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Powerlessness Over A Pain Medication Addiction?

Bren — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:50:30 +0000

I was thinking about powerlessness today. Powerlessness was something I understood I never could understand early in my addiction, well at least I thought I couldn’t. The first time I ever went to jail or treatment due to my addiction I truly felt powerless. Other than that though I always though that I could control a situation to get what I wanted. I figured if I could manipulate the right person, break the right law, obsessed over something long enough, I could bend it to the force of my will to get what I wanted. Usually my drug of choice, whatever that was at the time. Now today with some clean time I still forget what powerless really means, and I cause myself a whole lot of trouble.

When I was new in recovery I would listen to all the cliches. Most of time they would annoy me. The one that really hit home was “just for today”. That was something foreign to me for the fact that in my head I never was living in the day. I was always looking to the past at some pain I was dwelling on, or to the future at something I thought I could manipulate. “Just for the day” is a great way to stay of pain medication or any drug because it relieves all the pressure to stay off of drugs for the rest of my life, but today it goes deeper than that. When I’m not living in today I am taking all the control from my higher power and giving it to me. I am not someone that handles control well. Control is the play thing of my addiction. The illusion of control is what kept me battling my pain medication addiction for so long. When I am in my head thinking about the past of thinking about the future in a sense that there is something I can think hard enough that I can control the situation, I am playing God. The is why the serenity prayer has become such a reminder I repeat to myself during hard times. “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change” = Everything in the past and future, plus another human being. “Courage the change the things I can” = Me and how I react to people places and things. “And the wisdom to know the difference”= this part is the heart of 90% of the troubles I have in life. See my ego is so big that sometimes I think that I have the power to change time and people. I think I’m God, and I will end up killing myself trying to play that part.

Remember, even some very rich, successful, famous and socially powerful people are powerless over pain medication addiction!

Pain Medication Addiction Cares Not About Fame

Bren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:41:04 +0000

Here is a list of celebrities or famous people that are reported on the internet to have dealt with a hydrocodone addiction or pain medication addiction in their life. I am only posting this to show that addiction spans all life styles. Money, fame, and social status does not make you invulnerable to addiction. On the same note addiction does not make you less than anyone else. It is a treatable disease that can be arrested.

*Paula Abdul
*Jamie Lee Curtis
*Winona Ryder
*Jack Osbourne
*Ozzy Osbourne
*Burt Reynolds
*Michael Jackson
*Rush Limbaugh
*Lindsay Lohan
*Heather Locklear
*Carrie Fisher
*Joe McIntyre
*Chevy Chase
*Elton John
*Brett Favre
*Tom DeLonge of blink 182
*Heath Ledger
*Anna Nicole Smith
*Kelly Lynch
*Daniel Baldwin
*John Daly
*Micky Mantle

Some of this people didn’t make it. This doesn’t have to be you.
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The Best Way To Treat Hydrocodone Addiction?

Bren — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:29:17 +0000

Well what is the best way to treat hydrocodone addiction? The simple answer to that is, don”t take it. Well with a addict, nothing is simple at first. I was told at my first NA meeting when I entered hydrocodone addiction recovery was that, “this is a simple program for complicated people”. Man I hated hearing that. Everything in my life was drama, how could anything be simple I said. Now I will admit , there is a complication when dealing with any pain medication addiction. That is anytime you take , lets say vicodin, you will experience the worst hydrocodone side effects and the worst one is hydrocodone addiction withdrawal. As i discussed in a earlier post “Nasty Hydrocodone Withdrawal ” always make sure to consult a medical doctor before deciding to detox off of pain medication. It is posses very serious health threats to your body and should not be taken lightly. With that said, after proper detox treatment is given, and after the hydrocodone addict enters recovery, the best way to not get high is (drum roll please). Don’t get high…. Remember that the pill is not going to put a gun to your head and make you take it. Simple huh? Recovery begins with the addict. They are the one to put in the work. One of the greatest efforts a addict will ever do is make that decision to do nothing. To not act on those obsessions to use a vicodin, lortab, lorcet, or what ever the drug of choice. Without that choice no amount of hydrocodone addiction treatment will work, even in the best hospitals and rehabs in the world. I have learned from my experiences and by watching others that not force in the world other than death will stop a addict from getting high when they choose too. They may not be able to get it right then, but they will not stop until they do. If they finally had enough, then treatment has a chance of working and recovery is then possible. There are many great rehabs in the world. To me the best place to recover was in a 12-step meeting. Narcotic Anonymous was where I found hydrocodone addiction recovery and the best part is that its free! Give yourself a break and check them out. They promised me my misery refunded in full if I wasn’t satisfied!

Now to the family and love ones that are dealing with someone close to them that is suffering from a hydrocodone addiction. There is no best way to treat hydrocodone addiction I can share with you. All I can share is what worked best for me. When I was going through my years of drugs use, the best thing my family ever did for me was cut me out of their life. I know it sounds hard, and it was hard to deal with at the time, but it wasn’t until they removed the cushion from under my ass that I started to become open minded towards treatment. I made them come to a point where they decided if i was going to kill myself, they where not going to watch. My family loved me very much, but everything they did to help me was actually hurting me. It made it easier for me to continue using and helped me believe that I could one day get it together. I brought them to a point to where they wouldn’t even feed me and I’m glad they did. That ultimate loneliness helped me see the need for treatment.Sometimes the best hydrocodone addiction help is to not help at all I guess. Although I never regularly attended one of their meetings, Alanonhas helped a lot of my friends family members go through living with a addict. Click the link and give them a visit!

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