Military and Vets were the test bed, the guinea pigs for Percocet for about 5 yrs before the opioids hit the streets as a marketed drug. I ended up hooked on the shit after I broke my back in the Navy. I remember my flight surgeon telling me there was a new drug coming out that was the most effective thing out there when dealing with extreme amounts of pain. Now, mind you, I had to wait 14 months from the day I obliterated the L5 vertebrae and blew out the L5-S1 disc to when I actually had the fusion done. 14 FUCKING MONTHS!!! They had me on a cocktail of opiates. I estimate that by the beginning of the second week on those pills I was hooked.
Only, you can't be a drug addict in the military and expect them to help you out of the addiction AND allow you to keep your job. So I kept my mouth shut. Fast forward to the surgery/recovery. I was so deep into the addiction, it almost cost me my marriage. So, I quit...cold turkey, while I was on convalescent leave recovering. 2 weeks of Hell insued. Little did I know at the time that quitting those pills cold turkey when you're highly addicted can actually kill you. The withdrawals will stop your heart if you're hooked bad enough. I was lucky. Some of my military brothers and sisters weren't.
The kicker of it all is we went to Afghanistan to find these pharmaceutical companies a cheap way to harvest the poppy plant for morphine. I lost a lot of good friends to that bullshit thru war and the subsequent addictions they came back with. Addictions to opiates that our rotten assed govt pit us on.
It was later I found out that Percocet is a man made form. They purposely added an oxygen molecule to make it more addicting. And our military Drs knew about it. They fucking knew what they were giving us and gave it to us anyway.
Wow. First, thank you for your service and I'm so sorry you went through that. It's disgusting what we've been subjected to. I didn't know cold turkey could actually kill you either. Or how dark the pit would be. Thanks be to God for the other side.
It's so stupid to go to Afghanistan for the poppy plant when the US has regions with a sister climate. We can (and should, IMO) grow more opium (and Saffron!) than Afghanistan and Iran could ever dream of.
Military and Vets were the test bed, the guinea pigs for Percocet for about 5 yrs before the opioids hit the streets as a marketed drug. I ended up hooked on the shit after I broke my back in the Navy. I remember my flight surgeon telling me there was a new drug coming out that was the most effective thing out there when dealing with extreme amounts of pain. Now, mind you, I had to wait 14 months from the day I obliterated the L5 vertebrae and blew out the L5-S1 disc to when I actually had the fusion done. 14 FUCKING MONTHS!!! They had me on a cocktail of opiates. I estimate that by the beginning of the second week on those pills I was hooked.
Only, you can't be a drug addict in the military and expect them to help you out of the addiction AND allow you to keep your job. So I kept my mouth shut. Fast forward to the surgery/recovery. I was so deep into the addiction, it almost cost me my marriage. So, I quit...cold turkey, while I was on convalescent leave recovering. 2 weeks of Hell insued. Little did I know at the time that quitting those pills cold turkey when you're highly addicted can actually kill you. The withdrawals will stop your heart if you're hooked bad enough. I was lucky. Some of my military brothers and sisters weren't.
The kicker of it all is we went to Afghanistan to find these pharmaceutical companies a cheap way to harvest the poppy plant for morphine. I lost a lot of good friends to that bullshit thru war and the subsequent addictions they came back with. Addictions to opiates that our rotten assed govt pit us on.
It was later I found out that Percocet is a man made form. They purposely added an oxygen molecule to make it more addicting. And our military Drs knew about it. They fucking knew what they were giving us and gave it to us anyway.
Wow. First, thank you for your service and I'm so sorry you went through that. It's disgusting what we've been subjected to. I didn't know cold turkey could actually kill you either. Or how dark the pit would be. Thanks be to God for the other side.
Thank you for serving and sorry about those painful and dangerous experiences. Please continue to share your story.
It's so stupid to go to Afghanistan for the poppy plant when the US has regions with a sister climate. We can (and should, IMO) grow more opium (and Saffron!) than Afghanistan and Iran could ever dream of.
Morphine is a legit medicine.
But yeah... Fuck percocet pushers.