Quote from: Jess42 on May 07, 2013, 02:27:33 PM
I'm not or never have been addicted to anything. In my younger days I snorted a lot of coke, a lot of meth, smoked a lot of weed which isn't addictive anyway. Done ectasy, went away many time on LSD, took a lot of trips with Mario and Luigi by eating mushrooms. Smoked Peyote, took dalatids or whatever that synthetic morphine is. Could not stand needles so I never mainviened. I never OD'd and when the time came, gave everything up without a second though or withdrawal symptoms.
Now I drink but have no problems with it. I smoke and gave it up one time without gaining weight and then decided that I truly enjoyed it and started again. We all gotta die sometimes and if cancer don't get you a mad man or idiot driver will. Or for that matter just old age.
I guess I'm just lucky that my personality is the type that isn't easily addicted to anything. All I have done has been for the reason for fun and when what I was doing stopped being fun, I stopped. I would like to have a big hooter right now but with drug screens and such, that's out of the question.
Everyone of us is different and responds differently to medication/drugs. I will say, however, this is a major deviation from the norm. A lot of people become easily addicted to these things. Even if you emotionally don't need it, some drugs will get you physically. Morphine is certainly one of those drugs. It has very little to do with personality when it comes to opiate addiction. After regular use of opiates, your body learns to need the drug and then starts to have physical withdrawals when you stop taking it. The pains and sickness that people go range from acute to severe depending on the dosage and how long the abuse was going on for. Most people should avoid throwing caution to the wind because they are likely to fall into these problems even if they didn't expect it. Some are lucky for a while, but it isn't worth the risk.
Quote from: Jess42 on May 07, 2013, 06:01:01 PM
Yeah Shantel, but I am serious though. I had to stop all the partying when I joined the military. Even smoking cigarettes. I never had a problem with withdrawal symptoms or anything else. Could be that basic training is better than rehab.
Same thing now, my doctor put me on clonazapam and told me to step down from xanax. Well I stopped the xanax cold turkey with no ill effects. Like I said though, everything I did I did to have a good time except for Mary Jane and that was just purely enjoyable. So... maybe I didn't developed a dependancy on these certain drugs because it was just purely a good time deal and I didn't need them to cope.
I had surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome and the surgeon prescribed me way too many painkillers. After the third day I didn't need them anymore but... I did finish them off. Made me feel good you know. But afterwards my body didn't need them. It will be thesame thing with my left over xanax, I will take them until they are all gone ( I made for sure I didn't need them for stepping down gradually) so no I take one full one and mixed with the clonazapam, wow. Talk about relaxation.
So yeah, No BS. I haven't been addicted to anything except nail polish, short skirts, makeup and lacy underwear. 
Painkillers taken for a few days even one month straight isn't necessarily going to lead to addiction. However, those who are on opiates for a while become physically dependent on them. In fact, it becomes dangerous for people to go cold turkey off of some of these meds once they have such a dependency. This is very true for opiates and benzos. As the poster above me mentioned, you're not going cold turkey off of xanax because you are taking another medication in the benzo family. It is very risky to go off a benzo cold turkey after taking it regularly for quite some time. You can actually have seizures and face many other severe problems. It in't too uncommon for people to be hospitalized because of issues with benzos. I don't think anyone would like to go through that.
Having said all this, you may be a lucky person and won't ever face problems. There are people who have gone cold turkey with no problems. Personally, I know people who have gone cold turkey from xanax without issues. But, please be careful because most people do face problems with these meds if they abuse them for recreational purposes or go cold turkey when quitting. And you could one day as well even if you never did before. Nothing is written in stone, but it is always wise to follow safety precautions when it comes to drugs.
Sorry if I came across as preachy. I just don't want anyone to get hurt because I have seen too many people suffer and destroy their lives from drugs. So, I do wish everyone be careful.
