PAWS Survey

Post Acute Withdrawal Self-Reporting Survey

Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. All information will be held strictly confidential and no personally identifiable information will be collected. Your answers will be used to help create awareness about Post Acute Withdrawal and develop effective identifying factors and treatment options for people suffering from any degree of PAWS.

INSTRUCTIONS: For each question, select the best answer and then click “Vote.” This aggregates results for us per poll so that we can see the overall effects for each question. You can also click the link “View Results” under each poll question in order to learn how others have responded and where you fit among the groups for each question.

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Thank you for your input. Every survey that we collect will be exclusively used to help develop new solutions and treatment programs for people suffering from drug addiction or alcoholism, so the information that you provided here today may one day help to save a life.

If you’d like to share more about your experiences with Post Acute Withdrawal, please use the comment form below.

6 Responses to PAWS Survey

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100% Chicolini says:

October 28, 2012 at 8:01 am

It has been ___________ since the last time I used a drug or drank:

There is no option for 12-24 months. I had to lie to answer this question. Way to fuck up my program of rigorous honesty.

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- russbarnstein says:
  
  October 28, 2012 at 12:13 pm
  
  Thanks for pointing that out, it has been corrected and we’ll adjust your response accordingly. Thank you for sharing!
  
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Mike Schumaker says:

October 27, 2012 at 12:59 pm

I find that when I’ve tried to quit on my own in the past, I often take a number of steps in order to ensure that my quitting actually happens; i.e.; throwing away pipes and smoking items, exhausting whatever supply of whatever, and generally trying to set the stage for success by default, sort of. But what actually happens is that the day I quit, major stresses usually occur, almost as if there are forces that know I am trying to quit and sending as much stress my way as possible, and I ended up using before the end of the day. What I realize now is that the reality is that I just don’t notice those stresses while using, so when I stop they become extremely challenging. Sounds like the general idea of PAWS, I think. It sucks, but I’m clean now!

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daniel says:

October 26, 2012 at 8:17 pm

“What would you say is the primary cause of any relapses you may have experienced?”

You REALLY have got to leave it more open than that. i selected ‘trauma’ because the after effects of such, from looong ago, is the closest your list had to my reality. Don’t mistake the power of sheer unbridled stupidity and/or a belief that one is invincible or immune from consequence in such decision making.

I know it isn’t the case, because all of our stories are different… but frankly, to me, your list of ‘reasons’ reads like a list of BS excuses, NOT actual motivators for addictive behavior. perhaps triggers… but not reasons. Id recommend a correction, or several.

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kelly says:

October 25, 2012 at 9:16 am

many people think you can go to detox for a couple days than come home and the worst is over not the case from my experience 4 days after detoxing i began to feel withdrawl symtoms all over again they lasted for about 3weeks than started to subside.

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