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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 677487" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>One thing you hear over and over again from addicts is that they didn't intend to become addicts. Almost every addict thought they'd be the exception, that THEY were strong enough to only use their Drug of Choice infrequently enough to not become addicted.</p><p></p><p>Once addiction occurs, use is no longer really a choice. Once addiction occurs, it is no longer so much a matter of getting high, but a matter of what opiate addicts refer to as "getting well".</p><p></p><p>The choice then is whether or not to get clean, and how to go about it. The choices being whether or not to go on maintenance (methadone, suboxone, or subutex), or go cold turkey. Anyway they go, there's a hellish withdrawal waiting for them, not just the physical symptoms, but long lasting extreme depression and anxiety, plus cravings for the drug of choice. Methadone specifically is harder to withdraw from than heroin.</p><p></p><p>Early on, a proto-addict does make choices. I know I did, twice in the late 70s. I tried heroin by smoking. I absolutely loved the rush and the high, so much so that it frightened me. Y'see, I KNEW that heroin was stronger than I was, and if I continued to use, I'd wind up an addict. My choice was to never use it again and i have stuck to that choice for all the intervening years.</p><p></p><p>Oddly, I do not get the same euphoria from other opiates and HATE the way they make me feel.</p><p></p><p>So, I do have a little bit of insight into why addicts become addicts, and I do understand the appeal of heroin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 677487, member: 1963"] One thing you hear over and over again from addicts is that they didn't intend to become addicts. Almost every addict thought they'd be the exception, that THEY were strong enough to only use their Drug of Choice infrequently enough to not become addicted. Once addiction occurs, use is no longer really a choice. Once addiction occurs, it is no longer so much a matter of getting high, but a matter of what opiate addicts refer to as "getting well". The choice then is whether or not to get clean, and how to go about it. The choices being whether or not to go on maintenance (methadone, suboxone, or subutex), or go cold turkey. Anyway they go, there's a hellish withdrawal waiting for them, not just the physical symptoms, but long lasting extreme depression and anxiety, plus cravings for the drug of choice. Methadone specifically is harder to withdraw from than heroin. Early on, a proto-addict does make choices. I know I did, twice in the late 70s. I tried heroin by smoking. I absolutely loved the rush and the high, so much so that it frightened me. Y'see, I KNEW that heroin was stronger than I was, and if I continued to use, I'd wind up an addict. My choice was to never use it again and i have stuck to that choice for all the intervening years. Oddly, I do not get the same euphoria from other opiates and HATE the way they make me feel. So, I do have a little bit of insight into why addicts become addicts, and I do understand the appeal of heroin. [/QUOTE]
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