Can one really take painkillers "recreationally"?

[avcpl]

You may be able to continue using in this manner indefinitely, or as guido mentioned, you may run into a catalyst which results in more frequent use. There is no way of knowing which will happen until you run the course of your life.

I'm definitely not saying that it is inevitable, but you have a much higher chance of becoming a daily user if you are already an occasional user, as opposed to someone that does not use at all. This may happen 5, 10, 20 years from now, or never. This becomes a question of whether someone wants to risk the chance of becoming addicted by trying to use occasionally, or give it up altogether and eliminate the risk.

I agree with everything you say. I disagree with guido that "someday you will wake up addicted"; to say that there is zero chance is just wrong.

 

[mrflowers00]

it's very very rare that someone takes opiates and not become addicted

 

[helium-4]

I disagree, I find most people I know who've taken opioids recreationally have never become addicted. I'm the only one who has dug myself a hole.

 

[avcpl]

I think there is a very skewed sample in these forums. Most people that I know that like vicodin and use it recreationally don't post on forums like this. They think it's nice, but it's not something they fiend over.

 

[helium-4]

I think it differs from what type of drug users one spends there time around. I was the biggest druggy and really the only one who explored drugs to the extent that I do in the majority groups of people I'd hang around. They would all smoke weed, trip on various substances with regularity, use other substance when in possession, but werent ever daily or weekly users of anything other than weed. I'd introduce them alot of the time in substances they didn't run into, or have much experience with, like ketamine, DMT (my extraction), certain opioids, RC psychs, etc. I had some friends who'd hold on to opiates for an extended peroid of time till they thought the time was right. The friends that I had that would use opiates regularly/were in the pill scene, were those who'd use opioids multiple times a week, or other "hard" drugs with regularity. If your around a lot of regular opioid users the chances are higher your gonna get stuck with an addiction, but if your taking them when ever they occasionally pop around your use will be more limited and controlled.