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Updated: 8:29 AM Apr 2, 2009
Pushing Paper, Popping Pills
WTAP-TV A local man who used to be addicted to prescription drugs says his life is now the best it's been in years. But he cautions that even though he is now in recovery, he's not sure if he'll ever be recovered. Posted: 8:23 AM Mar 31, 2009Reporter: Kim Lucey Email Address: Kim.Lucey@wtap.com |
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I used to be addited to drug (marijuana,cocaine,crack,meth,ecstasy,heroin,oxy contin,percocet,vicodone,feninal,xanax,valum,basically any thing I could ingest)for 13 years.I decide one day that I did not want to live like that anymore,because I was being selfish and not thinking about the people that love me.I relized that my children was not going to have the future that they deserved,because of the concecines of my choices.The methodone clinics are just a cheaper,legal way for people that don't want to dig deep within them selfs and find the will to make the decision to put other peoples thoughts and feelings above they own.Methodone makes you feel no diffrent than heroin or oxys,the diffrents is it is condoned and legal,and if you take a drug test for a job that might indanger others wellbeing,the test facility is not aloud to devaulge the results because it is legal.Just stop being selfish,thats what I did.
Thank you for reporting the other side of the addiction-related crime issue. The cost of providing addiction recovery is less than half the cost of throwing them in jail. I'm not saying we should go soft on pushers, but there needs to be some balance in cases where the crime is not serious and the defendant has no criminal record. If the addict WANTS help, his life can be turned around and he can become a producing member of society again. I've seen it with a family member. Miracles are among us.
It seems to me that the problem starts with the doctors handing out prescriptions for painkillers like they're giving out candy, and then at the end of the month when their patients are out of money they sell their painkillers.
there has to be a better system then to place patients full medical records, Name, home address and SS# on a website! www.bioscriptrx.com doesnt use a website or even the patients name or personal information, in place it uses bioMetric's like eye or finger print! Please don't put my info on the Web
there are people who absolutely need it, i know someone who was terminally ill with cancer (he died a month ago) and because of everyone else, they cut back on his prescriptions.. the cancer was eating his body up inside.. tragic how everyone else ruins things for certain people. in my opinion, they need to start going after these doctors as well!! my mother had a back problem, instead of trying to fix it they slapped her with a script of percocet 5 mgs and sent her to physical therapy.. that helped for away, only to cope with the pain (the symptom) my mom missed a year and a half of work because this dr did not do his job.. she ended up having to go to rehab to get off of the DR PRESCRIBED medication, and now she is fine.. she had been dead to the world for a year and a half because of the disease (addiction) this dr had caused.. if anyone doesnt know the seriousness of opiate addiction, they should really research! it is synthetic heroin, same withdrawl symptoms everything.
i agree, for things like that they should go to jail. make them accountable for their actions.. but almost all addictions start out as something casual.. do you think an alcoholic starts out that way? no, its from drinking over a period of time.. its just sad how quickly you can become addicted to prescription drugs. i have a 6 month old, i couldn't imagine putting anyone or anything before her.. and i dont think ANY mother would, its tragic how addiction changes people and makes their priorities so out of wack.. i think they should do jail time, but not JUST jail time. all these people getting buster for drug-trafficking.. send them to rehab ALSO. and yes, i agree bonnie.. doctors give out prescriptions like thats the only thing they are paid to do! they are paid to help us get rid of whatever is wrong with us, not to "cope" with the symptoms.. they need to re-evaluate these doctors, cut them back on the scripts they can write. they wonder why there is a nation wide shortage on opiates
Agee with you Bonnie State Social Workers most often do more harm than good, a cruel heartless bunch. No outside agencies to file a complaint with on them. They review their own, but when corruption at top is there it does no good. ......Forgot to add they discriminate too, upper middle class can use all the drugs they want no retrobution, heaven help the poor and common folk.
Im not saying this is all of problem but a part of it. If you read about early marketing of oxycontin they targeted Applachian to test market this drug. Unfortunately this ended up in a lot of unknowing youths hands as to addictive personally. Why did they pick Applachian? Why not New York or L.A. Why Appalachian?Better yet why not controlled lab settings. What irks me is I dont know what the remedy is for parents of these youth and the youths who became addicted.
to jennifer.....you are right but i know someone who has 5 kids and is very highly addicted to all kinds of pills like hydrocodone,xanacs,tramdols, adderalls. u name it shes addicted she will sell foodstamps clothing vouchers or what ever else away from them kids to get them drugs. yes the cps has been called and nothing was done she still has her kids im telling you right now she is a worthless mother and something needs to be done!!! she is also defrauding the welfare its like their letting her get by with this and im tired of it.... because if it was me i'd be in jail right now.
I can tell you this, my daughter never abused or neglected that child, butttt some where down the road she may is what they said. She applied for long term treatment but was denied. I know for a fact that Doctors write prescriptions for virtually any illness, because a Doctor asked my daughter at one of her appointments I attended "what he was giving her certain medicines for, as the Doctor he should know. My daughter did not lose her son because of the prescription drugs, there was another issue, the prescription drugs only came later. I also know for a fact that children does not always do better in foster care either.
ive seen first hand the state of someone on hydo/oxycodone or oxycontin and they are in NO shape to take care of a child, let alone children... they should be removed from the home, people become so addicted that they will put their childs needs and wellness aside to get their next fix.. they should force people into a suboxone out-patient or in-patient treatment center! not slap them in jail for a few months.. that doesnt help ANYTHING, they need to get to the root of the problem and help them cope! they will get right back out and be pushing/buying pills again. these outpatient clinics make it so hard for someone to get clean. not open on the weekends, only do treatment from 530 until 10 when there are plenty of hard working citizens who cannot do that with a full time job. and going to an inpatient clinic? who can throw away a week of their responsibilities? they need to make it easier for people to get clean and get help!!
I agree with bonnie this is a big problem and it needs to stop. Take a look at the doctors their the ones prescribe the medication. They need to follow up with ther patients. Look at the pain clinic in the area they are just legalized drug dealers. The children suffer when they are taken away from their parents. Times are tough and people look for ways to get away from it and drugs is not the answer.
Hydrocodone is very addictive and most individuals do not realize they even have a problem. They end of losing everything. My daughter lost her son to the state because of prescription medication. Doctors are over prescribing medicines. Taking away children from addictive parents is not the answer, it only hurts the child, his sibling and the rest of his biological family. There has got to be a better way. Addiction is a disease, not a crime. It will not help people seek help, if anything it only makes it worse. My granddaughter will not see her brother again until he is an adult, is this fair to these children or in their best interest? I think not because it in no way was their fault. I tried to talk my daughter into getting some help, but her response now is "why", I have already lost everything.
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