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I took a trip to rehab. It was a damn scary place

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Shoot4theMoon · 15/04/2023 08:18

I took myself into rehab a couple days back. I can be treated as an out patient. These codeine are going to be the death of me if I don’t stop them. Iv posted before on here when I tried stopping them last but since then it got bad again to a point of 2 boxes a day I’m now getting my own prescription and 3 other peoples and then buying cocodamol and removing the paracetamol, using around 4 boxes a day of the cocodamol and I’ll only buy those when I have no codeine but lately this seams to be more days of buying cocodamol then I actually have codeine. So something has to stop. I contacted a rehab facility and I went there. They took all my details and some bloods and A medical history. A urine drug test which of course only showed opiates. It was a damn scary place, I’m young, look even younger, I mean I look about 15 I don’t know why but I just do I have to carry ID everywhere when going out to pubs or buying anything, even get ID’d when buying the cocodamol. So this clinic was full of hardcore drug addicts, missing teeth, needle marks all up their arms and legs, one was proudly telling how she had her 4 babies removed from her after she went to cut her new borns throat while high on drugs, a group of men kept whistling at me and following me asking for my number when they said they realised I was “one of them” as I looked amazing they thought I worked here. It was a scary place. But I’m going back during the week and I’m going to get the help I need. I’m being moved onto buponorphine (excuse the spelling) has anyone been moved onto this? They said they start it as a low dose and build up until I’m comfortable which make take me going in every day for a few weeks, which worried me will I be in withdrawal all those days and that’s why I’m here in the first place I can’t cope with the withdrawal. Can anyone who has been here please share their experience with me

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BurntAroundTheEdges · 18/06/2023 18:00

Hey, how are you doing?

I just wanted to say that if you move onto Bupe, you will be in the same situation when you try and get off that.

I am currently looking for a rehab place because I need to now detox off the drug that was given to me by doctors, to detox off a different drug. It's a nightmare. So please think about that.

Are you at rehab now? Did you stay? What's your situation now?

SphincterSaysWhat · 19/06/2023 12:13

How are you doing, @Shoot4theMoon

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FireflyJar · 09/07/2023 07:57

I'm guessing you are in America?

BurntAroundTheEdges · 09/07/2023 08:03

I'm in the UK and I assumed the OP is too?

Thanks @ramoncito although this is in the US, it's definitely something worth looking to see if there's anything similar here.

@Shoot4theMoon how are you?

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