Opioids Questions for Opioid Addicts

[edgewise1]

Once a week is not too bad. But anymore than that and your playing with fire an will eventually get burnt. Opiate dependence creeps up on you out of nowhere then grabs you by the balls with a kung fu grip.

Oh how true this is! I started out using twice a YEAR. Was using hydro cough syrup for the most part. Then I begin to get h ydro, pills/cough syrup, for longer periods of time and ended up taking opiates for as long as I could. I would inspect medicine cabinets of people my wife would drag me out to see, now my ex-wife due to this and due to my addiction. Several times I scored big. Lot of folks just stored unused opiates in their bathrooms and it was easy pickings I am ashamed to say. But what I am saying is that opiate use will creep up on you when you are not looking and before you know it you are addicted. You don't see it coming because you are so high on opiates already.

I should have quit while I was ahead of the"game", but I wasn't worried because I was the one who was not going to get addicted! ! Little did I know. ......

 

[merajjj840]

I remember this. The once a week routine. Started out 8yrs ago at 25mg hydro. That lasted about two years. Then it went to every 5 days. Then slowly dwindled to every day, just once. Then it was everyday, all day, heroin. So, as everyone pretty much said... chill the fuck out, cause you don't want that habit. Its a game, and you almost always loose.

 

[jamesBrown]

what defines an addict?

Criteria for Substance Dependence

A maladaptive pattern of substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period:

(1) tolerance

(2) Withdrawal

(3) the substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended

(4) there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use

(5) a great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (e.g., visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), use the substance (e.g., chain-smoking), or recover from its effects

(6) important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use

(7) the substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance (e.g., current cocaine use despite recognition of cocaine-induced depression, or continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption)

*This is taken from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel-IV-TR but was taken directly from this site

***This^^ is a post by CaptainHeroin I believe from another thread.***