Drug Addiction Stories & Info

You might think this title to be odd for a tale, especially one week before Mother’s Day. However this story, brought to you by Narconon, has an happy ending. It shows that the love of a mother is more powerful than addiction.

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The most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life was born on Oct 17, 2006. She had a head of full, dark hair and the bluest eyes I’d ever seen. I named her Atiya. I’d never known such joy in all my life. Being a single parent was tough, and I had my share of hard times, but she always made me smile. Always. I couldn’t bring myself to go back to work until she was 4 months old. I cried that first day back.

We were so close. We made each other laugh, and her smile was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. We loved going to the park, and getting ice cream. She’d say, “we’re buddies, huh mom”. Life was sweet for the two of us until the car accident. A drunk driver clipped us while we drove to the park. I remember waking up and the first thing I said was “Is Atiya Ok?” Thankfully, she was bruised and had a few cuts, but I was able to call my Mother to come get her from the hospital. I had to mend a bit before I went home.

Four days after the accident, I and my cracked rib went home to be with my precious baby. It hurt like hell, but they gave me some Oxycontin for the pain. I couldn’t lift Atiya up, but I could still be with her. Atiya didn’t leave my side for days after I got home. She was like a little mama the way she showed concern. She would even go to the refrigerator and get me a soda. It took a while getting used to the Oxycontin. At first, it made me sleep, but it eased the pain, and in a way, made me feel incredible. After a few days, I didn’t sleep as much, but the pain was so bad, I started taking two pills instead of just one. It felt good to relax and also to have the pain lessened.

Atiya and I would read and play games, but I had a hard time keeping up with her. I would call my Mom to get her quite often, which I never used to do. She used to say I was “hogging” Atiya because I never wanted to let her go anywhere without me. Mom loved having her at her house, and Atiya missed me, but she had fun there. Meanwhile, I enjoyed taking my Oxy and relaxing. I still couldn’t work, so I pretty much had all day to do what I wanted. I did have to go to my doctor for more pain medication. Since the rib hadn’t healed, he wrote a prescription right away.

I’m not sure what happened, but one day, I lifted something I shouldn’t have, and my rib just hurt SO badly. I went to the Emergency room, but I hadn’t done any damage. They gave me more Oxy and sent me home. I was truly in pain…a LOT of pain. I ended up chewing the Oxycontin instead of taking it whole. I cannot describe how fantastic I felt. The pain went away, and I didn’t have a care in the world! Since I hadn’t been able to work, I had begun playing computer games to pass the time, especially when Atiya was at my Mom’s house. Chewing some Oxy and playing games became routine.

Atiya would come home, and I’d read to her, but really all I wanted to do was be alone and enjoy my Oxy and my games. She was cute, I’ll give her that, but I just didn’t want to be bothered. I’d end up calling Mom before the day was out to have her pick up Atiya. Mom started to get worried, but I told her I’d be fine after the rib healed. She commented that it should already be healing, but I brushed it off. I had moved up to chewing two Oxycontin every couple of hours, but the doctor was starting to hesitate prescribing more. So, I went to another clinic and got more.

That went on for months. I became like a zombie. All I did was play my computer games, talk on the phone with my friends, and little else. Atiya rarely came home anymore, but she called every night. It probably would have continued like that except for one pivotal moment. My Mom brought Atiya over, unannounced. She wanted to play a game with me, but I told her I was tired. She turned to my Mother and said something I will never forget…”Grandma, why doesn’t Mommy like me anymore”. In that moment…I don’t know…I had a glimpse of the past and I saw us together as we once were. Laughing, playing, just being “buddies”.

For the first time in months, I looked, I mean really looked at my baby girl. I saw her tears and my heart sank. I wanted to run into my room, chew some Oxy and forget, but my Mom said; “Your Mommy loves you, Atiya. And to prove it, she is going to get help”. Thank God I walked out that door with my Mother and my little girl to go to rehab. Otherwise, I don’t know that I ever would have gotten back my relationship with my beautiful daughter. How could I have given all of that up for a drug? I still can’t answer that, I just know that Oxy almost cost me the most precious thing in my life, and I’m glad it didn’t. Read more…

With the increasing number of addicts hooked on prescription drugs that are being admitted for treatment at Narconon rehab centers across America, it has become obvious that the road to OxyContin addiction is short, and sorrowful.

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How Does this Happen?

People can become addicted to Oxy as a result of having sought and been offered prescription pain relief. According to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, produced by US Government health departments, most people who become addicted to painkillers do so as a result of medications that are being issued to them by their doctor. It is a myth that oxy addiction only occurs with illicit or long term use – many people given OxyContin on prescription start to experience addictive symptoms within a few days of starting the prescription drug use. However, few prescribing doctors would appear to understand the nature of opioid addiction, or its symptoms and so fail to prevent addiction.

Some people who become addicted to OxyContin have been earlier prescribed addictive medications for pain relief. Until recently, the addictive properties of sedative and anti-inflammatory drugs, have been largely ignored and overlooked. Often symptoms of addiction and withdrawal have been wrongly attributed to the condition being treated, rather than being seen as a side effect of the drugs.

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Increasing the Doses

When people being treated for pain complain of increasing pain and distress, the response of many doctors has been to diagnose “chronic pain” – and to simply increase the frequency and the dose of the pain relieving medication. When drugs such as Tylenol, or Percocet fail to cover increasing pain and discomfort, the tendency has been to change the patient’s medication to prescription Oxy. Many people have therefore started taking this drug when they already have an unrecognized sedative or opioid dependency created by their use of an earlier medication. Swift, short and sorrowful is the road to addiction when people have come to OxyContin by this route.

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Emotional and Physical Pain

The problem of oxy addiction is both physical and mental – emotional pain is felt and experienced as physical pain in the body. Anything that blocks or impedes pain sensation in the body could also provide symptomatic relief from feeling emotional pain. Therefore, people who take a prescription drug and find that it removes their stress and tension will naturally be inclined to want to use the drug for that purpose – and very likely don’t want to admit it to other people. The injured individual easily fall prey to the OxyContin “high”, and unwittingly, willingly take the short, sorrowful road to addiction.

People with oxy addiction feel much the same as people with a heroin habit – lying, stealing, betrayal and deception all happen in due course when a person gets seriously into an addictive opioid habit. When drug addiction takes a hold it is damaging, destructive and precludes using more healthy options. Drug use destroys people and damages human relationships.

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Feeling of Guilt

Addiction often brings with it feelings of guilt and shame that more properly should be ascribed to those who promote and encourage drug use in the community. Guiltiness does not allow people real freedom of choice between drug use and pain relief methods that are natural and pure – thus the down spiral of drug addiction.

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Natural Solutions

Talking about natural methods for pain relief to big pharma and some medical profession is somewhat akin to sprinkling a pack of demons and imps with a bottle of holy water. Indeed it is a worry that many who are entrusted by the community with providing the best in health care are so addicted to the use of drugs that it infects the wider community.

People traveling the sorrowful road of OxyContin addiction can branch off toward complete recovery. There is hope to achieve a drug-free and joyful life by getting proper help from a comprehensive and natural drug rehab program such as Narconon.

The Narconon detoxification and rehabilitation program has been helping people to truly and naturally recover from addiction for over 45 years. For more information about the Narconon solution, please call 1-877-782-7409.

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