I have been drinking poppy seed tea for many years. I am now trying to quit but is very hard. when I dont drink it then I feel terrible like I have the flu and it makes me tired and weak. when I drink it I feel good again. I want to quit because it cost too much money and I want to be free of this addiction. Can anyone give me advice. I want to do it myself and do not want to go to addiction counseling. Thank you.

I'm no expert and do not know what is poppy seed tea. I figure it's tea. Someone i know quit drinking very slow , that person had the shake for boose. If i take a similar reaction to tea , i suggest you keep drinking after supper and moderatly. Carry on until you feel better inside.

Thanks for your advice. I am having success so far, as I slowly, day by day reduce the amount of Poppy Tea that I consume. Poppy seed tea is made by steeping bulk poppy seeds in hot water, with a little Lemon Juice for flavor. The Poppy Seeds are purchased from a local grocery store. Although Poppy Seeds have very little Opium residue on them, if you concentrate a large quantity of them you can actually get enough in you to make you feel slightly euphoric. BUT DON'T DO IT, KIDS! It feels good only the first few times, but your body will crave more and more of it until you find yourself speding a lot of money on Poppy Seeds. Then when the seeds no longer make you feel good and you decide to quit, you will develop horrible symptoms that make you feel very tired, achy, and sickly. It's a very bad feeling. I tried stopping "cold turkey" but I couldn't do it. I felt too crummy, so I am slowly reducing my intake over time. I still do feel lousy, but it's not too bad now. I should be completely free of Poppy Seeds in about another one to two weeks.

you know this may just be a psychological addiction..........unless you have more seeds then water in your tea, there are health benefits to seeds and nuts, perhaps you're actualy getting some of these benefits and when you stop drinking it, you notice. though if you're purposly doing it for the high........ well that's abuse, why not try replacing it with another tea

Try Kava Kava tea. They give similar effects but its less addictive. If you're addicted to something you need something else to replace it, at least for a little while.

no way!!!! hopefully i can help in a way and you can help me? but i can relate to you. i was addicted to heroin. and poppy seed/heroin. goes together. and the same withdrawl symptoms you are feeling and have felt i have felt exactly the same. coming off of opoids is like going to hell and back. i hope you are doing well stick in there ! it gets better day by day. i have been clean now for two months from H. and everyday gets a little easier!

before i begin let me just say that i think that if you have no knowledge of the subject you should not reply. don't get me wrong, i'm a believer in the power kava, but using kava to replace morphine, codiene, thebaine, papervine and the dozens of other alkaloids found in opium is just arogent. further more, suggesting that seeds are nutritious and you're just getting nutrients from these poppy seeds is plain old stupid. here's the deal: poppy seed tea feels good. i too was a heroin addict, and before that just a plain old morphine sulfate addict. does poppy tea compare to a warm shot of diaceylmorphine? no. does it feel pretty good? yeah. i drink poppy seed tea as well as poppy tea. i believe that humans are made to ingest opium (how else could you explain opiate receptors in the brain not used for anything else?). i do not blame you for wanting to quit opium use, however. i dont know the dose or frequency of your use so i don't really know the severity of your withdrawl. what i can tell you is this; as long as you want to stop, you can. i know a lot of kids still sticking needles in their arms because they dont wanna stop. once i made a simple decision to stop using needles and semisynthetic substances i was able to. i got sick as hell, but i stopped. so, if you're really hell bent on leaving opium behind, commit yourself to your decision. get sick for a few days. you need to know the dark side of the drug if you're gonna play with it. you'll wish you were dead but, afterwords you won't want to go back because, it's not worth it. my question to you is regarding constipation. i've never known anyone who drank so much poppy seed tea that they became addictive, so, when was the last time you went to the bathroom?

habitat1 -- Thank you for your honest and candid reply.

It's true that many people have mis-perceptions about addiction and addictive substances. I am not and never have been a "hard-core" addict, so I am only talking from my own limited experience. I smoked some pot many years ago, and I have been drinking Poppy Seed Tea for about the last 4 to 5 years. I mentioned in an earlier post that I am trying to quit using Poppy Tea but I was too weak to go the full course and I gave into it again. I was still using about 8 Oz of seeds in a brew each day, but I have recently cut back to 4 Oz per day. I am giving it another try because I do not want to be a slave to this or any other substance. I will try again to get off this stuff during the next few weeks and I will report back to let everyone know of my success.

I failed to get off of it the first time because I reduced my intake too abruptly. This time I will ween myself off of it much more gradually reducing my daily dose. Hopefully I'll be free of it within a couple of months.

that is awesome that you actually want to stop your opiate use. i was a heroin addict too, and no habitat1 is deffinitly right on the money with what he is saying. you will never stop untill you really wanna quit. i tried countless time to just quit but A. living in a house with 3 other people who use it didnt help B. i never really WANTED to quit. i had to get away from the temtation, i moved out and went to a methadone clinic for a year. when i was detoxing out of the clinic i dropped how much methadone i was taking like 5-10 mg a week untill i got down to 45mg and then just stopped taking the methadone all together. the withdrawl lasted 7 days till i felt semi normal again. the withdrawl was 10 times worse then any heroin withdrawl i ever had, which only would last 3 days. when i was sick i thought about how i just wanted to go back to the clinic, b/c it is nothing but a living hell. but i didnt go back and have been clean for 7 months if you dont count the time i spent in the clinic. but i havent shot up in about a year and a half i guess.

so if u really wanna quit then u can do it. just take your time and drop the amount u do slowly and and it will help with the withdrawling. if i had dropped the dose even slower in the clinic the withdrawls would never have been as bad as they were. well good luck and i hope u can do it. and just wait it does get a lto easier over time

Habitat: You mentioned that you thought that humans were meant to use opiates because of the presence of an opioid receptor in the human body. In fact, humans produce their own opioids that rival morphine in their potency. You may have heard of endorphins (meaning internal morphine), and there are dynorphins and enkephalins as well that are opiates that we all make. Also, recent studies suggest that humans as well as many animals actually produce morphine itself. The endorphins and the like are probably used by the body in the same way as synthetic opiates: to alleviate pain, stress, and fatigue. Additionally, many cells of the immune system are regulated by natural (and synthetic) opiates. Addicts are more prone to infection partially because excessive opiate use changes how the immune system works.

I think it's neat to see these powerful drugs in this light - that they are hijacking a balanced system that humans already have in place. [[note that marijuana and many other drugs have the same story: the body makes its own activators of cannabinoid receptors, etc]]

Try suboxone

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PuAgIU2M55k

You guys may like this, it's a video about how to make poppy seed tea but the original post is quoted in it...i think its funny....and we know there's some mistakes in it

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Wow, thanks for the info. I think I will have to try the poppy seed tea. I love green tea and many other herbs and believe that if not abused can have many good uses.

Why would anyone want to mock this person's problem? If you think you will drink poppy seed tea without the same problems, guess again. You are not super-human, and you will get addicted. Shame on you!

People really drink this stuff? Oh my......I thought I was sick.....it would never work for me.....If I want to ever revisit Hell....or let what I consider to be the equivalent of "Max" from Cape Fear out to play.....I would go bang some dope....tea....no.....not tea

I believe the best way to get rid of this opiate addition would be to transfer it slowly over to kratom (mitragyna speciosa), and then slowly taper off of it. Kratom withdrawal is much less severe than a true opiate addiction to the many addictive substances in poppy seed tea. A very potent and effective kratom product that would work well at around a gram per dose is UEI (or Ultra Enhanced Indo) http://www.tryptamind.com is a good website that has the potent UEI enhanced leaf for sale.

You are exeriencing classical opiate withdrawal symptoms. The way to tackle this problem is with the use of a reducing dose. Exactly the same principle as when heroin addicts use a reducing dose of methadone. So your on the right track, gradualy reduce the amount of poppy tea you drink per day. The only thing you need to watch out for while using this method is reducing the dose too quickly, which is what you discovered the first time you tried. So take it slow but stick to it and your quality of life will dramatically improve.

cheers

Poppy seed tea contains different opiates in various concentrations. Typically morphine and codeine are the main ones. Morphine is recognized as one of the most addictive substances known to man and is, for this reason, also one of the most tightly controlled.
Overdoses of morphine can be lethal. The main cause of death for morphine overdose is pulmonary edema, where the lungs fill with fluid passed from the blood stream through the alveoli in the lungs. That was the case with our son.
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If you could ask your doctor to perscribe you Gabapentin. It seems to help with withdrawls from opiods.