This is going to be a bit more personal than most of what i write here but well, bear with me and have gander into the life of yours truly.
I've managed to be relatively successful in life despite never really excelling at anything. I've been reasonably good at anything that I ever attempted but with the exception of strange things that people rarely think about such as public speaking, I wouldn't really say that I am especially good at anything. I was reasonably good at some sports but never the best. I was good enough at playing instruments to be in several bands but never good enough to turn that into money. I did well in every subject that I ever studied in college but I never was really passionate or even really good at any of them.
I've kind of just been a jack of all trades all of my life, if you know what that means.
So fare the title of this article and the story don't seem to really match up do they? Well, let's go ahead and get to that.
The thing that I think kind of set me aside from a lot of people in life is that I have also partied, a LOT, in my life, and this includes doing a ton of drugs that many people have destroyed their lives with and I used these drugs recreationally and emerged on the other side without stealing my grandmothers VCR to sell for crack money.
If you can put a name on a drug, there is a very good chance that I have done it, and yes, I have done crack as well.
But here comes the point because this is not a "hey look at me I've done a bunch of drugs!" post.
I am very familiar with the various affects of certain "prescription" drugs and how they can both benefit you, and also wreck your goddam life if you let them.
Tramadol
Tramadol is a strange drug in that it has odd legality depending on what part of the world you are in. In some places they regard it as the same thing as like Tylenol and in other they treat it as if it was Oxycodone.
It is a synthetic opioid, which means it a like heroin but milder. In the case of tramadol it's purposes are multiple, but mostly it's intention is to be a pain reliever.
I do not use it for pain anymore although I initially did, because I was prescribed it when I hurt my back. It was during that time that I discovered that Tramdol not only can help with pain but it also helps with other things such as focusing. It is NOT an ADHD medication and I have never taken those but for me and many other people we have found that taking a Tramadol result in an increased level of focus on whatever it is that you happen to be working on at the time.
For met this can be programming, playing video games, watching a TV show, or even trying to get to sleep. It is NOT a sedative but for some reason if you take it and you lie down and focus on going to sleep, it will assist you in doing this in such an effective way that often I don't even realize that I have gone to sleep and will wake up and get out of bed frustrated at my perceived inability to get to sleep only to realize that I have in fact been asleep for 5 hours and am completely refreshed.
Many other people attest to the drug's ability to do this for them also.
It is also a "cureall" when it comes to nausea, hangovers, headaches, or just pain in general. Honestly, it does too many things and it does them too well.
I am not an addictive person per se, but I will admit that this one is something that kind of has a spell on me. Any time that I have any sort of issue I know that I am just one green and yellow tablet away from it being sorted out, and while it is illegal in other countries because of its opiate status, it is completely legal here and the pharmacy is not breaking any rules by giving it to me.
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone doctor that would so much as prescribe this drug for you in USA or Canada or probably the rest of the world because of its addictive nature.
I try to keep my distance from it but in the past 24 hours I have taken 3 of them and now I am at my desk wide awake at 3am after an extremely refreshing 5 hours of sleep and well, I can't really argue with the results.
The problem hers is that one tablet is working magic right now but that 1 will become 2 will become me taking the entire strip at once and honestly, I do not want that to happen to me at all. I don't smoke, I don't really do any drugs other than the occasional puff on a joint here and there, and I don't even drink excessively. So this is something I need to keep in check.
For now, I am just going to ride the night out and home my skin stops itching so that I can remain awake. There is no reason for me to go back to sleep at this point. I already did enough of that.
I don't think I am addicted, but I think I am close..
Have you ever been addicted to anything?