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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (42134)	11/18/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I thought the same thing, Lather. I know this approach parallels the voice of an addictive personality, but I have a lot of experience with drugs, Addictive drugs. And the only drug I consume regularly is alcohol. Which I think Ish can relate to, since we both have the same condition. I was prescribed pharmaceutical (duh) Dexedrine, among a half-dozen others, to try to control my ADHD. Which, is, perhaps only in extreme cases, a lot more miserable than people realize. But not some doctors, and they agreed that treating it is important. Dexedrine nor any other stimulant works for me very well ~ there are genetic/chemical reasons for that, so I am S-T-U-C-K. And that's what alcohol treats. I think getting out of here and to the the sticks. per my shrink's recommendations, and maybe biofeedback, might help. Dexedrine in continuous supply will addict anyone. Period. Except, perhaps, the ADHD. So, that one doesn't really count. There have also been several non-alcohol preiods inm my life, wehn I chose not to drink. I admit I don't think I can do that anymore, or until more care is taken of my system or circumstances. I still definitely need treatment for my nervous system. Without a doubt. Smoked for what - 6 years? Quit cold turkey. (I mean cigarettes, the devil's weed.) Have been proscribed potent pain killers in the past, for some fair periods ~ smashed calcaneal bones, my Surgeon claimed, are among the most painful injury to the body ~ it was treated for quite a while with vicodin after morphine ~ so what? Where the hell am I going to get codeine, even if I wanted it? I don't. And the reason I asked for endocet is because vicodin had a tendency to have effects on my mind I didn't want. I have no desire to take these drugs, and even less to have to withdraw from them. I experienced that once. They don't make me feel good. At this point, they're not controlling the pain. So it is, kind of, moot. Because I have to do what they tell me, like it or not. Part of what mystifies me about this, too, is that I have never been, in my life, around a source of narcotics. I have no idea, where to go look for them. If I wanted to. That kind of hassling is not my idea of a good time. Besides the exposure to danger and arrest. Duh. When they stop prescribing codeine, there's not going to be any anywhere near me. It's pretty effective control. Besides my spouse, who reports to my Doctors. C'est le vie. They have their concerns and problems with it, and I'm not agitated enough to worry about it. I can try stuff, and decrease my activity, duh. Thanks for the hep, tho. It's nice.