Why and How did you start doing opes?

I've been wondering what the answer to this would be. How did your opiate use start and why did you start? And how has the long road treated you? I know a pretty large selection of opiate users from the rich and productive, the psychonauts who will use it once for the experience, to the poor and sad, to the straight up fiends. I wanted to get a cross-section of the HF opiate community? Why did u start? How has it been? Are u guys the junkies, or the productive and hidden junkies or the weekend warriors or what?

PS: I am an ex-opiate-user. Started with codeine+Kratom -> diluadid -> selling oxies, then doing all of them and not selling any -> heroin cuz it was cheaper. Was a daily heroin user (not always IV though) for a while, then quit with kratom a few times unsuccessful, then quit cold turkey. Only do hallucinogens now.

I'd be interested in hearing from a few of you.
-thanks, much love and murky warmth

 

I probably tried my first opiate because I'm the type of person who likes to try everything. Probably a symptom of youthful naiveté but I have no fear of anything. Did quite a bit of psychedelics before doing any opiates. Don't remember exactly what or why but I know it started with "milder" opiates. Tylenol 3 CWE, Purple drink, cough syrup. Then got my hands on some morphine and hydromorphone. Probably will end up using heroin. I guess I would be considered the weekend warrior from your options. Most people think I'm a square because of the way I talk and the way I dress. I like it that way. It hasn't been a long road yet and I haven't had any problems but time will tell if I'll end up eating my words. If there is one thing I would tell myself or any younger person from my experience it's that even if you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't get hooked you will always be burdened with a nagging desire for the feeling you know is out there.

 

There's one group of opiate users that wasn't mentioned, and that is people who are prescribed them for chronic pain. I'm a member of that group, although I do enjoy them. A lot. unk:

 

ditto....................... and i love me my opiates lol

 

true say. I forgot about that, i was thinking more of the recreational users. Although I guess its always fun to mix treatment with pleasure. Medicine doesn't have to taste bad

I never had an serious opiate script (aside from a short morphine one), but I've had a lot of fun medicine in my time. I was once scripted valium, sub ativan, xanax, clonazepam + morphine at once it was a fun fucking time

 

I started REALLY REALLY YOUNG! I tried opiates for the first time at the beginning of 6th grade and by the end of the year got popped for having them on me/being to fucked up at school. I was so young they didn't know what to do with me so they had me wait in the principles office for a week while they debated sheathed they should send me to a alternative school or put me in ISS or In School Suspintion basically sitting in a small room with other bad kids doing work in silence. I had tried alcohol and cigs by 9 and had smoked pot at 10. So when opiates came after all that I was pretty open to it all. I kept getting better at hiding it and made it to high school pretty clean and clear. Then the shit hit the fan oz of pot a week not good pot but pot none the less then ex kinda often then shrooms oxy LSD ketamine coke pretty much everything but meth and crack. I got drugged with heroin at one point. I was told it was something else we snorted it and knew right away it wasn't coke but H cause I had done coke plenty of times to know I was going the wrong direction fast not to long before that I worked a restaurant that was totally infested with Vicodin. I had ppl peace them as tips more than 4 ppl sold them or some opiate up there and managers took them to do I quickly learned how to cold water extract the APAP so I could get to the good stuff and was soon up to 300-400mgs a day or 160-200mg of oxy a day. Lost 2 friends to OD many more to jail and many more to the game addiction was all around me between friends and then to fuck my world up after I had gotten clean for almost a year a bad car wreck fucked my back to where at 21 I have trouble walking right and even doing menial daily tasks are serious work. I went to the zoo with my family and spent all today recovering even though I took morphine and Vicodin yesterday. So all in all I would say STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM OPIATES!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOURSELF AT ALL AND AREN'T ALREADY ADDICTED OR NEED THEM FOR CHRONIC PAIN THEN PLEASE RUN!!!!! RUN AS FAR AS YOU CAN AND NEVER LOOK BACK!!!! I dropped out of college cause of my addiction and ruined my GPA lost several jobs pissed off and really hurt close family and the only girl who has ever cared about me so if you wanna know what opiates are like they are hell. It's a curse and a blessing a disease and a cure good and evil heaven and hell. I need them for pain but lord when I don't have them it is the worst thing ever I've got WDs down to a science now but I never thought I would be where I am today. I was GT have tested at the Mensa level of IQ and had dreams of going to rice university. Instead I failed my way out of community college so yea that's a little bit about what opiates are about. Still wanna play in my world? Most people would off themselves if they woke up feeling how I feel every morning haha but hey this is my path I'm just living it. We're all just doing the best we can. The price that I pay to play this game that I play, isn't a game at all-Mos Def

 

started with a vicodin script...........went to hell after that