[habernac]

Originally Posted by kermitology

My cousin got started with Oxycodone. He'd been prescribed some after surgery to repair his ACL. He couldn't take the stuff without becoming violently ill, but was in so much pain that he tried to find any way to take it. He read online that you can crush the pills and snort it, and that doesn't come with nausea. Unfortunately, it also allows the entirety of the dose to go into your bloodstream, and not over time as designed.

Basically, he was an instant addict after that. Oxy is so controlled that it became harder and harder for him to find opiates, so he got whatever he could. He robbed a Shoppers, got caught 2 blocks away, high as a kite.

He devolved into standard junkie patterns, stealing everything he can, including my grandmother's wedding band because "she wasn't using it." He's since been in rehab several times, done every drug in between, claims to be clean, but isn't, and we're all just waiting for the phone call telling us he's dead.

It's sad, but we can't do anything to help him. We can't force him into rehab, we can't force him to do anything, and we're just trying not to enable him.

The addictive personality. I've got it. I've never tried anything more powerful than cigarettes as I loved them almost instantly. I quit more than a decade ago and want one every damn day. I feel for these poor #######s who get hooked.