Prescription Drug Addiction
Few alcoholics or drug addicts have given their alcohol and drug abuse
much intelligent study. They reluctantly agree they must quit, but keep
right on
drinking alcohol and/or
using prescription drugs. Especially if they are prescribed by the doctor.
"I remember in my mid 20's feeling deep
sadness, anxiety, and just feeling basically troubled. I went to a
medical doctor and while there in the waiting room, read a pamphlet
regarding depression. In about a minute I determined that in fact, I had
all the symptoms listed in the brochure of a depressed person. When I
met with the doctor I told him that I had read the brochure in the
waiting room, and essentially had diagnosed myself as depressed. Twenty
minutes later I left the office with a prescription for
anti-depressants.
We never discussed that I came from a severely
dysfunctional home, nor that I was raised by two alcoholics, and one
other mentally absent care taker. We also never discussed that although I
worked, worked out, and looked totally together on the outside, that I
drank a bottle of wine a night, and had 2 drunk driving arrests up to
that point.
It took another 22 years to get to place where I
was so emotionally bankrupt and broken, that I actually found help, and
it did not come in a large or small bottle of any kind. The good news
is that there is hope and recovery available today" -Anonymous-
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