Posted by bsj on December 5, 2003, at 20:42:38
In reply to Re: Might Opiates in Moderation Fight Depresion?, posted by MysticalMeds on December 5, 2003, at 19:38:26
"have you every tried methadone, buprenorphin or LAAM? doctors may be much more willing to perscribe these for you as it is less heretical and they are designed for opiate maintenance dosing, which it sounds like you are interested in rather than trying to chase some sort of high. they would be more available if you would like to be honest."
Are you kidding? If I told a doctor I wanted methadone for depression, he'd pat me on the head and send me away with a script for Paxil. Doctors don't prescribe methadone for opiate maintainence in the U.S.; that's illegal. There are specially-licensed places only that can dispense methadone to addicts.
"if you want to be less honest there are always pain clinics you can visit to get the stuff."
I've been doing that, as well as ordering online. The pain clinc thing takes a while, though. I was in a car accident about a year ago, and gave them that as the excuse for my Terrible Lower Back Pain. They check you out first; that was three weeks ago. They said I would have to wait 3-6 weeks to get the ok.
"hydrocodone has a pretty short half-life though, and i'm suprised that you're able to take one when you wake up and at lunch and are able to get through the whole day."
I do short days--never more than 8 hours (which is step up from sleeping 23 hours out of every 24). I've been fallow, vegetating, for 18 months; and I'm easing back into my life. Once I start doing 12 and 14 hour days again, I may have to start taking 10mg three times a day. We'll see.
"if you're truly just taking 20mg/day its a pretty reasonable dose and probably practical to obtain."You'd be surprised. The DEA has shut down all but one reliable online pharmacy that deals in opiates. And their doctor can be capricious. The way I see it, it's only a matter of time before THEY get shut down, too. Then the pain clinic is my only hope--that, or street heroin.
"i share a lot of your frustration and resentment with the difficulty of obtaining drugs. the ones i'm after are not controlled by the DEA but are pricey and its hard to find a way to make things work."
Money's no problem with me. I should hire someone to fly me to Mexico, stock up on a year's supply of hydro, and then fly it back over the border. Of course, knowing me, I'd get caught.
BTW, what drug are you after?
"creating them from scratch is always a possibility worth investigating."
I'm too afraid to try the poppy-growing thing. I'd get caught. Then I'd have to find some recipes for laudanum and tone them down a bit--to hear de Quincy describe it, you'd think he was flying. And that would be too much.
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