Drug Abuse: Methadone Facts

Question: What are the long-term effects of yearly drug abuse (400 + mg of dyphenhydramine a night)?

(Posted by: Edward on 2010-04-15 20:51:11)

I've recently caught up with an old friend and I've just learned about his 'addiction' (Bottle says 'non- habit forming') to over the counter sleeping pills containing dyphenhydramine, and he claims that he's been taking four hundred plus mg a night of this stuff for years and has built a very strong tolerance so he's had to take more to get the same affects out of it. He said he didn't start out at four hundred mg, but his continued abuse of it led to more and more pills. He's really odd now. What are the long- term effects that this could have caused too him?

Posted by: essentiallysolo on 2010-04-15, 20:54:24

I'll bet he's odd. His liver is likely all fouled up and putting out toxins that damage the brain. Your friend should see a doctor before the damage is irreversible, if it isn't already.

Posted by: Hoppypuppy on 2010-04-15, 21:03:21

I used to abuse that crap. Trust me, I am far, far, far away from who I used to be. I'm into university, haven't drank or done drugs in quite a long time and my knowledge based has increased immensely. The organ damage he must be silently experiencing is dramatic. One time when I took a little too much, I had rashes all over my body, it is horrific. When I remember it, I get this eerie sick feeling, that's my body telling me how grave the experience was. There must be brain damage (and I feel that brain damage is reversible based on proactive healing), it made me feel like I was dreaming. I would sit there, hunched in front of my monitor and end up on a tropical island, and that would last for 10 minutes until I would snap out of it. It sounds nice, except for the fact that rashes are breaking out everywhere and my insides are rotting out. That's how drug abuse works, everything else goes to hell while they are in la la land. He's going to end up in jail or worse some day if he doesn't turn this around right now. That is really a grave case you are talking about. He will continue to deteriorate, losing the functionality that this demanding society requires but he will still want the fruits of it (a nice life), so stupidly he will turn to crime. Or something like this will occur. Please help him.