"I've pretty much lost count of how many years I'd had been on opiates. Looking back, it was probably late 2003 that I started using daily. I was pretty much a full time druggie, mainly weed, booze, e's & psychedelics at the time, but I loved codeine when I could get a hold of it.

Someone had showed me how to make poppy seed tea but my first dose was big enough to make me very ill for many unpleasant hours, so I forgot about it for a year or so. At the time I was making a half arsed attempt at university and doing student job search work for extra drug money, pretty much living for the weekends. I am a raver from way back, and was pretty heavily into my pills. This was back in the day that you could pretty much guarantee that any picture stamped pill on the illicit market would be a good strong mix of mdma/mda/mdea, and maybe a dash of amphetamine.

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