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Hi everyone. My name is Kim. My husband of 19 years is an opiate addict. After a back injury in 2007, he was prescribed Lorcet. For about 2 years he took it as prescribed with no problems. Then the tolerance built up. He was then sent to pain management. There, he was given MS-ER (a time release morphine). That's when things first began to get out of hand. I had no idea someone could become addicted to anything a doctor prescribed. The first time he ran out of pills and was in bed for a week, I truly believed him when he said he was "sick". Then I started researching pain pills. I have begged him to stop taking them since! Every month he would run out and every month he would spend days in bed waiting for his next refill. October of 2013, he visited a couple of different Urgent Care offices and 2 hospital ER's trying to get more. That's when the buying began. When he (we) ran out of money, he went to an ER blaming depression for his problems. He spent a full week in a behavioral health facility with drug abuse never being discussed. He came home and all was well for a few months. I noticed money being withdrawn from our bank account regularly and confronted him. His answer was he owed someone money from before. Hitting what I would consider his bottom, the day after Thanksgiving he got up, after being in bed for 3 straight days and nights, and confessed he was using again only this time it was stronger pills and a lot more of them. He had stolen $6800 from my dad through forging checks and wanted help. Today marks 21 days clean for him and over 4 years of hell, anger and resentment for me. I'm glad he seems to want to be clean and stay that way but I have no idea what to do with all of my emotions from the years.
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