How Easy is to Become Legally Addicted?
I’ve never been one prone to addiction. I, along with my peers, tried drugs while in college, but that is as far as it went.
I also drink socially, not to excess, but at times, end up feeling a pretty good “buzz”. I don’t consider myself an alcoholic though, because I am not dependent on alcohol, and months may pass before I consume any more. Recently, my experiences led me to realize just how easy it would be to become addicted to legitimately prescribed drugs.
Nowadays is so easy to become addicted to Oxycontin, just through your Doctor's advice. Get Informed !!
In the past, I have been one to endure rather than take pain pills, or even aspirin. My system seemed to require an extremely heavy dose of either to knock whatever pain I had at the time, so through choice, I just did without. I guess even though I had gone through several extremely painful experiences, none were as painful as the one I experienced not long ago.
While gathering cattle, the horse I was on slipped on an extremely rough hillside. He ended up falling, trapping my leg under him, and sliding into a group of tree stumps. His position combined with mine of trying to keep my head up and off the ground, resulted into my left shoulder being slammed into one of the tree stumps. The results? I ended up with a broken collar bone and several broken ribs.
* A broken collar bone cannot be cast.
Nor is there any actual way of totally stabilizing the bone ends and holding them together. Instead of a cast, the patient is put into a sort of brace that starts in the middle of the back, encircles both arms, and ends again in the middle of the back, where it is adjusted. This brace does kind of hold the shoulders back, but it does not stop the movement of the collar bone itself.
Nobody can visualize or think they know the pain of a broken collar bone unless they have experienced one themselves. Any movement of the arm on the side of the broken collar bone causes excruciating pain, as does any movement of the arm on the opposite side of the body. Strange as it may seem, the collar bone on the left side moves with any movement of the right arm as well as that of the left. Have you ever tried to do anything without shoulder movement of either arm? It is impossible.
* My physician, knowing the pain I would be in, prescribed Oxycontin.
Following doctor’s orders I took rather large doses of Oxycontin, because of my systems high requirement (as explained by my physician). As the pain would renew with each movement, I took more Oxycontin: it was ok with my doctor, so it must be ok. I took Oxycontin for barely a week, when I began to realize I was taking Oxycontin at times when I didn’t need it for pain. Even when I requested a medication change, wanting me to stay on the Oxycontin, my doctor hesitated, stating that it would give me the best pain relief. I could have easily become addicted; the Oxycontin gave me pain relief, made me feel good, and it was prescribed by my doctor.
* * * How many people have become addicted to Oxycontin through just as innocent an introduction to the drug? * * *
