C/T from opiates with marijuana

[Climb_Strait]

I'm on day 3 of quitting a 75 to 150 mg of oxy habit. Ive been smoking abou 3 grams of marijuana a day, my wd symptons dont seem that bad. I have had no diarhea and no restless legs. Is there a connection. My opiate addiction has been going on for about 4 years.

[bama88]

wow. a can of worms on this subject.lol. i think we are all different with different bodies or personalities...yes in order to be clean by standard definition is not to use any substances to get high... but someplace it is legal. so depending on a lot of issues it is what it is...i feel that anything we abuse or use to escape lifestyle trials is addiction...eating to many banana splits in my case lol...shopping gambling anything that takes over...as an escape thing isn't good. alot of addicts jump from one substance to another...i did.
im for getting clean and staying clean. however one achieves this. but if what you do could put you in jail...id think twice about it...now if ya live in an area that pots legal ie California is the place to be...then that is an option.

but alcohol is legal too...and drinking and driving can land ya in the pokey....so.

when you get down to the heart of sobriety i don't think pot is ok. i don't think liquor is ok. just like me now...yes i have had surgery today and yes i have a reson to take pain pills...i am no longer clean:(.

remember were all here for one reason or another....but we are all addicts. and pot is the gateway drug. and even Thu i want to move to northern California to legally grow pot...its not legal here. and i don't want to go to jail. but i have smoked in past detoxes and will say it helps with detox.

[bettermomma]

Well either way... addictive or not addictive... in many cases like a comment stated above... it distracts the mind weither it hits different receptors or not, all I know from experience, is that it helped me suppliments and suppliments down when I was nauseated and it helped with my mood... not suggesting for a second that it's a good thing but it worked for me at the beginning of detox... now that I'm 37 days clean, I, like Sara have no desire for the altering effects of any drug or alcohol. All I'm trying to say, is that none of us have any room to condone anyone else... we r all here for one reason or another... support! So with that, I conclude that it's all personal preference, and if I had it too do over (I wouldn't want to), I'd probably detox the same way that I did. Hope this helps...

God bless,
Momma

[Sarah11212]

That last post I made was for "justme1119"

[Ballgame]

Pot doesn't help as it works on different receptors.

[Sarah11212]

I'm confused about your comment that read, "I have never understood how people justify putting smoke into their lungs"...
Not sure what your doc was but if your on this forum than I am to assume that you put some sort of drug into your body that either wasn't good for you to begin with or it was prescribed and become an addiction which means you were probably taking alot more than prescribed which in reality, was not good for you either.
So I'm not quite understanding how you cannot see why people justify putting smoke into their bodies while others, including yourself, were putting dangerous amounts of drugs into your/their bodies?

[charliej41]

Good topic and the way I read it about 50-50 with you all. Me I am a smoker and I think it helped me get through a lot of this and I do what ever it takes to stay off the pain pills. And I live in a state where I go to jail for having it the firs 4-5 days of my detox I dident have any smoke went got some and frost thing it did was help with my up set gut got me start eatting more and it helps me with my pain most people will tell me I just swiching one drug for another I was going to go to an after care but when I told them I still smoking they told me I can't go till I can pass a drug test so I told them no thank u I try to never take another pain pill. But if I whant to smoke a little I see no wrong in it. I am 20 days with no pain pills so I feel I doing somethig right