Friday, June 29, 2007
I am like everyone else?
I think I am jaded. I have a great friend in denial of her hubby's addiction. I have previously posted about it but in case you missed it he is the one that said, and I quote, "A, crack is not addicting." (in that duh tone). So now he has a hurt back and has been prescribed my nemesis: Vicodin. I HATE Vicodin. This is very close to C's problem though he wasn't using crack at the time of his back injury (not in the early part). He didn't want to take pain medicine because he was afraid of it. This brings tears to my eyes when I think about it now. I worked about 60-70 hours a week during that time because we were poor and needed to incomes. He did get worker's comp but it was only 70% of his check and that was a big part. So after his surgery he still didn't take his medicine. We didn't fill the prescriptions. Then he started filling them. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. We told his Dr. that he had addiction issues. I assumed it was under control. His mother (duh duh duh!) brings over her bottle (this happens earlier though I was unaware) and leaves it on the kitchen table. She cannot bear to see her son in pain! Crocodile tears. She knew he didn't want to take them. She left them there and he found them and the rest is history. So back to the original idea. I am jaded. I thought that we were all unique. I mean i guess we are but we are so similar. Why? My friend, A, her hubby is now taking Vicodin. Oh the Horror! I mean, Vicodin served its purpose for me after the birth of my third baby (when I had the tubes tied, best decision ever!!!) and I was hurting and I took like, 6 and that was enough. But for an addict, for an addict it is something else. Vicodin is the baby brother to Hydrocodone which is the baby brother to Heroin. It sucks. It all sucks. I can see into their future. Why does it always have to be the back?? Opioids are the worst thing ever. They are a drain, a leech and there is never enough. That addiction knows no "rock bottom" because it is a hole. A big, black hole. Oh it is so negative, I am sorry.
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Back pain: Leading cause of disability
According to numerous researchers and medical journals, back pain is:
— The most common type of pain reported by adults in the United States, with more than one in four reporting some back pain lasting at least a day in the past three months. Eight of every 10 people in the United States will suffer from lower back pain at one point in their lives.
— The most common reason injured workers file for workers’ compensation claims, accounting for about one in every five U.S. claims for workers’ compensation.
— The leading cause of disability in the United States military.
— The leading cause of disability in people under age 45 and the third-leading cause in people older than that, after cancer and heart problems. One study found that two of every three people aged 20 to 60 reported some type of spinal pain in a given year.
— The leading cause of missed work time or doctor’s visits after headaches and cold symptoms
From:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17594130/
As you can see from the info above, back pain is one of the most common health complaints.
But if you'll notice the last doctor quoted in this news piece says that back pain is also "normal".
Now don't get me wrong, because I know there is a passel of people with legitimate and chronic back pain, but this just makes it easier for other to abuse the system and fake it. Doctor shoppers take advantage of complacent docs lulled into a rut from the same diagnosis.
Back pain is also easy to fake being that almost anyone over the age of thirty will have some degree of wear and tear they can point to as a source of the pain.
Here's an interesting link:http://www.wikihow.com/Fake-an-Injury-(Back-and-Foot)
Prescription pill addictions are awful devious because of the rationalization reinforcement that its really okay because it was prescribed and legal.
I definitely not pointing any fingers here, but because the back is such a common complaint it is fertile ground for abuse.
I agree that prescription pills are the devil. My husband's heroin addiction grew out of an oxycontin addiction. I hate opiates in every flavor...
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