thoughts on prescription painkiller use
 

inspired by eldiablos most harmful drugs poll, what does everyone think about drugs like vicodin and oxycontin methadone and darvocets, and other presciption medications which are abused for fun. oxycontin seems like it is very addictive, as i have friends who regularly crush it up and rail it like cocaine. vicodin and other hydrocodone derivitives (spelling?) on the other hand seem like great painkillers and are fun to take :P what do u guys think about the subject?

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Never took oxycontin, I have had most of the others in various forms and I like them a lot, and therefore try not to acquire them very often at this point.

I am perfectly happy just to swallow painkillers at this point, in my opinion adults should not crush up and snort anything that wasn't powder already. Just a hangup I guess.

NT

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ZOMG GIMME SOME!!!

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When I cut my finger off, they gave me some kind of painkiller, I turned green, I was so sick to my stomach, I think I had a better time dealing with the pain than feeling like throwing up, so I havve never taken one since.

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I don't use painkillers anymore and I think they are bad news. I use to mix vicodin a lot when I drank which is suppose to destroy your liver. I loved the way it made me feel though but it was dangerously addictive.

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I think they're fantastic!

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I'm taking Vicodin right now for a cracked rib. Taking it as directed really doesn't do much for me -- it takes care of the rib pain, but doesn't otherwise [censored] me up such that I can't function or play poker. Am I missing something?

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I took some 7.5/750 vicodin awhile back after a shoulder surgery. It just made the pain go away and I got tired. When I woke up the pain would be back and I would pop another and go to sleep. This lasted for about a week and eventually the pain was less and I got off the vicodin fairly easily. I was not addicted.

I took codeine for another injury and I was more addicted to that. It did not work as well as vicodin and I had to take more of the pills to get rid of the pain. Eventually I told the doc I was taking about 4 at a time and he switched me to vicodin.

An addicting nonpainkiller is ambien. It is a sleeping pill that really messed me up when I took it. I woke up so refreshed from that. I really miss that feeling of being completely refreshed from sleep.

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I'm taking Vicodin right now for a cracked rib. Taking it as directed really doesn't do much for me -- it takes care of the rib pain, but doesn't otherwise [censored] me up such that I can't function or play poker. Am I missing something?

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They're obviously placeboes. Send them to me and I'll analyze them for you [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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there alot of fun [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]