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What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

  • Heroin

    Votes: 100 13.4%
  • Methadone

    Votes: 99 13.3%
  • Oxymorphone

    Votes: 27 3.6%
  • Tramadol

    Votes: 22 2.9%
  • Benzodiazepines

    Votes: 292 39.1%
  • GHB/GBL

    Votes: 20 2.7%
  • Alcohol

    Votes: 47 6.3%
  • Meth/Amphetamines

    Votes: 39 5.2%
  • Cocaine/Crack

    Votes: 13 1.7%
  • Ketamine

    Votes: 1 0.1%
  • SSRI/SNRI/MAOI/TCA/TeCA antidepressants

    Votes: 21 2.8%
  • Other Opiates/Opioids

    Votes: 65 8.7%

  • Total voters
    746
It's hard to say. Ive never gone through acute benzo withdrawal, or to the point where things were really extremely fucked up or caught a seizure, but from my experience it's the worst in a way, because nothing can really help lessen the severity. I was addicted to heroin and benzo's at one point, and I remember one day I just decided to quit benzo's CT to cut expenses down. The first 24 hours were okay, but after that I began to feel really fucked up. I wound up shooting a whole bundle over the course of four hours to try and sedate/knock myself out, but it didn't work. My whole world felt like it was getting turned upside down, and all my senses were intensified to grotesque proportions. Luckily I wound up getting a bar after two days before things got too bad, but that shit is very unpleasant and I know it was just the tip of the iceberg.

Other than Xanax though, I would say methadone or suboxone, due to the prolonged withdrawal as well as the horrible PAWS. When I kicked methadone a few years ago without a taper in a rehab facility, from 90mg, I wanted to die every second for six months straight. Eventually I got out of that haze, but it was one of the worst periods of my life. It definately could have been avoided had I been tapered down gradually I'm sure.
 
Mental: Cannabis.

Physical: Diazepam.

When I used Ketamine daily I would crave for it more than I have any other drug, but only because of the fact that the effects were so enjoyable.

When I used to smoke a lot more Cannabis than I do now I would never feel right eating or sleeping without being stoned... luckily for me them days/nights were far and few between because I was basically high 24/7 haha.

Diazepam withdrawal is living hell... I have had seizures from going cold turkey after taking stupid amounts of Valium every day for only weeks on end (very stupid of me). I have also had full psychotic episodes after not being able to sleep for days when withdrawing from them.

Stay safe, THcrack (:
 
If I was going through that kind of withdrawal and I owned a gun, it wouldve been the last withdrawal of my life!
 
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Benzo's are a long detox.you can't eat or sleep for months..opiates are intense! doing 90 100mcg's fentanly patches iv over a few weeks has to be the worst.The second day from the patch,it is not pacing but running from wall to wall. ,then the morphine's.,oxy's,dillys,etc 4rth and 5th day it hit's you and then the Methadone 21 days , not too severe but long.It takes 21 to 24 days before you can sleep.Stupid'ly I have done it once on purpose at 'Home Wood' and 2 times in a cell/.Still trying to quit since 1979.take my advice bra come down slow and change your life.It is easy to quit but you will relaspe if you come back to the same old place.
 
it's a toss-up between benzos and opiates...benzo withdrawal can last a lot longer and is more psychological suffering whereas opiates is psychological and physical..benzos can be physical too don't get me wrong.....one time i went cold turkey off of xanax 2mg 4 times a day for a year, and i was having constant twitching to the point where i couldn't even walk without spasming and falling. Also, benzodiazepine withdrawal can be fatal whereas opiate withdrawal normally is not, sometimes it can cause cardiac symptoms. I suppose it just depends on how much and how long you've been on benzos to determine how bad withdrawal is, similar to opiates, the higher the dose you come off of, the worse the withdrawal.
 
Benzos are probably the worst in their acute state, but at least you can get around most of the suffering by a very, very gradual taper. I've been weening off for almost a year, down from 3-4 mgs of Xanax daily, to a switch to Librium, which I switched to after getting down to 2mgs xanax daily and hitting a wall (my idiot psychiatrist tries to ween xanax addicts with xanax, and tries to do rapid detox, making him totally fucking ignorant and incompetent). I started at 100 mgs daily, which is roughly equivalent to 2mgs of xanax, and the switch has been the hardest point. I am now down to 10 mgs daily, with a 5 mg capsule in the morning and a 5 at night. I detoxed in increments as high as 12.5 mgs a month (by taking two pills during my night dose one day, and one pill the next, then two, then one, etc etc..), and now I go by 5.

It really isn't that horrific if you take it as slow as possible. The worst part of my detox is seeing my psychiatrist every month and have him berate me for "taking it too easy on myself" (literally his words) and his attempts to have me try and cut down on my Suboxone at the same damn time. This guy is out of touch, he is an addiction specialist who hasn't read the Ashton Manual, what the fuck. He has no concept of pain and suffering through withdrawal, and he should be okay with whatever the fuck rate I want to go, provided we have consistent progress, which we do.

Anyways, that makes opiates the worst for me. I'm thinking I would like to get off Suboxone, but withdrawal at home seems impossible. I can minimize pain with benzos, but with opiates you just have to bite the bullet if you can't get into a detox, which I am not doing for Suboxone (couldn't afford oxy/heroin detox, much less a 21 day suboxone detox that usually leaves people in withdrawal when they get out). Post-Acutes are a terrible thing as well. I know that the shock exhibited by benzo addicts who are rapidly-but-safely detoxed by ignorant clinics (these places want to treat every depressant like opiates sometimes) is worse, but at least you can avoid them. There is no true way around Post-Acute Opiate Withdrawal, and the subtlety of the symptoms is such that it becomes hard to determine whether the depression is simply how you feel without opiates (the lie) or a direct result neurotransmitter imbalance due to a chemical substitution (the truth). You can only remain depressed like that for so long before you start to believe the bullshit.

So, while all out benzo withdrawal is worse, opiates are much more difficult to withdrawal from, as nothing you do can make it anywhere near painless (even detox is rough I understand from lots of second-hand experience, although I've never been). That leaves opiates with the edge as far as I am concerned. Post-Acutes no matter how well you withdrawal are the absolute deciding factor.
 
Can a moderator please make this a poll?

In the spirit of goddamn harm reduction, people need to know (in the most efficient way possible) if the xanax they were just prescribed might very well give them more of a withdrawal than the heroin they barely managed to kick!

Also, I have some questions. Is it worth it to take xanax if the dose never exceeds, say, 1mg? Will there be simply no relief whatsoever eventually from this dose, or will it just be a lot weaker? Basically, I'm asking if benzodiazepines are a complete sham--simply create addiction--or if they indefinitely work in a therapeutic way once any "euphoria" or what have you passes in several months. Long-term, barring any continued abuse, might it work? Could one simply be on it for life in the same way as heroin addicts in the United Kingdom are given their fix into eternity?
 
jeez thank god i have never been addicted to benzos, that sounds like hell.

the worst physical withdrawals I've had were from soma, IMO they were worse than heroin, but i never got that addicted to heroin, as it's scarce here. also i had moderate alcohol withdrawals after being addicted for 4 months, and that was probably the worst.
the worst mental withdrawals i've had were from coke/meth and weed (not at the same time). it makes you too depressed, tired, and generally shitty.
 
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Probably Benzos or GHB withdrawal. GHB withdrawal has all the negatives of benzos and alcohol withdrawal and can kill you.
 
Seeing as how the only drugs I've withdrawn from are oxymorphone and heroin.. and when i withdrew from oxymorphone I was so naive that I didn't realize I was sick from not having the drug so that made it a LOT easier to deal with since I just thought I had the flu or something... so I have to say heroin has been the hardest for me to withdraw... especially when you can't stop doing it and are always in the never ending loop of withdrawal
 
The worst withdrawal Ive ever been through was with Heroin, but I didnt select that as my answer on the poll. I went with Alcohol because Ive seen my own mother go through Alcohol withdrawal after a long addiction, probably around 10 years. Its the most terrifying thing Ive ever witnessed other than Heroin overdoses. To see my own mother in that state was horrible and that was the final straw for any sort of regular drinking I was doing/planned on doing. Drinking is a huge part of the culture here in Finland, but with my entire family as support for my mom Im confident she can stay clean this time.
 
Having never gone through any super awful withdrawal symptoms, I would have to assume Heroin would be the worst. Meth wasn't bad at all, I've actually had worse amphetamine come downs.
 
I've only briefly felt benzo withdrawal. It sucked for the short period of time I had to go through it (drug store fucked up my script). But from my personal experience, opiate withdrawal was the worst for me. I think in my bad days I was on 320mg/day then just had to cold turkey it. Now that was pain. Shittin out water, barely able to walk, tired all the time but can't sleep. On top of that I still had to go to class. Just to TOLERATE the pain I was taking 2000mg acetaminophen and 400mg of ibuprofen at once - and of course I still hurt. Glad those days are behind me.
 
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