Perscription Drug Addiction

[lisajo]

Please get help for him now! i lost my brother from this, he was living with my parents and going threw a nasty devorce ..... had surgery for a tummor and the doc just kept perscribing do to migrains etc. then he started taking them from my mom ..........dad locked them up but it did no good he just went to the web and other places, it caught up with him he became sick and the doc. perscribed cough med. with codine and he mixed it with oxycotton (sorry bad spelling) and it killed him, ( he over dosed on both)
Please please do something NOW! everyone in my family kept saying it was something he would get threw, and he didn't
Much love Lisa Jo

[jackbeckman]

We have been married 28 years, my husband is a High Priest, we have raised a beautiful family and I would never have imagined this could have happened to us. I am disabled and use several prescription drugs to manage pain and other conditions. My husband has been stealing my pain medicines.
When I caught him and confronted him and asked him to get help he went to the doctor and got his own prescription for Vicodin, he said his back hurt. He will take a 30 day supply in just a few days then go right back to searching the house for my medicine to steal. He lies to me about how much Vicodin he takes, he makes promises that he will never take my medicine again. He sees what happens to me when I run out of medicine early because he took so much and I am in agony for days until I can refill my medicine again, and yet he is right back to taking my medicine again.
I am sick of constantly hiding my medicine so he can not find it and then I get up to go to the bathroom and come back and find him going through my medicine trying to find the morphine.
I love and respect my husband. He is the head of our household and my priesthood leader, but I am also so disappointed in him and I feel betrayed by the lack of compassion he has for me that he would see me suffer so much and still steal the medicine I need. I feel betrayed by his lack of honesty and I don't know what to do. He refuses to go to counseling.

I need your advice.
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If he is addicted, then the drug is doing his thinking for him. You cite a lack of compassion, but if he is addicted, then compassion is the farthest thing from his drug-addled mind. You must get him help!!! He can't buck this gorilla off, it will stay on his back until it kills him. Tell your Bishop, your doctor, your children, whoever you can get to help you get this taken care of. He will lose this battle without help. Your lives will be so much better when this is taken care of.

You need to call his doctor asap and discuss this with him/her. Some medications can not be stopped cold turkey, because the results can be life threatening. If he is still having back problems, there may be a worse physical problem that have not been diagnosed. If he is addicted, then he will need to be detoxed under a doctors advice.