How can one hook on painkiller?
 

I don't understand how it works so I like someone in here to enlighten me. Painkiller is to numb the pain. Does it also give out a euphoria feeling as well like opium?

Opiates are highly chemically addictive.

Is Oxycontin a form of opiate?

I've taken Vicodin.

It was like a case of beer in a pill.

Oxy is basically morphine.

Maybe I should phase the question better: Would the painkiller make the person to have a cold turkey effect later?

They could if you stop abruptly. Talk to your doctor.

Yes. If the person builds up a dependence on them. If it's being taken for a short period of time for temporary pain (post surgery for example), then addiction is unlikely, unless the person is predisposed to such things (already enjoys recreational drug use). If being taken for chronic pain, long term, then addiction is inevitable.

what are you trying to hook it onto?

Holy crap, dude... Google is your friend.

Painkiller addiction is a multi-million dollar industry in this country. It's how a lot of doctors/pharmaceutical company CEO's afford their vacation houses...

Step one: get patient hooked on hillbilly heroin.
Step two: Methadone!
Step three: Profit

AkA synthetic Heroin

Some "War on drugs" huh?

I have a pill problem.














I ran out.

If you have been taking them as prescribed by the doctor you shouldn't have much troubles.

I dont waste my lortabs on pain.

RRRiiiiiiiiiggggghhhhttttt....

dude the doctors will just give out the stuff without consequence

that's why so many people end up hooked on them

the doctors just keep on giving them for an extended period

the doctors also routinely give in to the pain seekers - my wife sees this every day

you're better off eating weed brownies

pro tip: cheaper on the street -- code name; heroin

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that crap is scary. I had a bottle + 1 refill for a broken hand and 2 cracked ribs after my motorcycle crash. those things do not F around. I could totally see how someone would get hooked on them. I remember taking them for the first time and sort of 'blanking out' watching TV for 5 hours. Couldn't even feel myself sitting on the couch.
scary.

Not sure if this really fits with the topic, but this thread reminded me of something I saw on Real Sports last night.

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but that's not a good thing

i would hate that

why do people like that? are their lives that miserable?

yeah, I tried my damned-est after that to avoid them as much as I could tolerate. Don't even think I finished the bottle. I just sucked it up 90% of the time, and avoided them.

they were crazy potent. I think it was Hydrocodone; it was about 13 years ago, so I'm not 100% sure.

and they make you constipated

You are right. I always just called up my doctor and they would refill for me but I never took them as prescribed I took extra and frequent them so I assumed if I took them as prescribed it wouldn't be as bad.

no shit.
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You mean the war on some drugs taken by some people?

this country is full reerun -- I am amused

Some people don't like the opiate buzz... but it's not just that you don't feel anything when you're on opiates. It's that it's completely euphoric at the same time. It erases your stress and cares. Comfortably numb is the best way to describe it... though I actually get a "rush" of energy as well from them, especially if I drink.

To me, it's similar to when ecstasy first starts coming on. Euphoria and energy.

That being said, people have different preferences. Lots of my friends love them some xanac, klonopin, and other benzos. I hate them.

And I should add: this is all based on my past.. not my current life. I'm pretty much alcohol only at this point.

There's such a stigma attached to Marijuana that people will take that bullshit because:

1. "It's legal"

2. "It's prescribed by a doctor"

Meanwhile every 19 minutes someone dies from a Prescription OD. One of my best friends being one of them.

Yet the DEA is still kicking in the doors of LEGAL marijuana dispensaries.

Thanks Obama!

There is a euphoria before you get to that point which people chase. The hardest part about coming off is trying to sleep. You wake up and your entire body feels like it has "restless leg". Nerve ending firing everywhere.

i see what you did there ;)

Correct!

When I've taken oxycodone, I've never understood why people take it recreationally. I don't get any of what you describe. Other than a slight spaceiness, it mostly makes it so I can't sleep (or shit). I try to avoid it, though it is one of the few things that will help with the killer headaches I get sometimes.

We the people... are heavily medicated.

Well over the majority of the population takes at least one rx drug, and I think I saw at least 40% of the US population is on 3 prescribed drugs. Big pharmaceutical is your suburban, middle class and up drug pusher. Not to discount their actual beneficial uses, it's just our society is lazy, overworked, or what not and taking a pill seems to be the preferred solution. Lack of access to therapy, and behavior modification due to insurance steep decline in coverage for mental health as well as state and federal funding for these programs has driven the use of prescription drugs way up since the 80's.

Plus, people like to use it recreationally.

Contrary to what has been posted here, doctors don't make any money handing these out. There are nerve conditions I deal with several times a year that don't respond to any treatment or therapy. I usually refer the patient to a "pain treatment center" for things like trigeminal neuralgia. Unfortunately, for some of these people, and others, with ailments like back injuries, surgery or physical therapy isn't effective. In those cases, yes, hydrocodone is often prescribed over and over.

It's really no different than any other med, say, cholesterol meds in a person with genetically high LDH and triglycerides. They have to take it or they will likely die.

I don't get any "kickback" as some of my buddies razz me about, from any drug companies. Once in a while I'll get a coffee mug, or some pens. thats about it.

"pretty much"...heh

My dad was a dentist, and he was very old school in that many of his patients had his home phone number and knew him personally.

Anyway, we'd get several calls a month of people with "horrible tooth aches" wanting him to write them a scrip. His solution was always to tell them to "come on out to the clinic right now, and I'll fix your tooth for you" (his clinic was right next to our house). That usually separated the people with real issues from the scrip hounds. Of course, he also ended up actually having to go next door and fix people's teeth on occasion at all hours of the night.

To tooge: You also receive Einstein bagels and Panera breads?

What's life without the occasional crack binge?

I'll be dancing with these ****ing things quite a bit over the next couple of months, I'm afraid. I have a meniscus tear in my left knee that's probably going to require surgery - initial consultation with the joint specialist is next week. I've already been prescribed codeine, but I only take them sparingly.

Oh, and so much for that Maine vacation I had planned for later in the month.

:cuss:

I have no way of knowing.

Weirdest thing......morphine does jack shit for me.

Nutup you pansy. A meniscal repair is nothing. Unless they are doing micro-fracture surgery you can walk on it after a couple of days.

You may want to put this in your prayer thread.

anything that alters your chemical balance or changes your 'mood' can be addictive imo.


even something like long distance running, people just don't care if they are addicted to running.

You aren't taking the maximum allowable dose that skirts the line between life and death. Try harder.

Hey, thanks, Dr. one who sucks the penis, I guess I'll just shrug it off and go run a marathon now. :thumb:

It was being dosed out through an IV. I didn't have control over it. lol

Dilaudid though....holy ****.

I've never been able to take them...hurt my belly too bad.


The "get" a lot of people though and everyone here and that I've known say it's a tough habit to kick.

Question for you - does acetaminophen (Tylenol) work for you for minor pain?

Yes

I had it through iv for 1.5 months. after a few days I was hitting that button constantly.

when I got it out, it wasn't terrible, but I had spells where I'd sweat like a bitch. ****ed w/my ears and balance.

but hell...there wasn't anything else to do at the time.
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Not really....no. Also percoset does nothing for me as well.

wow ... that's a long time for an iv

I had to have my appendix removed and when I went into the ER the night before....they gave me morphine. Didn't do anything for me. I went back the next day (after a **** up by the hospital) and they gave me Dilaudid as soon as they admitted me. That shit hit me in like 5 seconds. It was instantaneous high as a kite until I went back into the OR.

I was just curious. I haven't had morphine but other opiates haven't been effective. Tylenol also does nothing for me so I was wondering if it was somehow related (I know Tylenol isn't an opiate; I just mean that people that didn't do well with opiates also didn't do well with acetaminophen).

I remember getting Tylenol 3 prescribed for me years ago and I might as well have been taking sugar pills.

Dilaudid is a National Treasure. We should build a monument.

well, after awhile, they just put a pic in my neck.
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Piece of advice. Never get admitted to the hospital for surgery on Halloween and be given dilaudid. It ****s with you hardcore....

Vodka, Vicodin and Klonopin. Best cocktail after a hard day.

Morphine gives me nightmares like a mofo. Percocet inspires me to commit random acts of kindness.

LMAO you should be a test subject for the next pain killer medication. You'd be their "extreme" case subject.

ahhh :thumb:


i was on morphine pills for like 6 months but i never had any addiction at all. I was in such several pain that i never noticed any mood effects from the morphine. Worse 6 months of my life.

I had a major surgery when I was in HS and was on that crap. It gave me horrible nightmares too...bad enough it would make me jump, which made the broken bones hurt which made me hit the morphine button which gave me worse nightmares which woke me up....which made me hit the button.

At some point around a week I remember them taking me off and switching to injection kodine and I could tell it was gone.

Thats pretty much what I do as well. The script searchers usually just "can't" come in righth now for whatever reason. for them, I tell them to go to the ER.

From drug reps? No. From specialists that I refer patients out to? Yes

Free nose jobs and face lifts, too!

The Bush administration did the same thing.

it feels ****ing awesome

when pain is numb

and u have a couple drinks

life is numb

youre just droolin

I've been given morphine several times for post op from shoulder surgeries and once when I was in the hospital after the cottonmouth bite on my foot. Both times it put me to sleep and then when I'd wake up, I'd think it'd been several hours, because the pain was unbearable, and look at the clock and it'd be like 7 minutes later. Couldn't wait to push the button to kill the pain. Then they'd give me vicodin when I was discharged, but I just took ibuprofen and threw the vicodin away. I don't like feeling sleepy unless Its time to go to bed.

Addiction occurs when more and more chemical is needed to achieve the desired results. Sometimes the amount needed to achieve said results culminates in death.

went in the hospital w/a ruptured appendix. took it out. next day they opened me up again and had to pull all my guts out and wash them(gangrene). guts all shut down, so they put a tube down my nose to suck anything that went down into my stomach out.

docs said that as soon as I could start ripping farts, i'd be ok...it took awhile. I kept a pen and notepad next to my bed just to keep count. like I said, not much to do.
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don't know if it worked or not, but I taped that ****in button down.
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yikes

Bitter much?

It is most effective if you use it in the rectal suppository form.

Same for me. Percocet doesn't work for me either. Vicodin is the only thing that works for me. A doctor once told me that Percocet and Vicodin were pretty much the same thing, but there must be a difference because I feel nothing, no pain relief or a buzz of any kind, when I take Percocet. I take Vicodin and in half an hour I feel relief from the pain. Yeah, it makes my body feel a buzz, but for me the pain relief is the most important thing.

Vicodin is hydrocodone. Percocet is oxycodone.

Technically percocet is stronger but everyone's body reacts differently.

No, just calling you out for being your normal prick self.