[Brady_to_Moss]

Originally Posted by deux ex machina

A neighbor of mine got hooked on pills - it all started with Xanax for anxiety. Then she had an operation, and had to take Vicodin. She's in bad shape now, and is taking morphine.

This is kind of how i started. I have a few operations and had precoset for a few weeks after each of my operations. Latest surgery was this summer and i was given about 40 of them for the pain. Man did i love it but those are 2 weeks of my life i didn't do a thing and will never get back. Its sad.

[tigressA]

I've known a guy for more than 3 years who's hooked on Oxy. He learned how to 'cook' it and inject it into himself. Once he did it in his arm but got an infection; it swelled up and discolored. He came this-close to needing an amputation, but even then he still didn't quit. He's been in and out of rehab. I don't think anything but his death will stop him.

He also got another friend of his--an acquaintance of mine--hooked on it; he offered it to her and she accepted. She got kicked out of the college we all go to after paraphernalia was found in her desk at her work-study job. She had only one year left before she graduated, was on the dean's list. Now she works as a janitor for a church in her hometown. I once heard rumors that she traded sex for Oxy. I still hope that isn't true.

[Brady_to_Moss]

My good friend use for snort an 80 and then drink...i thought he was going to die one time. It was scary. Drinking while on Oxy...i think is the deadliest combo out there. heroin coke ect...drinking with oxy...death waiting to happen. Thank god he's still around and cleaned his act up after a DUI he got last month.

[batinhell66]

Where I live, 80s used to be $20 a year ago. We used to say 80s or babies, referring to 80 mg oxycontin brand pills and 30 mg roxycondone (sp?) pills. My preference was the 30s. The 30s didn't have any coating and I think were instant release/dissolved quickly. So it hit faster.

Honestly, that drug can be used every day under normal circumstances during any time of day which makes it so damn addicting. Pretty soon the high wears off (if you stop upping the dose) and you just start to use it to function. It becomes, in a strange sad way, almost normal.

I was addicted for a year. I kept getting free pills from my friend/co-worker and we would rail those during work just to make life bearable (I constantly fought with my bf after work about work /backstory). I played Zelda high and nauseous, I danced high, I studied for midterms high, I copulated high, etc.

I guess my only redeeming factor (ironically) was that I acknowledged my addictive personality. By doing so, I enjoyed the addiction but started to gradually (over the time period of almost five months!) shave down on my dosage so as not to shock my system, never snorted or ate before 7:00 PM (seriously), and never got greedy (helped me not to OD).

OP: Oxy is serious stuff to shake. The withdrawals (that I did not experience because of my strict tapering off schedule, but that my good friend's army boyfriend is now experiencing) is horrible. He pukes, can't sleep, and shakes uncontrollably at times. Apparently the physical and mental withdrawal from this drug feels like death.

As for the shifty crackhead-like nature that involves stealing and strange behavior, I think that ice abusers are way worse. But that's still like comparing two similar objects. I would advise caution around this person until you can figure him out.

Hope that helps, and I hope he recovers soon.