Drug Addiction Answers

A drug addiction is something no one ever looks for but can sometimes have it sneak up on them. I remember when I was younger how much fun my mother was, always laughing and always happy. When I was a teenager she was involved in a car accident and had back injuries that caused her a great deal of pain. She went through therapy and was given drugs to help with her pain management. The drugs and therapy seemed to help and she was beginning to feel like herself again, we all assumed a full recovery would be the next step.

We had no idea that the next step was going to be drug addiction. She refused to be taken off the pain medication even when her doctor told her she no longer needed it. She changed doctors several times and would have more than one at any given time. Her personality would change once we walked through the doctor’s doors, from the woman who walked straight and looked to be fine to the woman who was hunched over with tears in her eyes from the pain. Her drug seeking behavior was no more attractive than a crack addict who was begging on the streets for money to pay for their next hit.

When we formed an addiction intervention and tried to get her help she was angry, angrier than I had ever seen her. She screamed at us and cried, used guilt to try to dissuade us. I actually felt sorry for her thinking maybe she did need the drugs for all her pain, and thought maybe we were making a mistake. What is drug addiction anyways? What did I know?

My family pushed forward even though I was feeling guilty for making my mother angry and the guilt of not understanding her pain was strong in my heart. She did finally agree to get help although it felt more like it was out of spite than anything else. I do believe she thought she could talk her way out of treatment and into getting more drugs for her long past injury.

When my mother walked out of the drug rehab clinic with my father all I remember is her smile. We drove all the way home with laughter and happiness, I got my mother back. I was so grateful that my other family members pushed harder and that my mother was strong enough to overcome her addiction.

When I ask her about it now she is honest about her problem and appreciated the addiction intervention, she says that without it she may have never realized how bad she needed help on her own. She had never done drugs in her life, had never considering herself an addict. She said she justified it as self medicating herself and now knows that she was a true drug addict.

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