Street drug roxy

I know that your post is over a year old, but I'd like to share with you my experience, strength, and hope.......

I've been reading and reading all the posts in this forum on the "roxy' subject and many of the posts are absolutely excellent while others, it seems, that they don't know their a$$ from their elbows!! I truly feel horrible for ANYONE that has opiates in their lives. I'm an alcoholic/addict and I've been in recovery for the past year and a half due to Oxy, Zanax and alcohol abuse. I've always been an alcoholic until about 4 1/2 yrs ago...my addiction grew. It started slowly with low doses of pills until my daily habit consisted of 400mg of Oxy, 5mg Zanax and a half a handle of Capt. Morgan that lasted 3 yrs. The day I decided to detox from the pills, I decided to do as much research as I possibly could in order to prepare myself for what was about to happen to my body. I bought every vitamin/mineral that was suggested to me on several different sites (and there were a bunch of suggestions) to no avail. I wouldn't wish this detox on my worst enemy!!!!!!
The first 3 days of detoxing, I felt that I had the worst type of flu you could ever imagine. On the 4th day I started to feel a bit better. On the 5th day I felt well enough to sit on my couch and watch some T.V. with a glass of wine. Yes, I said "with a glass of wine...I'm a true alcoholic! Later that evening, I started noticing strange sounds. The next day, those strange sounds were becoming much clearer because I could now see who was making these sounds. To my dismay,and sad to say, the people that I thought I saw that were making all these sounds DIDN'T EXIST!!!!!! I had gotten to the point of hallucinations. My hallucinations were so incredible vivid and I can still remember most of them to this day!! I was having full phone conversations with people, the fire department was in my house, I was chasing and yelling at my 2 sons, etc....NEEDLESS TO SAY, NOBODY WAS THERE!!! It was all in my head! These hallucinations progressed and got so much worse by the hour! FINALLY, on my my 11th day of detoxing, my husband decided that it would be safer for the both of us if I was in the hospital...so we went. We went through the E.R, told them what was happening and an hour later we were discharged. They told us that this wasn't a detox center and they're was nothing they could do for me. I have no memory what so ever after this point.
I was told a few weeks later that after being discharged, our friend picked us up from the hospital. I apparently tore up his back seat, at my house, I tried to download pics from my toaster, tried to crawl inside my T.V...all while having seizures. I was quickly brought back to the E.R., was given a very large dose of Haldol(anti psychotic) as well as a very large dose of Ativan(sedative). After 6 1/2 hours, I was finally knocked out. I woke up 3 days later in ICU. I had lost 23lbs in 14 days and while I was still hooked up to machines, all I wanted was to be at home on my couch with a nice glass of wine!!
I was finally released from the hospital and attended 3 AA meetings in a 72 hour period and decided that I didn't have a problem!! I was "back out" rocking and rolling!!! Less than a year later I went back into the rooms of AA and finally started to work on step 1," I'm powerless over alcohol and my life had become unmanageable" Today, I have been sober for 16 months thanks to the fellowship of AA!!

If you haven't done so already, your son most definitely needs help, and he'll need help for the rest of his life. recovery isn't only about getting and staying clean, it's a life long commitment to live an incredible way of life...IF HE WANTS IT!! 

I wish you and your family well and you'll be in my prayers,

Mary