Curious if any one else here uses opiates to treat chronic insomnia? My life was falling apart 6 months ago as I was constantly getting 90 minutes of sleep a night for months on end. Countless sleep studies, SSRI's that turned me into a zombie (but I still couldn't sleep). Nothing worked. In the end I thought fuck it, my life is over anyway I might as well dance with the devil and see if opiates can help me get some sleep.

Not knowing any dealers in my area, a friend recommended that I can make a potent morphine brew known as Poppy Seed Tea using high quality unwashed blue poppy seeds. I thought this was ridiculous as if you could get high off the morphine found on poppy seeds, then everyone would be doing it.

To my wonderment and surprise I whipped up a batch of this tea and drank it down. Keep in mind at this point I have been about 3 months straight of 90 mins of sleep a night and am close to the point of mental breakdown and giving up. Within an hour of drinking my tea I felt the classic opiate warm blanket euphoria. I decided to lay and bed and read a book and was getting immense pleasure from scratching my body whilst deeply immersed into my novel. I nodded off into a deep sleep. I awoke 16 hours later drooling all over my pillow, jumped out of bed and cried like a baby. I had the deepest sleep I had in years, this shit nearly put me in a coma. The energy I felt during the subsequent days was insane. I was able to workout hard in the gym like I haven't done in the longest time.

I have been on a regimen of 7 days on morphine followed by 5 days without it (where I immediately revert back to 90 mins of sleep a night.) I am acutely aware I am dancing with the devil here but I refuse to give in. I have kept this militant regimen for 6 months. I will not break. I have now tasted a normal life. Those 7 days of 12 hour comatose sleeps have given me my life back. I went back to the gym, spend more time socialising and have begun dating again. I solemnly solider through the 5 hell days to allow my opiate tolerance to go back down while keeping in mind my normal life is always just few sleepless nights away.

LONG STORY SHORT: I think opiates may be a viable solution for some people who have exhausted EVERY (and I mean every) other option in treating chronic insomnia and are on the verge of self deletion and mental breakdown.