#Opiate Addiction

[paranoiadotcom]

walked my dog and im smoking some cigs(and bong rips ofc) its actually cold in texas rn! its gonna be a boring friday night but wtvvv. im getting paid next week🙏

also please lmk if u wanna be mutuals!

[ajokeaboutadog]

[selfmedblves]

Hey everyone. I am currently going through a tough time rn. I overdosed on fentanyl last night and briefly died. But from my brief face off with death, I'm now stronger. I know I can fight through the worst of it. I have struggled with extreme depression for the last five years. So much so that I had turned to opiates to self medicate. I'm surprised I'm even alive.

I'm glad I'm alive.

[tattedkaylaa]

90 days sober from heavy fentanyl an meth use before photos down here 👇

[paranoiadotcom]

been sober except weed and nicotine im going COOOKOOOO

[eggmcmuffin666]

Craving an oxy blunt

[fentanyl-rabbits]

Crying my eyes out over my own stupidity becoming an addict

[tattedkaylaa]

Heavy carfentanyl & meth addict. Now 90 days sober 🤙

[the-tattooed-librarian]

Heroine by Mindy McGinnis (print book)

TW talk of drug use and addiction

This book is comforting to me in many ways. It feels like a return to an old familiar land, where once I was comfortable and at home. I've walked these streets. I treaded these neuropathways again and again, once upon a time. Though I've never been an opioid user, I know this story like the back of my hand. There are some things that are true for every addiction story. Every addiction story is about losing control.

Mickey's story is incredibly believable, and that's not always an easy thing for a writer to accomplish when a character self-destructs. It feels so normal. It's not scandalous and sensational. It's real. We live in a country where this story plays out every day, where we give oxy to children, where surviving an accident can be the death of you.

I thought reading this book would hurt, or bring my own addiction back to the surface, but if anything, it assures my hard-won sanity; the peace I made with the drug use of my past still holds. This is not my story anymore, and for that I am immensely grateful.

The two things in the story that stand out to me the most is Mickey asking Devra when she would stop wanting it and Devra telling her “never.” That, and the deaths. Because it really happens just that easy. I've been to the funerals. I look over at the picture of my friend on the wall above my night stand and wonder, like Mickey and Carolina... why him and not me?

Mindy McGinnis told a story that's hard to tell, and she did it well. I didn't cry, but that doesn't mean I won't yet. It's hard to believe that was 12 years of my life. I was in recovery almost twice as long as I used. Like Mickey, I didn't start of my own volition. Some of us are screwed from the very first time we're intoxicated. The first time I got drunk, it was game over for me. I never got into opiates, though. I managed to pull myself out of my tail spin before it got that far. Sometimes there's no answer to the “why”. Sometimes all there is is the silence of your own heartbeat.

I finished this book 4 days after the 2 year anniversary of my friend's OD. After reading about the ins and outs of opiate use, I want to ask him so many questions. I want to compare his story to Mickey's in the book. I want to make it make sense. I still remember the light in his eyes. I want to know how it started and why and mostly... if there's anything I could have done to stop it. I wonder how he fell off, how it progressed, what he lost, who he hurt, how he was hurting. And I wonder what might happen to Mickey if there was a book two. I wonder if she cleaned her life up. I wonder if she made it to her dream school. I wonder if she landed her dream job teaching little girls how to plant their back foot and swing a bat. I wonder if she ever relapsed. And I wonder how she ever let Carolina walk away and if that was the end of them.

I spent 12 years sitting in a circle drinking bad coffee with them all telling us that we're all the same, taking our names, our stories, our identities, all in the name of unity. But all addicts are not the same. We're as individual as our stories, though there are commonalities. Like I said, addiction is about losing control. Patrick said it, though, in the book. “You're still alive.” I'm still alive. I may not have done opiates, but plenty of other things could have killed me along the way. My friend didn't get an obituary, but I have others hanging up. Just like Mickey, I was the one who survived.

The most powerful thing about this book is the human-ness of the story. Mickey Catalan is a character we can sympathize with and identify with. It's easy to read this book and think, “But for the grace of God, that could have been me.” I think that's the point. She's not just another number, one more lost junkie falling victim to the chase. She's a girl with hopes and dreams and fears and friends and family and excuses and struggles just like the rest of us. We all have a story. I have a story. My friend has a story. Stories hold power. This one made me feel a little less alone, more understood than I have felt since my last cup of shitty black coffee – mostly because Mickey made it out. This is the story of someone who made it out. Addiction can be survived. It can be beat. It can be won. I am living proof.

My biggest take-away is the necessity to be willing to be in pain. I have bipolar and cPTSD as well as fibromyalgia and other physical and mental disorders. I know pain. I know what it's like to be locked inside the inescapable hell of a body and mind on fire. I chose to walk through that fire over and over and over and over again. Maybe that's “why”.

Thank you to Mindy McGinnis for having the courage to tell this story for the rest of us.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[amyyycatherine]

I have a lot to say.

My name is Amy, I am new here, but I have a lot to say. I am not really sure how this works, but I believe that it is okay for me to just get up here and talk. I have been through a lot in my 43 years of life, and I just think that it is finally time that I have a platform to tell my story. I doubt anyone will really want to read it, but I hear that it is therapeutic to get it all out into words anyways. What it will be is a different post for each part that I want to discuss.

In case anyone does want to follow along, I must give warning that there may be some trigger warnings, but I will be as pg13 as I can. At some point we will be discussing the foster care system, and yes, I was blessed enough to get adopted but that did not keep me out of the system, we'll talk about when I was abducted and what happened after, we will discuss addiction, how I became a widow at a young as and why I am still single almost 9 years later, we will discuss my cats just because I love them and they are cute, how I had a child young and that ended me up in a group home, we will discuss mental health and the lack thereof and youth psychiatric wards, and there is probably more that I am missing but that is just to give you an idea.

I am sure it already sounds insane; I always joke that I could be my own lifetime movie, but the sad truth is that I probably could. I am okay in my life now, but it's taken me a long time to get here, and I am finally ready to tell my story, spread awareness, and hope that my story may help someone else. Also, the way I write and post my story, it may not go in order of how it happened, but that is okay.

[highwithhoney-2]

i need blues

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Please SEND ME A TEXT

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[recovery4ever]

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