Opiates won't cause a physical dependency like alcohol. It's all a mental battle. You get night sweats, restless legs, and aches, might even puke. You know what would take that all away? More opiates.
Opiates won't cause a physical dependency like alcohol. It's all a mental battle
Sorry this is just wrong.
The difference between gaba antagonists and opioid antagonists is that shit like alcohol can cause fatal withdrawal.
This doesn't mean opioid dependence is psychosomatic like cannabis dependence or porn addiction.
You very much have a depletion of opioid receptor sites and a buildup of norepinephrine receptors within your nervous system.
It can take months to years to regrow your receptor sites and return to baseline after cessation of opiates/opioids even if the mental element is entirely discounted.
And I'm telling you that herion addiction has a proven physical component.
You have depleted, quite literally killed off from oversaturation, certain neruoreceptor sites in your brain, and grown new ones of a different type from under-stimulation.
If you have been using for ~3 years or less its going to take you about 5 months of sobriety before the physical receptor sites in your nervous system have recovered from this.
in the interim its not pleasant. Your body is over sensitive to negative stimuli and undersensitive to positive ones as your receptors grow back.
Its really only after this period that stuff like CBT is truly effective for recovery.
The scary part is, relapses can start this process over so its important to stick through it.
Opiates won't cause a physical dependency like alcohol. It's all a mental battle. You get night sweats, restless legs, and aches, might even puke. You know what would take that all away? More opiates.
Sorry this is just wrong.
The difference between gaba antagonists and opioid antagonists is that shit like alcohol can cause fatal withdrawal.
This doesn't mean opioid dependence is psychosomatic like cannabis dependence or porn addiction.
You very much have a depletion of opioid receptor sites and a buildup of norepinephrine receptors within your nervous system.
It can take months to years to regrow your receptor sites and return to baseline after cessation of opiates/opioids even if the mental element is entirely discounted.
I should know. It's mental. It's a fight you struggle with everyday.
And I'm telling you that herion addiction has a proven physical component.
You have depleted, quite literally killed off from oversaturation, certain neruoreceptor sites in your brain, and grown new ones of a different type from under-stimulation.
If you have been using for ~3 years or less its going to take you about 5 months of sobriety before the physical receptor sites in your nervous system have recovered from this.
in the interim its not pleasant. Your body is over sensitive to negative stimuli and undersensitive to positive ones as your receptors grow back.
Its really only after this period that stuff like CBT is truly effective for recovery.
The scary part is, relapses can start this process over so its important to stick through it.