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Three years ago, time had stopped making sense to Brian. Now he says it’s finally slowed back down enough to notice a home he owns, a car he owns, and a 10-year-old daughter who lives with him full time.

He worked 15 years as a CNC machinist at a shop where painkillers were easy to find and overtime paid well. What started as a way to get through a long shift became something else entirely.

“It was a very, very quick downward spiral.”

His mother and a childhood friend both said the same thing: try AA. He’s still going, twice a week, three years later. A friend later mentioned Suboxone, and Brian looked into it himself before deciding to try QuickMD.

“It’s not just the Suboxone. It’s definitely the support system too.”

He is now three years off opioids, two years off alcohol, and no relapses. And a line he told us himself, unprompted, about why he wanted to share this at all:

“Even if it helps one person, then that’s a hundred percent worth it.”

Thank you, Brian, for having the courage to share your recovery journey in the hopes of helping others.

For #NationalRecoveryMonth, we’d love to hear from you. Share your recovery story in the comments or in our DMs, we would love to celebrate you too. by @quick.md

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Chad’s story starts like so many. Doctors diagnosed him with Crohn’s disease, but he had to work, so they gave him something for the pain.

When the prescriptions got harder to come by, he found his own supply. Then it wasn’t about getting high anymore, it was to stop from getting sick and to keep his job.

This was the early 2000s and there wasn’t much to find. He told his parents everything and asked them for help.

His father drove him to the clinic the first morning.

Methadone worked, but it meant driving to the clinic every single morning. On his honeymoon, baggage handlers smashed three of his take-home bottles. He spent the last day of the cruise and the flight home in withdrawal, and was wheeled off the plane.

That’s when he asked about other options, and that’s when he found Suboxone.

“It gets rid of all the stuff you can’t handle. But it’s not chasing the high you’d get from the other stuff... It straightens my brain out and allows me to function and not think that I need more.”

He tapered down once, nearly all the way off, and drinking filled the space. In 2020, pancreatitis put him in intensive care and a hospital told his wife he wouldn’t survive the night.

Against the odds, he lived. With that chance, he decided to go back on his medication.

He just bought a home back in April and he’s had promotions he attributes directly to being able to show up. “I’ve had a lot more employment opportunities and promotions and everything else, because I can function as a normal human being every day now.”

Chad is a real QuickMD patient who chose to share his story. We share these stories because someone reading this needs to see that people make it out.

Help for opioid addiction is available from home, book a same-day visit with a licensed QuickMD clinician. Learn more with our link in bio.

#NationalRecoveryMonth by @quick.md

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7-OH is marketed as a supplement for energy, focus, and anxiety relief. But recently these products have been gaining attention for how habit-forming they can be.

Research shows concentrated 7-OH can activate the brain’s opioid receptors more strongly than morphine, and some people report becoming dependent quickly, before they realize what they’re taking.

The DEA has now filed notice that it may place concentrated 7-OH in Schedule I, the strictest tier of controlled substances. Nothing is final yet. The public comment period closes July 31, and an order could take effect as early as August.

The distinction is concentration. The kratom leaf contains only a trace of 7-OH, while the concentrated products being sold today contain far more, and that potency is what raises the risk of dependence.

If it goes through, many people could lose access and face withdrawal without a plan. If you’re using 7-OH and the thought of stopping scares you, please know you don’t have to do it alone.

QuickMD clinicians treat kratom and 7-OH dependence from home, private and judgment-free.

If you or someone you care about needs help to get off of 7-OH, comment "7-OH" and we will send you resources.

#DEA #7oh #recoveryispossible by @quick.md

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“Natural” and “botanical” sound safe. Here’s what that label leaves out.

7-OH, short for 7-hydroxymitragynine, makes up less than 2% of the alkaloids in the kratom leaf it comes from. The gummies, shots, and tablets sold under that name in gas stations and smoke shops aren’t that. They’re made by chemically concentrating the compound to levels the plant never produces on its own.

Once concentrated, it acts on the same opioid receptors as morphine and fentanyl. The FDA has found it can suppress breathing with more than three times the potency of morphine, and repeated use can lead to the same physical dependence and withdrawal other opioids cause: muscle aches, anxiety, nausea, cravings that don’t let up.

It isn’t FDA-approved for any use, and in most states, no one is checking who buys it or how much.

If you or someone you love has been using 7-OH and it’s turned into something bigger than either of you expected, you don’t have to figure out the next step alone.

Comment INFO and we’ll send you the resources, or find them at the link in our bio. by @quick.md

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Heath Ledger once said: “There is no Yoda, there’s no one who points you in the right direction. You’ve got to figure that out by yourself,” about his work. It’s the same instinct that had him leaving school at sixteen to chase acting entirely on his own terms.

By the time he built the Joker, he’d taken that instinct further than almost anyone would. Locked in a London hotel for a month, keeping a diary, he described landing “in the realm of a psychopath, someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.” Months later, still working, he told a reporter he’d slept two hours the night before, even with medication.

Heath Ledger passed away on January 22, 2008, twenty eight years old, found in his Manhattan apartment. The cause was accidental: six prescription medications combined, among them the opioids oxycodone and hydrocodone, alongside sedatives meant to help him sleep.

A year later his family stood on the Oscars stage to accept the award he never got to see. His sister said they were accepting it on behalf of his daughter.

What he said about why he did any of it in the first place still holds: “I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.”

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @quick.md

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5 days ago

Part three of our movie roundup, and this batch goes further into the prescription pipeline than most lists like this ever do.

Oxy-Morons is the one worth slowing down for. It’s a small, independent film based directly on writer and star Johnny Hickey’s own life, and it shows something most addiction movies skip entirely: how a legitimate prescription for OxyContin became the start of everything else.

The rest of the list moves between true story and fiction, heartbreak and dark comedy, a mother racing the clock in Four Good Days, two lovers spiraling together in Candy, three chaotic days behind the wheel in Spun. Different tones, same thread underneath.

Drop your favorite in the comments, or tell us one we missed. by @quick.md

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Heath Ledger grew up in Perth, Australia, in a house that came apart when he was ten, and left school altogether at sixteen to chase acting on his own terms. By nineteen he’d broken out in 10 Things I Hate About You. By twenty six, Brokeback Mountain had him nominated for an Oscar.

Then came the Joker. He shut himself in a London hotel for a month to build the character, kept a diary, pushed himself into what he called the realm of a psychopath. He was still calling the role physically and mentally draining months after wrapping.

On January 22, 2008, he was found unresponsive in his Manhattan apartment. He was twenty eight. Medical examiners ruled it an accident, six prescription medications combined, including the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone alongside drugs meant to help him sleep and calm down. Not one thing. All of them, together.

A year later, his parents and sister walked onto the Oscars stage to accept his Best Supporting Actor award, the second ever given to someone after their death. His sister said they were accepting it on behalf of his daughter.

He once said it plainly: “I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.”

If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:

SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @quick.md

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Chris Herren has survived four overdoses.

When he overdosed on heroin behind the wheel in his hometown of Fall River, his vehicle crashed into a Dunkin’ Donuts. Paramedics reported that his heart stopped for nearly thirty seconds before they were able to revive him.

Chris Herren had lived the dream, a hometown kid who made it all the way to the Boston Celtics. Then a childhood friend sold him OxyContin outside his own house. Twenty dollars became a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-month habit, and when the pills got too expensive, heroin took over, following him from the NBA to overseas courts to that car.

He woke up in a hospital, alive for the fourth time. A few weeks later, on August 1, 2008, he used for the last time.

He has been sober ever since. He wrote a memoir, became the subject of an ESPN documentary, and built the Herren Project, which has helped thousands of families find treatment.

He survived four overdoses so he could spend the rest of his life making sure other people never need a fifth.

If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @quick.md

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Johnny Depp was 47 and one of the most famous actors alive when a back injury on a movie set left him in constant pain.

Long before any of that, Johnny Depp was a kid learning to disappear. His mother lashed out without warning, a shoe, an ashtray, whatever was closest, and by 12 he was taking her nerve pills and anything else he could find, just to stop feeling so much. When he was 15, his father walked out and told him he was the man of the house now, leaving him to hold up a mother who was barely holding on.

So when a doctor handed him Roxicodone for the back injury, the escape was already familiar. Pain relief became a four-year dependency, the pills nursing the injury and the old wounds at the same time.

Getting off them was not glamorous. On his doctor’s advice he went to a remote island and detoxed the hard way, a brutal stretch with no shortcuts. He came off the opioids, and he stayed off them.

The next year, he severed part of a finger. Even in that much pain, he refused to take the opioid again.

For most of his life, drugs were how he disappeared. This time, he chose to stay.

If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @quick.md

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Chris Herren was fourteen years old when he broke a promise to his mother and cracked open one of his father’s beers.

His father, a longtime state representative back home in Fall River, Massachusetts, was by his own son’s description a vicious drinker. That’s the house this starts in.

By eighteen he’s doing his first line of cocaine at Boston College, failing a drug test before he plays a single game there. By twenty five he’s living the dream, drafted home to play for the Boston Celtics, and it’s there that a childhood friend sells him OxyContin outside his own house. Twenty dollars turns into a twenty five thousand dollar a month habit. He starts buying pills before games. The Celtics release him after twenty five.

The addiction follows him overseas as his career fades, and heroin follows soon after. In 2005, his mother dies never having seen him sober. Her dying wish, he’s said, was for him to get clean, and he didn’t give it to her in time.

Three years later, he overdoses on heroin in a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot, crashes his car into a utility pole, and his heart stops for nearly thirty seconds before paramedics bring him back.

He gets sober on August 1, 2008, the same day his third child is born, the only one of his kids born to a sober father. Since then: a memoir, an ESPN documentary, and a nonprofit he runs with his wife that has helped thousands of families find treatment.

In his own words: treatment and faith gave him sobriety. He calls it his life’s greatest gift.
If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio. by @quick.md

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7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) is an alkaloid that occurs naturally in the kratom plant, but only in trace amounts.

Traditional kratom leaf contains somewhere between less than 0.05% and 2% 7-OH by weight. The products showing up on store shelves are a different story. Many are chemically extracted and concentrated to 50% to 80% pure 7-OH before they’re pressed into tablets or sold as other products.

That distinction matters, because comparing natural kratom leaf to concentrated 7-OH is a lot like comparing coca leaves to cocaine: same plant of origin, but with very different potency and risk.

Why it’s worth understanding comes down to how the compound works in the body.

7-OH binds to the same mu-opioid receptors as opioids, and in preclinical research it has been shown to be significantly more potent than morphine at those receptors. Because these concentrated products are so strong, physical dependence can develop in a matter of weeks, often faster than with traditional kratom.

None of this is meant to worry or judge anyone who uses it. Most people were never told any of this in the first place.

If you need help with quitting 7-OH, support is available. Comment INFO and we’ll send you resources. by @quick.md

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Most people who start taking 7-OH do so as a natural alternative for pain management.

Over time, though, they can feel that something has shifted. Before they know it, they’re spending more money than expected, or skipping a dose leaves them feeling incredibly ill.

Then comes the part nobody warned them about. The withdrawals from 7-OH are brutal enough that most people return to using just to feel normal again.

That’s what happens when your body gets dependent on a strong substance, and nobody told you it was coming.

There are many different methods to help you get off 7-OH: tapering, supplements, or even quitting cold turkey. Whatever path you choose, please know that there is no shame in wanting support and not wanting to face the discomfort of withdrawal alone.

If you’re thinking about quitting and ready to get help today, comment INFO below and we’ll send you resources and everything you need to know about 7-OH withdrawal, for you or a loved one.

#7OH #Kr8tom #AddictionRecovery #WeDoRecover #RecoveryIsPossible by @quick.md

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