Author: travispnorton
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:52 pm
Opioids and liquor never mixed for me for the most part. I got to a point in my last couple years of active use when I was so incredibly physically addicted to benzodiazepines that if I ran out, I would have to use alcohol to rely on the benzo/alcohol cross-tolerance so I wouldn’t have a seizure. At points in my life that I haven’t been tolerant to opioids, I have used alcohol extremely abusively and the nightmares of those days greatly outweigh any fond memories; this is important for me to remember when I think how ‘fun’ it would be to have ‘just 1 or 2’ drinks. Buprenorphine and methadone before it, for me, has all but completely taken away my desire to drink alcohol. I have gotten drunk one time in the early days on buprenorphine and as someone else said, I was soooo dehydrated the next day I never wanted to repeat it and I haven’t. I felt like the recovering guy in an after school special yesterday when a friend I hadn’t seen in probably ten years learned that I was in recovery, he said "so you don’t really do anything fun anymore?" I said, as the recovering guy in an after school special would, "Bryan, you don’t have to drink to have fun." It’s true as I do have tons of fun and I go to parties and places where drinking alcohol is happening, but I don’t have to do it and even better, I don’t have any desire to!
-Travis
