A Warning to Everyone About Pharmaceuticals

I went through my phase of pills in high school.

Hydro's were my pill of choice, never really cared for Xanax.

Though I did like Klonopin, and as far as syrups go, I looooved Hydrotussin. Think codein and premethazyne, except it's Robotussin and Hyrdocodone, much better.

Yeah, I learned a lot about pills during that time. Then I kind of just snapped out of it. At the time though, I was taking 3-4, sometimes five 12.5MG hydro's every day.

Yeah it's probably not in the best of shape. I don't drink as much as I did when I was living on my own in Little Rock, but I generally have a couple beers every day.

Usually at night before I go to bed and I'm finishing up forums, I'll go ahead and have a couple then go to sleep.

For a while I was close to a 12'er a night, at a minimum. Don't really know how I made it through all that... Hazy times.

I take benedryl to sleep sometimes. The dose required to halucinate is way higher (10x or more) than the average dose.

doxylamine (unisom) and diphenhydramine (benedryl) are decent for getting you to fall asleep, but they make you feel sort of shitty the next morning. Kind of like a hangover without the nausea. A little bit of caffeine fixes it right up, I've found that doxylamine is more effective and less habit forming but neither are recommended.

That's all great, just a warning to never get frustrated and take more than you should.

Erik, don't ever take that poison again.  It's just a stepping stone to something worse.  I know.

Alex, if you ever need to take you Fiorinal you should do so on a VERY sporadic basis. There are far better migraine medicines out there that don't contain deadly barbiturates (barbs killed elvis, jimi hendrix, marilyn monroe, and more).  Try asking the doc for Immitrex or Zomeg.  No risks with those and they are not addictive.  Again, barbiturates are the devil.  My mother took them back in the day when benzos hadn't totally replaced them and she went completely looney toons.

I take Klonopin every day and I'm basically doomed to do so for the rest of my life.  It's not cool, although I'm in no real danger since I do require it to balance my anxiety and I have a shrink with a good writing arm.  He insists I stay on it because to withdraw would pose too much of  risk of seizure/death.  I'd have to be re-admitted to detox which I will never do again.  Twice is enough for me.

Before I got into OxyContin and Dilaudid I started off taking Tylenol with codeine and Tylenol 3's etc.  They may seem harmless and they are admittedly a weak opiate...but when they stop working some people have the type of addictive personality to go searching for something stronger.  Withdrawal is a bitch and opiates will eventually kill you.

X isn't physically addictive but I know some guys who used to roll every day on a regular basis fo years.  Some of them turned out just fine and were neve changed, others went through a deep depression and eventually came out of it.  One or two of them have never been the same since.  It acts so strongly on your serotonin system that you're rolling the dice with your mental health if you take it habitually.  Make sure you're not the first one to take a new brand of pill and test it with a home kit of possible...that's if you must take it ever.

BTW I'm not here to preach, just to spread awareness.  I can't say anything about drug use.  I'm a recovering addict but I still smoke weed several times daily and drink on a weekly basis.  I need not go into my smoking and coffee drink as that's covered in my espresso thread. Hehe...be safe bud.

Thanks, it comes with the territory, some might say.  But I categorize drug users as being in one of two classes: Mad Scientists and Sheeps to Slaughter.  Mad scientists research the hell out of the drugs they take and are very aware of substance interactions, dosage, chemical properties, contraindications, chemical potentiators, and basically how a drug will affect the brain and why someone feels a different effect or "high" from a different drug.  Sheeps to slaughter are people who will blow a line of anything without asking what it is, take any old handful of pills, recklessly use IV drugs (i.e. sharing needles, re-using needles, not being sanitary...although IV use is in itself reckless in my opinion.  I have never shot up) and combining drugs that can have potentially devastating effects.

Not that there is a huge difference in the eventual outcome of their career as a psychonaut...even the mad scientist can fuck up.  I did, and I researched the bejesus out of anything I ever took, and made damn well sure that nothing bad would happen.  Something bad eventually happened.

I'm certainly not here to say "drugs are bad mmkay," but with the surge of the oxycodone epidemic in my area and that surge having affected my life for five years, I am kinda trying to speak out against this rising problem of prescription drug abuse.  I do not agree with the war on drugs.  People are going to get heroin into this country because there is demand and there is huge money involved.  The government will never stop that.  Illegal or not the crackheads want their crack and the pillheads want their pills, but the government "controls" the distribution of prescription drugs.  Why is it that all of these heavy narcotics meant for people in extreme pain or terminally ill cancer and AIDS patients end up on the street?  Sure, it's to be expected that there will be some leakage with a drug that has euphoric and addictive properties, but I'd say that a HUGE chunk of the people who get scripts for opiate painkillers or benzos in my area only fill the scripts to sell them on the street.

Scenario: You have been diagnosed with let's say...fibromyalgia.  You have a lot of pain and need pain medication legitimately.  You go to the doctor and he scripts you oxycontin 40 mg pills to be taken 3 times daily.  After getting to know the effect of the drug, you realize that you only need one of these pills in the morning to kill your pain all day.  Let's say even 2.

You have Blue Cross insurance so you only pay 5 dollars (or nothing) for the prescription.  Or you have no plan and pay about 2 or 3 dollars per pill.  So these extra pills are piling up but you continue to fill the script.  Then a buddy notices you taking one and tells you that they are worth serious cash on the streets and offers to buy the pill that you just payed maybe 2 or 3 dollars for (or free) for 40 dollars (oxy runs about 1 dollar per milligram).  Add that up over a month.  It's a salary in itself.

BTW most addicts need 80-160 or more mg to get an effect when they have tolerance.  They will need this every day.  It's an expensive addiction.  I've pissed away tens of thousands.

And you should because you seem really responsible about it.  If you leave full bottles of hydro in your cupboard and forget about them then fiorinal is nothing to worry about.  I would flush those hydros though.  People get robbed over that shit.

Or sell 'em for big bucks if you have the heart and unsavoury accquaintances to do so.