Prescription Pain Pill Addiction: 6 Tips From a Mother Whose Son Overdosed

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These days; where everyone seems to be in some sort of a race; and hardly appears a touching reason to devote much of tI’me and patience for healing a pain that directly blocks the natural flow of working stamina for an individual. They automatically tend to take some pills or tablets that are meant for releasing the agonies that a human body suffers in promise with some quick relief. In the process for achieving such demanding stages; people tend to start using pain killers to get rid of undeserving aches.
But eventually they develop the pain pill addiction which appears more severe and hazardous than the actual body ache; if taken for long run. In fact; they start getting drowned in the quagmire of the pain pill addiction phenomena. On this date there are many such tablets and capsules like Klonopin, Xanax, Oxycodone, Darvocet and Vicodin; that people by using have develop the habit of taking them more often than honestly required to erase pain casued due to any concerning minor ailments.

Stwart Jenssen of FL 12:15PM December 12, 2011

My heart reaches out to you,, my husband has been addicted to pain pills for 6 years now...... Some people don't understand,, he doesn't want to take them anymore,, he feels like he has too.......he tried rehab ,, but couldn't handle being away from his family,,,, we are going to a doctor today to see how they can help...Some of the best people in this world fall into addiction,,, just know there is a way out.. Best of luck to you,,,, and God bless!!!

Tab of MO 7:40AM December 10, 2010

Hi, My name is Amanda and I am a mother of four. I have been addicted to =
pain pills for about three years. My husband and I started taking =
Hydrocodone on the weekends for fun... you know like people drinking. We =
soon graduated to everyday a few months later we were paying $5.00 per =
pill, I was also trading my prescription, Xanax, for Hydrocodone. We =
didn't take them fun anymore, we took them to get through the day, we =
took them to keep the pain away, we took them because we felt as if we =
had to. One day we were out we could find any pills... Someone =
introduced us into Oxycotin. We started sniffing them, they actually got =
us high unlike the pills. They were $40 a pill. The withdraw from those =
is horrific. Well after losing everything, either by not paying for it, =
pawning it or selling it. My husband got clean by going to a Methadone =
Clinic and moving away. I moved to my mom's where I could get =
Hydrocodone and Tramodol (a non-narcotic pain pill) for free. Well now I =
am living with my husband again, he thinks I am clean, but I left my =
mom's house with some pills. My plan was to "wean" myself off, but it =
was too hard too tempting. I took all but 8 Tramodol. So I tried calling =
Suboxone Doctors, but I cannot afford them. So I ended up calling my mom =
for more I will meat her in Omaha tomorrow to get some more pills. I am =
too scared of going through the withdraw by myself and pretending that I =
am okay. Trying to do all the things I usually do, like taking care of =
my kids...Please any advice for me would be great.

Amanda of NE 3:27PM November 19, 2010

I cannot believe the crap you wrote, it turned my stomache...I wonder? Where Do you think those "street drugs" came from? A doctor, like yours. Maybe ignorence like yours is the reason for this drug addiction. Do your research on the problem with this drug addiction. What if that was your child??? Think about that? I feel sad for you, you must be very heartless to just think about it being hard fr YOU to get pills.

Amanda of NE 3:14PM November 19, 2010

i have a friend who has quit perscribed pills and drug pills and now he is on suboxone. i recently found out that the suboxone is not a help but a henderence. how do i help him??

Angela of OR 2:28PM October 12, 2010

in my experienced opinion suboxone is not the answer, it only delays withdrawl symptoms and reminds the user of the high from full agonist opiates, it is just another way for the pharmaceutical companies to get your money, and relapse is a foregone conclusion for 90% of addicts, The only way i will quit and never relapse is if i am removed from my environment and am held responsible for my actions on a day by day or even hour by hour basis, direct supervision at all times for as long as a year, but even then life is never the same once u go down the road of painkiller abuse, who wants to feel too much pain after experiencing no pain for years? don't start down the road if you can help it and god help you if you are on it already

BobJay of NY 4:11PM October 06, 2010

we have a daughter who is weening herself off of suboxone. she stopped it and the withdrawl symptons came back with vengence. when is the tapering over? she is on 8mgs per day.

wendy of FL 6:03PM September 28, 2010

I just wish articles (and research) would distinguish between street drug overdoses and prescription overdoses by patients for whom the meds are prescribed.
Street drug use of pain killers causes me tremendous problems because it causes doctors abject terror to prescribe proper pain relief. It's not just me, it's all of us who live in chronic pain. We face the same problem.
Yes, pain management is amazing these days and that's the primary route I go for my treatment. But there is a thing called breakthrough pain that needs either ER treatment--or a good narcotic prescription.
Twenty OxyContin in a year shouldn't spaz the doctor who treats me for chronic pain and is following my pain management regimen. But it does.
Why should I suffer while kids buy street drugs they don't need? Ideas for how to solve this? Besides any idiotic suggestion that I buy street drugs? How would that look to my pain doctor, if I ask him if he feels like I should buy street drugs for breakthrough pain?

Parin Stormlaughter of AL 12:20AM June 23, 2010

My addiction to pain killers and heroin was the hardest thing I ever dealt with in my life. I had a back injury and so I told myself "I needed it" which led to addiction, and then I used the back injury to justify my use and abuse. I had many family members that were addicted to heroin at the same time and eventually I started using and overdosed six times. Overdosing did not scare me at all but eventually I got sick and tired of being sick and tired and started seeking help. I ended up getting pregnant with my fourth child but did not stop using until my baby was four months old and I realized that I had to do more than just seek out help. My youngest brother was already on Suboxone at that time, so when I got ready, I started on Suboxone also and began going to NA meetings. NA showed me how to live a different life and I use that knowledge everyday to stay clean. I have been clean for almost two years now and I wish that the 4 cousins in my family that died of heroin overdose would have had a chance to get on the Suboxone program and have a chance at a clean life.

Danielle Porter of IN 3:54PM June 21, 2010

i here you scared. i too have been where you are now.
there are ways to overcome this disease. yes, any kind of addiction is a disease. its in our genes and we inherit it.
i was taking painkillers on and off for about ten years and finally had enough last year. i lost most, if not all, of my twenties to this addiction. if you looked at me, you could not tell i was an addict. i am a professional working in the media industry.
i found a way out and you can also. but YOU have to want to do it. it can not by your parents, friends or any other loved ones. it has to be YOU and only YOU.
the first step is making damn sure that YOU want out from this addiction. if you can not do that, then you are just fooling yourself. it is impossible.
i was treated with the medication suboxone and have been clean for over a year now. i have made great strides during that time and never felt so refreshed as i am now.
so please, scared, dont be scared. take the first step and ask yourself deeply what is that you want. if your will is not strong enough now, work on it to make to that point where you can overcome this addiction.

Clean of TX 10:46AM June 20, 2010