Codeine

[Guest Lupi]

Um, hey... I'm Leo.

I take codeine rectreationally sometimes, not even knowing if it's even illegal in my country or not...

I know that it's not 'hardcore' or whatever, but it's probably still bad for my health.

Is anyone else out there hooked on this stuff?

[VickySGV]

Codeine is a very powerful narcotic related to Opium. I do not know Australian law per se, but in California, haveing posession of it without a doctor's prescription or pharmacists license is a felony offense.

Two years ago, a friend of mine who had fought Codeine addiction and had been sober for a year and a half took two very low dose tablets of it, and died from cardiac arrest since he had not recovered from his prior withdrawal problems.

If you have any of it that is not yours by prescription, take it to the nearest hospital or police station and let them dispose of it. If you turn it in voluntarily, there is a good chance there will not be a criminal consequence.

You say it is for recreation, but you are playing in the middle of a mine field that is also a live fire obstacle course. I have been in a branch of narcotics law enforcement for 30+ years and have seen and known of too many casualties.

[Guest Robin Winter]

I won't go as far as to say I'm addicted, but I can't keep it in the house. When I buy it, I buy it for legitimate reasons, but I tend to take far more of it than is necessary and it disappears quickly. I think I could have a very big problem with it if I'm not careful, especially since it's available without a prescription here in small dose tablets.

[Guest Skuld]

One of my former friends use to play around with that stuff(ones in a while, was not a problem for the first year or so), a couple of years later he had moved on to much stronger stuff since codeine just didnt do the trick anymore, finnaly he had done so much damage he had no empathy anymore (propably brain damage, but im no doctor), he has been in and out of mental institutions ever since along with some jail time. so you are definetly playing with fire.

[Charlize]

Please let it go if you can. If you feel you can't then you may already be addicted. Get some help if you need it. Its often impossible as well as being dangerous to come off an addiction alone. We in the trans comunity often have problems. You are not alone here. NA/AA are programs that do work if you need them. There is a meeting here on Sunday in the chat rooms. This week its going to be at 6:00 not 9:00 eastern as usual.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest jody h]

in my youth i had an ankle injury where i ripped some tendons off the bone and was prescribed the codein/paracetamol tablets for the ongoing pain. to cut along story short it took two years to get off them. initially they did the job ofr pain killing but i never noticed i just took them automatically after i stoped needing them for the pain manegment. they get like coffee, you cant gt throught he day without one but codein isnt good for your body.

[Charlize]

Hello dear, Sorry but the meeting this Sunday is going to be at 9:00 eastern as usual. I got that wrong and used the pacific time. Please join us if you can.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest Lupi]

I'm only on the net 4pm-4.50pm now cuz my laptop is stuffed. I'm on a library computer atm. And it's not that I couldn't quit if I wanted to, I just don't know if I want to or not. And it's not addiction, since I have gone without when I didn't cash before. And also, the cops are useless were I live. So even if it does turn out to be an offence, it'd be pretty low on the list of things that I have done before...

[Guest Skuld]

I'm only on the net 4pm-4.50pm now cuz my laptop is stuffed. I'm on a library computer atm. And it's not that I couldn't quit if I wanted to, I just don't know if I want to or not. And it's not addiction, since I have gone without when I didn't cash before. And also, the cops are useless were I live. So even if it does turn out to be an offence, it'd be pretty low on the list of things that I have done before...

everyone thinks they wont get addicted, but if you continue using it you will likely get addicted to it, then your body builds up tolerance for it, and you start using morphine and when that no longer works you will start using heroin, people don´t just start using heroin they work their way up to it and they probably never meant to use it in the first place.

[Guest Melissa~]

The forgone knowledge that you'll lose the effect of taking a substance repeatedly is part of what helps me keep consumptions in check. I like an alcohol buzz. I like that it only takes a couple drinks to get one. An alcoholic loses all that in the desire have a bigger better buzz more often, they wind up with nothing but problems: resistance to the desired effects and addictions to the undesired effects. The behavior with narcotics is similar, but the results are the same with high fatalities.