Topic : 02/06 Pill Popping Twins

Quote From: motherwifeof3

Until we have all left this world we r at risk!  I have "busted my rear" but each day has been a struggle.  Sometimes just the loving hand of a starnger gives you strength. Saying hey I know ur worth it so fight dang it!  With out those hands I would not have had the belief that I was worth anything!  I guess ur right we can not save the world.  But we need to reach out and save who we can without judgement.  Just a few kind words can really go a long way!  I can sit here and wonder why Dr phil keeps helping when some dont appreciate it!  When everyday I can use that kind of help bc my journey has not ended.  I have not defeated the demons that dance in my life.  Statistically I am going to be a drug addict, my daughter a tramp, my son's a thief & drug addict, etc.  But just bc I have had the heroism in my life to help me realize I am not a statistic.  I will not be a number!!  Where do you think that came from...it wasnt from my mother, my father,my family or myself!  It was a few good people who said I dont see three kids and a crazy trampy woman.  I see a woman who can do it & that is why i finally felt like somebody bc I saw something besides disgust in someones eyes.  I saw someone see me as a real person who could make a difference.  That one step gave me a better life, taught me to love myself more and in return I became a better person and a better mother. I was already began busting my rear, but the hope that these few non judgemental people gave to me was refueling.  I could do it bc someone I didnt even grow up with believed in me.  Its something that can not be explained in words.  Its a feeling in your heart that can never be described..I could then view myself differently.  I am rambling but I hope you understand what I am saying.  U have a good point!  The world is too big to save, but if we just saved one at a time....what a better place to live and how wonderful we could all feel giving alittle love to someone in need!  Its cause and effect.  Everyones worried about the children, teach the mothers to love themseleves and it will all fall into place!

Quote From: cmblair46

Ive been caught in a Government Bureaucracy for 6 years now and instead of trying to find out the cause of my pain they send me to a Pain Management Clinic and every 30 days he prescribes me:

 

• Methadone
• Percocet
• Lyrica
• Tizanudine
• Lyrica
• Lunesta

 

I want off these drugs if I stop Im not in compliant with my treatment plan - can anyone offer me advice if I decide to go off these meds myself

 

Please email me!!

Quote From: mbm0719

if methadone isnt "trading one drug for another", then why are people all across the world taking it to get high????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Quote From: habarker

You can take several things to get high - it's a drug. It's a painkiller. Oxy Contin is a wonderful drug when you are dying of cancer and in agony - but if you abuse it - you get high! Methadone - when used properly under the care of a doctor - is a tool for recovery. It works. Kids all over the world are drinking robitussin to get high - I don't get your point...

Quote From: habarker

You can take several things to get high - it's a drug. It's a painkiller. Oxy Contin is a wonderful drug when you are dying of cancer and in agony - but if you abuse it - you get high! Methadone - when used properly under the care of a doctor - is a tool for recovery. It works. Kids all over the world are drinking robitussin to get high - I don't get your point...

Quote From: mbm0719

doctors are the biggest drug pushers out there! and for all of you 'patients' who are worried about having to go see the dr to get your prescriptions refilled or that you cant get the filled a day early, well maybe you need to look at yourself and see how much you really need it or if maybe you are an addict as well and just dont want to admit it!!

Quote From: hstiersma

This show has really touched home for me. My family was ripped apart, because of my mother's addiction to perscription drugs. I still don't know the full story to this day. My mother was a nurse and found the opportunity to start writting her own perscriptions. She soon became addicted. She was caught and lost her lisence. I was told by some of my family she left us childern one day, because of the drugs. I don't know if that is entirely true. I

 was only 3 at the time. I was also told she was in jail and was remarried to an abusive man. I grew up without a real mother, and when I asked where she was my father told me she was in a hospital. I know now that "hospital" was probably rehab. I wasn't able to see my mother until 10 years later when I was 13. The first day I saw her, she told me if I ever saw her taking pills and she gave me a stupid excuse to what they were,  I would know what she was really doing. She had not kicked her addiction. We actually we able to grow quite closer throught the years. Towards the end of my junior year, she told me the reason she popped pills. She would start thinking about how she abandoned us children, and she would get very depressed so she would take the pills. The pills would make the pain go away she said. Then should would feel guilty and get clean. When she was clean she would start thinking about us again and the vicious cycle would start all over again. Soon after that she was arrested again for writting another perscription. She was sentanced to 18 months and I was crushed, because I was afraid she wouldn't see her baby girl graduate. Fortunatlly she made paroll.

My older brother recently had a child of his own. He recently just started breaking down, because he is afraid he is going to do the same thing to his child. So instead of pills he dealt with it by drinking. He is suffered from alcoholism for something he didn't do. I felto bad for him. During xmas he got a DUI, and was so embarassed he was suicidle. Everything is fine now. He has sobered up and is a great father.

As for me, I have strick morals and beliefs. I don't believe in drinking, abusing drugs, smoking, chewing, etc. I fear that I am at a high risk for addictive behavior so I don't even want to give it a chance.  There are other ways to enjoy life. I want to someday become a wonderful mother and give my kids a life that I didn't have.

It is horrible to see these women's childern suffer from their addictions. It makes me sick. Their childern only have one life and they are ruining it for them. It is beyond me how they can't see what they are doing to their children. 

Perscription abuse is rampid in today's society. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!