About Heath Woods Expertise I am a High School teacher/coach (34) in recovery, who used 1400 mg. of Oxycontin and 12 mg. of Xanax DAILY!(addict for 16 years) I can help you in your 1st step in the process of "how to get help"...BEFORE you hit rock bottom. I will tell you of the process with a "medical detox" facility which you MUST go through if addicted to opiates, then the rehab facility, and finally to living your new life in the real world again!
Experience I have first hand knowledge of addiction. For 18 years I went through the process of graduating from alcohol, to marijuana, to LSD, to cocaine, to crank, to ectasy, to GHB & katomin, to opiates.. starting of with Lortab & Vicodin and ending with Oxycontin. I also have first hand knowledge in the recovery process. I have gone through the medically assisted detox, to the rehab facility, and so far experienced 3 years of sobriety with the help of AA.
Organizations AA and NA (alcoholics anonymous & narcotics anonymous)
Education/Credentials B.S. of Science
Graduate Degree in adolescent psychology
she wrote at 2007-07-23 22:31:31
wow I am not alone. I to am a grandmother in my 40's and no one knows.
whalebuster wrote at 2008-03-27 20:56:52
It is similar to heroin withdrawl. But, just as some people take a drink and are marked for life. There are people in such chronic pain that the proper use of oxycotin gives them a quality of life they could not otherwise enjoy. I am speaking from personal experience. You may have to have professional help, and then again, maybe not. I take mine for as long as three months at a time (the addiction occurs around 3 to 4 weeks) I then get a perscription for vicodin es (750 mg) I take them each time I feel too much pain to bear. I only take them when the pain is excessive, or my body shows signs of withdrawl. (sweats, loose stool....)After about two weeks of discomfort, maybe 3 the addiction is broken. Unfortunately, your pain will return if you do not continue the medication. I have found this method to be good for pain control, while limiting the need to constantly increase the amount or volume of medication. This has provided me with a quality of life that is occasionally uncomfortable, but much better than the alternative
MEgan wrote at 2008-06-17 18:30:12
this guy is so right it is a beotch but you'll have to do it eventually are you going to be 90 at the local drug dealers house it is definitely a life experience respect it for what it is and get help.
mike wrote at 2009-05-04 02:54:34
I took 3 a day for cronic pain R.S.D. I had to go to Columbia Pres Hos[tal in Manhattan. I took suboxone under my tongue. In 15 minutes i was off the oxycoton. Thats all it took. It is easier to stop the suboxone a day or 2. I neeeded the oxy just to feel normal, if i didnt take it I would sweat ,and feel sick to my stomach. Ask your doc for a hospital that will evaluate you and give you suboxone or commonly called bupenorhine. It was develeoped in France in 2003 and it is a good thing to take you off the oxy without long term painful rehab.
mike wrote at 2009-05-04 03:01:35
I added a comment on how you could get off oxicoton. Wanted to add that i went to N.Y.U pain management, Dr. Dubia, Zou and Garibo. Good Doctors, but Doctor Zou was on a 3 month leave whe i started having this problem His office tole me 1 less every three days. Didnt work. Then they wouldnt return the calls when I was getting ill. I went to columbia to the beupenorphine program.Excellent. They were one of the first with the suboxone (another word for beupenorphine. Dr. McDowell.
