Codeine is an opioid pain medication that is used to manage relatively severe pain and, in some cases, as a cough suppressant. Like other opioids, codeine has a potential for abuse and addiction due to the euphoric effects some users experience.

Long-term abuse and addiction can lead to effects on the user’s health, relationships, finances, and even employment.

Benefits of Quitting Codeine

Quitting codeine can lead to improvements in a number of areas in one’s life. Just a few benefits include:


1. Becoming physically and mentally stable: Many people who abuse codeine develop physical dependence, which may lead to a withdrawal syndrome. The cycle of experiencing withdrawal symptoms – taking more codeine to avoid withdrawal, experiencing withdrawal symptoms later, taking more codeine, etc. – is physically and emotionally draining. Once a person has successfully quit using codeine and gone through the detox process, this cycle is effectively broken, allowing them to fully focus on recovery. In addition, the mental distress of codeine abuse is significantly reduced.

2. Re-establishing emotional connections and mental functioning: A person’s attention, memory, and problem-solving abilities are all significantly affected by a codeine use disorder. In addition, the person’s ability to genuinely feel for others, recognize his or her own feelings, give up selfish motives, and become a genuine person are compromised. These abilities begin to return once one quits using codeine and begins a recovery program.

3. Rebuilding personal relationships: A person with a codeine use disorder will spend a great deal of time obtaining, using, and recovering from codeine’s effects. This forces other people out of the person’s life. The major relationship is with the codeine, not family and friends. Quitting codeine allows one to re-establish meaningful relationships with people who matter.

4. Improved performance at school and at work: A codeine use disorder hinders a person’s performance at school, work, and in other important areas of his or her life. Quitting codeine allows the person to focus on achieving goals in these areas.
5. Manage everyday affairs again: Having a codeine use disorder means spending a good deal of time – if not nearly all of one’s time – procuring, using, and recovering from codeine. Other activities become secondary. Stopping codeine use allows a person to get back to dealing with meaningful issues.

6. Improved health: Engaging in codeine abuse is not healthy. Long-term effects can include malnutrition, gastrointestinal problems, and possibly HIV or hepatitis if the person is injecting the drug. In addition, long-term use increases the risk of overdose and death. People who quit codeine reduce or eliminate their risk of these problems.

7. Improved finances: Substance use disorders also drain one’s finances. Dealing with a substance use disorder will eventually lead to more stable finances.

8. Taking back control: People with substance use disorders are under the illusion that they are in control. In actuality, the dysfunctional behavior associated with substance abuse takes over and the person loses control. Addressing a codeine use disorder will allow the person to regain control over his or her life and the ability to make rational choices.



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