addicted to vicodin

[vicodinlover]

ok well after a dwindling supply of vicodin 7.5's taking several a night........

i need help to quit
other then checking into a N/A
i got them from a friend

please give me reasons to quit i know i should but at im 19 and love the high times:atv :comfort :comfort

[hairgirl]

1. because you are destroying your liver
2. because you are destroying your mental health
3. because it will only get worse
4. because you could die, seen it happen many times recently from pills.
5. because you cannot be a productive person doped up all the time.
6. because you are better than than ruining your life on a substance.
7. because you can use every excuse under the sun to justify using, and the fact still remains that you will have to face days without them.Withdrawal is PURE HELL.
8. Because it is illegal
9. Because you are most likely hurting someone else by using,whether you think you are or not.
10. Because you will never have enough.You will need more and more and more and you will turn into a crook and a liar and will lose all respect of those you care for.

[Doug]

Welcome to SR. You know you should quit, and you probably know most of the "logical" reasons to quit, unfortunately though, drug addiction pretty much defys any logic, and if you like the high, your not likely to stop, until it becomes such pain that you feel you can't bear it anymore.

And you will reach a time where you don't love it anymore. I did. Others have.

Anyway, I'm sure somebody will stop by and list all the reasons, so stick around.

Once again, welcome.

[vicodinlover]

well my friend lets me have them we sometimes get high together

i used to do dxm(cough pills and or syrip) then for a few months i smoked pot maby only 6 times

then smoked some chron once 3 months ago.........
i snorted some heroin a few months ago probally right before i smoked that chronic pot........but got over it and went for the vikes

i took 10 5/500 pills once which was 50 MG of vicodin and 5000 mG of tylonol and my liver was alright

i guess that was the 10 steps to quit??? so far 10 hours 5 minutes and 27 seconds:comfort since my last dose.. ho long can i go?? ill keep reporting here

but ill have:praying

[Jane63]

Vicoden was my drug of choice and it started out pretty innocently with me just taking it as prescribed from my DR for pain.
After awhile I needed more and more in my system and when I didn't have it I would get sick with withdrawals.
I began buying them from people and ordering them off the internet {which is illegal!} along with the prescriptions I was also getting from my DR to keep my habit going. At one time I was taking anywhere from 25-30 pills a day and didn't even realise what I was doing to my health!

You see...it is a really bad cycle you can get yourself into even if you are just using them for fun every now and then...and even though you might say "eh, that could never happen to me!"...believe me, IT CAN because that is what I used to tell myself too!

Quit now before this happens to you! It is really a sad, sick way to live!!

I researched around, found a rehab that my Insurance would allow me to stay long enough {4-days} to be detoxed off the vicoden and medically supervised, then fessed up to my DR what was going on.
That was over 3-years ago and I am still clean today!

There are other ways of getting support to help you get clean but that is just what worked for me. Stick around, keep posting and please listen to people here who have walked in your shoes before and now know better.
Best wishes,
Jane

[bval]

I just wanna say ... what Doug, Hairgirl, and Jane are telling you.

Those were not the 10 steps to quitting, those were 10 good reasons (out of a possible 1,000,000) to stop taking vicodin NOW while it will still be relatively easy.

All this is going to do is get WORSE and WORSE if you keep messing with this highly addictive drug. We don't want to see you go where WE'VE all been, because this addiction catches you very quick, and it's VERY HARD to break, and it will quickly turn your life into a living hell.

You better start taking it seriously, otherwise, it will do the same to YOU.

Good luck to you, and keep posting ... we're here to help

By the way, DXM is basically the in same class of drug as vicodin (DXM is a weak opiate, vicodin a much stronger one) so while you were doing that stuff, you were basically 'prepping' your body to quickly get addicted to vicodin (or heroin) once you started taking it. Just so you know that ...

[windysan]

fun now. hell to pay later.

[exjunky]

Some people would crucify me for saying this, but I'm not opposed to the idea of using chemicals to produce happiness in principle. And laws against pursuing happiness are antithetical to the American notion of liberty. And since when is happiness such a bad thing?

However... I am opposed to the idea, not because it's illegal, not because it's immoral, but because after years of trying every form of alleged chemical-happiness under the sun, I've concluded that it JUST DOESN'T WORK.

Will you really be happier? Only at first. Soon you're taking the drugs just to stave off unhappiness. Meanwhile your exposure to risk (health risks, legal risks, financial risks, relationship risks) skyrockets.

I've never known anybody to use opiates moderately and keep things under control. In every single case I've ever witnessed (and that's a LOT) it spirals out of control. Vicodin leads to morphine. Morphine leads to oxycodone. Oxycodone leads to heroin. And if you're lucky enough to not kill yourself by the time you reach the heroin stage, believe me friend, you're luck is about to run out.

[vicodinlover]

well about 4 month ago i managed to save up 28 pills and spend 10 days in a doped up state .......... my grandpa had died and i was depressed

oh yeah he had a whole bottle of zanax (about 90) and i snatched 10 from the bottle

i dont drink
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13 hours sober
:atv
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:atv

[bval]

Well, VL, congrats on you 13 hours, keep up the good work.

The month that my grandpa was in the hospital dying, I was doing 5x80mg oxycontin's a day. That comes out to ... let's see ... 80 (eighty) pills worth of percodan (which is considerably stronger than vicodin).

A DAY. The cost? $150 A DAY. And where I live, oxycontins are relatively cheap.

And guess what? I started out taking a couple of vicodin here and there to get high on, just like you!

Within a couple years, I needed the equivalent of at least 40 a day just to keep from getting completely sick. And I couldn't bring myself to get off the stuff for YEARS, badly ruining my life in the process.

Let me be a cautionary tale for you. Get this thing licked NOW before you have to go through what me and exjunky and so many others have had to live through (if we were lucky enough to live)...

[Doug]

Thanks for the replies everybody. Things online are not always what they seem, and some folks, for some reason, get a kick out of setting up people, who are only trying to help others. I don't understand it myself, but I guess some just like attention, or crave it maybe, at the expense of other people's time, feelings, and efforts.

I'm gonna leave this thread so the suggestions may help somebody at some point, but I am going to close it so our time and effort will hopefully stay with legitimate members.