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So I stumbled upon this site for the first time tonight. I was surprised to see that the majority of the 'drug' entries were in regards to smoking weed - something that I've been doing for about 7 years now, on somewhat of a regular basis. That does not conern me though. What does, and has been, concerning me for a long time is my dependancy on painkillers. I've been abusing painkillers (percocet, oxycontin, vicodin, morphine, dilaudid, etc) for appriximately 5 years now. I get them (take them) from my grandmother, who has an endless supply. I'm not looking for advice really, as I've had enough of it. I'm really just looking for others going through the same problem. I'm a normal member of society - I work full time at a 'real job' that requred a 'college education'. But no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get away from the painkillers. I've "quite" about 15 times now. I'm just looking for the ONE person who can share their experience with me. I'd like to talk...Later.
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Sorry man, Worst i've done with pain killers was find a bottle of them on the ground (I know it was bad to pick it up, because it couldove been anything) And saved them for when I got stressed out.

Besides that, I cant say much.
Sorry can't help you, never been on prescription painkillers for more than a couple days.
i dont even know what to say, other than uve got a problem
a fella i know is highly dependent on analgesic calmatives. suffice to say he now looks like a stick figure, and has a ruined liver. i lived with this fella for 13 years and watched his habit grow. last i heard he was on close to a box(of 24) a day. and very few local GP's or pharmacists will supply him anymore. his addiction stemed from a need for pain relief after an operation. now he has phantom pain that he "needs" them for.

after watching him taking all those pills for all those years, i find it hard to get myself to take any sort of pill , and impossible to try recreational drugs of any sort.

that's as close to this type of addiction i've been. sorry i couldn't be more helpful.
that is disgusting and definitly not normal your sick
Hey he's not sick cause he has an addiction to painkillers they are very addictve,i have had a mild adiction to vallium and analgesic calmatives and restivit which is an antihistmine sleeping tablet but my addiction was not bad and i'm not adicted to them now.
Take like a whole sheet of restivite and like 9 mercindal together it makes a good cocktail.
You get them over the counter at the chemist no script.
OXYCONTIN IS NO JOKE. I PUT IT IN MY 'THINGS I WILL NEVER DO' CATEGORY. THE ONLY OTHER THINGS IN THERE ARE CRACK, HEROIN, AND METH. AT LEAST KNOCK OFF THE O.C'S.
As somebody who lived with somebody like u and had my life fucked up by it, for the sake of everybody u know I suggest u get a full bottle of them and take them all at once dumbass
yea, and do you get really pissed off when you dont get them?
Please find a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and go to one with an open mind...

http://www.na.org/
ONE similar story, ok. i had been taking opiate painkillers for about 10 years when oxycontins came onto the market. for about 6 months i crushed and snorted them,doing more and more until the high just wasn't doing for me anymore and someone showed me how to work them up and shoot them with a needle. oh. my. god. better than any orgasm. i worked my way up to a 300 dollar a day habit. this lasted for 3 years. i am now approaching one year of total sobriety but quitting oxycontins were the most difficult thing ive ever felt or done. the desire to do them has never gone away though i do get longer reprieves from wanting them at this point. i ask myself if i will never do them again and i have not found the conviction yet to say "no, i'll never do them again" for now i just worry about 'for now'. Also when I say total sobriety i stop and ask myself if thats really what it is because in truth i am in methadone rehab treatment so technically my body is still addicted to a chemical. but at least with this one i am functioning, i have a job, ive had 2 promotions. i had to completely change my life. i moved, ended every single friendship except one, my boyfriend, who has been with me through all of it. he also is in treatment and has been sober for a year. Opiate painkillers are the absolute hardest abused substance to stop doing. It hurts so much you just want to die. your whole body aches, your muscles cramp, you sweat, you shake, you vomit, diahhrea, pounding head, but the withdrawals arent near the whole of it. there's also NOT having that wonderful euphoric energetic confident i can do anything enjoyment feeling that they give you. and nothing in the world compares to the rush of shooting them. so here i am, ONE person who knows way too well what its like.
Rehab. Go to NA meetings, if you can get past their jesus bullshit they can be a real help, helped me get off the skag.
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