2007-05-21 04:16:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
For the lady who said anyone who takes painkillers on a regular basis is addicted, WRONG, WRONG WRONG. Ask ANY doctor about the difference between addiction and dependance. Diabetics are dependant on insulin... they must take it every day and if they do not or if they stop abruptly, they will have very unpleasant side-effects. Are THEY called addicts? No. But chronic pain patients are. It's the exact same thing. Both individuals have a medical condition. Both take medications to control it. But only the chronic pain patient is called an addict. ANYONE with a medical condition who takes medication is dependant on the medication. ANYONE. And anyone would have unpleasant side effects if they stopped abruptly, like withdrawals. Withdrawlas are not a symptom of addiction. You body chemistry has been changed by the medication so it's natural to have trouble if you stop suddenly. Addiction is a BEHAVIORAL issue. When people take the medications in spite of negative consequences to themselves or family/friends, or take them if they don't have pain, or doctor shop to get meds or are spending significant amounts of time obtaining and using the meds, or forgo other activites to use, THEN they are addicted. LESS than between 1 and 5 % of chronic pain patients become addicts. They become dependant, and that's only natural and the same thing as anyone else who takes any other medication on a regular basis. Don't be so quick to judge people just because they are pain patients.
2007-05-23 11:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by Mandy VZ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. It takes more than just the painkillers. You have to have an addictive personality.
Correction: Sorry. Yes, I can see how you can become addicted because of chronic pain.
I was referring to people who become addicted due to recreational use. You have to have to have an addict's nature to get involved on that level.
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2017-01-10 12:19:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope...my addiction is limited to Oreo cookies and milk. And no...I don't want to go to the Betty Ford Oreo Center!
Sadly, I have no doubt that millions of Americans are addicted to pain killers....and to Xanax, Valium and Antivan.
2007-05-21 13:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me, I do, I am really addicted to Coricidin, and anything else I can get my hands on.
I'l do and try anything, really, as long as I know I won't die the first dose :p. Anyways, yeah, I am, hehe.
I like to put heavvvvvvvvvvvvvy dose painkillers in my butt and just trip out, haha.
2007-05-21 04:23:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh yes, I am, sadly my lower back had a hair line crack, (abused by first hubby).
And I have been addicted since.
I use *acurate* and take up to 6 a day.
It's a bad thing, but I have never tried to get off them either.
2007-05-21 05:22:14 · answer #6 · answered by unity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am and always will be,except today I am doing something about it.And let me tell you that withdrawling off of pain killers is no joke. It's rough. It's hell! I can't think of nothing else to say about how awlful it is trying to withdrawl from them. I would'nt wish that on nobody.
2007-05-21 04:37:22 · answer #7 · answered by Leneki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my husband is and probably anyone who takes them on a regualar basis is. most dr dont tell you that they are addictive but they are very much so. and no my husband doesnt take them to get high he takes them as perscribed to him to live a somewhat normal life....figato you are wrong my dear it doesnt take and addictive personlity it take being on them every day. and thats it.
2007-05-21 04:27:37 · answer #8 · answered by crazyme 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm willing to admit that I am, yes. Why do you ask? I'm awfully curious now...
2007-05-21 06:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by yvkujhbkuyb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am , but right now tryin to get over it i was addicted to oxycontin, morphine and methadone. i had a really tuff time getting over them please dont abuse them.
2007-05-21 13:59:29 · answer #10 · answered by soccer freak 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋