Drugs are bad, m'kay? · 7:09pm Jul 26th, 2023
I'm not joking... I justly had no choice but to watch what it did to my sister's husband who used to be my roommate.
Rewind to the beginning of this year, I moved into the apartment that my sister and her husband was living in. They are refinishers for countertops, tabletops and bathrooms. In January, they had gotten hired by a company to do some work. Long story short, they were shorted payment and the employer tried to have my sister sign a payment affirmation stating that she and him had been paid everything that was due to them. My sister refused to sign it. She got really smart, too, and pulled out her phone. It was a good thing that she did this, too, because next, she was assaulted by another one of the female employers. Her husband tried to protect her, but two other large male individuals... basically broke his back. This is going to take years, but my sister and him are currently trying to sue them.
What does this have to do with drugs?
Well... he started requiring a supplement of pain killers for his broken back. Started out slow, but next thing you know, he's taking like 10 a day. They are 8$ a pop. 80$ a day was crippling us... and to make matters worse, he began being addicted to them. When he was out of his pain killer pills, he'd sneak off at times to go get more from lord only knows where with lord only knows what money and I knew that this was what he was doing because he'd come home, be all sorts of happy and then he'd sleep for what seemed like forever.
He began doing jug things, too, like promising my neighbor that he's help her clean out her dirty fridge (I have to go and do that now,) and babysit her 7-year-old kid. When it came time to commit, he wouldn't. My sister has been working her ass off trying to support him, but it finally came to a boiling point and she at last had no choice but to forcibly kick him out. They are unfortunately now going to go through a divorce.
I feel really bad for him because firstly he protected my sister when she needed him and secondly, he's my friend. It's not like I didn't talk with him about this, but he told me that, "I can't NOT take them."
And I told him with no anger or animosity, no amount of annoyance in my voice that I am aware of... It was just a matter of fact that, "We can't afford this."
There's actually more that he's done since getting hurt that has earned him these consequences, but they actually all revolve around his drug addiction.
I'll say this just one more time... and I realize pills mostly prescriptions really do help people, but from my own personal experience, and I'm serious, too. Once the prescription has run out, you have to stop, because if you don't, terrible repercussions can happen.
At that point, you're no longer on a prescription. Now, you have become addicted to a drug and... drugs are bad, m'kay?
Yeh that shit ain't no joke. Hate that he's in a downward spiral like that. It's hell of a lot easier to keep going down than it is to climb back up. I'm hoping he can kick that habit though.
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Me, too, and if he ever did, things could probably be repaired. Although now, he'd have to really work at it...
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He'll have to work hard on it but I believe anyone can bounce back from addiction. They'll have to want that though. That's the hardest part, as you probably know already from this experience.
As someone who just finished a round of hydrocodone for a tonsillectomy, it does serious shit. I was taking it every six hours non-stop, partially because it just hurt so fucking much, but after I ran out, I realised how much my body became dependent on it. Be careful out there.
Opioids, right? Sorry to hear that.
100% this. I'm lucky enough not to have chronic pain (yet). Famously when given hard meds post surgery I don't think I've ever taken them all. My mom once told me in all seriousness when we found the leftovers from my wisdom tooth removals "Do you know what those are worth on the street!?" No mom, I don't.
I think addiction is likely what went on to kill her years later. She DID have real chronic pain issues, so I understand there are real needs. It's tough and good answers are hard to come by.
Hell, it doesn't even need to be hard drugs like Opioids. I have a clinical addiction to caffeine, and even though that is easy to cover, I still need a cup of coffee to get any sleep. Coffee is supposed to keep you up.