Hello guys:D, I am Charles. I use to take a lot of medicine without prescription. Suddenly I felt that I am under some problem, because I cant stop taking medicine I felt that “ without medicine I cant live”. That’s how I went in to the addiction of medicine.

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Ok. Are you just venting? It doesn't sound like you are asking for any type of support or help. If you are off of an addiction congratulations.

i've been addicted to painkillers for 7yrs,im 21. i havent taken any in about 1month and 1/2, my plan is to stop, but i know i will always be an addict. this is a big problem for alot of people, expecially with "pain management doctors" and script pharmacys all over houston and surrounding areas. im sure they are all over, i just know about houston cause i live there.even after being arrested in dec for selling to a snitch, i still took them when i got bonded out.i've had friends die from ODing, i still took and sold them. i guess in a way,i stayed messed up to not face reality,and...well im addicted.i have the urge everyday...i just think about my freedom and how i actually want to live,have a family,go to college,stay out of jail. thats where this crap will get you. 6 ft under or in jail. its sad that it took me getting into trouble to stop.and even then, i had to make the decison to stop. im not really sure where i was going with the story...it makes me mad how easy it is for people, to get these pills. at 21 you can start going to these "doctors" as long as you have records. if you dont, i've known people to use other peoples records and the "doctor" didnt even check to make sure it was their records! i think the pharmacies should be required to enter your perscriptions in the computer and some how it would be able to tell if you've already been to a different pharmacy. it seems like that could be possible...but if it is, it seems like it would have been done awhile ago.ugh...i could talk about this hours:angry:

The state I am in TN. The pharamist do check your scripts with other drug stores. Addiction is a disease. Help with the problem is the only answer not jail.

most chain pharmacies like walgreens and cvs will check, but not the little hole in wall pharmacies that do nothing but pump out painkillers.the only way they can get shut down is filling a script twice in a month. i dont see why they cant be shut down for the simple fact they are pumping out death. your right, jail isnt the answer, but the state of texas didnt see it that way for me, my boyfriend or my friend who ODed...i think because he was facing so much prison time when the district attorney should have offered him time in a substance abuse facility prison.i really see no way to stop the doctor shopping. the "pain management" "doctors" cant get in trouble as long as they see people with records once a month.and as i said before, they cant shut down the pharmacies either. its really sad how easy to obtain a perscription is. my life revolved around going to a "doctor" daily, pharmacy, then go home get high and wait to make money,repeat process the next day. it sickens me how i let myself become such a bad person while on the drugs. a little pill...well alot of little pills had such a hold over my life.i really have no one to talk to this about, except my boyfriend who is in jail right now for what we did. my friends and brother (one of my best friends) are still on this distructive path. i try to talk to them about it, but i know its pointless. people tried talking to me and i didnt listen till it was too late. thank god its jail not death.

i think it need more than that i have found out that addtion with an another addtion does not help i been there i hate it i need help i want to go back to treatment for a releapse treament but the way cutting funds no excuse i dont believe in aa an i want to get bck to celbrate recovery bible base that what i need now i have had three people that are no longer with us