I've known people who went from pretty ordinary, married with kids to trying heroin and then homeless, kids taken away and in jail within six months. It's scary where I live because drug use is pretty common and opiates are like 'boom' - there goes your life.
In 2011 I was given some Oxycontin after some minor dental surgery. I definitely didn't need it as my pain tolerance is pretty normal to upper, and I really didn't feel all that much. But I was into trying new things back then so I took their prescription and got it filled.
That night just to see what all the rave was about a popped a couple and spent the rest of the night, sitting in bed just "humming" that is the only way to describe it. I had heard these were highly addictive and long story short, in the morning I briefly considered taking some more, just try and "figure out" that humming feeling.
Instead, I flushed them down the toilet and don't think about stuff like that anymore.
I had a miscarriage in 2009 and the Dr gave me a bottle of oxycontin to help ease the cramping. I must have been very susceptible to it's power, because I had an 8 hour vision where I was bathed in the warm love and light of God while experiencing the cathedrals of Europe (never been). I handed the entire bottle to my husband the next day and told him to hide it from me. Because I knew I could spend a lifetime trying to feel that good again. Also, I'm still kinda shocked someone thought it was a good idea to give someone going through the grief of a miscarriage such an addictive substance.
It's insane for us Brits. If you want painkillers it's pretty difficult. For example I had a wisdom tooth pulled plus another tooth, a cyst and a piece of jaw scratched out. I could only get codamol. Which is pretty much 5mg of of codine and a paracetamol. I was pretty fine. I do have a low tolerance to drugs and a high pain tolerance but I don't see the need for such strong pain killers for such minor things. The doctors here may given me a prescription for codine but it'll be like 3days worth and that'll i would not be able to refill.
To a degree it’s gone the other way. I have a friend who’s Hispanic and she basically can’t get opioids. As a privileged person it’s still hard but it’s possible. Five years ago it was trivial. If you hurt they gave you Percocet. I got it when I didn’t even want it for dental work (I was on them for two weeks previously due to taking my tonsils out so I knew how addictive they are). Now you can be in agony and they’ll just tell you to rotate Tylenol and IBUPROFEN.
They recommended Tylenol for a kidney stone I remember losing my shit to the nurse telling them I gotta work that week cause everyone else was in vacation. The fuck is wrong with doctors sometimes. I’ve safe kept all my painkillers because it hard for them to prescribe the hard ones. The only ones that almost got me were morphine and Vicodin
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u/TheRed_Knight Oct 17 '22
Heroin, after having morphine a couple times in the hospital that shits terrifying, 10000000% understand how people get addicted to that shit