Withdrawal, Part II

On another blog today, I mentioned Lila's 'withdrawal experience. After finishing one part of her treatment, and the pain having subsided somewhat, she stopped taking the high-dose/high potency opiate pain relievers (e.g., Oxy, Vicodin, the chemical codeines). Inexplicably she began to feel shitty, really shitty, tired, and completely out of sorts: listless, grouchy, weak. She attributed it at first to delayed after-effects of the recent chemo. But the symptoms refused to subside or even much diminish. Finally, in desperation, cuz she felt terrible, she took one of the pain-killers she had remaining, and was utterly amazed that she IMMEDIATELY felt better.

A blogger there replied with the following advice:

A doctor friend of mine gave me a remedy which helped considerably.
He made me a tea from the crushed bulbs of opium poppies pods, which are perfectly legal and can be found in many floral design and hobby shops, as well as from numerous sources online.
Crushed them (coffee grinder rocks), and simmered them for a half an hour (not boil), strain it thru a coffee filter and drank slowly, drinking just enough to take the edge off and refrigerated the rest.
The withdrawal effects diminished almost instantly.