Peter Attia· MD
I was still deathly afraid of the drug after the fact and only seven years later when I had a really really bad Dental issue would I ever touch another Percocet in my life
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I was still deathly afraid of the drug after the fact and only seven years later when I had a really really bad Dental issue would I ever touch another Percocet in my life
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but you know it paradoxically gave me more empathy than self-righteousness over the people who became addicted
I needed Percocet for like a week until I had a tooth extracted and then I I just stopped it and that was fine
I what my point is the what I've learned about addiction since then would suggest that I'm simply biologically Lucky in other words I truly believe that that the neurotransmitters in my brain are not wired the way that someone who in that exact situation would have become a lifelong addict
I just decided to stop cold turkey and I at the time was dating an anesthesiology resident and she was like you are effing crazy you're going to die we need to put you on n tripoline and 10 other drugs to taper you off and I said no I'm doing this cold turkey which I did and I proceeded to spend the next two weeks in hell