How many opiate users have OD'd?

[johnnyb4202000]

wondering about oxy od do you have warning signs or does it just come out of nowhere i am using like 10 40mg's a day because my tolerance is so high i have never felt like i was going to stop breathing but they do keep me up all night this thread has me worried guess i will pop a couple ativans to get rid of the anxiety

 

[HighRollin'420*]

Im in my late twentys and have experienced 7 almost fatal heroin & hydrocodone overdoses. Might i add, im a lot more carefull with my doses on my old days...

 

[vetchick]

27 yr old female...I have been using opiates for 10 years, in my younger days amphetamines as well. I have never OD'd from hydro, herion, dillies, morhone (did get too fcuked up and paranoid one night and gave myslef a narcan shot...That suckd) oxy's or fentanyl. I the only time I ever OD'd was from meth. Havn't touched it since and I think I have been really, really lucky. For two years I had a nasty habit of mixing hydros or perc with benzo's and drinking like a fish. I have been very lucky and very, very stupid.

 

[twgburst]

Is that statement directed at me? This thread is nearly a year old. You obviously haven't been in the depths of hardcore drug addiction. Thats what was wrong with me.Irresponsibility has nothing to do with it. You live for the drug, it feeds off you. There is a risk involved, like with other drugs. Gear fluctuates, you have too many downers in your system and you can die. I know, i'm lucky to be walking around after almost 20 chances while there are users out there who don't get one. In a 6 year addiction from 1-3 hits a day. One hit a day is 2190 hits over that period. 20 times I've OD'd.I don't think that the odds are that bad. Im by no means trying to justify my usage or say that its harmless. I just accept thats theres a chance of OD just as there is experiencing negative symptoms with other substances.

I have quite a few friends that are hardcore dope fiends, as was I. None of us have ever ODed. You can be a hardcore addict and still care about safety. Unless the dope in your area fluxuates really bad, I don't see how you can OD that many times. I know someone that used over 30 years and never ODed. The exception is if these ODs were not a big deal because naloxone was on hand, but if you had to goto the hospital more than 10 times, than you probally don't consider safety as high a priority as getting high. I always considered safety #2 as well, but you can get as high as you want and still take precautions.

 

[N0THING]

17-m
ive been using pain killers for almost 4 years now.. using H for about 1 (only once or twice a month). Never OD'd and have only gotten (physically) addicted twice, both which had mild w/d.

 

[ebeneezer_geeza]

update. Still never even nearly od'd in 16 yrs of opiate addiction. 8 yr IV.

Last week 2 ppl i know died of H od's, both were the same age as me 36. Both were drunk prior to using, herein lies the difference afaics.

 

[trip407]

I od´ed one time in my newbe times with low tolerance on 180 mg methadone and 5 mg flunitrazepam. i just fell on the floor and sleept in my appartment alone. i remember waking up the next afternoon lights on ( they were so fucking bright) and my clock ringing. One month after this accident i was pretty much ok, but one of my pupils will not dilate in the dark(2 years later). Also i have still brown spots on my shoulders where i had lain on. I think im lucky to be alive, but who in here is not?

 

[kbee]

Have never ODed in an unconsious sense, but have spent a couple nights pacing the kitchen in fear of the big sleep.

Silverfucked, i got a chill when i read that, i remember pacing the kitchen, forcing myself to drink water and stay awake, no fun!

wow, haha.... that post stood out for me too. but i didnt do do that pacing thing while ODing on heroin.

 

[kemikals]

2 years of snorting H and never came close to OD

 

[n0seWAx]

ive used opiates for like 3 yrs on and off kind of whenever i got money did heroin quite a bit like a yr ago but was never addcited i oded once like the second time i IVed it and i needed narcan

 

[twominds]

2 years of snorting H and never came close to OD

I think the key word is 'snorting' to why you haven't OD'd.

 

[PhreeX]

This is old enough, we get OD's all the time ... move to the OD archive....