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    • I have smoked for 25 years and have never had a day go by that I didnt smoke. Four the last 4 years I thought about quitting but thats as far as it got. So one day last week I said let me try to change some smoking habits and that dayi didnt smoke on the way to work in the car. Well that was a c
    • Good morning Michelle, Just wondering how you a...
    • Good morning Michelle, Just wondering how you are doing .Please give me an update when you can okay? Marcia :angel:
    • there is hope!
    • Just in case you wonder if the agony is ever going to end, I'm almost a month into my detox from Ultram. As scared as I was at the beginning, every single day proves to be better. My strength is coming back and my depression is subsiding daily. There is light at the end of that long, dar
    • Hes a great guy abusing Alcohol
    • I recently met a great guy. Me and him click very well and we both show interest in eachother. I have only known him for a week, but he has already proven to be an alcoholic. He also has a depressment and somewhat of an anger problem when drinking. He drinks some nights because he says he is in
    • Heroin - Can you really kick it? Wife of addict
    • :confused: :confused: Looking for words of advise from anyone who has been able to beat heroin or tried. I'm beginning to think it is impossible. My husband has been using for about 2 years. The past year the worst. He has been in 2 rehabs. The second time, this past May, seemed the most p
    • Day 4 & anxious & tired! HELP!
    • Hello out there! This is my 4th day clean and I'm going crazy from no sleep and restless legs! I just ache from my hips down and can't get comfortable at night. I've tried a warm bath and some Motrin but it doesn't help. Anyone have any ideas?I am also dealing with this terri
    • Stopped Cold Turkey Day 2
    • Last night was hard but I made it, legs were kicking, sweats, fatigue, diarrhea, and runny nose. After waking up at 4am for 1 hour, I took some more nyquil and fell back asleep. Woke up today and I don't feel that bad!!! I still am weak but with the vitamins, flaxiseed,protein shakes, gator
    • New...have a question.
    • Hello everyone, I have been lurking around for about 2 weeks, and though I have not posted, just reading everyone posts have been very helpful and reassuring. Ok so I have been on Vicodin ES for about a year and a half. I have been weaning off of them and have gotten down to 1 pill a day for th
    • :confused: Can someone tell me if I'm addicte...
    • :confused: Can someone tell me if I'm addicted or not? I have taken three 7.5 mil of Lortab a day for three years. I have back problems and may have to have back surgery in a couple of months. I want to get off the Lortab but wonder if I should wait until after the surgery. I also have to h
    • My first Sub appointment
    • Well, I DONE IT!!!!After an hour of questions I left with 4 scripts.He put me on subutex to start. He told me to continue to take my lortab in decreasing doses, he said on day one. (skip this if your board)Take 1 Sub and 8 tabs Day 2 2 Subs and 7 TabsDay 3 3 Subs and 6 tabs...etcThen after a w
    • Ok I really want to quit, but fear and withdrawals...
    • Ok I really want to quit, but fear and withdrawals are scaring me to death and not being able to handle all the stress in my life. Can you say Cop out!! i have spent the last month beating myself up. I really know I am killing myself with these stupid pills. I have set dates and they went by
    • Smoking & Jogging
    • Hi, I had a question about smoking and jogging/running. Well, I smoke about a pack, maybe a little less a day, but I also run a good 3-4 times a week for about 5-6 miles.Now I know my best bet would be to stop smoking, but my question is knowing whether or not running/jogging reverses the effect
    • 2 alcoholics
    • I am struggling with my own addiction to polishing off a bottle of good wine every evening it seems. Sometimes I can skip a day or more, but I enjoy relaxing with the wine on the patio, with cigarettes and peace and quiet. I own a business and it is my get away excuse, but I think the real get
    • Pharmacist pleads guilty to stealing Oxycontins
    • There is a story in my local county paper. Last August, a Pharmacist for the Happy Harry's Drug Store chain was fired because of hugh discrepencies in Oxycontin and other schedule II narcotic inventories. Anyway, he was fired and admitted to having a problem. He plead guilty to a theft s
    • recovery & surgery/pain medication
    • My husband has been in recovery for 17years. NA recovery he was never suppose to live through but he did and has been clean and sober for 17 years. Now we are older and he has a serious back problem and it was confirmed today that he will need back surgery and I am very worried that this will
    • Marilyn ......
    • :wave: Hi there Matey,Just a line to say...Pick yourself up and get back on that wagon Girl :) YOU can do this.I miss your posts, your eagerness, your joy, your journey, but most of all...YOU.The many people you have helped, I'm sure, will be missing you too.Come on Matey all it takes, as y
    • help me help my daughter
    • im a desperate mother coming to the end the line,20 yr old daughter is on 70gms of methadone a day,and now addicted big time to crack,never realised i was enabling her until i found this site.tried everything,threats,promises,begging,now in loads of debt and situation is no better,i cannot and w
    • Answer to narcotics addiction
    • There has been research done on the use of the hillucinagen ibogaine and recovery from addiction like heroine and cocaine. Though this hillucinagen is illegal, there have been many successful reports on overcoming long term addiction to heroine and other hard addictive drugs. Though, this should
    • ? for ratchet
    • hi,looking for info again ratch,daughter was on 16mg of subutex for about 8 weeksthen ater reading your thread she decided to taper as she is starting uni again in 2weeks,she has been reducing 2mg per fortnight and went down to 2mg last week,now on 1.6mg,and going to reduce .4mg weekly,anyway sh
    • Saw my sub doc today
    • Hi everyone... I saw my Sub doc today and everything was fine. He wants me to be on the 'trial testing' with the FDA on the Suboxone since they are still testing the drug. He said they would be contacting me. He said that normally all of his patients do well but I've done reall
    • codeine expired? help please
    • i'm going through mild percocet withdrawal and because of pain i'm in i was told codeine would help (it has helped in the past w/ the head pain i get)..the codeine i have is 5 years old though..do any of you know if that's okay? i'm not sure if it is expired..if it has expir
    • Zyban bad side effects?
    • I just started taking Zyban about a week ago.. 3 days in to it I started having loss of concentration, and sever boughts of paranoia... My question is if anyone has experienced the same thing, or is this somthing unrelated to the medication?
    • quitting drugs is easy
    • I've done it a thousand times!
    • Feeling Guilty
    • I am a closet smoker-- my friends know that I enjoy a cigarette socially, but all except one knows that I smoke 1/2 to 1 pack per day. About almost a month ago, I decided I would quit. I've been having stomach problems for 10 months, and my doc suggested that quitting might help. Have an
    • Use to be alcoholic but not now..........
    • Just wonder if there are any alcoholics out there who've had, or seen, an older alcoholic.My hubby is in his 60's, went through rehab 24 years ago. He accepted that he was alcoholic, stayed clean 6 months. Through all the years since, we've gone through alcohol, meth, up and down
    • Smoking Dangers For Women
    • TORONTO, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will kill more women in Canada this year than breast cancer, says a University of Toronto researcher. In a paper published in the June 2004 issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, U of T medical professor Kenn
    • What is some of your favorite quotes?
    • I just heard one that made so much sence. I love quotes, they keep me going:blob_fire :blob_fire :wave: "lonitics create the castles in the sky and we addicts move into them" How true is that!!
    • missing you kim
    • hi kim,youve not posted in a while and am wondering how you are,you would love the rapport we have going with the mums.join in please,sadmum
    • am gona get off the codeine.will you help me?
    • Hi people.i think i last posted here a few years ago. lol that shows how long i last visited.well since then things havent got any better.2 years ago i went on a course for 3 1/2 months of subatex of buprenorphine.i tepered off and was clean for 2 weeks , then i kicked off again and mow just las
    • Day 3 not so bad!
    • Hey! Day 3 off cigarettes wasn't as bad as I thought. I'm taking Chantix and it really does take the edge off the quit. I keep very busy and try not to stay home for too long or I'll think about smoking too much. I keep thinking about why I want to be a non-smoker and that help
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