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HAMSTERS & HEROIN: Not all junkies are purse-snatching grandmother-killing psychos. I'm keeping this blog to bear witness to that fact.

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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!

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

The Brittlest Hobo

DOES ANYONE OUT THERE know anyone; or better still are any of you numbered among the tribe of (mainly American, as far as I know as it's so easy to hop long distances) professional freight-train hoppers. Dedicated to a life on the rails, they jump aboard one of those mile-long trains as they crawl past and ride from state to state free of charge, dodging the rail authroities and hobnobbing with other hoes from the bo community at passes and junctions when they rest. Seriously, I am fascinated by that life. I've lived near a spot where goods trains used to trundle at a crawl, and have often been tempted to ... take a wee ride and see where I end up ..!

I have a nasty suspicion I'd have found myself cowering in Willesden Junction goods yard, pretending to be a shadow as engines decoupled and angry shunter-driver telephoned the transport police between drags on a fag and nibbles on his wife's home-made cheese sandwich.

Or, knowing my luck, the driver would put his foot down, taking a sharp right at Willesden Junction (is there actually a junction at Willesden? I'm prattling from the top of my head here ...) whizzing me 95 mph Northbound to the auto-tipping sludge reprocessing facilities at Sellafield nuclear dumping site 300 miles NE in Cucumbria.

British railways, I might add, are highly terrorist-resistent with nightly body-heat-seeking helecopter patrols. Trespassing on the line is taken so seriously that in Victorian times it was punishable by a free cruise to Australia. (But then again, so was stealing a bread roll ...) Anyway: if I did hitch a ride I'd be risking big trouble from the tranny police. Who, apart from regulating our railways, spend the other half of their time busting gentlemen with saggy false eyelashes and Judy Garland fright wigs :: Wah-wah-waaaaah!!

So roll up, roll up! All your train-hopping tales here, please!!

(Or failing that, just tell me of the time you got caught riding without a ticket. (If you like. (Well, whatever.)))

Click for Freight Train Riders of America

Note the five other links provide fascinating info also. Which I only discovered, incidentally, after composing this post ....
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Anonymous said...

Gledwood, you should totally visit http://forums.illiniboard.com/boards/?deuce
That is where Paterfamilias and TINA post. We would love to have you drop by and post some of your awesome comments there.

2 May 2007 at 14:03
Anonymous said...

Anonymous: I will visit http://forums.illiniboard.com/boards/?deuce. Didn't know about that place. Thanks.

Dan B: I used to have a bargainacious 99p Judy Garland CD (full-lenghth best-of album) but it never got unwrapped from the packaging even as I didn't have (and still don't have) a CD player!!

2 May 2007 at 15:44
Gledwood said...

Thanks for the tip Dan who ARE you?

3 June 2007 at 13:19

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Christiane F

"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhoff Zoo" by "Christiane F", memoir of a teenage heroin addict and prostitute, was a massive bestseller in Europe and is now a set text in German schools. Bahnhoff Zoo was, until recently, Berlin's central railway station. A kind of equivalent (in more ways than one) to London's King's Cross... Of course my local library doesn't have it. So I'm going to have to order it through a bookshop and plough through the text in German. I asked my druggieworker Maple Syrup, who is Italiana how she learned English and she said reading books is the best way. CHRISTIANE F: TRAILER You can watch the entire 120-min movie in 12 parts at my Random blog. Every section EXCEPT part one is subtitled in English (sorry: but if you skip past you still get the gist) ~ to watch it all click HERE.

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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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