Addictions

[Raider Nation Fisher]

What is wrong with people!?! How is it you know something is bad for you. You know something is gonna get you hooked. Yet you do it anyway! Is life so d**n bad that you gotta stick a needle in your arm, pop some pill, bump something up your snout, or fall in love with a bottle? Im so sick of this! You know its gonna cost you everything yet you do it anyway! "Just one more time and I'm through." However one more time never comes. Cause there is always another. You would give your life for that person yet they are stealing cash out of your car. That person knows you would do anything for them, so they play that to your advantage. Love is a hell of a emotion. Why wouldn't you try an help that person if they said their life was in danger. Would you drive 500 miles away to protect them from whoever threatened them? Would you bring three buddies to help? Only to find out when you got there it was all a lie, cause they need some dope. You threaten to beat them til your knuckles bleed, yet they don't care. They gotta get that fix, gotta chase that dragon, gotta feel like that first time you shot it in your vein. They out right lie to your face to try an get you to give them money. They don't care that they were warned what would happen if they shot it up. Knowing good and dang well once that needle is in there, they are gonna be hooked. I just don't get it. I don't understand it. Yet you managed to overcome it. You cleaned up. Never have I been so proud as the day you finally gave it up. Naw it ain't like it was when we used to run around as kids playing. Staying up all night and hanging out. Its better than that now. I got my Lil Brother back. You pulled it off homie. You beat it like you owned it homie. I've never been more proud of you than I am now. Three years is a long time to be clean from what you were doing. Keep at it. Life is a long twisting road.

What's so wrong with life? How is it that bad that you gotta drink or shoot your problems away? I'm tired of it. I'm sick to death of it. Life sucks. Its not always great. It CAN be rotten at times. Everyone has to deal with it. Your not the only one. Grow up and act like a d**n adult. I'm sick of losing friends and family to this stuff. Why in the **** can't they just ******* stop!!! Why does it have to be like this!! Why does my cousin have to grow up with out a father and mother because of this! He was two when he lost his mom and dad to pills and booze. Why does he never get to know his parents! Why is another one about to be placed in foster care cause her mom and dad can't keep from shooting Oxy's every chance they get? How is this fair to the child, that both her parents are junkies? How is it fair my uncle who loves that child like his own? The uncle who buried my aunt three months ago cause she had a heart attack. Yet had to come home from her funeral to find his daughter and her husband whacked out on junk. What did that precious girl do to deserve this!!!

Why won't it just stop? Why can't it just end?

[Marty]

Good questions, but no easy answers. But your post is a testament to the addictive power of __________ (fill in the blank).

[Raider Nation Fisher]

OxyCodone and Heroin. Hell most any of the opiate pain medications. Primarily Oxycodone.

[Root beer]

Oxy is believed to rewire some parts of your brain, then they treat the addiction with more pain pills. I hate high grade pain pills with passion. I only take Tylenol when my leg pain disrupt my sleep at night. 

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Oxy is believed to rewire some parts of your brain, then they treat the addiction with more pain pills. I hate high grade pain pills with passion. I only take Tylenol when my leg pain disrupt my sleep at night.

I can see that. I can't stand pills. Psych or pain meds. They scare the crap out of me. One of my friends since kindergarten OD'd on Benzo's a month after graduation. It was his parents anniversary and they were taking a cruise. They walked in his room to tell him bye. He was dead as a door nail.

Like most construction workers, I hurt constantly. Both my shoulders and knees are jacked. My left hip always hurts. Both my wrist are messed up. My right ankle is screwed up, has been for a year now. I wake up and it takes about 20 minutes to get everything lossened up. Even then the pain is still manageable. I destroy my body at the gym constantly as well as the beating it takes at work. Yet I manage to cope. Yeah I can go pop some skittles, like a bunch of my coworkers do. (Don't know who if any do it at my new job) Yeah it would make me feel better, but when and where will it end? I'm not spending my life strung out on pills so I can function normally. I've done/do this to myself so I have to live with the consequence's of it.

My pops is crippled from nerve damage in his back. He is constantly in pain. Some days he can't even get out of the bed. Yet he gets by on low doses of Valium and skittles. If he can cope without the high dose opiates so can everyone else.I see no reason for drugs such as oxy and fentynl to be available like they are.

[Root beer]

I can see that. I can't stand pills. Psych or pain meds. They scare the crap out of me. One of my friends since kindergarten OD'd on Benzo's a month after graduation. It was his parents anniversary and they were taking a cruise. They walked in his room to tell him bye. He was dead as a door nail.

Like most construction workers, I hurt constantly. Both my shoulders and knees are jacked. My left hip always hurts. Both my wrist are messed up. My right ankle is screwed up, has been for a year now. I wake up and it takes about 20 minutes to get everything lossened up. Even then the pain is still manageable. I destroy my body at the gym constantly as well as the beating it takes at work. Yet I manage to cope. Yeah I can go pop some skittles, like a bunch of my coworkers do. (Don't know who if any do it at my new job) Yeah it would make me feel better, but when and where will it end? I'm not spending my life strung out on pills so I can function normally. I've done/do this to myself so I have to live with the consequence's of it.

My pops is crippled from nerve damage in his back. He is constantly in pain. Some days he can't even get out of the bed. Yet he gets by on low doses of Valium and skittles. If he can cope without the high dose opiates so can everyone else.I see no reason for drugs such as oxy and fentynl to be available like they are.

Cannabinol would be a much better option... (Note: not to be confused with THC) That the world we live in, embraced harsher drugs but shun drug that no one overdose on. Lol oh well.

[Bluebasser86]

I don't understand it either. I see the same people all the time that have taken that route in life and will probably never know anything else but chasing after their next dose of their drug of choice. It's a sad thing to see a life wasted. I lost a buddy who had been my best friend growing up to a meth addiction. I did everything I could to help him beat it, visited him in rehab, took him to do stuff to remind him how much fun he could have without it, didn't matter. A lot of the stuff destroys the pleasure centers of the brain so their next high is the only thing that can make them feel good again. 

[NEjitterbugger]

The only thing I'm addicted to is fishing, plan on keeping it that way...

[slonezp]

I can see that. I can't stand pills. Psych or pain meds. They scare the crap out of me. One of my friends since kindergarten OD'd on Benzo's a month after graduation. It was his parents anniversary and they were taking a cruise. They walked in his room to tell him bye. He was dead as a door nail.

Like most construction workers, I hurt constantly. Both my shoulders and knees are jacked. My left hip always hurts. Both my wrist are messed up. My right ankle is screwed up, has been for a year now. I wake up and it takes about 20 minutes to get everything lossened up. Even then the pain is still manageable. I destroy my body at the gym constantly as well as the beating it takes at work. Yet I manage to cope. Yeah I can go pop some skittles, like a bunch of my coworkers do. (Don't know who if any do it at my new job) Yeah it would make me feel better, but when and where will it end? I'm not spending my life strung out on pills so I can function normally. I've done/do this to myself so I have to live with the consequence's of it.

My pops is crippled from nerve damage in his back. He is constantly in pain. Some days he can't even get out of the bed. Yet he gets by on low doses of Valium and skittles. If he can cope without the high dose opiates so can everyone else.I see no reason for drugs such as oxy and fentynl to be available like they are.

I feel your pain homie   It's like I'm looking in the mirror. Sucks what we put ourselves thru to make a decent buck. I take Advil along with some other vitamins and supplements which seems to keep the "regular" pain at bay. I've got oxycodone from my surgery which kept me sound asleep after they cut me open, and hydrocodone from the pain management doc which was prescribed before my epideral because they wanted me off the Advil. They're sitting in the cabinet. It's easy to see how people can get addicted.  For me, whiskey is the best pain killer there is, so I quit. Using for a crutch once in awhile is one thing. Using to live is another. Fortunately, only my ex wife was affected by addiction. It ruined our marriage but life goes on.

 

Went fishing with my son yesterday and I was good for about 2 1/2 hours before the pain started and by 12:30 he was fishing and I was sitting. I've got an appointment on the 21'st to check for nerve damage

[rockchalk06]

Simple answer bud. Some are weaker than others.

I've dealt with it for over 20 years with family and work. Some of the bravest caring strong people are weak.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

I feel your pain homie   It's like I'm looking in the mirror. Sucks what we put ourselves thru to make a decent buck. I take Advil along with some other vitamins and supplements which seems to keep the "regular" pain at bay. I've got oxycodone from my surgery which kept me sound asleep after they cut me open, and hydrocodone from the pain management doc which was prescribed before my epideral because they wanted me off the Advil. They're sitting in the cabinet. It's easy to see how people can get addicted.  For me, whiskey is the best pain killer there is, so I quit. Using for a crutch once in awhile is one thing. Using to live is another. Fortunately, only my ex wife was affected by addiction. It ruined our marriage but life goes on.

 

Went fishing with my son yesterday and I was good for about 2 1/2 hours before the pain started and by 12:30 he was fishing and I was sitting. I've got an appointment on the 21'st to check for nerve damage

Last place I was at alot of them were taking Roxi's and skittles like they were going out of style. I find creatine and glutamine helps a lot with muscle soreness.

Nerve damage sucks. That's what happened to my old man. His is bad as all hell though. They tried to stick him on oxy and he refused it. Said he can't drink his beer with it.

[Jake P]

I come from a long line of losers. My father being the king of all excuses. from pcp to meth to alcohol, he used them all at some point in his life. Alcohol being his main addiction. I feel it is hereditary. I feel I have addictive tendencies. Been trying to kick tobacco for years. Went from smoking to dipping. Although it is maybe a can every 2-3 weeks, I still consider it addicted. Alcohol not so much after seing my dad on it my whole life. I do enjoy it, but I have NO problem saying no.

 

Only thing I have ever had a problem with is pills. Mainly hydocodone and lortab. The feeling they give me is literally euphoric. I am the happiest person in the world and nothing bothers me. I broke my ankle years ago and was prescribed 10-325 Hydrocodone. 30 pills total. I took those 30 plus 14 more of someone elses in less than 2 weeks. I realized once they were gone that I had developed a problem. Luckily, unlike alot of people, I was able to kick them no poblem.

 

I got kidney stones about 3 months ago and was prescibed the same pills. I now have a wife, kids and a good job. I started in on them again and before I knew it I was almost out. My wife noticed and was very worried and mad. That being said, I NEVER missed a day of work, never acted out in a bad way towards anyone at all and didnt really change in any noticeable way. But I did realize that I was abusing them so I trashed the rest of them. I now know I can not take anything other than Extra strength tylenol etc. Because I dont trust myself.Havent touched one since and never will again.

 

I do understand addiction though because like I said, the feeling is incredible. Euphoria is the only word that describes it.

[tomustang]

My pops is crippled from nerve damage in his back. He is constantly in pain. Some days he can't even get out of the bed. Yet he gets by on low doses of Valium and skittles. If he can cope without the high dose opiates so can everyone else.I see no reason for drugs such as oxy and fentynl to be available like they are.

I've leaned a long time ago that pain thresholds are different for everyone so I couldn't say everyone can cope that way.

[derekxec]

thats the reason i dont ever drink, do drugs, smoke etc....im 29 and ive had 3 alcoholic drinks in my life and i dont even take meds when im sick not even otc meds...meds dont cure anything and they arent supposed to anyway lol cures dont make money keeping people using them to hold them over does 

[Sam]

Chocolate.

 

I am addicted to chocolate.

 

Difficult to keep off the stuff.

 

If it is hard to keep off of chocolate then how hard is it to keep off the heavy drugs?

 

Very hard.

[Nitrofreak]

Growing up in the city in the 60's, there were many, many ways to get a fix of some sort, you get mixed up in a group of friends, who you find that really are not your friends after all,  it's the inner voice that becomes what you make of it, it's your inner strenght that helps you to overcome, I get how hard it is to get off the pill, the needle, the pipes, the bottles.

 

I commend your brother for staying straight, it's a tough, tough, battle between him and the addiction, I hope his strength continues to grow each and every day.

 

How do we do this to ourselves, we are each responsible for our own actions and each of us react in a different way, it's not that life itself or the problems we have are to blame all the time, but merely the excuse that often accompanies the addiction, it may have helped to get us through a tough patch or simply picked ones self up, or just simply tried it for the very first time,  it's the brain that needs that reaction, it's a lot tougher than one thinks, trying to retrain your brain in most cases, it takes so much out of ones self and everyone around that person, I only hope and wish all of you who fight, that you win all of your battles.