How Many?

[Mike VG]

I am cuious as to how many of us became addicted due to an illness or disease. If you care to share your condition that would be interesting and would validate the purpose of my post. If not, that may be too personal to share and frankly, nobody's business.The Percs, Vikes, Morphine, Methadone, etc... Addiction that can be attributed to the medical industry rather than by choice or opportunity. I'm interested in how the medical community contributes to the addiction process through their healing methods and practices; and their haughty insertion into our lives. Don't get me wrong, thank God for them. Thanks for responding. God Bless you people, all of ya.
MikeVG

[Mike VG]

I guess maybe I ought to delete my post since no one finds it as interesting as I do. I'll give it a little more time. I guess I'm a little too studious to do actual research here. I do happen to know that addicts and those that are on some type of mental coping skills problems are actually among the brightest of people. A little longer.
Mike VG

[Junkie781]

The short answer for me is: I'm a junkie. But, I did first get narcotics from the doctor to treat a legitimate back problem that I have. So, in reality, a physical defect in my back is what lead me to the pills, my junkie tendencies (being a former heroin addict) is what lead me to developing a problem with pain pills.

[Normankay]

I started abusing prescription meds from a cheap street supplier, however talking with quite a few of the people that attend my methadone clinic, it seems that there are quite a few people that have started getting there addictions prescribed. I would bet a good majority of peple started that way. If I was prescribed them, I am sure that I would be an abuser of the system. That is a good question that you ask.

[Survivor23]

I first started taking Rx drugs as a teenager. I don't know WHY~! (We never know, why RIGHT?) My best girlfriend (at that time) loved vicodens, I didn't see what was so great about them. He boyfriend was a dealer and had all kinds of ******************** all the time. Well my girl would give me some vicodens here and there...and they really didnt do anything for me except make me sick. Well I'm not going to blame anything here on 'peer pressue' bc I don't even really believe in that too much, it was just..well everyone else is getting ****** up so I will too...so after a while I realized the real buz that came with them as long as I didnt eat I'd have a good buzz and man was I a firecracker at work (sales) I started to get huge bonuses and never wanted to go to work with out them. So then of course my friend would still hook me up but the more I took she wasnt going to just give them to me anymore. So this guy at my job started sellin them to me really cheap..and now looking back at it...he would always bring a huge supply on pay day because he knew how much money I was making...This went on for about a year and then one day I just quit..Cold Turkey..I was a big asset to my company, so I just told my boss flat out I needed a week off...and he gave it to me, which I never thought he wouldnt...I was young, beautiful, and could talk anyone into buying our products. So that week went by ...I stayed up all night, crying, sweating, rocking back and forth, puking...(all of that...we all already know the symptoms.) So after that week I vowed to myself I wouldnt take them things anymore. So a couple years went by, I had a different job, a new place, a new baby things were going GREAT...and still no pills.
Well ....my neighbor had a surgery who lived next door..and BAM!!! I was back on them things before I knew what hit me. It seemed like I had no self control...I would be at her house a lot to see how she was doing and so on...and I would run errands for her because she couldnt get around...and her not knowing any of my background asked me if I wanted a few and of course I said YES. I never thought after 2 years of not taking any kind of pill I would say yes, but I did..So this time I tried to kick it myself and that did not work at all...it seemed like my body would just not let them go...anything that I THOUGHT was rough the first time was 100x worse this time.
So here I am again another 2 and a half years later...I have not taken any vicoden, loratab..whatever in 5 days, but I am on suboxone. Thank God.
I know that there will be a withdrawl from the suboxone but I have really good faith in my doctor that we will cut them down slowly but surely, and it will be a lot easier than putting myself through hell and worrying about oh god I only have 8 left I have to get some more, what will I do tomorrow, what will I do the day after that...Yah know..I made a choice and I'm not going to let pills run my life, not now...not ever.

So I guess to answer your question ..I got hooked on pills being stupid and trying to get high...It wasnt from a doctor or whatever else.
Although, a VERY close family member of mine did get hooked on pills because of a stupid doctor..so the doctors mistakes are really common because they know the risk of addiction and don't cut people down on their pain meds soon enough, and its my opnion that doctors need to be held accountable for that, and if they do see that a patient is getting hoooked...they need to find ways to help them instead of just cutting them off completly because then people go dr. shopping and nobody can keep track of whats all in the patients system...and sadly..it causes death.
Sorry to turn this into a novel.

[outdrlvr]

Back pain.

Started out as the odd prescription of codeine, then anti inflammatories which were a god send until I started bleeding internally from them, had to stop.
Specialist prescribed me morphine, "to allow me to live with the pain and get on with my life"...
here I am on Day2 CT, feeling like ***t.


Thankful for this site, the information it offers and the emotional support is amazing.

I have a ways to go. Halfway through day 2... better than day 1, although tomorrow I know I'll feel worse.
looking forward to day 5, after the peak.

back to my couch, glad I dont have to leave the house today.

[Junkie781]

Stick with it, outdrlvr, it will get better....but I think you already know that.