Narcotics/Benzos/Amphetamines?

Anyone else tempted with any these drugs besides me?

No. I have taken Klonopin for about 20 years, as directed, and am extremely physically addicted to it. I've never had success with going off the K-pin, no matter how slowly I titrated it down. The week of feeling better if I took more benzo would never be worth the years of addiction. I don't know how I'll ever come off the stuff, and I am very scared about it.

I don't crave it.
I take klonopin every day; however, recently I took a break when I was taking a pain killer. The only problem I noted was that I couldn't sleep-even with oxycodone and benadryl.

Benzos do nothing for me except relieve anxiety and too much just puts me to sleep so they have no recreational value for me. I would however not turn down barbiturates! Now they are fun and very hard to come by. I would not turn down amphetamines, but I would prefer the other direction with opiates. Any opiate! I love opiates! That's the way to go

I like your thinking!!! I completely agree! I haven't heard Barbiturates mentioned in a long time...I'd love one of those! And a Morphine drip with a Soma on the side! lol

Benzos replaced Barbs, though you can still get barbed in a hospital. About the only way to get any Barbs these days is mixed with something else I forget what but it's for serious seizures or extreme pain.

Doctors welcomed Benzos with open arms and praised it as manna from heaven! Barbs were just way toooo addictive and very strong and easy to OD on. No magtter what anyone says about Benzos they aren't any thing that can be used recreational, and no where near as addicting as barbs, and it's a lot harder to OD on benzos. Yet everyone is benzo-phobic. Go figure

Yep, I am forced to agree. I even have a saying: "You're not fully clean unless you're VICODIN clean" lol. The high-me loves to take those all night and clean out all the closets and drawers in my house. Never felt better. Of course every rose has its thorn, and I end up jonesing so bad for more when they are gone. That's what I try to think of before I give in and use. The comedown is pure hell. I try to remember that before I use. Avoid regret because I am also very remorseful afterwards and I look at all the time it stole from me. And the brain cells lol. But hey, Ashes Ashes we all fall down. And just get back up. I get frustrated with myself when I fall. But I realized I still have to be alive here on Earth lol, so might as well just try again. Its my life and all the Judges can just hold their tongues for your moment of weakness will come. And I'll be there, not judging you

I'm like what the AA Big Book calls the "hopeless" addict, that will always battle with the "cravings". Currently I stuggle with OTC stimulants. It's all good though, since I've improved a great deal over the last few years with my addictions! My psychiatrist, says I have an addictive personality disorder, which is connected with OCD. Luvox/Luvox CR help a little!

Yeah this post totally triggered me. I started smoking meth and now I'm trapped. I shouldn't read things like this yall.

Just reading the names and thinking about the good ol times wtf am I doing I am a complete idiot. I am not safe.

Hay, am I the only 'dip-stick' who just can't get this decent stuff????????????????? Damn the UK for being so ridged and stuffy huh! HUGZZ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lightbulb. (((Hugs))) remember one day at a time. Maybe you should post your own thread for some positive support. I'm sorry you're feeling this way. In the first month or so everything triggered even what my AA sponsor said.

@Vans when I have panic attacks or have to face a family reunion I need my benzos to work. For that reason I try to only take when needed. They are the fastest pill for me to build a tolerance. I take adderall for adhd but I hate the way it makes me feel when I take too much. And again it'll just build a tolerance. I have ppl all the time trying to buy pills off me pisses me off! Also I know there are ppl in AA who think I have zero sobriety bc of my meds. **** em their not bipolar.

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Hey thickntired, I know what you mean...I hate the ones like that at AA! Where I'm at everyone love the opiates the most especially Oxycontin!! People will kill for that stuff!

I avoid those like the plague since I love them!!

Sorry Lightbulb didn't mean to trigger you!!!

I'm withdrawing from Tramadol (an opiate) and it's awful. Don't get me wrong, I loved them.. But this withdrawal is f'n awful

I'm a big psycho-stimulant fan!!

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Completely. The worst part is I have all three. Legally. It's actually awful.

Tramadol is by far the worst opiate to withdraw from. Part of it is because it has an anti-depressant quality that others like Vicodin, Norco, Loratab, etc. do not have.

Alcohol was my drug of choice but as I got older I did harder drugs and loved them. Vicadin I absolutely loved. I have been clean a sober for 18 years with a few slips on pot. The five years before I got sober I did meth heavily. I loved it. I never did smoke only snort.
Two weeks after I got sober I skitzed out. I went into what is called amphetimine post acute withdrawal. I was pyschotic and whacked. It lasted for a whole year before I came back to my old self. I was three weeks in the mental hospital before they would let me out. On haildol for a year. they wouldn't let me drive for six months. I can tell you that meth will whack your brain chemistry for a long time.

Hi

I have friends in AA that were in properly diagnosed with bipolar and other things. The problem can be post acute withdrawal syndrome or paws. It is our brains resetting after all the flow of chemicals from drugs. This mimics bipolar and other kinds of psychosis. A good book is Beautiful Boy about a meth addict who underwent brain scans in sobriety. The brain suffers a lot of malfunction.

Peace. Tnt

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