Let me help you
Posted by EdgarAlanCrow@reddit | plano | View on Reddit | 3 comments
I hope this is okay to post…but after yesterday’s post about the fentanyl death and being all in the comments I felt compelled to just post this to reach more.
I am a product of my city and bad family genetics…a heroin addict. Recovering but an addict is always an addict. Once I became physically addicted and started to use just so I can function and keep away the withdrawals…my brain was permanently rerouted.
Ten years of my life living shot to shot. I won’t go into the whole story but I died once…and the Narcan did not take. To this day if someone said “you can go through withdrawals or die..what do you choose?” I will choose death. No doubt about it. Addiction is strong and very complicated.
I am saying all this because I want to help. I’m a recovering addict, I have a teenage niece, and a sister in law working in the school system. I am very connected to drug culture of all ages and I want to help you. It’s tricky because I grew up hearing about heroin all the time that it made me so curious and want to try it..so there is definitely a fine balance between education and just plain unintentionally sparking interest.
As I said in a comment yesterday I used to stay well and not get high..that’s addiction. I never nodded off or fell out. The first time I..a seasoned heroin addict…took a shot of fentanyl I fell right out immediately. The stuff is strong. If it had that reaction to my tolerance..just think what it’s going to do to someone with NO opiate tolerance whatsoever.
I want you to know what to look for, what to listen for, what to do in the case you run across this, the lingo, what drugs are what,recovery programs, medical assisted treatment options…any questions please please please reach out to me. If I save one life with my story that’s enough for me. I’d like to think I did the leg work for you all and make something positive come from such a horrific thing I put myself through.
Do you know why they are regulating Imodium now? Yeah that anti diarrhea medication.
I don’t want these parents going to the funeral home asking them for a funeral for an overdose. As a teen I went too many funerals and I don’t want these kids to experience the horrors I have.
Again…any questions you have about this topic please reach out to me. I know way too much about drugs but I want to put that knowledge to good use.
Thanks for reading.
Mynplus1throwaway@reddit
What are some of the best general rules of thumb.
When i got my wisdom teeth pulled they gave me a whole 30 day supply of oxy i think it was. I needed 2 pills for the first few days. If i had a predisposition for liking opiates that probably could have done me in.
Broken ankle. Percocet.
I feel it is obviously over prescribed. And one of the more common routes to addiction. I personally couldn't stand them.
What are some general rules of thumb for preventing addiction that aren't just say no. I don't have kids yet, but one day I'll likely be faced with children being prescribed opiates etc.
EdgarAlanCrow@reddit (OP)
Only take them when you need them obviously..but definitely have someone else hold on to the medication. My opiate use started with strep throat. My doctor gave me tramadol and I realized when I took that I was more chipper at work. I was waiting tables at the time so this helped me plus restaurant jobs are FULL of drugs. Don’t let your kids work in restaurants if you are afraid of having them exposed to drugs. Random I know but trust me.
Dealers have pill presses that they can put fentanyl into. Why? Because it gives their product that extra nod effect and sneakily makes someone addicted if they survive whatever they took. Bars are a huge one..it’s Xanax. Xanax..bars…are a staple in the drug world. Kids love them..this is usually the first pill they’ll get if it isn’t an opiate.
The way it works is you take the drug..then you like it and take more. Then after about a week of that binge you decide “eh that’s enough im good” and then realize your body is physically addicted. They call it an illness because it alters your chemicals and thoughts just as a disease would. At that point you can stop or give into the crave. Every time you detox is worst than the last.
After they made OxyContin unabusable…they made it to where you can’t shoot it or snort it and it becomes gelatinous…is when I noticed that I was physically addicted. I didn’t want to continue but my body had other plans for me so I went to snorting heroin, to shooting it, to shooting it with coke. I never ever ever thought I’d be an IV (needle) user but the addiction takes time to develop and slowly one bill doesn’t get paid and you call into work another..and it just snowballs from there.
speedycatofinstagram@reddit
Yeah we in the at uk learned to microwave those oxys quick