User experiences, recreational oxycodone?
I'm looking for opinions and summaries of the substance from current and ex users. How would you describe an oxycodone high? Did you become addicted? If so, how easily did you become addicted and how did addiction impact your life? Given the option to go back, would you still do it or not? Why or why not? Has your use brought any positivity into your life? Any negativity? Did you have any particularly unpleasant experiences and if so were they a result of taking too much? How much would you normally take at various points in your use history? Finally, what was the impact of opioid related stigma on your life if any? Thanks for taking the time to read this, and hopefully answer. I respect that fact that many are not comfortable talking about their drug experiences, and you are by no means obligated to answer. However if you choose to answer, I would like to see only answers from actual users/ex users and only serious information regarding the above questions. I will not hesitate to thumb down/report troll answers and non answers. For those who answer honestly, thank you. The information gleaned from above questions is for informational and harm reduction purposes only, and it would be really helpful to my relationship with a close friend if I was better able to support him. I am quite knowledgeable on the pharmacological side of things and am looking mainly for subjective information. Thanks again.
How many sleeping pills can cause death? How does it happen?
Ok, Anonymous, I have seen several variations of this question in the last 24 hours. In fact, I fell asleep ruminating on why you keep asking.There are a few reasons you might want to know the answer. Let's start with the most innocuous— You are writing some sort of story. You would like to kill off your character and need to know how much sleeping medication will do the job. First, you need to be specific. Are you killing him off with zolpidem? Phenobarb? Diphenhydramine? Benzodiazepates? You need to be more specific.Maybe you are asking because you cannot sleep, and the recommended dosage is not helping you. In that case, I would advise speaking with your doctor and seeing if you can try a different medication. Don't just take more of the same.Lastly, you could be trying to kill someone. Most likely yourself. If so, please note three things:Overdosing on medication-- any medication-- is not a good idea. You may die, or you may end up very much alive, but permanently impaired. It is a crapshoot. Depending on factors you cannot control, such as your body's reaction to the medication, vomiting, allergy…there is no way to know.There is no absolute toxic level for most medications. This is why you see accidental deaths (Google Heath Ledger or Anna Nicole Smith, or simply “accidental deaths sleeping pills” ) from varying doses of medication. Yes, undoubtedly a toxic level exists, but due to unforseen factors (see Point 1), you don't know if one tablet or 50 tablets is your absolute toxic level.I, and I am sure I speak for the vast majority of Quorans, am not going to help you kill yourself. If you are suicidal, please get help. Whatever is going on in your life, there is a solution. I know that is hard to believe, but I have been there too many times and I can assure you: it will work out. Really. There is no reason to throw away your life, even if you don't value it. Please, reach out.
What are the dangers of taking Codeine and Valium at the same time?
While I agree with all the other answers to some extent, I figured I’d chime in as well. As others have correctly stated, codeine is an opioid, which the body converts to morphine. As such, it acts as a central nervous system depressant, which can slow down breathing in both rate and volume, meaning that you take in less air/oxygen. Valium or diazepam, it’s generic name, is a benzodiazipine. It is a longer-acting benzodiazipine than others in that classification and is generally used for anxiety, seizure control or alcohol withdrawal (which may result in both anxiety and seizures). It too acts as a central nervous system depressant, which again slows down breathing in rate and volume. The central nervous system depression may stop the breathing altogether or at least less than the demands of the body. When the central nervous system is significantly depressed, it can also decrease your gag reflex. The gag reflex is a natural event that closes the epiglottis or the cover that protects liquid and food from entering the lungs. Whether you have eaten or not, we subconsciously swallow saliva or fluids keeping our mouth moist all the time. Due to the gag reflex, this is no big deal, as it will harmlessly enter the the esophagus towards the stomach. Without the gag reflex, it may go into the lungs, causing aspiration pneumonia or asphyxiation. Couple this with another natural tendency when the body realizes that something is wrong by purging the stomach… vomiting. Vomiting without a gag reflex is very bad news, even worse than the saliva coming down.With all this being said, provided both medications were prescribed by the same care practitioner in appropriate doses, they can usually be taken together relatively safely. In the emergency department, operating room, and intensive care units of a hospital or in a critical care transport unit in-between hospitals, heavy doses of narcotics or opioids are routinely given with heavy doses of a benzodiazipine. This is safe because when doing so, we have placed a tube that goes into the trachea with a cuff that prevents saliva or stomach contents from getting into the lungs, while the tube is connected to a ventilator which makes sure an adequate volumes of oxygenated air and exhaled carbon dioxide go in and out (respectively) per minute. This eliminates what usually kills people by taking large doses.
What r some interesting facts about the drug morphine?
It causes constipation. True.
Xanax pill questions...?
Can these pills cause weight gain? Can they cause you to get acne or make your skin red-ish? What's the difference between all the colors.. like which one has more effect on you? Can they cause any brain damage in the long run? What's the difference between roxies and xanax? I've tried yellow, white and 'footballs'(orangey color). Which one has the most effect out of those three..? if you had them. I assure you that I'm just asking out of curiousity and use it to help educate myself. k thanks ;)