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I also think this is exactly what happened. Had a conversation with a close friend about it and was worried about how blown up/known about Serenity had become, and I didn't even realize the full extent of it until I joined this forum and checked Dread for the first time in years. Hopefully he rematerializes, although I have no idea when that would happen or what it would look like. Trying to keep in contact with him but he seems to not be checking or at least not replying to emails of any kind atm, which makes sense; some people are probably abruptly facing the fact that they're heavily addicted to ODSMT (so god damn glad I finished tapering off boofing it towards the end of last month, had been doing 300mg+ daily for about 1.5-2 years) and he's probably getting many, many desperate emails. Still looking for a 2MAP vendor though as its my DoC these days; I find the WDs aren't anywhere near as bad as ODSMT as long as you don't take massive amounts or constantly dose throughout the day. A potentiator is also borderline mandatory for it because of how short it lasts, Cimetidine works great to extend its active half-life and give it some legs though, but it can also make the WDs worse because of that. So like the romans said, "all things in moderation"
Exactly! The problem with ODSMT withdrawals is that not only is your opiate / opioid system out of whack but ODSMT is also a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor which has its own checklist of gotchas. One of the worst is restless leg syndrome which is horrible because you literally feel like your entire body just wants to crawl outside itself and you constantly need to move but moving doesn't do much.
In fact, I'd rather go through Oxy withdrawals than ODSMT withdrawals because with Oxy you get the hot / cold flashes which suck but I don't think they are anywhere near as bad as RLS.
When you have a drug preventing the reuptake of NOR, your brain is basically flooded with it for a while so it has to downregulate a lot of things that use NOR. Suddenly all that NOR is gone but the brain takes a while to reverse the downregulation and that's how you end up in super withdrawals.