TIFU by overdosing on poppy seed tea and almost dying

Recreational drug user and ex-opiate addict here, who is currently on poppy pod tea (the seeds are removed from the pods and often they are washed to prevent abuse. The pods are the things that produce the opium latex and are not usually washed, so they are much more potent. You only need like 10-15 pods rather than thousands of seeds). I'm not clean from opiates but I'm no longer addicted.

I would not recommend you try it. I mean, I love it, and I feel awesome, but opiates are not good. Seriously even though you might think "it's just tea" or whatever, there's like 50 opiate alkaloids in it and it has a very long half life, meaning the withdrawal if you get dependent will be on par with or potentially worse than the big bad heroin. Since you're withdrawing from so many drugs at once, and how long it lasts, your withdrawal will take weeks before you're really clean.

Weeks of pain all through your body, weeks of no sleep, of electric feelings throughout your whole body, of restless limbs, of feeling like you will die at any moment, feeling like your head is physically empty, the worst diarrhoea you've ever had, panic attacks every hour of every day. Don't bother man. Trust me. If you already use drugs, just get some weed or mushrooms or something. If you don't use drugs, don't start. They're fun, but unless you're totally satisfied with life it can take massive self control not to use a lot and seriously damage your wellbeing.

Good luck with whatever you choose to do in life, just please don't let it be this! :)

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