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Opioids: Also known as narcotic analgesics. Used to treat pain, opioids are the most commonly abused prescription drugs. Examples include morphine, codeine, OxyContin (oxycodone), Vicodin (hydrocodone) and Demerol (meperidine). In the short term, these drugs block pain messages and cause drowsiness. A large single dose can cause severe respiratory depression and death. Long-term use leads to physical dependence and, in some cases, addiction.
OxyContin (oxycodone), a controlled drug approved in 1995 to treat chronic, moderate-to-severe pain, has received considerable attention because of deaths and crimes associated with its abuse. (For more on the classes--or schedule--of drugs, OxyContin is a morphine-like narcotic that contains a high dose of oxycodone. Manufactured by Purdue Pharma, Stamford, Conn., the drug was originally believed to pose a lower risk for abuse because it is a controlled-release drug designed to be taken orally and swallowed whole, says Deborah Leiderman, M.D., director of the Food and Drug Administration's controlled substance staff. The drug's active ingredient, oxycodone, is slowly released over a 12-hour period. "But the safety of the drug is based on taking the drug exactly as intended," she says.
Abusers sometimes disrupt the time-release formula of the drug to speed up absorption, often chewing the tablets, crushing them and snorting the powder, or dissolving them in water and injecting the drug to get a fast high. Abusers have also used OxyContin with other painkillers, alcohol, and marijuana. Several deaths have resulted, mostly in rural areas of the Eastern United States, especially in Virginia and West Virginia.
Ways of oxycontin abuse - Snorting, Chewing, Sucking on the pill as if it were candy, and Shooting it up.
when you do this the drug is no longer released within a 12-hour period. It all comes at once, causeing people who abuse this drug to want more.
Young says that physical dependence, which is sometimes unavoidable, develops when an individual is exposed to a drug at a high enough dose for long enough that the body adapts and develops a tolerance for the drug. This means that higher doses are needed to achieve a drug's original effects. "If the patient stops taking the drug, then withdrawal will occur," Young says.
But the development of physical dependence doesn't necessarily lead to addiction in all cases, she explains. "It means that the individual can't just stop taking the drug; the dose has to be tapered," a method to gradually decrease a drug's amount over time to prevent withdrawal reactions.
Thats what happened to my dad and it made him fucking crazy. He is in a " Mental Health Facility " now. Im very upset about him, his back pain and drug addiction just turned him unstable.
Wednesday morning I woke up. My dad was babbling on about the most stupid things. It made me so sad, my mom has had many emotional breakdowns, but none of them I witnessed first hand, except for once, but it wasnt really noticable. He was saying the most awkward things that I dont even wanna get into to.
All I know is that he isnt here anymore, and I'm stuck with maryanne. The way my sister is acting is doesnt look like i'll be here much longer. Maryanne wont take care of us without my dad, Ill probably be going to my moms and I'm so upset about this.
So, first we went to horsham. They told us to go to the emergency room, because his mental status changed over-night and thats a very unhealthy thing. I was very upset, My sister was at my aunts and I was there sitting in the waiting room all day, because only one person was allowed back there. All I was thinking was...couldnt my dad tell maryanne to leave and let me see him? no. he loves her more, shes always there for him and im not. Im a horrific daughter.
My dad doesnt need me anymore he has her. I dont wanna go to my moms. I think ill just runaway or something and just wander from house to house or just stay with brittney I dont know.
I had my MRI wednesday. I had my pack of cigarettes in my pocket that I forgot to take out in the car. It had my bowl in it and a dime and a half of weed, that wasnt even mine, but I totally forgot about it and when the guy said is there anything in your pockets I said yeah and handed it over to maryanne. She did;nt give me a rash of shit about it, all she said when we got into the car was " You shouldnt be walking around with pot in your cigarette pack " and I was just like " I know " it was a long day I didnt want anything to start. I thought maybe she would give it back to be because it was a long hard day. But she didnt. All day I was all syked like im gonna get soooo fucked up tommorow cause I was so upset I just wanted to smoke, even though it wasnt mine, it was someones who I wont mention cause I dont know who reads this shit. I just wanted it. I wanted to wash away my sorrows for at least a little while. But that doesnt happen. I can get it back she wouldnt of thrown it away. And she wouldnt bring it to work, its probably up in her room. its just finding the strength to break in and find it.
I had my Ortropedics appointment last friday, thinking I was gonna get my cast off. HAH!. no. I have to wear the walking cast sporadically for the next two weeks, hah! fuuck that. Itll be off by this coming friday, my doctor is a twit and knows nothing.
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Mich
OxyContin (oxycodone), a controlled drug approved in 1995 to treat chronic, moderate-to-severe pain, has received considerable attention because of deaths and crimes associated with its abuse. (For more on the classes--or schedule--of drugs, OxyContin is a morphine-like narcotic that contains a high dose of oxycodone. Manufactured by Purdue Pharma, Stamford, Conn., the drug was originally believed to pose a lower risk for abuse because it is a controlled-release drug designed to be taken orally and swallowed whole, says Deborah Leiderman, M.D., director of the Food and Drug Administration's controlled substance staff. The drug's active ingredient, oxycodone, is slowly released over a 12-hour period. "But the safety of the drug is based on taking the drug exactly as intended," she says.
Abusers sometimes disrupt the time-release formula of the drug to speed up absorption, often chewing the tablets, crushing them and snorting the powder, or dissolving them in water and injecting the drug to get a fast high. Abusers have also used OxyContin with other painkillers, alcohol, and marijuana. Several deaths have resulted, mostly in rural areas of the Eastern United States, especially in Virginia and West Virginia.
Ways of oxycontin abuse - Snorting, Chewing, Sucking on the pill as if it were candy, and Shooting it up.
when you do this the drug is no longer released within a 12-hour period. It all comes at once, causeing people who abuse this drug to want more.
Young says that physical dependence, which is sometimes unavoidable, develops when an individual is exposed to a drug at a high enough dose for long enough that the body adapts and develops a tolerance for the drug. This means that higher doses are needed to achieve a drug's original effects. "If the patient stops taking the drug, then withdrawal will occur," Young says.
But the development of physical dependence doesn't necessarily lead to addiction in all cases, she explains. "It means that the individual can't just stop taking the drug; the dose has to be tapered," a method to gradually decrease a drug's amount over time to prevent withdrawal reactions.
Thats what happened to my dad and it made him fucking crazy. He is in a " Mental Health Facility " now. Im very upset about him, his back pain and drug addiction just turned him unstable.
Wednesday morning I woke up. My dad was babbling on about the most stupid things. It made me so sad, my mom has had many emotional breakdowns, but none of them I witnessed first hand, except for once, but it wasnt really noticable. He was saying the most awkward things that I dont even wanna get into to.
All I know is that he isnt here anymore, and I'm stuck with maryanne. The way my sister is acting is doesnt look like i'll be here much longer. Maryanne wont take care of us without my dad, Ill probably be going to my moms and I'm so upset about this.
So, first we went to horsham. They told us to go to the emergency room, because his mental status changed over-night and thats a very unhealthy thing. I was very upset, My sister was at my aunts and I was there sitting in the waiting room all day, because only one person was allowed back there. All I was thinking was...couldnt my dad tell maryanne to leave and let me see him? no. he loves her more, shes always there for him and im not. Im a horrific daughter.
My dad doesnt need me anymore he has her. I dont wanna go to my moms. I think ill just runaway or something and just wander from house to house or just stay with brittney I dont know.
I had my MRI wednesday. I had my pack of cigarettes in my pocket that I forgot to take out in the car. It had my bowl in it and a dime and a half of weed, that wasnt even mine, but I totally forgot about it and when the guy said is there anything in your pockets I said yeah and handed it over to maryanne. She did;nt give me a rash of shit about it, all she said when we got into the car was " You shouldnt be walking around with pot in your cigarette pack " and I was just like " I know " it was a long day I didnt want anything to start. I thought maybe she would give it back to be because it was a long hard day. But she didnt. All day I was all syked like im gonna get soooo fucked up tommorow cause I was so upset I just wanted to smoke, even though it wasnt mine, it was someones who I wont mention cause I dont know who reads this shit. I just wanted it. I wanted to wash away my sorrows for at least a little while. But that doesnt happen. I can get it back she wouldnt of thrown it away. And she wouldnt bring it to work, its probably up in her room. its just finding the strength to break in and find it.
I had my Ortropedics appointment last friday, thinking I was gonna get my cast off. HAH!. no. I have to wear the walking cast sporadically for the next two weeks, hah! fuuck that. Itll be off by this coming friday, my doctor is a twit and knows nothing.
<33
Mich