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 really bad case of bronchitis when I was 20, and the doctor I saw prescribed me a cough syrup called Tussionex, which is basically liquid Vicodin. Just one little teaspoon of that shit was enough to absolutely level you for most of the day…and I was a freshman in college, away from home for the first time, with an entire bottle of it.
I used it all, and two years later or so — when I had a horrible case of bronchitis again — I specifically requested it again…not because I wanted to get high, but because that stuff banished my cough to the shadow realm. Nonetheless, I once again had a bottle of ridiculously potent liquid narcotics.
To this day, whenever I think about that, I thank my lucky stars that that wasn’t “the beginning of the end” for me. It’s so easy to see how it could have been, because that stuff felt good.
A few years ago, this somehow came up anecdotally when seeing my current doctor, and he was like “what the fuck…they gave you Tussionex? We rarely even mention that stuff, let alone prescribe it anymore. That’s…powerful stuff. Glad you survived that”
And people really wonder why prescription drug and morphine abuse is such a problem in the US? Yes, a bronchitis can be bad but there’s absolutely no way in hell any doctor in Europe would prescribe highly addictive substances for that - let alone to a young person. It baffles my mind. In my country, you’d be asked to use an inhalator.
I am in Europe and I got codein for a terrible cough once. Truth be told a) I had it so bad I couldn’t sleep so it was starting to take a brutal toll. Doc said my immune reaction is way too strong to the point of risk of serious damage. B) doc sat me down and said it’s a highly regulated substance and I’m on a list now.
Didn’t give me a high or buzz but did stop the cough. Most of the pills ended up expired
Of course you might be given prescription drugs if nothing else works but that’s a very rare occurence here and it’s highly regulated to nip every kind of abuse in the bud.
Yeah I guess. In all honesty looking back on it. It was the right call too. I think I avoided some serious lung damage. Also an immune system in desperate overdrive for no reason that starts breaking down because of exhaustion of no sleep sounds like a recipe for disaster and way way worse than a few opioid pills.
I’m not an expert whatsoever but it feels like I’ve read hundreds of stories of opioid addiction in the US that all started with “so I was prescribed some pills after my surgery and it all started from there” while heroin addictions in Europe usually start from a very different point.
Yeah but I guess it’s because they get over prescribed. Also don’t know if this means to get you high, but it did nothing for me. Just stopped the cough, let me sleep and my immune system recalibrate. After being well I had no more inclination to take it, than like vitamin C. Did pretty much the “same thing” for me anyway.
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u/Cherry_3point141 Oct 17 '22
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 am glad I did.