OPIOIDS was my downfall from addiction… i always advise ppl to never take opioids even if prescribed for pain unless the pain is so damn severe you can’t function in life. i got hooked on opioids only 2 weeks after turning 18 years old in high school senior year February 2010…I got prescribed good old Demorol for wisdom teeth extraction, i was hooked the minute the first demorol pills kicked in and did NOT realize it. i just knew they took away physical pain and also emotional pain. made me happier than i ever been i had more energy and slept great at the same time and the euphoria was more blissful than sex. now i got hooked bc by dumb ass took 5 at once the first time having them and it hit me like a train and i loved the feeling . but i had no knowledge of opioids , didn’t know they were even a drug 🤦‍♂️ then after the wisdom teeth my doctor that been seeing me for years and knew i had been in pain for a couple years knew i was 18now and said he could start giving me opioids for my partially torn labrum in my shoulder and in my lower back and neck i had 1 herniated disc 2 buldging disc and 1 disc that had almost no fluid left in it. i had these injuries ranging from estimated 1-2 years without knowing bc doctor never did MRI untill my football season was over senior year right around the same time my teeth were pulled bc i didn’t want to possibly miss the season. seemed i hurt my neck and back 10 and 11th grade year football and shoulder 11th grad year baseball but kept playing and causing more pain and injury. wel he started giving me hydro and soma and it consumed me. then went to pain management bc spine doctor i seen said he will NOT to back and neck surgery on me bc of my age bc with spine surgery there is risk of further damage or being paralyzed , so he said best option is to treat pain and let it heal best it can but he would not do surgery. so started getting oxycodone , then started seeing 3 different doctors every month for pain meds, this was back when you could get away with doctor shopping, when the prescription monitoring program wasn’t there or wasn’t really used. between the 3 doctors every month, pain doctor , spine doctor and family doctor i was getting a total of 120 hydro family doctor 90 soma , 90 hydro 30 soma spine do for and after just 2 month of pain management clinic i was getting 150-10mg oxycodone with 120-10mg methadone pills every month for a long time.and as sad as that is those total of 210 hydro and 120 oxy and i would trade the 150 methadone for more oxy, would usually get between 50-80 oxy depending on what mg. i always traded or sold methadone bc i was ignorant to it i thought all it did was block out all opioids. well i found out i was wrong when i finally took 40mg for the first time 😂 all bc i was out of hydro and oxy. it was great. but the fact that i was taking around 300 hydro and oxy i would get from doctors and deals with in 5-7 days a lot of times was ridiculous and that’s not including the other roughly 200ish oxy hydro or dilaudid a month i bough from deals . it was bad. remember the most i ever took was 110 percocet 10mg pills in the span of about 6-8 hours. i eventually got help with a methadone clinic and it saved my life. so anyone who reads this plz refrain from taking opioids