# Well, I just took a Hydrocodone and I don't see what the big fuss is about.

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**Created:** [May 16, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-took-a-hydrocodone-and-i-dont-see-what-the-big-fuss-is-about/814292 "2018-05-16T16:56:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-took-a-hydrocodone-and-i-dont-see-what-the-big-fuss-is-about/814292/19 "2018-05-17T00:28:48Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> My own experience with opioids was not like what you describe at all.
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> I had a horrible cough at age 14, and my mom, having grown tired of listening to me cough nonstop, gave me a teaspoon of some codeine cough syrup we had in the house (such a thing was commonly available then, and no big deal. The stuff was probably two years old, or more.)
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> I had no previous experience with the stuff, had no expectations other than I hoped I would cough less. But 20 minutes later when it kicked in, my first thought was “so this is what’s been missing from my life”.
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> I didn’t immediately consume all the codeine in the house, or turn into a Junior High junkie. But I never forgot that first experience. And eventually went on to have a lengthy, miserable history of opioid abuse from circa age 23 to age 32 when I got clean.

Ok so I gather what the OP was describing was that they didn’t feel that “magic moment” from that (first?) experience with opiates. I get what you’re saying, the first time I was prescribed opiates I did feel a moment like that and I probably abused them by most people’s definition. I always felt like I could stop anytime I wanted though but I did do some immoral things at times to get my hands on them. Maybe I don’t know the real meaning of addict. I think you can obviously abuse something at times and not necessarily be an addict, is it only if you continue your use as your life is imploding around you?

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