 9-12 months before you are essentially settling into addiction like every other Opioid user. From here, you might have a year, maybe two at most in which you're still gonna feel that "love" from your Opioids the way you did those first few times.
If this person uses straight for a few years, lives the junky life, then gets clean? Every successive using/clean cycle makes the dope-sickness start quicker and hit harder. Eventually, we all end up in the same place. No matter how long we are abstinent for, we will be able to pick up our same habit in a matter of days, not a year or two.
Can a person experience true euphoria ever again? Maybe if they are abstinent for a few months, they will be able to catch a few good buzzes before day 3-4 when they are fully back dependent.
In short, there is no way that a person can ever go back. That was the point myself and others on this thread are getting at. However they want to try to fix the problem, they will never be able to regain that virginity again. That doesn't mean we don't all try, sometimes for the rest of our lives.
For anyone reading this who is confused, yes, it is true that a person's tolerance to respiratory depression does indeed go up and down and Opioids are potentially deadly substances.