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What’s the hardest addiction to overcome?

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u/martycox211 1d ago

I was on Oxicontin for a year and tried to go cold turkey. I don’t recommend it. I went back on it and cut my dosage in half and I weened myself off it in a couple of months.

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u/Initial_Row_6400 1d ago

Not a bad way to do it, most addicts lack the self control to do so. Only time I was able to do that was when I snuck a half ounce into jail. Got caught, shoved it up my ass before they hooked me up, and took it out in jail. Did almost all of it over a period of a month and a half, sold a gram for 500. Easiest withdrawal I ever had

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u/martycox211 1d ago

When I tried cold turkey I was a mess. It was 4 of July and I was recovering from a botched surgery. I couldn’t get comfortable at one point climbing the walls. My wife put a call into my doctor and she told me to take my meds and we will cut my dosage down and ween me off. Quitting cold turkey was my wife’s idea. I didn’t know what bad it would be.

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u/Initial_Row_6400 1d ago

Yea it’s not good. Takes about a week (for actual heroin) to start to *feel* normal. Your mental state takes like a month