athena53
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I really think the darn opioid pain relievers started a whole lot of people down this road. I follow a lot of BBC podcasts on this and also saw it early on in large Worker's Comp. claims- lots of people addicted to expensive pain meds after a work-related back injury and a few unsuccessful surgeries. Heroin is now easier to get and less expensive (I'm told) so some people have switched to heroin.
DH had a creaky back and would get a prescription for Oxy, Hydro, etc. He hated the side effects so would take maybe 2 or 3 and put the rest away. I cleared out about 4 bottles past their expiration date (disposed of properly) after he died. It used to be extremely easy to get- I think I've posted here before that 3 years ago I had dental implants placed and got a prescription for Oxy or Hyrdo- 25 pills, one refill, without asking. I never filled it.
After DH died there was also some leftover morphine. I was a bit tempted to try it but I like my brain the way it is and that stuff scares me. Fortunately, a guy in our church was leading a medical mission to Haiti and happily accepted DH's last bottle of Hydrocodone (over 100 pills) and the morphine.
I still have a bottle "just in case" but the only time I ever tried it was years ago when I developed terrible pain from an abscessed tooth one night after we landed in Budapest and DH gave me one from his stash. It did nothing. I had the tooth extracted the next day.
DH had a creaky back and would get a prescription for Oxy, Hydro, etc. He hated the side effects so would take maybe 2 or 3 and put the rest away. I cleared out about 4 bottles past their expiration date (disposed of properly) after he died. It used to be extremely easy to get- I think I've posted here before that 3 years ago I had dental implants placed and got a prescription for Oxy or Hyrdo- 25 pills, one refill, without asking. I never filled it.
After DH died there was also some leftover morphine. I was a bit tempted to try it but I like my brain the way it is and that stuff scares me. Fortunately, a guy in our church was leading a medical mission to Haiti and happily accepted DH's last bottle of Hydrocodone (over 100 pills) and the morphine.
I still have a bottle "just in case" but the only time I ever tried it was years ago when I developed terrible pain from an abscessed tooth one night after we landed in Budapest and DH gave me one from his stash. It did nothing. I had the tooth extracted the next day.