My brother is a high level security cleared employee of a very big aerospace company having worked for the company for nearly 30 years. During the last 15 of those years, my very well off brother took 10-12 Norcos a day (vicodin). He is still working and still with his habit daily. His liver will eventually fall out and that won’t stop him.
The sad thing is, he recognizes he does have a problem and doesn’t have the strength to do anything about it.
The tragedy?....there are probably at least 500 vicodin clones of my brother in the same company. Probably more.
signed...vicodin addict’s brother....a recovered alcoholic....6 years sober on 9-21-17......me
He began his addiction with the stroke of the pen of his doctor who replaced his knee. The Dr. still refills his prescription 15 years later.
Problem?
Oh yeah, big, big, sleeping giant of a problem. Why is it just being talked about now. Anything due to the fact that the medical and pharmaceutical industries make billions off the stuff?
They are producing medicine to kill you and then making the medicine to prevent your death.
Anything at all wrong with this picture.
Probably won’t get any comments, as usual. People typing and moving on. Dinner as usual. eh?
What did I do about it?
I got sober.
I have osteoarthritis in both feet the right knee and hip and lower back.
I can understand the need for someone to get pain relief.
I stay away from the opiods and limit the regular pain killers. Some days I just accept that I am going to hurt when I take a step. But, I am retired and can do that.
7-7-’81. for me.
Actually the Tylenol in that many Norcos is a far greater threat than the hydrocodone
Let’s have an acetaminophen crisis shall we?
I’m in that mood