if you could turn back the clock, would you do things differently?

Just like the title says: if you could go back in time and decide not to take that first pill, would you do it?

I suppose this applies mostly to those who use opiates recreationally and not for pain management, but pain patients please feel free to reply.

 

I am just gunna say yes, and leave it at that. There are ALOT of things I would do differently in the past 2years.

 

Personally I don't think I could. I was always so curious about how opiates felt and even though I knew they were bad and addictive I always knew one day I'd do it.

Right now I'm on methadone and personally I feel happy being on it and I think I prefer being on it even to being sober. I know I shouldn't talk like that and I should use methadone as a treatment only, but I enjoy the confidence it gives me as well as the motivation and ambition to do things I never would otherwise.

So if I were to turn back the clocks and never do pills, I'd never end up on methadone which, in my eyes, would suck, because as I stated above, I quite enjoy the effects of methadone. Plus the program is only $40 a week, which put into perspective is about how much my pill addiction cost for just the morning.

 

As a pain patient, no I wouldn't decide not to take the pill. I couldn't go my entire life feeling like that and not kill somebody else or myself. It's just the truth.

 

I woulndn't take it. I started out as usual with 5 mg percocets. Then moved on to 30mg percocets. For a couple of years I took three 30's aday on Wednesday & Saturday (my days off from the gym). But then I started taking them more often.
I detoxed twice by myself and tapered off with Suboxone. I took down to 2mg a day, then 1mg per day, then 1 mg every other day and a lot of Immodium AD.
In my opininion opiates feel great but the dope sick part sucks. The stuff is synthetic heroine and has ruined many lives.

 

yes, if i could go back and never do most of the drugs i have done i absolutely would, ESPECIALLY opiates.

 

yes i wish i never touched any drug ever and if i could go back in time i would never even smoke a cig or drink

 

for the most part I am happy with all my drug use. There are some aspects of it like spending LOTS of money, getting beaten up, robbed, addiction that do suck and those have almost all come from opiates only.

 

Never. Sure, my life has had it's share of bumps, but who's to say what could've happened if I didn't choose the path I did? Maybe if I never started opiates, one day, instead of scoring, I'd be going to work and get hit by a car? I know, it's farfetched and hard to explain, but I feel every choice I made, even the seemingly bad ones, could've potentially averted me from some unknown disaster.

 

In 4 years of chipping the only thing I'd change is avoiding an OD and avoiding getting caught.

 

i can honestly say no (for the most part).

 

yes because id write down all the sports scores results and then go back in time and put money on them and then win a lot of money and then id be rich.

 

As much as I've gone thru in life, I'll have to say no. Suppose I had gone into the financial field, would I have been one of the people that died in the World Trade Center on 9/11?
You never know where life would have taken you if you chose a different path, and I'm alive and well ( for the most part) so I'll be content with my present and look forward to my future.

 

I used heroin around once a month for two and a half years and dabbled with other opiates (maybe getting to twice a week opiate use at the worst points) and then I quit, stayed 100% sober for a year, did kratom maybe 10 times over the last 6 months since than and I'm now considering hitting up that sweet heroin again soon enough because I like the anxiolytic effects.

Drugs have messed up my life to certain extents, but I wouldn't go back on it. My opiate use over several years has never gotten bad enough to call addiction and I enjoy it. I am depressive enough that those few moments I'm really high enough are entirely worthwhile -- even if I can only have them on very rare occasions.