" OPIATE EATER "

[jeff233]

CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN OPIATE EATER----------Its a book i found about a year ago. Really old, like 1800's,  hard to read, but i pick it up every once in awhile. Everything was different back then, everthing!!        But one thing that hasnt changed through all these years is the complete destruction it did to its users................. Im almost proud today, to be a recovering addict.  I dont think i even regret the past so much today.    I dont know... Thanks for everthing to everyone!!!

[snowflake620]

Thats o.k.,i know how yu feel and I agree with you about the doctors they don't really care if you become addicted,jsut so they make money.What I meant in my comment is we now hav eforums like this one and people will talk about it more .
snowflake

[mjax024]

although i normally agree with 98% of what you post....i can't go along with the new treatments for addiction....we still have doctors that write these drugs almost indiscrimnatly (sp?)...and once we have an addiction...most doctors (not all, but most)seem to want to trade you onto methadone of tramadol and now suboxone. i find it discusting that the treatments usually cost more than the addictions...and usually the side effects from the treatments can be worse than the addictions side effects. sorry...just kinda moody about this today.
                              -mjax024

[snowflake620]

just goes to show addiction has been around since the begining of times just how you deal with it has changed.
snowflake

[mjax024]

just looked it up, think i'm gonna ask for it for christmas...times really haven't changed much. it seems that when people would get hooked on laudanum (it's a wicked morphine based cough syrup!! and we get codiene?) anyway, once people got hooked on that..they do the same thing we do now...they moved to the west coast..spent most of their time in opium dens.  but this is the same era that your dentist would use cocaine to work on you.

[snowflake620]

just ordered the book from barnes and nobel will give you my take when i am finished reading it sounds like it will be a good one!
snowflake

[laurel453]

this book seems quite interesting. I don't think i can find it here but anyway, i was wondering if back then did they "find" any other type of treatment than this of "stop using " ?? :)

[onthefence]

  Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Dr Andrew Byrne




by Thomas De Quincey

"Contemporary Lessons of an Old Classsic"
Written in 1821, this is an intense and pertinent portrayal of narcotic dependence from the addict's viewpoint. De Quincey addresses the constant conflict between intoxication and abstinence. Similar sentiments are related by our patients today, but rarely with as much eloquence and insight as Thomas De Quincey. This classic work is essential reading for all involved in drug and alcohol studies and who admire beautiful language.

With so many patients now on maintenance programs (mostly methadone), and illicit opioids still ubiquitous, it is timely to re-examine this work, probably the oldest account of its kind in English.