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p0ly’s Sober Diary This is my diary of all the times I take a powerful substance in the path to try and stop myself falling back into a spiral of self destruction. Should be interesting, haven't consumed anything for about 10 days so feeling pretty clean.
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July is festival season and some special occasions can be allowed ;) :bounce_fl12…1213
FW: methadone sickness and withdraws question hi my name is sarah.
where im from is a very small place. the dip team have not very much experince as for four year ive begged to have my lfe back. im corrantly on 20mils of a drug call methdone. i wish id never heard of it but now after a 10 figth to have my life back its happening. but like i say to all users if every one in the world came up and said that it then drug n alcohla wouldnt have a job.
am angery that my next genaratison r in doing thing that destroy family awell as your self. but im 7 well 14 th august will been clean from methadone and herion to at moment am detoxin so need to ask...
will i be ill off methdone? is there after care help? need ideas as barrow in furness england didnt know out!
i went to london and they are so far on in there after care that only 400 mils away but i found out more there in the whole 7 year ive been clean from heroin.
any advice please help, thank you!
sarah
Bringin it back (dimenhydrinate) haha, first off, i wanted to clear up something about this post. This is NOT a recommendation on what OTC for you to do next. It is simply to make people remember their experience with dimenhydrinate, if they even have even tried it...if you havnt...good. lol..avoid the discomfort and risk.
Secondly....well, shoot, i lost my train of thought
Coming Off Methadone: Someone Tell Me I Am Doing Good Please :group_hug
hi am Tricia i wrote a post 3 days ago about getting off methadone.. and to let everyone know i am still going strong 1month and 5 days!!!!!!! somedays i wounder if it ever is going to be over but at least now i make my self. get up take a bath try to do my make up and get out side and ride to do something every day. it wears me out. but i am starting to relize that i can love and talk to me children with out getting aggravated. my best and and my cuzin came and seen me yesterday and i had a really good day . And daydreamer you made my day with your uplifting words i need any incoragement i can get because this is the hardest things in my life. and yes i did not think about the side effect to look at them as the prosses for getting better. i want to be my old self a good wife and a great mom, all the other teen agers come here and call me aunt tishie i want to be there for them to and i know the only way to do this is to get off this devil drug. but God is helping so much....
i am not a full blown Jesus freak like a lot but i do beleive God is helping me because i asked for it. but sometime God lets you go through things so you want do them again. if anyone needs someone to talk to please let me know we can be there for each other. please let me know that i am not the only struggling through this. it never hurt to have a freind going through the same think i am and i promise i can help good luck and my heart is with you
Giving up Ketamine Did Ketamine at the weekend (we hammered about 8g between 3 of us over 3 days) - Now I am feeling like shite even 3 days later. Just what is the obsession with this shit? I used to think it was ok, But now I have seen the light.
Pale, Miserable, Purple lipped, None associating lowlife would describe me at the weekend. Stuck in a hole sinking in and out of the matress on bed for nearly 6 hours at a time, Curtains so close to me they scared me, Crawling around outside where everything seemed so unreal - Not a person in sight, Seemed all alone.
Then back to myelf again.
Are these effects the ones that people actually enjoy or did I just over do it?
We also did Acid, MDMA, Base, Speed, Pills over the entire weekend. How long will it take to get back to my normal self again? Will I ever? lol.
Giving drugs a break! so as the title says, i've decided to go on abit of a detox for the new year.......because of lack of money? because not goin to parties as much as i use 2? i dunno
i just feel the need to quit all the stuff for awhile, i didn't do that many drugs anywho, if i went to a little do in the woods, i would have some weed, abit of MD and maybe some acid if i feel up to it........the hard drugs im fine keeping away from, but the hardest is probably goin to be the weed and fags.....so far ive gone 3 weeks without either.....so doin something right.........i dont mind smokin abit of weed now and then but i defiently wanna kick out the baccy habbit, its horrible.
has anyone else gone through this procedure? wot r u stories? if any1 has anything that would greatly help me i would love to hear it!
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they want me go rehab no no no. I sent an SOS post on sunday because i thought we got the call from the sub clinic got there it was not a sub clinic. one of them places that offer free rehab a then you have to go to meetings all the time pis tests bull shit they were trying to talk me in to going to rehab.
Told them just want to stay on the subs.all the help they give me was a phone number of a clinic that deals with subs.
The problem is i have to pay 9 pound a sub on the street but once i get on a program with a doctor the price 10 pound for 30 subs.
Do you have to go through all this shit in the UK?
How I Quit Smoking so ok i know its nothing compaired to quiting brown or anything else, but i thought it would help me in some strange way,
im 23 (24 this year) and ive been smoking a grand total of 11 years, i was never pushed into smoking its something that i did of my own free will, in the past ive tried everything, patches, gum, a drug called zyban etc etc, each and all of these never worked for me, ive tried doing it of my own free will and that has also never worked. mainly because i think i was young and never cared.
now im abit older, ive set myself a target, ive given myself a reason for not smoking, last year my nan died of lung cancer, and also i want to change myself for someone, (may not be a good reason but it works in my head)
So
Day1,
smoked my last ciggy on the way into work this morning, loved every last drag of it, especially knowing it was going to be my last, im now sitting here really needing one, by now ive usually just smoked my 5th of the day, my chest feels tight and everyone is grateing me up the wrong way, every conversation i have seems to turn into a smoking conversation, people in my office have been for ciggys and i can smell it, saying that i can still smell it on my fingers. god i hope it gets easier, cant beleive this is only day 1:crazy:
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UK : East : Record number of Norfolk’s youngsters seeking cannabis rehab treatment From Norfolk's Evening News 24...
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED20%20Mar%202007%2009%3A28%3A40%3A393
Record number of youngsters seek help for cannabis problems
SARAH HALL
20 March 2007 09:27
An increasing number of young people are suffering severe mental health problems as a result of smoking cannabis, new figures have revealed.
Statistics from the NHS National Treatment Agency show the number of young people in treatment almost doubled from 2005 to 2006.
In Norfolk, mental health agencies are seeing increasing numbers of people who have developed some form of mental illness through use of cannabis or who have exacerbated an existing problem by self-medicating with the drug.
Norwich Mind said people were taking the drug without considering the consequences and that if people were predisposed to a mental health problem, smoking cannabis would worsen their existing problems.
Sandra Flannigan, from the charity, said: “We are seeing more cases of people having mental health problems with a strong link to smoking cannabis.
“Its long-term use leads to paranoia, personality disorders and psychosis, but unfortunately it is part of young people's culture today.”
Mrs Flannigan said a lot of schizophrenics smoked cannabis to try to alleviate some of their symptoms.
She said more than 70pc of people she refers for rehabilitation have some history of smoking cannabis.
“I don't want to paint a picture that suggests all young people with mental health problems have a link with cannabis,” she said.
“But it is certainly a contributing factor. People are making themselves unwell but youngsters are not listening to what we are saying. It is a really big issue we are dealing with.”
Anne Louise Schofield, young people's drug commissioning officer, at DAAT, Drug and Alcohol Action Team for Norwich, said:
“We know that the two main substances people under the age of 19 most misuse are alcohol and cannabis.
“Some of the people who smoke cannabis might not necessarily need treatment, but quite often they do need some one to talk to.”
Of the cases in which young people required treatment over the last 12 months, 36pc were due to cannabis, with 31pc because of alcohol, 16pc for heroin and 5pc for amphetamines.
About 100 more people sought help from DAAT in 2005/06 than the year before, with 2,325 users getting help compared with 2,201 the previous year.
Last year, heroin was the drug most misused, with 57pc treated for heroin misuse compared with 12pc for problems with cannabis.
Ms Schofield continued: “A rise in people seeking treatment could be attributed to a number of factors, including better awareness of the services available to young people in Norfolk or better identification of young people's drug and/or related needs, resulting in subsequent referrals.”
A decade ago there was a 16,000-strong pro-cannabis march in London, and this was credited with forcing the Government to downgrade the legal status of cannabis to class C.
New research to be published in this week's Lancet will show how cannabis is more dangerous than LSD and ecstasy.
The results come after experts analysed 20 substances for addictiveness, social harm and physical damage.
Visit www.nordat.org.uk for more information about the services provided.
Has caused you or your family problems? Call Sarah Hall on 01603 772426 or email sarah.hall2@archant.co.uk
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An Update on My Heroin DETOX Well I just though I would let you all know how im doing. My history quickly.... Started taking drugs at 13, ended up injecting speed and smoking heroin at 16, injecting heroin, 17, was homeless in London for a couple of years, ended up injecting heroin and crack, got on methadone about 6 years ago blah blah.. been clean from heroin and crack for over two years now, I spent two years reducing my methadone from 120mls daily to 10mls (probably the longest, hardest, drawn out detox) and switched to subutex (buprenorphine) 3 months ago at 8mg, Ive now got myself down to .8mg and I only have a week and a half left before im totally clean from opiates for the first time since 16! (im now 26) Bloody hell what a journey, no feckin way am i goin back there again..
So yeah, im ill most of the time, in slight withdrawls but its manageable, Im just worried about when I stop completely if im gonna get really sick suddenly, from what ive researched its ok. The whole point of doing it this way is to get your life back together enough and do it slowly enough that you can cope. Its the mental side of its thats difficult, physical withdrawls are shite but there manageable if your strong. Emotionally ive so fuckked up my natrual endorphine system Im like a dog on heat one minute and morbid the next. I was looking it up and its well documented that opiate abuse and withdrawl causes low dopamine, dopamine,seratonine and noradadrenaline ar partly produced in the opiate receptors (mu, kappa and Orl1) so when u take the opiates away your body can take years to recover and produce these on its own. So anyway I take a specific dopamine anti-depressant now (the usual SSRI's did nothing) and it definately helps. :love:
All in all, life is good, im studying hard, doing my counselling diploma (gonna be a drugs counsellor) I always used to set myself targets, my 27th I wanna be clean by and i will be. Ill always be an addict, I still look in the cupboard to see what i can take, ive taken ibuprofen just to take something?? But its ok.
So my warning, Anyone who is starting out, smokin gear to come down from a weekend like I did don't! Its taken most of my adult life and the hardest struggle im sure ill ever face to get off it, the stigma of it, my health has gone down the pan, I have fukked veins (i have to take my own blood in hospital still!) Ive been diagnosed with crohns disease, I have coeliac disease and various food allergies (which i never had before and is shit cos i want a cake) along with the usual asthma (from smokin crack) post nasal drip (excess mucous running down my throat, from snorting coke and k) and arthritis!!
Pleas be careful people, I hope this goes some way to inform of the pitfalls!
Peace, Gary :love::love::love::love::love::love:12
15 Days On Subutex Hi Guys, new here, ive just made the transition from methadone to subutex.
Started injecting heroin at 16 after some abuse, got onto methadone, whilst still using, went all the way up to 150mls and back down to 60mls. Ive spent the last two years clean from heroin/crack and reduced my methadone to 10mls (very painfully i might add, i felt every 1ml drop for two weeks)
So I did the subutex indction after a lot of thinking (as I also have some medical conditions that complicate things, painwise etc) 15 days ago, Im stable at 6mg (went up to 8mg for a few days when the wd's were at there worst) and was gonna stay at 6mg for a few months. After reading the sub thread ive just read, maybe this is not such a good idea? Im now thinkin maybe I should get off this as quickly as possible.
Im dreading the thought of PAWS and am worried now. I think ill start reducing this ASAP.....
Any feedback and experiences with this wud be great :groucho:1234
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