Prescription Drug Abuse Support Group

Hi and welcome to the group!

Admitting you have a problem is the first step. Our disease of addiction wants to make us fail and relapse. But stick with Daily Strength. You'll get a lot of good advice from the people in this support group.

I've been clean and sober for a little over 9 months and the hardest part was admitting to being an addict and getting help. I'm in a 12-Step group and it's really helpful to have supportive friends who you can talk with face to face. If it wasn't for my friends in AA and my friends on this forum-- I'm not sure where I'd be today.

Glad you're here and keep coming back!

Thanks for the welcome, I'll try to keep coming back. This is so uncomfortable for me.

I stopped overuse roughly the beginning of 2008, but didn't stop non-compliance until August of this year.

DS has been a source of great support for me for years, I'll do my best to stick with this part of coming to terms with who I am.

Again, thank you.

I answered this post once but someone pmed me and I forgot to submit. Let me see if I can remember what I said.

I hate negative labels because when you put a label on someone, they will always live up to your expectations of them. Sociology 101.

When I introduce myself at an AA or NA meeting, I always say recovering addict because the point is we all have a disease which we will have the rest of our lives. Our brains have been rewired. So right now, my disease is in remission, so I am a recovering addict. If I were to relapse (God Forbid) I would be just an addict again!

It sounds like you are not taking your medication as prescribed, if I understand you correctly!

I read your profile and you definitely have alot on your plate. Not taking your medication is a form of self harm which is common for people with issues similar to yours.

I hope and pray that you continue with the counseling and if your counselor makes you feel uncomfortable in any way, get another one because in order for he/she to help, the two of you have to "click"!

God Bless and TC!

Hello, and you've come to the right place. We are all here to help in any way we can. Good luck on your new journey ahead.

I am taking my meds as prescribed, I'm on a lot less now than ever before, a little for anxiety, a little for sleep, but exactly as prescribed. Thank you. I'm in therapy, I like my therapist, it's been almost 3 years, but I just finally, after getting cleaned up on my own, after becoming compliant, etc. told her the problem. I want to talk to my friends and family, while on Providgil, for narcoleptics, prescribed to me by a doctor who refused to take me off a drug that made me sleep 20 hours a day, I ended up delusional and hillucinating, and not sleeping.The delusion centered around my grandfather raping me. He later stood accused of this in my family and my friends became part of it to as my friends, I have since cleaning myself up and realizing this wasn't what really happened, retracted the statement among my family. My friends have no clue this is where I am now, my best friend might since she's on DS per my inviting her years ago. I have not told anyone but my mom (only a little) and my therapist (not much more) about the drug use as I attempt to clear up what the hell happened that had me accuse my grandfather of such a horrible crime. During my years of drug issues and non-compliance to the host of pills I was prescribed, I was in fact raped, which adds further complication to it all. I'm now terrified of men but also so furious with myself over the addiction and the damage it caused I hardly care anymore who does what to me, I barely care about myself, I feel lower than scum. I don't know how being in some 12 step group is really going to help me with all of the above, particularly if the whole time I have my eyes on every guys hands. So yeah, this is why I feel the need to tell people. It's either that or sit back with my friends and pretend that I still was abused by my grandfather, and sit back and let my family not know which version of events, the one when I was high, or the one now, is what really happened. I haven't talked much about when I was really attacked and don't think anyone cares much now, damned if I do or don't. Thanks for the welcome, but I'm about ready to just go.

I hope you will be able to differentiate between good men and bad men because most men are decent human beings but I can understand how you feel.

It's easy to get down on ourselves when we make a mistake that causes harm to someone else but keep in mind it is a mistake and we all make them, from time to time.

If you have already apologized to your grandfather, for the mistake, and if he forgave you, that should be enough so there is no sense in beating your head against the wall.

There is a 12 step group called EHA ( Emotional Health Annoymous). If there is a meeting near you then you might want to check it out. You will meet others with a background similar to yours with which to identify with. Also, your story will help many others who are going through the same thing you did.

You have had to deal with alot of negative issues in your life but you are a survivor! You seem to be getting your life back on track and more managable. I commend you.

I can't even imagine living through the hell that you have but it must have been extremely difficult. You need to remember that the abuse was not your fault.

We all care about you here and please keep in touch with us and let us know how you are doing.

God Bless and TC!