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	<title>Crazyboards: Substance Abuse</title>
	<description>8-balls, Highballs, deal me in one last time</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Caffeine</title>
		<link>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33919-caffeine/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Jethro and I'm a caffeine addict.<br />
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Ok, no, seriously. This is a problem for both me and my brother.<br />
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Without caffeine, I am tired aallll the time. I've pent the last 3 days or so mostly sleeping, due to the fact I have not been guzzling large amounts of coffee or caffeine pills.<br />
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I drink an instant, cheap coffee, which is a chickory mix, with about 5 teaspoons per cup. In the past, I would drink the 5-10 teaspoons mixed in with a brewing coffee (50-50 coffee/chick mix). Basially, 500ml cup, 5-10 teaspoons instant coffee, with 2.5 teaspoons brewing coffee, up to four times a day.<br />
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I recognised the need to cut down when I started feeling generally run-down and a bit on the paranoid side, which I believe to be directly linked to my caffeine consumption.<br />
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Since cutting down, both of us have not been getting headaches every day, thus not having the urge to take painkillers. The one painkiller, which we take for serious headaches....has caffeine, but actually works, but doesn't help kill the cycle.<br />
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So my question is, how the hell do I deal with being tired all the time? So far caffeine has been the only option, but then resistance seems to build up until I'm drinking waaay to much, then I have to spend a few days off it to just to start all over again...I haven't even mentioned the cost involved of such a habit (ok, though compared to cocaine/heroine etc. it's nothing).]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sleeping after getting sober</title>
		<link>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33813-sleeping-after-getting-sober/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my last drink 2 weeks ago, and am noticing a change in my sleeping pattern.  While drinking, I was able to stay up until 2  in the morning, and wake up around 8am.  Since the alcohol has left my body, I find myself getting tired by 9 or 10, and fall asleep quite quickly, and usually sleep through the night.  Has anyone else had this happen?  It's not a bad thing, but I've always had difficulty getting to sleep, so this is definitely something new.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33813-sleeping-after-getting-sober/</guid>
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		<title>getting healthy again</title>
		<link>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33706-getting-healthy-again/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[After 4 years of abusing alcohol, I have made some drastic decisions to make sure I stay sober.  My husband is in complete control of the money.  I made him take my credit cards, and I now do not have access to a vehicle.  I've made many attempts to quit, so I had to be pretty hard core about it.  I have seen a doctor, and she has put me on an anti-depressant, and trazodone to help me sleep.  My eating habits have been horrible over the years, and I have lost a lot of weight due to the alcohol supressing my appetite.  I am seeing a counselor, and am ready to leave the alcohol forever.  I was wondering what vitamins I should be taking?  Since quitting, my skin is better, I look better, but I want to make sure I am doing everything I can to be healthy again.  I know that alcohol depleats a lot of important things in your body?  Any suggestions on vitamins or supplements that are important for me at this point?<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33706-getting-healthy-again/</guid>
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		<title>Internet addiction</title>
		<link>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33674-internet-addiction/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a mess.  Most, if not all, of my problems right now can be traced back to Internet abuse.  But...it's not pornography.  Granted, I like porn as much as any 20-year-old guy, but it's not even close to being the biggest time-sucker for me.  No, that would be, more or less in order of time spent, fanfiction, forums and message boards, flash games (thank gods I've never gotten into WoW- I think that would kill me) and webcomics (yes, webcomic-time is more than porn-time.)  I can (and have, repeatedly) spent 10+ hours straight on the internet.  The fact that I go to one of the most wired college campuses in the US probably doesn't help.<br />
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Does anyone have any advice?  Please!]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33674-internet-addiction/</guid>
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		<title><![CDATA[question about withdrawals from 10mg Hydro's]]></title>
		<link>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33667-question-about-withdrawals-from-10mg-hydros/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, once every couple of weeks I generally get anywhere between 10-20 7.5 or 10mg hydrocodone's, they last me between 2 and 3 days and I'm prescribed ativan and temezapam and obviously im getting the pain pills other ways but I'm wondering if I'm just driving myself nuts thinking about running out of the pain pills and being like all fucked up and going through crazy withdrawals, I mean I'm usually not stoked that they are gone but I find it hard to convince myself that I haven't taken them for a long enough time consistently for it to be causing any serious anxiety or physical symptoms........   about a year ago I took fentanyl patches (would cut them open and chew them) everyday for a month and had 5 days of pure hell when they were gone, lost 30 pounds, wanted to die....so I"m thinking that taking 15 hydrocodones a week for the last 3 months or so probably isnt going to send me over the edge?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/topic/33667-question-about-withdrawals-from-10mg-hydros/</guid>
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