Hi, I'm a guy in his mid 20's who has been using precription opiates almost daily since I was 20, probably a mild habit compared to many, but it's still been a real hook and it's starting to sap some of my ambition and vitality so I've decided to kick for good now. I've read lots of great posts on here with excellent tips and I feel confident now I've got the info I need to be successful.
It's a tough one because I've never in my addiction been in touch with the drug culture and it's been a personal issue so in a sense it's good in that I've not suffered the degree of problems that can result, but bad too in that it's easy to just keep plowing along as a user. I feel like I'm at a point now where I need to get serious and take care of business, I'm doing pretty well I have a job, car, my own place etc. but I've neglected my social life and I'm not active out there living life, I sit at home and pop pills - which basically do nothing for me anymore anyways.
So what I hope to do is get into the dialogue here, put together a thread, sort of a journal detailing my taper down, I feel like it might give me some extra motivation, even though we're all strangers, I'll feel a desire to see things through and not post my detailed quitting plan and then have it fade away.
I plan to taper off and shake up my life big time and ensure the time is occupied, basically just get out there and start living for real, quit while I'm still ahead rather than keep going and then face bigger problems in the future. I find I have a hard time going back in my head and remembering the days when I didn't use and just did regular things and had fun doing it - that's pathetic I hate that, so I'm going to get out, it's a waste of my life if I don't.
So Thanks! Time to get started right now
It's a tough one because I've never in my addiction been in touch with the drug culture and it's been a personal issue so in a sense it's good in that I've not suffered the degree of problems that can result, but bad too in that it's easy to just keep plowing along as a user. I feel like I'm at a point now where I need to get serious and take care of business, I'm doing pretty well I have a job, car, my own place etc. but I've neglected my social life and I'm not active out there living life, I sit at home and pop pills - which basically do nothing for me anymore anyways.
So what I hope to do is get into the dialogue here, put together a thread, sort of a journal detailing my taper down, I feel like it might give me some extra motivation, even though we're all strangers, I'll feel a desire to see things through and not post my detailed quitting plan and then have it fade away.
I plan to taper off and shake up my life big time and ensure the time is occupied, basically just get out there and start living for real, quit while I'm still ahead rather than keep going and then face bigger problems in the future. I find I have a hard time going back in my head and remembering the days when I didn't use and just did regular things and had fun doing it - that's pathetic I hate that, so I'm going to get out, it's a waste of my life if I don't.
So Thanks! Time to get started right now
