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Opiates unfortunately never stopped me from drinking too much. I couldn't wait to leave the shithole city I grew up in so the summer before college I got accepted to a summer program at The University of the South. Everybody thinks University of Tennessee is the big party school. They are rank amateurs next to those rich Sewanee kids. Plus, what else are you going to do on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere? So my pattern of binge drinking started pretty early on. Later on after a fall, I was prescribed opiates, then figured out how easy it was at the time to keep getting them in insane quantities in Florida at the time (I've already talked about that elsewhere on this thread), I just got sloppy drunk AND took pills. But once I got off the pills, I just never craved them in the same way that I continue to crave alcohol. And it's not really that I crave being drunk, it's just that was my go to for anxiety control for so long (over a decade), it takes a long time to unlearn that. Relative to the amount of time I've been drinking, the amount of time I took opiates were a drop in the bucket.
I go to trivia on Thursdays, but it's mostly people I met in AA so I don't have to worry about being tempted to drink. Oddly enough, when I'm going through alcohol detox, I've gone through it enough that I find the dry heaving oddly comforting. It's the profuse sweating, but freezing at the same time, that's the worst for me.
I go to trivia on Thursdays, but it's mostly people I met in AA so I don't have to worry about being tempted to drink. Oddly enough, when I'm going through alcohol detox, I've gone through it enough that I find the dry heaving oddly comforting. It's the profuse sweating, but freezing at the same time, that's the worst for me.