Not Vicodin or Oxycodone, but when I left Viet Nam in 1970, I was strung out on smack. Heroin. And I didn’t know what was wrong with me. It felt just like the flu, only worse. I was sick as a dog for days, and didn’t know I was going cold turkey, I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I was just a dumb kid with a monkey on his back.

It passed. But for me the trick was, and I didn’t know it at the time, was I changed my playground and my playmates. I was away from that life.

If your girlfriend really wants to be clean, the first thing she needs to do is quit hanging out with users, and quit going to where she cops her dope. She needs to change every dope centric thing in her life. New playmates and new playpens.

As long as you are here at an AA website, may I also suggest she involve herself in 12 step recovery? What does she have to loose?

Richard

i have been taking vicodin for four years. It started with my back it was to the point i couldn't walk! Went to an er and they gave me 7.5 vics. From that time on it seemed to help[ with other pain as well. It is going to be very difficult for your friend to get off the vics I have graduated to over 12 per day and believe me the only time i can cut back is when i don't have many! I also take lorazepam and that can help with some of the symptome. I have explained to my doctor that the vicodin is controlling my life. I asked him to do a liver test on me. That was 4 monts ago and continues to prescribe the vics. Although there is another pain pill called ultram and it works similarly to vicodin. Your friend should take this in between and it will help with the withdrawal symptoms. Hope this info helps.