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You were already past the acute withdrawal so you did not get the shakes. If you try controlled drug taking it is like my controlled drinking, it simply doesn't work.
You may get away with it for a few weeks, but the urge to get high will get stronger as you go and you will do it more often until full relapse is achieved.
If you don't want to go through the shakes again I sugggest stopping forever! The longer time you put between yourself and the last high the less the craving will be.
Chad, in AA parlance, you clearly haven't hit bottom. That's what it takes to really turn the corner to sobriety. I didn't commit myself to drug treatment until I was broke, fired from my job, kicked out of my apartment with a jail sentence hanging over my head and a note in my hand from my wife telling me she had left me. I don't think you're even close to being where I was when I quit vicodin, valium and percs (oxy's by any other name definitely feel as sweet).
But let's get honest first, Chad. If you can't look your true self in the face then you can't even begin to quit. Are you sure you really wanted to quit? Or were you just feeling burned out by the whole getting-using grind? There's a huge difference between the two.
Filling that script is like putting a mound of coke on your coffee table and telling yourself you will just do one line of coke before you go to work. IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!
I am not saying I would tear up the script either...but as others have replied..you need to be honest with yourself...
many of us have "been there...done that"
So quit kidding yourself...if you fill the script..you will do them up..and not just one or two here and there..it might start that way for a week or so....but pretty soon you will have a bad day emotionally and seek the oxy to relieve your foul mood..
Drug addiction is a real ***** my friend... I mean no malice to you.
13 days clean is fantastic...but think where your mind would be if you had tossed the scripts and then detoxed...right now you would be feeling like you kicked oxy's ass and you didnt need them....but they are still there..and no one..I repeat no one..can escape the power they have over you...
The bottom line is that you can do this if you want..but be honest with yourself and seek some help as fooling yourself wont get you clean.