Conversations That Matter - Hydromorphone, a User's Story

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  • Опубліковано 23 бер 2018
  • Colin Ross has been an addict for about 20 years and is receiving hydromorphone two times a day, a treatment he says allows him to stabilize and consider the future.
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  • @noahsaville
    @noahsaville Рік тому +5

    What an amazing conversation and such a well spoken dude. Hopefully man's Is okay these days.

  • @artactical
    @artactical 6 років тому +2

    I'd like to know more about the actual treatment. May God bless Mr. Ross in his continued treatment.

  • @13donstalos
    @13donstalos 11 місяців тому +4

    The crackdown on prescription opiates is one of the causes for the epidemic of overdoses, because users can't get safe drugs. This program shows that if you provide a safer alternative, people will quit dying in droves. I wish that I could get on this program. But I would use it for the rest of my life, which I know is not the goal.

    • @1whocs486
      @1whocs486 2 місяці тому

      Exactly and our government knows this and don't care

  • @Marsha-js8gn
    @Marsha-js8gn 8 місяців тому +1

    The weights and dilaudid are the only things keeping me sane ! Otherwise I would've done myself in 2 months ago.

  • @dylanparr6880
    @dylanparr6880 3 роки тому +6

    Christ. If only we had this treatment in the states...

  • @JRackz898
    @JRackz898 Рік тому

    I had a rush when they injected in my body my body felt warm n amazing it’s a feeling I can’t describe all I kno I was at a stand still looking at the lights

  • @christiangasior4244
    @christiangasior4244 2 роки тому +8

    I’d love to try this out. They say hydromorphone has the best rush

    • @poisontacoz6864
      @poisontacoz6864 2 роки тому +4

      It was amazing I couldn't even describe it sooo euphoric and music was godly. But thats what gets you hooked. stay away. Got it from an iv drip after spine surgery

    • @fourlokojr3463
      @fourlokojr3463 Рік тому

      just got some lets find out

    • @coryjuretus2245
      @coryjuretus2245 Рік тому

      @@fourlokojr3463 I was on it after my second penis reduction surgery

    • @coryjuretus2245
      @coryjuretus2245 Рік тому

      God it felt good

    • @waylander2
      @waylander2 Рік тому

      You've got that right. Dilaudid is my absolute favorite, that rush is better than anything. I'm on Suboxone for 8 years now it's a wonderful drug.

  • @13donstalos
    @13donstalos 11 місяців тому +1

    Who else is here because they can't get their fix right now? I know you're out there.

  • @libertyforamericanow
    @libertyforamericanow Рік тому +2

    This is exactly the way the war on drugs needs to head

    • @MinistryInside
      @MinistryInside Рік тому

      It's a very fine tightrope, but i agree, i will be trying to get into a safe supply program soon here, i've been on hydromorphone, then methadone, then a alcoholic from the withdrawals from the methadone, and hoping to just get proper opiates that we all should be bale to access, regardless, it's so cheap in canada here i'll just buy it and work for it (around 1$ for a 8mg pill on the streets, free on the program, up to 28 8mg pills a day) this ruins lives when its diverted, which it ovbiously is as i paid 20$-35$ a pill before all this when i was addicted to diluadid, and now they are so dirt cheap it triggered me and i relapsed.

    • @smalltowngirlbigcityheart3724
      @smalltowngirlbigcityheart3724 Рік тому

      @@MinistryInside’m a Dilaudid addict too. I have chronic pain issues and live in the states. I wish America did the safe supply program too because I’d be in it!! It’s desperately hard to stop pain medicine when I have so many chronic pain diagnosis that I have to have it for. Doctors won’t Prescribe pain meds anymore because of how addictive they are. Suffering is a very real thing here in America. I know. How are you doing now?

    • @1whocs486
      @1whocs486 2 місяці тому

      The only war on drugs is which government officials is getting their cut

  • @painmt651
    @painmt651 3 роки тому +8

    If you could harness the dedication of junkies to something positive, you could change the world, quickly. Addiction is ALL-CONSUMING.

    • @ARSHDEEP-bx2sj
      @ARSHDEEP-bx2sj 2 роки тому +1

      They are evolving more than the people working in skyscrapers but there’s a catch only few of them gonna survive in humanity

  • @barneyrubble8255
    @barneyrubble8255 Рік тому +2

    how many mg hydro a day

    • @craigtracy8470
      @craigtracy8470 Рік тому

      My nephew gets 14/ 8mg daily...plus 70mgs of Methadone, The hydro morphs will stop once he becomes stable...

    • @barneyrubble8255
      @barneyrubble8255 Рік тому +1

      @@craigtracy8470 i had iv hydromorphone for a month and a half in the hosptial, its a nightmare getting of that stuff. i was fightin to get off it when i posted originally....

    • @bekeneel
      @bekeneel Рік тому

      @@craigtracy8470 Damn why would one combine 2 such powerful drugs.. especially if one of them is synthetic, I wouldn't trust it. Methadone combined with heroin is known to be deadly too, for obvious reasons. And heard methadone is like the worst to get off from, like 3x as long withdrawal than heroin.

  • @sinbadandsalty3908
    @sinbadandsalty3908 Рік тому

    Hydromorphone is maybe a good logical approach for street addicts but honestly I've heard people say that it's not that helpful. I believe the best solution would be to offer people methadone. I paid for one year supply of methadone for someone and it cost $10. a day.

    • @MinistryInside
      @MinistryInside Рік тому

      Hydromorphone saved my life, and made me stop drinking, before i was on120mg of methadone, like like shit, all day ,every day, took 4 years to get off of it, then switched to Dilaudid 8's on safe supply program, for me it was the fact my mind is so racey i cannot live without a downer, it's pretty terrible, but being stable, no alcohol destroying my liver, imho, is a better choice, ironically i'd be one of the only cases of opioid (ive tried everything to quit drinking) actually got me down to just one beer equivalent a day, madness if you tell me. I woke up everyday saying "fucks sake, fuckoff, fuck me", brain needed to be shut off, i could even say hydromorphone got me almost off the benzos also, my story is ridiculous, I can share more if anyone gives a shit lol. I'm on 8mg 8 times a day atm, but i take what is needed.

    • @MinistryInside
      @MinistryInside Рік тому

      Like methadone legit ruined my life, it's why i brought that up, everyone is too complicated for one drug, one recovery, I'm at around 11$ a day for my treatment, so it's similar.

  • @SterlingFartcher
    @SterlingFartcher Місяць тому

    I take 6 mg of hydromorphone because of CRPS.
    im waiting to get ona ketamine program to help kill the pain

  • @1whocs486
    @1whocs486 2 місяці тому

    Its nothing like the flu ...and i take Tramadol and withdrawal is horrible

  • @MedullarisConus
    @MedullarisConus 3 роки тому +2

    You can go to an ER if you are having withdrawal symptoms

    • @chadgrov
      @chadgrov 2 роки тому

      Where

    • @MedullarisConus
      @MedullarisConus 2 роки тому +1

      @@chadgrov ER=NEAREST HOSPITAL

    • @chadgrov
      @chadgrov 2 роки тому +3

      @@MedullarisConus no I mean where what town because years back I went to the ER in withdrawal and they said sucks to be you, go to a rehab and kicked me out.

    • @MedullarisConus
      @MedullarisConus 2 роки тому

      @@chadgrov which state/city do you live? They have to give you treatment if you are in withdrawal, in the US they can't turn you down if your vital signs show that you are having withdrawal symptoms.

    • @MedullarisConus
      @MedullarisConus 2 роки тому +2

      @@chadgrov if you take hydromorphone without a doctor's prescription your best choice is to get into a detox facility to get re evaluated by a doctor and determine if it's has a therapeutic value for you. If not, the best thing you can do for yourself is to step away from any drug.

  • @michaeldefiore5
    @michaeldefiore5 Рік тому

    I’m so surprised that doctors would give a patient who has a history of addiction with opioids/opiates hydromorphone and not give him like methadone or Suboxone or naltrexone because that is the usual protocol for people who have a history of addiction. I would have to disagree with this guys treatment plan as it is like adding fuel to the fire and may worsen his addiction but I will say I can see a patient who has an addiction history but hasn’t used in at least 5 or more years and is experiencing debilitating pain then yes I can see where full agonist opioids would be beneficial but that would depend on a number of things in my own opinion.

    • @MinistryInside
      @MinistryInside Рік тому

      It's called SOS, or safe opioid supply, it saved my gut, my life, and got me off the booze i was abusing, litterally saved my life, in this program you had to have failed or been on OAT for awhile, for me it was 12years, it's also daily observed doses,(I got everyday to get my pills) it's very more high barrier then OAT. Different way of attacking the problem of toxic drug supply, addicts get sick of oding and taking up taxpayer dollars from emergency services, I Only worry about diversion and young children getting a hold of them, other then that, it's golden and i've seen results from many people, including myself.

  • @thharrimw
    @thharrimw Рік тому

    Why are we paying for this

    • @bekeneel
      @bekeneel Рік тому

      Cuz otherwise you'd be paying for all the bad shit these treatments avoid..

  • @dylanparr6880
    @dylanparr6880 3 роки тому +7

    Christ. If only we had this treatment in the states...

    • @gingerroot8802
      @gingerroot8802 Рік тому +2

      Right? what are we waiting for? This isn't going to get better and is only getting worse. 108k deaths related to overdoses last year.... 108k people gone forever over something that could easily be remedied with safe supply. Crime,overdoses would drop dramatically. It can only help.

    • @thharrimw
      @thharrimw Рік тому

      @@gingerroot8802 calling them people is a little much

    • @gingerroot8802
      @gingerroot8802 Рік тому +2

      @@thharrimw It's funny until it's someone you love

    • @bekeneel
      @bekeneel Рік тому

      I saw in Switzerland they have a similar program but just with regular heroin, who is not so much different from this, a more powerful, absorbable version of morphine.. But knowing it's clean makes a world of difference I suppose. Still I think nobody should be put on this for life tho

    • @bekeneel
      @bekeneel Рік тому

      @@gingerroot8802 no easy remedy there, most of those more recent deaths are cuz of fentanyl, or even stronger which makes it very easy to overdose. And making this freely available, like Elon Musk stupidly proposed, lol, would get so many more ppl hooked to it.