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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!

Monday, May 07, 2007

My Video Blog

STOP PRESS: IGNORE THE BELOW. I knew about "embed"... for some reason couldn't find/overlooked it. I just copied that html and dropped it in the new blog in compose mode, not html editor as someone said in these comments. Thanks for all the advice. Why was I meant to be opening a Youtube account then? There's a button under each vid on their site saying "post" and that is how I got in that pickle ...

Go to my first "video post" by clicking here...

Thanks Ruth. (It was your idea.)

I am TRYING to open a video blog. Which will consist of just Youtube & other screens with a tiny little write up and comments. So you can watch whatever I find without leaving my "wonderful" site ... (yeah, right ...)

I tried 3 times. (Maybe my mistake was three times in a row.) To open this Youtube posting account.

What have I done wrong? Now every username and password I gave are being declared ineligable?

Help me! Someone! Pukka advice required now.

(Please.)

Thanxx ever so much ...

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OK. I managed to open a Youtube account. Well::kind of... At no point during this process was I asked my blog url. I activated the accout via email. Then when I wanted to post the first video up to the new blog (not this one, not that it really matters) I got asked for a "username and password" which it kept on and on rejecting. What username and passoword? My youtube ones or blogger ones? Why would they want my blogger username and password. I have four blogger blogs so just those details wouldn't be enough anyhow.

What username. What password. I'd just enterted both to get to this page.

Why the hell does this have to be so complicated??
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RUTH said...

Don't know why you can't open the account but when you get it sorted (in answer to your question on my blog)click on the video to watch it; copy the embed bit by the side (not the URL ones etc); then go to your post; go into Edit Hmtl and paste. It won't look like anythings worked (you may get a red cross box in Compose) until you go to Preview or Publish. Actually if you are using someone elses videos and not trying to upload your own do you need an account?

7 May 2007 at 16:27
zennist said...

Beats me.

7 May 2007 at 17:17
RUTH said...

I would imagine they asked you to enter a username etc when you opened the account? Maybe they want your email address and try using whatever your usual password is (unless you use loads...then try them all). Can't be of more help I'm afraid. Good Luck.

7 May 2007 at 18:34
Lavatory Lady said...

I have no clue, but I just say your comment on my blog, thanks for the link!! I'm reading through some of your stuff and you are rather humorous as well.

The Lavatory Lady

7 May 2007 at 18:50
Mat and Kale AUBRY said...
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7 May 2007 at 19:53
Mat and Kale AUBRY said...

When you watch a video on Youtube you will see at the right of the video URL and Embed, copy and past the code that you find in Embed in your new post of the blog, that should work.
Also while writting your new post on your blog, you should be in Edit html and not compose.

Mathias.

7 May 2007 at 19:56
Evil Spock said...

Yeah, the embed thing should work. Are you on New Blogger or Old Blogger? Old Blogger could be giving you troubles.

7 May 2007 at 20:30

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METHADONE ~ A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH







Heroin Shortage: News

If you are looking for the British Heroin Drought post, click here; the latest word is in the comments.







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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If so click here and you'll get to the most recent post immediately!

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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