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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For some (me)it only eases pain and produces no high whatsoever, just nausea and irritability. I couldn’t stop it soon enough.[/quote]

Same. I have been prescribed them a few times. And never felt high. I had a bottle lying around my house for the longest time with no desire to take them for fun. [/quote]

Most people who got addicted didn’t taken for fun. They got addicted after injury or surgery because the dosage and pill amounts prescribed were excessive. Eventually, people are taking them just to avoid withdrawing. [/quote]

I was prescribed opiates for cancer pain, and after a few weeks I became physically dependant and showed all the signs of drug-seeking behavior.  Figuring out how to get a supply of opiates quickly becomes the central tenet of existance.  So I am very skeptical that chronic pain sufferers are not hooked the same way I was.  Eventually, the pain was gone but I still wanted/needed the pills.  It took a few months of walking down my dosage 5-10% per week before I was clean.  Faster dosage reductions gave me nasty withdrawal symptoms.[/quote]

Cdncer pain is relatively shorter lived in comparison to say fibromyalgia [/quote]

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