"Confessions of an eBay Opium Addict"

[bi11i]

Confessions of an eBay Opium Addict (http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/21673)


By Peter Thompson, Reno News & Review
Posted on April 5, 2005, Printed on April 5, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/21673/

Columbus Day almost killed me.

I woke up avalanched under a junkyard of pain, my body a trap of torn nerves and trashed organs. An oily rash of sweat had soaked through my pillow and into the mattress. I was coughing, confused and crazy with anger. A throbbing, deep-pink chemical sunburn covered my face; my bowels were spitting hot mercury. I slid out of bed and dropped to the floor, the weight of a snarling mountain gorilla bearing down on me. I saw myself in the mirror as I fell. I looked puffy.

Outside, the sun was terrifying, while the hiss from a neighbor's dancing sprinkler got in my head and pissed me off so much, it felt as though my blood had become flammable and would ignite at the next insult. I made it to the car and somehow drove one block down to the mailbox, expecting the Priority Mail package from my eBay dealer to save me.

Nothing.

I hobbled into the car and drove back to the house, used the bathroom and looked on the computer. The U.S. Postal Service web site tracker verified that my box of poppies had been delivered to Reno at exactly 10:32 a.m. Well, where the hell was it? I typed a threatening e-mail to my supplier but didn't send it.........

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[siggy]

Just great...let's publicize the matter and get the pods yanked off e-bay. What a wanker! Everyone better stock up - even if they're not yanked, every Tom, Dick & Jane will be on e-bay and drive prices up now.

[bi11i]

exactly. too bad they had to mention it, my money says that within 6 months the pods are gone....

[darkangel]

yeah, tomorrow morning the s.o.b will be on oprah or maury along with a cast of juvenille delinquets, telling of the Horrors of Poppy Seed Tea. hes probably some writer armed with the stories of others and some creative writing skills, probably never held a pod in his hand! i mean if he was for real, the last thing he would do is tell the whole world, most of us dont give away our secrets, we know better! it was so much better when it wasnt TRENDY to be a junky! we live in a world full of wannabes.

[bi11i]

This was a great book, here's the link to an earlier post: http://forum.opiophile.org/showthread.php?t=82

[darkangel]

is that the only place you can get that book? it looks interesting.

[bi11i]

nah. i ordered mine frolm amazon, i think...

[soulman]

how any pods do you have to eat to get a very STRONG high!?!?!?:cool: :cool: :D

[exitwound]

bloody fucking lovely. :rolleyes:

[devilsdrug]

soulman , im getten really tired of this shit look it up dumb ass, are you fukkin crazy im one to talk but has there been a lot of dumb shits joinin lately just to ask a question they dont even need to join to find the answer

[antony]

I read that story months ago "opium addict". And its getting very tiresome to hear people whine about the shit they got themselves into. He wasn't a kid born addicted, nor did his mother feed him this. Anyone that has half a brain knows what they're getting into. No kid picks up a bottle of vodka thinking he won't get a hang over.

I like hearing stories about w/ds, their experiences on how to cheat it, but not to go through w/ds and say "my fucking dealer, doc, ebay did me in this time."

stop youre crying baby and man up.

[malefiacrum]

how any pods do you have to eat to get a very STRONG high!?!?!?

WHAT THE F*CK KINDA ? IS THAT

[malefiacrum]

...........enough,

[opiapleez]

Oh yes thats just perrrfect! its the same story for Oxycontins once all the "victims" came forward it was gone gone gone, it used to be prescribed on a fairly routine basis for moderate to severe pain, but with the big publicity it is just not something a GP is very "comfortable" presribing. In other words its pretty much Vicodin for almost all pain issues unless you are luck[???] enough to have an illness that requires stronger meds. I have chronic kidney stones, on e of the very few illnessness one can have that requires strong pain killers, at first this was kind of a good thing, because being on this board you can see i kind of enjoy opiates but after stone number 14, yes i saud 14, the feeling of getting drugs i liked legitimately kind of wore off.
do you know what i mean?

i mean its fun if you like to do opiates recreationally, but when pain is eating up 80% of their "fun" quotient it sucks.

but i dislike when people get themselves in trouble with something like pods and then become crusaders or whiners about the situation and make it more difficult or impossible for people who are still , more or less keeping it together. its like people who have quit smoking, i often have seen the most viscious anti-smokers be people who are former smokers, why is that?

i take responsibility when i get myself in trouble over things like this, its my fault if i over do something and get addicted not the person selling.

its like suing the corner liquor store for becoming an alcoholic.

i dont see people rising up in outrage and closing liquor outlets when people get addicted to alcohol or drive over someones family while drunk.

its irrespsonsible to "tell all" on suppliers, what if someone did this while this shmuck was in the middle happy pod-hood? he would be pissed that someone was compromising his stash.

i think someone who posted here was right about it being a writer who has never even had pods, its big big big money to tell your grueling horror stories about drugs these days

hey maybe we should all pool our own horror stories write a seriously gut wrenching book split the profits buy some land somewhere its legal to grow pods and make and control our own stash!

[Curio]

yeah, whatever happened to "guns don't kill people...I kill people..." ??

wait, never mind, didn't come out right....

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/JaeBond007/beer.jpg

[vanilla_mlkshake2007]

Great story.I mean I was thinking of trying it the past couple days myself but now im'm not so sure I'm addicted to enough already.Thanks for the Wake up Call

[Soda]

yeah, whatever happened to "guns don't kill people...I kill people..." ??

wait, never mind, didn't come out right....

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/JaeBond007/beer.jpg
Hahahahahaha. Oh my god. Hahahahahahah. May I save this to my computer?

[Curio]

Hahahahahaha. Oh my god. Hahahahahahah. May I save this to my computer?
internet property fair game I say!!:D

[Sitar]

I saw this article a few months ago at another message board. Good article, if entirely irresponsible.

At least the article is very well written. I thought his description of withdrawal was dead-on and it made me feel uncomfortable just reading it. It was almost scary reading the article because he pretty much describes my exact experiences with drugs, right down to the teenage nutmeg experiments all the way up to the poppy pod boxes constantly arriving hardcore addiction in the end. So many similarities.

Running out of pods in between shipments is awful. God it's terrible. Waiting for the new box to show up in a couple days while you're in withdrawal is just the worst experience ever. Especially if you have no comfort meds to get you by in the meantime.

His story is extremely similar to mine, except that I didn't use eBay for my pods. And now I'm in "recovery", having been using Suboxone for over 3 months now.

The bottom line is, at first life is a beautiful dream on opium (pods). Unfortunately, constantly living in a dream has real consequences in the real world. The article is really good, but again, it was highly irresponsible of the writer to disseminate that kind of information out to the wide public. I mean, that's exactly how things become illegal. Once all the high school kids found out that there's a cheap, easy way to get ahold of some strong drugs, it's all over.

Once the parents find out what's going on and some dipshit teenager dies from it, the pods will be illegal faster than you will believe. It sucks, but that's what's going to happen.

I give it 5 years. Within 5 years, those pods are gonna be totally unavailable on the internet. Hell, the DEA already made it so that you can no longer buy them in stores, why wouldn't they go after the online sites eventually?

[WarmCyanide]

its getting very tiresome to hear people whine about the shit they got themselves into.

well said. It's the food, drink, or drug's fault isn't it?? :whip:

[blackdog]

poppyseedtea.com - - is an address from a comment to that guys story on alternet and its from the parents whos son od'd from p/t and they put together this site that will deffinately put you in the negative mode in regards to trying p/t. i'll just git right with my bagman, get it? bag man bag / man???????lol oh well be safe all
da/dawgg:p

[fiiendin]

how any pods do you have to eat to get a very STRONG high!?!?!?:cool: :cool: :D
around four hundred gigantums. dont worry, you wont OD

[Soda]

around four hundred gigantums. dont worry, you wont OD
That was a little joke.


poppyseedtea.com - - is an address from a comment to that guys story on alternet and its from the parents whos son od'd from p/t and they put together this site that will deffinately put you in the negative mode in regards to trying p/t. i'll just git right with my bagman, get it? bag man bag / man???????lol oh well be safe all

Oh man, my text is purple. Anyway, parents of the kid who died saw him taking 3.5 pounds of seeds into his body and never seemed to question why he liked it so much. They also found Xanax or Valium in his blood. I wonder how it feels to die from respiratory respiration or water on the lungs or whatever happened (the website sucked so im not going to look again). The Hemlock society says the least unpleasant way to go is from barbituates, but maybe they should have considered opiates.

[CUBErt]

Yea stuff like this is interesting to read, but I mean come on. This really reminds me of another starving/attention craving guy who writes a book about his "horrible drug problems" because he knows its a guaranteed seller (like that guy on Oprah). Now I'm not usually one to knock people for doing one opiate and not the other, but come on its not like he was a gnarly heroin addict. I'm not saying poppies are any less addictive or that they are for pussies or anything like that. But they are the closest thing to legalization that we have. I mean, when you get poppy pods you dont have to worry about them being cut with this or that. The only worry is that maybe they arent papaver somniferum. So what this guy is doing is bitching and moaning about one of the safest methods of opiate use in our society.

[Curio]

That was a little joke.


Oh man, my text is purple. Anyway, parents of the kid who died saw him taking 3.5 pounds of seeds into his body and never seemed to question why he liked it so much. They also found Xanax or Valium in his blood. I wonder how it feels to die from respiratory respiration or water on the lungs or whatever happened (the website sucked so im not going to look again). The Hemlock society says the least unpleasant way to go is from barbituates, but maybe they should have considered opiates.

yeah, I didn't get it myself, esp. the water in the lungs stuff.....opiates suppress respiratory DRIVE and so I don't understand some of the descriptions/terms they used. Maybe Candy has a more thorough understanding of how there was fluid in the lungs....

[flipside]

Bump for Hannah.

This has been discussed at least 3 times already. hope this answeres any ? you have.. feel free to add to the thread.

[aj11]

the book from the oprah guy was called "A Million little pieces" it was actually quite a good read, although his story was more about crack/alcohol addiction than opiates