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This poll is for anyone who has experienced withdrawal from one or more opioid pain medications. It is not for illicit opioids not currently used in the US as legal medications.
There are several questions about your experience/s. Please use the "other" or "n/a" option if one or more questions do not apply.
Finally, I did my best to try to think of everything, but am certain I missed something! Sorry in advance.
Since this is such a widely debated topic, I thought a poll would be useful.
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There is an inherent problem with my poll. It erroneously makes it appear that hydrocodone was the worst drug to kick, when in fact I highly doubt the people who chose hydro have been through withdrawal from methadone or morphine, etc. I should have added a question about that to help put into perspective whether or not people had ever been through withdrawal from anything stronger than hydro.
I'm NOT minimizing hydro withdrawal, by the way. I just happen to know from personal experience that it's a cake walk compared to methadone withdrawal.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to take the poll!
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Further I think the results may be "misinterpreted" in that I think hydro is much more commonly used than many of the others listed there. Thus my response would have to be hydro just due to the fact I haven't used any, or very few, of the others listed (I can't remember what all was there so can't say any for sure,sorry!) To avoid this potential scewing of results we'd really have to controll many variables within the sample. So for one to conclude validly that hydro is indeed the "most difficult to withdraw from" I think we'd have to be dealing with a sample of people who had tried all the possible choices on the list, or something along those lines? But the survey is still of value as it does indicate that hydro is apparently a hard thing to withdraw from, so to that end it is helpful. Appreciate your efforts we just have to interpret them in the context of the entire population that had the opportunity to respond, thus not adequately controlled to make totally accurate comparisons among the meds since not everyone in the sample presumably has tried to kick ALL the choices that were available to them, thus obviously reducing the percentage that could respond affirmatively to such choice. Thanks!