Parent With Prescription Drug Addiction?
Question by writeyoualetter: Parent with prescription drug addiction?
So my mother is addicted to Morphine, Oxys, Hydrocodone/ine, Muscle Relaxers, Anti-Naseau pills and Tylenol. We are extremely poor. Me and my dad work, she doesn’t. Because he has to buy her so much stuff, I had to get a job to support myself. I’m a senior in college.
Everyday feels like an uphill battle to stay alive. I wake up every morning and think, okay, today I’m going to be alive to go back to bed. But some days it’s really hard to make it back.
Does anyone else have experience with this?
And don’t say rehab, there’s no way my dad would allow it – he would never make her do anything she didn’t want to do. And we never EVER talk about it. It’s like it doesn’t exist, but I still have to deal with her through the highs and the withdrawals. He works from 7 am to 9 pm so he’s not really around for it.
Please help me.
Best answer:
Answer by Jake Crow
I’m sorry, that really sucks.
I don’t have personal experience with something like this, but a friend of mine in high school did. His mom was addicted to prescription pain killers after she was in a car wreck and “needed” them all the time. He confronted his dad, saying he was a bad husband and even worse father for not doing anything about it. It knocked some sense into his dad, and he took my friend’s mom to therapy. Together, they were able to pretty much kill the issue, from what I understand.
Maybe that helps.
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Answer by JLine
Well, you guys will never, ever talk about it, re-hab is out of the question. Looks to me like you’re asking for help but won’t go the route you suggested not to go. That leaves you one one other choice. Leave and get yourself your own place, since you have no other way of helping and you’re tired of the situation. Bottom line? A heart to heart talk, or re-hab, or deal with it, or just leave. These choices are tough, especially since it shows you love her. So it’s up to you. Good luck.
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