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DIARY OF A SLOWLY RECOVERING HEROIN ADDICT

I used to take heroin at every opportunity, for over 10 years, now I just take methadone which supposedly "stabilizes" me though I feel more destabilized than ever before despite having been relatively well behaved since late November/early December 2010... and VERY ANGRY about this when I let it get to me so I try not to.

I was told by a mental health nurse that my heroin addiction was "self medication" for a mood disorder that has recently become severe enough to cause psychotic episodes. As well as methadone I take antipsychotics daily. Despite my problems I consider myself a very sane person. My priority is to attain stability. I go to Narcotics Anonymous because I "want what they have" ~ Serenity.

My old blog used to say "candid confessions of a heroin and crack cocaine addict" how come that one comes up when I google "heroin blog" and not this one. THIS IS MY BLOG. I don't flatter myself that every reader knows everything about me and follows closely every single word every day which is why I repeat myself. Most of that is for your benefit not mine.

This is my own private diary, my journal. It is aimed at impressing no-one. It is kept for my own benefit to show where I have been and hopefully to put off somebody somewhere from ever getting into the awful mess I did and still cannot crawl out of. Despite no drugs. I still drink, I'm currently working on reducing my alcohol intake to zero.

If you have something to say you are welcome to comment. Frankness I can handle. Timewasters should try their own suggestions on themselves before wasting time thinking of ME.

PS After years of waxing and waning "mental" symptoms that made me think I had depression and possibly mild bipolar I now have found out I'm schizoaffective. My mood has been constantly "cycling" since December 2010. Mostly towards mania (an excited non-druggy "high"). For me, schizoaffective means bipolar with (sometimes severe)
mania and flashes of depression (occasionally severe) with bits of schizophrenia chucked on top. You could see it as bipolar manic-depression with sparkly knobs on ... I'm on antipsychotic pills but currently no mood stabilizer. I quite enjoy being a bit manic it gives the feelings of confidence and excitement people say they use cocaine for. But this is natural and it's free, so I don't see my "illness" as a downer. It does, however, make life exceedingly hard to engage with...

PPS The "elevated mood" is long gone. Now I'm depressed. Forget any ideas of "happiness" I have given up heroin and want OFF methadone as quick as humanly possible. I'm fed up of being a drug addict. Sick to death of it. I wanna be CLEAN!!!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Days of Thunder (??)

THURSDAY: what does this mean? THOR's Day. Who was Thor? God of Thunder. Only my head is thundering today. With stress.

Matran and Laundretta bothering me: can I get any B? (Brown - heroin.) I don't know why their own man will not come. Their problem is, they've a way of losing dealers, losing friends, losing accommodation. And yet they look down on me, I know they do. Because they believe I'm too laid back, too calm. I let people walk all over me. I know they think that. But then, somehow, when situations switch around: how smart I am, they say, to stay out of trouble. You can't have it both ways. I'd rather keep hold of what little I have.

Although sometimes it all gets too much. People get too much. I've had enough of certain types of people. When I'm tired and the world outside is burning up. It's the end, again, of another superheated day. When I woke up earlier, to the Jeremy Kyle (talk) Show, blaring from TV, he was laying into a couple of guests for having had (presumably obvious and rampant) sex in one of the dressing rooms before they came on...

Man, STILL someone's at the front door rat-attatttatting. Who on earth is it? It has been a "broiling" day. And I went out, towards the end of it, to sun slicing across the roofs of cars, the tops of signs and sheens and street furniture and glaring in lakes of fire whenever sunset met the road.

Stress is all around.

One of my best friends, Debs, lost her mother at the weekend. It's all happening at her end. (Read it in her blog.) My thoughts are with you, Debs, and my prayers.

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Now to tie up some loose ends:-

Oh, and "Pat-rick": I wasn't "promoting" anything on your blog; I only said hello and gave my url. If you'd read any further than one day of mine you would see I write about everything I see and do. So I am a junkie? I don't hide the fact. Perhaps I am telling the world there is more to addiction than the man hiding in the alleyway predating your cash ...

7 comments:

rowan said...

I completely agree.. the more risks somebody takes the more they look down at you because you stay away from attracting attention from the police. i mean nobody wants to go to jail but.. Im trying to say I understand what you meant even if I'm not saying it right.

Nicole said...

So I went over to the Pat-Dick blog and couldn't find your comment. What did he get his knickers in a knot about? I had trouble staying on that website because of too many children.

Richard said...

Glewwood. Your writing on here is very alive - you have natural talent with words - I am a writer - ou should maybe do something with this and get it published - possibly for other addicts or for yourself.

Or just as a wider project or a kind of autobioraphical "novel".

I am not concerned about you being an addict as a moral/legal issue - better not to be - but I like the writing style you use on here - this is more or less what you are. (Or it is as your persona on here is!)

I am also an addict - although I am addicted only to a prescription drug valium (it is very addictve though) - before Xmas I stopped drinking and am looking to manage or reduce my valium use. (But I know how hard this is so I know something of your "problem" with addiction.) I have also lost weight - and so on - my daughter is doing a University degree in Psychology and specialisng in health and obesity problems (I was not quite obese - very overweight though) and the cognitive psychology methods maybe useful in overcoming addiction - if you want to. They involve - in the case of weight control - some relatively straight foreward methods.

In my own case I used alcohol whenever I had poetry readings so I was kind of a binge alcoholic - and I decided the negatives outweighed the positives (for me).

Valium I have been using for 40 years so to reduce that - if desirable - will be much harder.

Keep well. Richard.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Richard!

Anonymous said...

Nicole I agree with you precisely. In fact I came back to his blog (where he had deleted my comment) and left another one saying I'm awfully sorry I didn't realize your blog was for children mine is for grown-ups and anyone can say what they like, which is why YOUR comment stands ... but in the end I deleted it as if someone doesn't want to engage with my reality, why should they. The comment I deleted is my second one under his on the post below this one, my "PS" if anyone wants to read it.

Nicole said...

I don't know if his blog was for children but there were pictures of a lot of them and I can't deal with kids and even moreso his German anal retentiveness. Having lived in Germany I know his type. He probably goes to church on Sundays and got really good grades in chemistry and maths.

Gledwood said...

No I know what you're saying. I didn't think his blog was literally for children but as you say, so many are pictured. He probably gets on better with them than with adults ...

Don't know what else to say ! !!

No I shouldn't be nasty. Maybe they are just his younger siblings ??

Each is entitled to live in his own world. That's why I removed all mention of mine from his. If he wants to live up his **** let him carry on.

We all live up our ****es to a greater or lesser extent, so what's so unusual about that ..?

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Drugs Videos

Most of these come from my Random blog, which is an electronic scrapbook of stuff I thought I might like to view at some time or other. For those who want to view stuff on drugs I've collected the very best links here. Unless otherwise stated these are full-length features, usually an hour or more.

If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.

Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "Dark End"

Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "Lord of the Golden Triangle"

In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"

Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).

Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "Heroin Addicts Speak"

Before his untimely death this guy kept a video diary. Here's the hour-long highlights as broadcast on BBC TV: "Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict". Thanks to Noah for the original link.

Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).

Scientist lady shows us how to cook up gear: "How Much Citric?" Lucky cow: her brown is 70% purity! Oddly we never see her actually do her hit... maybe she got camera shy...

And lastly:

German documentary following a life from teenage addiction to untimely death before the age of 30. The decline in this girl's appearance is truly shocking. "Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit". Sorry no subtitles; this is here for anyone learning German who's after practice material a little more gripping than Lindenstraße!































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