After a 10 Week Break I am now Returning for good. Bi-weekly Posts + Exciting New Additions and Updates

I posted on May the 30th that I would be taking a short 2 week break which actually extended into a 10 week break due to some family issues and personal issues which have been dealt with and now I am proceeding towards going back to school for Social Work either in the Fall or most likely the Winter. I am upgrading a course atm. 
Meaning I will be posting bi-weekly now for the rest of the year or at least once a week with new topics, new information and I will starting a new blog in the next couple of months but that is to be announced.
+Chris Emberley @cGarfielde

Attention Readers: Taking a 2 Week Break

I will be taking a 2 week break from writing due to personal family issues. Just letting everyone know the blog will be updated as soon as I'm back and to check back in soon!.

Fake OxyContin Tablets are Flooding The Blackmarket

The subject of Opiates and Oxycontin is obviously one that I am very familiar with mostly because of the devastation and pain that I witnessed a simple pill do to my friends, family and acquaintances. In some ways my whole life story revolves around the one word - Oxy. Even after being off of the drug for 3 years and on methadone I still look at forums or websites and see what is happening in the world of Oxy - as if I'm missing something... That is just me being honest but being what it is I read about when Purdue Pharma's patent expired on OxyContin shortly after they began making the OxyNeo's in Canada and OP's in United States. So me being the much to curious person I am made some calls to people I once called my best friends to see how they were doing and how they were remedying the absence of the easily tampered OxyContin pills. Well I learned a lot very fast and I was not just checking this out to reminisce in the nostalgia of my using days I really figured I may be able to help these people - if even one - and I managed to do so by convincing my best friend to go on Methadone. Anyways that is off topic but I did learn what was happening in the Opiate world very quickly and it shocked me to say the least. First off Heroin was being distributed in Edmonton which in my 4 years of Oxy use I could never find a H hookup but I explained that on  my Heroin Epidemic Post a week ago.

Now as if heroin being readily available in the city was not bad enough I was informed that people were now pressing their own pills of Oxy to look exactly like the old formula except if you were a venerated user you could tell by simple discrepancies like size, color and of course effect. So I did a bit of research on this and from sources like DEA seizures I soon discovered what ingredients were in "some" of these pills and it was something much stronger then oxy, Fentanyl.

My Top 5 Hardest Drugs To Kick And Why

Well I haven't posted in a while, not been feeling the greatest. A lot of ideas for new posts just no ambition at the moment but I have wanted to weigh in on this discussion that I have seen on many addiction sites and forums. I will not classify them by there drug types just the exact active ingredient or commonly used name plus street names and if you disagree that is fine but I have been addicted to all 5 at one point in time so I'll put my perspective out there.

The discontinuation of OxyContin brings forth a new epidemic - Heroin

Well I would like to say that I did not see this coming but that couldn't be further from the truth. About 6 months ago the manufacturer of OxyContin - Purdue Pharma - discontinued the tablets of Oxy that could be abused and replaced them with OxyNeo or OP in the United States. Of course within 24 hours there were junkies on the internet spreading techniques on how to break the formula consisting of cooking the pill and baking it but still it just was not the same. As soon as I read an article on TheFix.com saying that the Purdue warehouses were now empty I knew that North America was heading for a Heroin epidemic and I even tried to send an Article to many newspapers in Edmonton but obviously was not expecting them to listen. Being an ex Oxy addict myself I knew the nightmare was not coming to an end but  just beginning. You see before the end of the old Oxy tablets there was not a H dealer in the city that I knew of and I pretty much knew everywhere an opiate could be found. A year later and H is now everywhere. The amount of people addicted to opiates in North America is truly an epidemic without any disregard so what can people do to challenge this horrible affliction?

Inpatient Rehabilitation Pros and Cons

Now I may be speaking for myself but with doing so I can almost guarantee any person who has been labeled an addict, junky, fiend or more offensive slurs have been subjected to some sort of rehabilitation - Inpatient or Outpatient - at some point in their using career.

I first went to an Inpatient Rehab at the ripe age of 18 for OxyContin abuse. The program was quite expensive (5,700) and my folks are by no means rich people but a mother's love will do anything to get you help. The program was a 28 Day Treatment plan which starts after a 7 day vigorous detox from opiates. After that you would be subjected to One on one counselling which rarely ever happens and other than that filled my parent's heads with the idea that I was going to walk out of that place and never ever touch a drug again. Although when leaving the Rehab I had nothing but the best intentions, was all for the 12-Steps and literally felt amazing, but it always get's darkest before dawn.

The day I returned home I went on a date and my old best friend called me up to "see how I was doing" which was an encrypted version of "I have drugs come over."

The 1st day out of the bubble of the great rehab and thrown back into the world resulted in me relapsing 12 hours after returning home. Now do not get me wrong I learned a lot but instead of learning the most vital lesson I have since been to 2 more inpatient rehabs. both resulting in similar results.

Now my view on Pros and Cons of Inpatient Rehab. Please read this before going into one.