One really good reason that people start pain meds is because of PAIN!!! I know this does not apply to every single person but for older adults who get ignored by the local physicians then you have no choice if pain is chronic and severe!! There has to be a better solution to helping and not just ignoring!!
I hurt my back and my Dr prescribed me ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY, NORCO 10/325s for SIXTEEN YEARS until I almost DIED from them. I've been clean and sober for over six and a half years, and proudly so! I know I'm not the only one he did that to, simply because he didn't know what else to do with us. He's retired now, but I wonder if he ever thinks about the lives he helped destroy, and I say 'helped' because he just prescribed them; I put them in my body. But it's as you said - PAIN and OLDER PEOPLE DON'T GO WELL TOGETHER.
@@GhettoToaster85 True, but I know what it's like to naively trust the doctor because, well, it's your doctor... I know better now, but I only learned my lesson after my own addiction and withdrawal issues from prescriptions. They fucked up my mental health so bad. I don't miss that shit at all.
The way I explained it to people was like there was always something missing(My whole life) and the 1st time I tried pills it filled that void perfectly. I felt "NORMAL" for once in my life. Got to the point I was taking 10- 80mg oxys A day. It took me losing my babies to wake up. The consequences are still effecting me 8 years clean. I never got 1 of my babies back so I worry about her becoming an addict.
Sorry to hear that, and I understand people don’t think about what you’ve accomplished after stopping, they just label you. Just be proud of yourself and take whatever steps you can to fix or make the situation better.
Pain that is so intense that it completely robs you of any quality of life is the problem. My doctor trusts me not to abuse my Fentanyl, but she told me that there are some people she would never prescribe an opioid pain medication to. I’m a good candidate for opioid therapy because I respect the medication, I use only as directed, and I’m grateful to have it prescribed to me.
Same here. I'm 65 and after 5 years I too respect my meds. I've always been a control freak which has always kept me away from getting stupid on drugs, legal or otherwise.
same here. Chronic pain patient here for last 10 years and never had dose increase and take as prescribed . Yes there are chronic pain patients that use there opioids responsibility
Indeed, the "revolution" in opioids is a bad one, the opioid epidemic might've been bad, but the "solutions" they came up with, are no better. Be happy your Dr. prescribes you this, alltho I wouldn't recommend a synthetic opioid like fentanyl when there is plenty of semi-synthetic stuff around (like morphine, buprenorfin, hydromorphone). What your Dr. says about "ppl she would never describe to" is a dangerous thing to believe tho, cuz it's the labeling of ppl, be it as addicts or ppl with "mental disorders". Cuz you know every person suffering pain would be mentally affected too. There is a very thin line, if any, between use, and abuse. And i know, cuz I use opiates on myself after doctors refused to prescribe me. Main reason being that I don't have cancer or i'm not dying, how stupid is that? So I already used an uncontrolled substance, opiate, yet they prefer me to keep taking that instead of prescribing me something. I find that not only very stupid & ignorant, but also heartless..
My mom was a single parent and she had mental health issues and she used heroin. Watching her sick- hurt me she wasnt able to move - , mental hospital's had become routine ! i swore i would never touch it i swore i would never become like that , at such a young age it just takes that split second, i drifted - i became what i swore i would never. ✴✴✴
I feel u hun!! Id been in a mental hospital in my early 20s i had a breakdown after findin my neighbour dead he took his own life not nice how he did it either i didn realise i had PTSD setting in, I was already on meds for depression anxiety so wasnt until da breakdown everything went down hill. Only way was up but gosh dont we all go through some battles. An its so sad some pass away by accident od because of their own demons :( hope ur ok
these videos continue to blow my mind because they really are helping me understand my own life. As an addict since 14 and getting on heroin by 18, it is a hard truth in a lot of ways but it is very insightful. Thank you for doing these videos, very helpful. 🙏🏻
So yes having an addictive personality can make you more prone to using drugs but what can be done to stop this? Do I just need to live with a hole and feel like sh*t everyday? Some don’t know how to be normal but society sees us as “bad” “evil” or “undisciplined.” Wish there was more compassion and understanding for the addict….
Exactly!!! The opioids are not the problem. It’s the things causing the pain or anxiety that are the problem. Drugs are not the problem. The things that lead people to run to drugs, is the problem. What are people trying to escape from that’s too overwhelming for people to handle? If funding was pushed to treat the root problem, there would be LESS need to combat drug abuse cuz less people would be abusing!! This is not a difficult thing to grasp.
@@laurasainz4836 yes, I agree! It’s so simple you’d miss it. Addiction, like depression, has to be something a person wants to get over, a lot of people don’t because it means having to deal with reality; so, in many respects, depression can be an escape. Addiction, too.
@@wonderingobserver2231 I don’t have a problem with how people choose to deal with their pain as long as they’re not hurting someone else. People are adults and should be allowed the freedom to CHOOSE for themselves.
@@laurasainz4836 That’s true but just about everyone that gets into opioids do not understand the consequences, so they really don’t know what they’re choosing to do, and you can never put it in words the suffering they’ll go through in a way they’ll listen. That’s the whole problem and reason people get addicted, they don’t know what they’re getting into when they are high and feel good.
I had a very happy life up until I started getting prescribed oxycontin. There was no addiction in my family. I become a addict just because I liked the feeling the tablets give me.
Also it's very sad I'm some towns you can not even get daily real needed medication example I been on the same dosage of xanax since age 15 due to literally not being able to leave home ptsd agoraphobia panic disorder but now so many Dr's say well we don't or won't or can't prescribe them.....all because ppl that either abused them or what have u now the entire world is affected on what others do w medication that could really save someone life
Real reason for high relapse is the ex addict finds himself once again just as he was before he started his addiction subject to the same pressures misunderstandings injustices paranoia complications and pain that maid him reach out for heroin in the first place
God, this one was so uncomfortable for me. My late brothers used to talk about how they were addicted to sugar as children. They always used to say that they were "born addicts." It's interesting to me that they saw that in themselves. When I reflect on it, yes, I can see that addictive behaviour extremely present in them as young children, but it's so easy to pass that off as just "childish behaviour." I really seriously don't think my parents could see it for what it was. My brothers and I were raised by grieving parents (children born after the loss of a young child, our oldest sibling) so my parents were incredibly indulgent and permissive. I think that really fed into it all. I also learned, after my brothers passed, that my Dad had a very short stint as a heroin addict long before we were born. It all seems to make sense now. Interestingly though, I do not have an "addict brain" and have never abused any substances. I am the person who could not tolerate taking painkillers and I can't even take things like antihistamines because they have an opiate-like effect on me. I cannot in any sense tolerate that feeling. I almost feel like my body has protected me from any sort of addiction. But when you say that someone with an addict parent is 8 times more likely to experience a pleasurable experience with an opiate, it makes so fucking much sense to me. My brothers got into opiates when they were 15 and 16 because their best friend was stealing oxys from his parents. I firmly believe that they were addicts from the very first time they ever tried it. They have said as such many times over the years. The experience was just too overwhelmingly pleasurable for them, it's like they were hard-wired specifically for it. However, I have only taken painkillers one single time in my life (after I got my wisdom teeth taken out) and it was a genuinely horrendous, negative experience for me, and I ended up flushing all of the pills. 3 siblings and two very different reactions to such drugs. It's interesting. I truly believe in the addict brain and that my brothers could only have avoided opiate addiction (and eventual death from fentanyl poisoning) had they never, ever encountered the drugs entirely. What started with marijuana turned very quickly (and so young) to oxy which turned to heroin which turned to coke and crack and meth and fentanyl until it killed them. My brothers were incredibly smart, talented, funny, hardworking, artistic, loving, empathetic, sensitive people who deserved to find out that there was a life for them outside of their addictions, but it has to come from within. Nothing my parents and I did over the course of 15 years ever had any effect at all. I really feel as though my brothers simply submitted to their addictions and accepted their fates and could not see a way around it. But I believed in them until the very end. My parents never gave up on them. These boys were not living in the streets, unwanted, they were loved and supported and they didn't have mental illness, adversity, poverty, any sort of the typical challenges. I just firmly believe they were predisposed to addiction and and it was worse than my family ever really realized. I know there's a different timeline where they got clean and got to live the good life. But on this timeline, the drugs and the addiction speaks so much louder than love and logic, and bad, horrendous, God awful things happen to good people.
So sorry for your loss. Fentanyl is an evil drug and has robbed my son of 7 years of his life. I hope and pray one day that he will overcome his addiction. 🙏
One thing I learned throughout my addiction journey is that once I reached the point where I even wondered whether or not I could be dependent it was already too late. People who aren’t self medicating aren’t even pondering the question, it’s not going to be on their radar. If you’re thinking about the ‘what ifs’ and even slightly concerned about whether or not you’re at risk - it’s likely because your subconscious is making observations about your frame of mind and thoughts or behaviours that already indicate that you’re not in safe waters.
I am raising my daughters 2 children ones 1yr and ones 3yr. My daughter used heron , fentanyl & meth… while pregnant! Baby daddy used the same as well . They lost there rights to the kids .. There is a bond that the 3 yr old has with his mom & dad! He adores them .. and they visit often.. My heart is so broken for them! This helps me so much! Still is there more I can do to help my grandchildren avoid addiction as they get older?
I got a double whammy, my dad was an alcoholic & my mom a prescription addict to opioids. Two out of 3 of kids turned out addicted to opioids & the 3rd can't even take a Tylenol.
It's inevitable and if the addict has money, or access to it, society enables them. Somehow I was blamed for a drug problem that existed before I was around and has persisted long after I left. Witnessing familial destruction from afar ever since.
I had a codiene addiction was nasty!! Yeh i know its only doctors medicine but it stil an opiate!! Still addiction an stil went through same shit an luckily i got help an started to value myself again. Traumas also add addiction!!!
This is not even possibly with the twisted world we are leaving. So many families are broken one parent only that person has to work 2-3 jobs just to play the bills
Florida pill mill got me hooked after a batch wisdom tooth extract. I lived with migraines for 15 years than a dr. gave me oxycodone an it helped me survive. Used correct I didn't see how they are bad. Same milligrams a day, no problem.
What's passed down is mental illness which left untreated leads one into self-medicating and turns into drug addiction. Untreated bipolar depression anxiety etc.
Question - what if the addiction to opioids in the parents or parent occurred after the birth of the child? Does the genetic risk lower or is it still the same?
I know several people who both there parents are addicts and they was exposed etc and they won't n have not done anything because they seen that growing up so 🤷
Respectfully, I’ll offer a metaphor so you might see the flaw in this statement: You are 8x more likely to die in a car accident if you don’t wear a seatbelt. “I know a few people who don’t wear seatbelts and haven’t died in car accidents so…”
Such a complex issue, but I think we need to widen the lens and think mutli-systemic and multi-factored... What about values of society.... we need to be perfect in our career, income/resources inequalities, the perceived worthlessness if we don't have a 100 000+ /per year salary, owning cars, having the perfect family; impoverished communities, climate change impacting our daily lives without realizing it....i think the medical field needs to come down it's pedestal and start taking into account the importance of "environmental factors" (i.e pass individual/families factors)
I became addicted to fentanyl when I got shingles. It was chemical lobotomy and was frankly not a good medicine for that kind of nerve pain. I tried to stop again and again, but the withdrawal happened far too quickly and I soon started again. My doctor helped me quit with buprenorphine and clonidine. It was excruciating, but far better than cold turkey. The pain from shingles is treated with low-narcotic medicinal cannabis from Holland. Works perfectly.
I realized recently I'm an opiate addict. I was taking one 7.5mg hydrocodone from a friend each morning. My knee and back has been hurting for years but no doctor takes it seriously is why I even took the first ones. Over the last year I found myself needing more and more just for function. The other day I realized I had taken 140mg spread out over 8ish hours but I was still hurting. I took the last few I had and decided I should not get anymore. I'm honestly considering telling my doctor I need to taper down slowly but I am afraid they'll never agree and worse blacklist me thinking I'm just always exhibiting addict tendency.
I don't live un the US, I Just can't believe how easily people can get opiods prescribed by doctors for things like tooth acke. I feel really releaved that in my country opiods are not easy to get even by doctors prescription
I got addicted from when they was giving out 240 a month now I only get 60 which does nothing for my pain...I keep telling my doc to just give me one more and he says he'll never go up, so this Friday I plan to tell him I'll be leaving to go back to my old doctor where I was for 10 yrs just left due to a doc lying to my face and the doctor who's practice it was didn't try to help or talk to her, guess I'll give them a call a couple days before my appointment Friday to make sure I can go back which I know I can but they so busy now its hard to get a call back
At 9 years old i was given percodan around the clock for 2 weeks for my wisdom teeth pulled I have battled opiate addiction all my life I’m now 55 years old and I’m dependent on percs my life has been hell
I come from a family where my father was a GP, but many years ago, he came down with dementia, before he passed away in his 80's. I had over the years, after my father could not be my GP, a number of injuries that were things like hairline fracture, twisting my arm so badly, my elbow swells to the size of a tennis ball and my median nerve is damaged. i am not prone to family addiction as is presented, however during these instances, the strongest painkiller the hospital will prescribe me, including post surgical injury was paracetamol or ibuprofen. Ironic when the pharmacies sell over the counter in the UK & Ireland Codeine up to 8 mg. It's no wonder people go to a very dangerous black market to buy a fake Oxy laced with fentanyl for pain relief. I did it.
One of the problems is that even professionals like this doctor tells you that it is ok for some people to use some recreational drugs and almost all movies in America show that it is ok and normal to do drugs.
In nov.2019 I got a 3 level acdf level surgery c4c5c6. I need a lumbar fusion. But forget all this chronic pain and I use 20mg oxycodona and smoke high quality cannabis joints thru out the day . The pain is crazy and cold weather messes me up.... I'm only 40 years old and I feel like 60...crazy how life suxks
Maybe not a good, nor a bad thing but, having grown up in a country where you are not so likely to get a prescription to deal with mental health, but rather therapy, and only in some cases, medication, I don't think the medicine cabinet of an average home in Mex would be stashed with anything like Percocet. Now... buying alcohol, is incredibly easy for teenagers.
What if the sperm of the father had opioids in it at the time of conception yet the mother was clean? Is there still that 8 /10% for future addiction to opioids? Is the answer yes, due to the fact that the sperm enters the uterus, to then flood the uterus and the blood stream of the mother?? Asking as my father was an opioid user , but not my mother. Thanks
Dude the interviewer had little understanding of how the addiction progresses. It is rare for someone for the first time to seek out heroin even if there parents were addicts. It can happen to anybody it normally starts out as an Injury being treated with opiates and most likely due to the genetics that person really liked the way it made them feel. time goes on and they want something stronger until it inevitably gets to expensive and there options become heroin or more recently fentanyl.
The part for inherited addiction makes no sense... The genetic as a field is still far away and not researched or proven to make statements that a child from an addict has 8 times more chances to become an addict...
Early sign - I would get a new 45 record & play it over & over & ...non-stop, exclusively. Pursued sex relentlessly, can sit at a slot machine endlessly...so drugs followed a pattern? Or was it only the need to help regulate severe pain, and the addiction came along with the relief? SOME pain relief medication need not carry a physically addicting component with it? Seems could be effective analgesics available or developed that would NOT be physically addictive. Like opioids. With this pain, I am Dependent more than addicted? All problems don't go away for me, just this pain is dampened.
I have adhd very bad and my dad drinks about 5 cups of coffee daily. I use caffene like its cocaine, ive snorted and smoked more caffene pills than likely anyone you know
I honestly don’t think this guy knows what he’s talking about. Would like to see his sources and also I would have preferred a less stigmatizing mental health professional to cover this topic. Really outdated and fearmongering tactics here
If drugs weren't amazing, nobody would use it. If truth wasn't shitty at times, everyone would speak it. Ps. If it's not by free will, but choice due to medical reasons. That's a little different. Why is it intense? A pill or some smoke might seem innocent, but 'good things may come in small packages' something has to be a certain degree of intense to influence a body. Also once the body gets used to prescription amount, then the amount goes up if it has to keep doing it's job. Take that step 5 times getting back to 0 is 5 times more of a shock to your system. But that's just a part if it. Aside from genetics. We all differ, our thresholds do as well. ✌
I need to tell you something that I think so many people in authority, particularly law enforcement, just don't understand. Essentially, addiction problems should be handled by MEDICAL personnel, NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. Let me make it clear to you what happens, and results, which do absolutely no good, but instead cause terrible damage to a user and society in general. because of things a user of illegal psychotropic drugs is forced to doWHEN A PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCE/DRUG BECOMES ILLEGAL ***(NOTE: I'll use the term "psychotropic" essentially to mean a substance that gets you "high." It's clear to me, and very many others, including those in the medical and legal community, the main reasons for making certain psychotreopic drugs illegal, which I'll list below: First off, It makes law enforcement look good, in that they are doing their job and getting the illegal drugs off the street as well as punishing those addicted to those drugs, often by incarcerating them. Those who truly benefit from the illegality of psychotropic substances are as follows: (1) Law Enforcement, including police officers making a fortune in overtime just to process a simple marijuana arrest, which they are more than happy to do. (2) The Judicial System, which includes judges, lawyers, prosecuters, and others with jobs in the legal profession (3) The prison system, which is all too happy to keep drug offenders in their jails. Much of the prison system in the U.S. is privately owned, so the more people incarcerated in their facilities, the better for them. There are literally THOUSANDS of people who are doing time for possession of small amounts of marujuana, which is a disgrace to this country but a real bonus for the prison system. (4) ORGANIZED CRIME - Anyone who has a knowledge of the prohibition of alcohol in this country that began in the 1920's and lasted into the 1930, will realize the DISASTER and total failure that it was. It spawned the Organized Crime organized groups that are still in existence today, and are flourishing for the same reason...the illegality of psychotropic drugs. It is clear that making a psychotropic drug illegal DOES NOT WORK!. Besides benefitting organized crime, it has much worse effects, as I'll show below. The facts I will show came from this CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/202205.htm HERE IS WHAT IT SHOWED: DRUG TYPE (DEATHS 2021) (DEATHS 2020) Synthetic Opioids (fentanyl) 71,238 57,834 Psychostimulants (meth) 32,856 24,576 Cocaine 24,538 19,927 Natural/semi-synthetic (prescription) 13,503 13,722 As you can clearly see, the deaths due to Fentanyl overdoseswere FIVE TIMES the deaths from PRESCRIBED OPIOIDS (Vicodin, Percocet, etc.). What is the reason for that? It's the absolute failure of Law Enforcement and non-medical people to understand addiction! Law Enforcement is bragging about how they have taken PRESCRIPTION pain medication off of the streets and made it almost impossible to get in any legal way. ALL NARCOTIC pain medication is strictly monitored via a database throughout the U.S., and in effect has stopped "doctor shopping" and made it nearly impossible to get legal pain medication without a prescription, which nearly every one is sent to the pharmacy electronically. You, and Law Enforcement, would think that taking Opioids off the street would end the massive amount of deaths due to PRESCRIPTION Opioids. THAT COULDN'T BE MORE INCORRECT! Instead, addicts turned to buying street "Opioids," which in effect are some filler (like lactose) with Fentanyl added to it in order to give the user a high and stop the terrible pain of withdrawl. The problem with that is the fact that Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S.. Because of the potentcy of Fentanyl compared to prescription Opioids, the terrible result is this: Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdose deaths in the United States. In 2017, 59.8 percent of opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl compared to 14.3 percent in 2010. Also see the chart above for the years 2020 and 2021. I am making this comment to the author of this RUclips post in the hope that he will pass it along to the people that truly understand what drug addiction is all about - that by taking Opioids off of the street and making them nearly impossible to get them legally by prescription has NOT HELPED TO REDUCE DEATHS DUE TO OPIOID USE - IN FACT IT HAS MADE IT 5-TIMES WORSE! What is needed is an entirely different approach to the Opioid problem. PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO OPIOIDS NEED TO BE ABLE TO RCEIVE THE OPIOIDS THAT THERE BODY CRAVES IN A SAFE MANNER UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION. Until that happens, very many people will die from Fentanyl overdoses. The great musical artist, Prince, was one of the casualties of a Fentanyl overdose. I am begging you, Dr. Sportelli, to make it clear to others, especially our legislators, that the current method to solve the Opioid problem IS NOT WORKING and they need to understand why. PROHIBITION NEVER HAD, AND NEVER WILL, PREVENT THE USE OF SOMETHING THAT IS IN DESPERATE DEMAND BY PEOPLE. THAT IS A KNOWN FACT THE WE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED FORM THE PROHIBITION LAWS THAT WERE PASSED IN 1920 AND LASTED TO 1933. Many will deny what I am about to say, but not much has been done to truly do what needs to be done to finally end the Opioid problem in this country BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE IN POWER THAT I HAVE LISTED ABOVE IN NUMBERS (1) - (4) ARE RECEIVING HUGE FINANCIAL BENEFITS FROM THE ILLEGALITY OF OPIOIDS AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS THAT ARE KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.
When my mom read an article in the news paper she used to say... oh no ! then we asked what is it and she would read it to us. She would also cut an article and just put it on the kitchen table and children are curious so we read it... no need of morale talk LOL and it works sorry for my english, I'm french :)
My nephew is addicted to drugs, Alcohol and smoking and there is nothing we could do to help him because there is no man and money power. My marriage broke down and I am literally going through bad phase of life. Unable to explain my situation.
IT could work putting him into a room with no chances of ever escaping. And taken care of... treatment food water whatver he needs. But never never fall for what he says. Treatment given there is suboxone in droping doses and after continuing with naloxone. And freed after at least 6 months of this treatment. If he goes back....turn Ur backs because IT is IT what he wishes and u cant do shit about IT. Take Ur goodbyes and wish him luck and strenght and take care of Ur life keep urself well take care of Ur mind and spirit dont look no more at devastating ppl or situations.life is beautiful If u want IT to make IT so....with the simple stuff ...eat Something u like, surround urself with even stramgers...but with whom u feel comfortable and ok..and step by step...u LL get there. This comming from an18years old heroin addict...recovered at my will And fathers support. Hugs and lucks 🙌
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One really good reason that people start pain meds is because of PAIN!!! I know this does not apply to every single person but for older adults who get ignored by the local physicians then you have no choice if pain is chronic and severe!! There has to be a better solution to helping and not just ignoring!!
I hurt my back and my Dr prescribed me ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY, NORCO 10/325s for SIXTEEN YEARS until I almost DIED from them. I've been clean and sober for over six and a half years, and proudly so! I know I'm not the only one he did that to, simply because he didn't know what else to do with us. He's retired now, but I wonder if he ever thinks about the lives he helped destroy, and I say 'helped' because he just prescribed them; I put them in my body. But it's as you said - PAIN and OLDER PEOPLE DON'T GO WELL TOGETHER.
@@lauriedavidson1585 he didnt force them down your throat. You couldve said no and went to another dr. You cant blame everything on the dr. Js
@@GhettoToaster85 well hey dichead...it's was a doctor telling you to take themmm...you didn't know they were bad for you ....it was a fkg doctor
@@GhettoToaster85 True, but I know what it's like to naively trust the doctor because, well, it's your doctor... I know better now, but I only learned my lesson after my own addiction and withdrawal issues from prescriptions. They fucked up my mental health so bad. I don't miss that shit at all.
@@ember-brandt awe! I am sorry you had to go through that! Hopefully you are all better now thouggh
The way I explained it to people was like there was always something missing(My whole life) and the 1st time I tried pills it filled that void perfectly. I felt "NORMAL" for once in my life. Got to the point I was taking 10- 80mg oxys A day. It took me losing my babies to wake up. The consequences are still effecting me 8 years clean. I never got 1 of my babies back so I worry about her becoming an addict.
Sorry for your loss and congratulations for your streight and fighting every day to staying sobber, hope you can see your child again
Sorry to hear that, and I understand people don’t think about what you’ve accomplished after stopping, they just label you. Just be proud of yourself and take whatever steps you can to fix or make the situation better.
But that’s why not to care about what people think, be proud of what you know about yourself, and don’t worry about what people don’t know.
Thank you for sharing
@@wonderingobserver2231 NEVER, EVER waste your time on others opinions of you.
Let he who hath NO SIN cast the first stone!
Pain that is so intense that it completely robs you of any quality of life is the problem. My doctor trusts me not to abuse my Fentanyl, but she told me that there are some people she would never prescribe an opioid pain medication to. I’m a good candidate for opioid therapy because I respect the medication, I use only as directed, and I’m grateful to have it prescribed to me.
Same here. I'm 65 and after 5 years I too respect my meds. I've always been a control freak which has always kept me away from getting stupid on drugs, legal or otherwise.
same here. Chronic pain patient here for last 10 years and never had dose increase and take as prescribed . Yes there are chronic pain patients that use there opioids responsibility
Indeed, the "revolution" in opioids is a bad one, the opioid epidemic might've been bad, but the "solutions" they came up with, are no better. Be happy your Dr. prescribes you this, alltho I wouldn't recommend a synthetic opioid like fentanyl when there is plenty of semi-synthetic stuff around (like morphine, buprenorfin, hydromorphone). What your Dr. says about "ppl she would never describe to" is a dangerous thing to believe tho, cuz it's the labeling of ppl, be it as addicts or ppl with "mental disorders". Cuz you know every person suffering pain would be mentally affected too. There is a very thin line, if any, between use, and abuse. And i know, cuz I use opiates on myself after doctors refused to prescribe me. Main reason being that I don't have cancer or i'm not dying, how stupid is that? So I already used an uncontrolled substance, opiate, yet they prefer me to keep taking that instead of prescribing me something. I find that not only very stupid & ignorant, but also heartless..
My mom was a single parent and she had mental health issues and she used heroin. Watching her sick- hurt me she wasnt able to move - , mental hospital's had become routine !
i swore i would never touch it i swore i would never become like that , at such a young age it just takes that split second, i drifted - i became what i swore i would never. ✴✴✴
I feel u hun!! Id been in a mental hospital in my early 20s i had a breakdown after findin my neighbour dead he took his own life not nice how he did it either i didn realise i had PTSD setting in, I was already on meds for depression anxiety so wasnt until da breakdown everything went down hill. Only way was up but gosh dont we all go through some battles. An its so sad some pass away by accident od because of their own demons :( hope ur ok
Im blessed today💛
I have3 sons and their amazing
@@traceyminx2504 💛
It’s insane how most psychiatrists I’ve seen they never checked if there was a history of drug addiction in my family. Not even once.
I love the dog sleeping peacefully on the floor 😄
He is not sleeping, he is stoned!!!😁😂😉
Even if you are aware of these tendencies you can still get wrapped up in them.
these videos continue to blow my mind because they really are helping me understand my own life. As an addict since 14 and getting on heroin by 18, it is a hard truth in a lot of ways but it is very insightful. Thank you for doing these videos, very helpful. 🙏🏻
So yes having an addictive personality can make you more prone to using drugs but what can be done to stop this? Do I just need to live with a hole and feel like sh*t everyday? Some don’t know how to be normal but society sees us as “bad” “evil” or “undisciplined.” Wish there was more compassion and understanding for the addict….
“The substance is only the painkiller, the pain is the problem” Sr Consilio Fitzgerald
Exactly!!! The opioids are not the problem. It’s the things causing the pain or anxiety that are the problem. Drugs are not the problem. The things that lead people to run to drugs, is the problem. What are people trying to escape from that’s too overwhelming for people to handle? If funding was pushed to treat the root problem, there would be LESS need to combat drug abuse cuz less people would be abusing!! This is not a difficult thing to grasp.
@@laurasainz4836 yes, I agree! It’s so simple you’d miss it. Addiction, like depression, has to be something a person wants to get over, a lot of people don’t because it means having to deal with reality; so, in many respects, depression can be an escape. Addiction, too.
And you can never fully end pain, which is what you have to accept to stop. However, there are healthy ways to lessen it which is the goal.
@@wonderingobserver2231 I don’t have a problem with how people choose to deal with their pain as long as they’re not hurting someone else. People are adults and should be allowed the freedom to CHOOSE for themselves.
@@laurasainz4836 That’s true but just about everyone that gets into opioids do not understand the consequences, so they really don’t know what they’re choosing to do, and you can never put it in words the suffering they’ll go through in a way they’ll listen. That’s the whole problem and reason people get addicted, they don’t know what they’re getting into when they are high and feel good.
I had a very happy life up until I started getting prescribed oxycontin. There was no addiction in my family. I become a addict just because I liked the feeling the tablets give me.
Also it's very sad I'm some towns you can not even get daily real needed medication example I been on the same dosage of xanax since age 15 due to literally not being able to leave home ptsd agoraphobia panic disorder but now so many Dr's say well we don't or won't or can't prescribe them.....all because ppl that either abused them or what have u now the entire world is affected on what others do w medication that could really save someone life
Keep going to a different dr until you get it I had to do that to get my clonapin
Real reason for high relapse is the ex addict finds himself once again just as he was before he started his addiction subject to the same pressures misunderstandings injustices paranoia complications and pain that maid him reach out for heroin in the first place
God, this one was so uncomfortable for me.
My late brothers used to talk about how they were addicted to sugar as children. They always used to say that they were "born addicts." It's interesting to me that they saw that in themselves. When I reflect on it, yes, I can see that addictive behaviour extremely present in them as young children, but it's so easy to pass that off as just "childish behaviour." I really seriously don't think my parents could see it for what it was. My brothers and I were raised by grieving parents (children born after the loss of a young child, our oldest sibling) so my parents were incredibly indulgent and permissive. I think that really fed into it all.
I also learned, after my brothers passed, that my Dad had a very short stint as a heroin addict long before we were born. It all seems to make sense now.
Interestingly though, I do not have an "addict brain" and have never abused any substances. I am the person who could not tolerate taking painkillers and I can't even take things like antihistamines because they have an opiate-like effect on me. I cannot in any sense tolerate that feeling. I almost feel like my body has protected me from any sort of addiction. But when you say that someone with an addict parent is 8 times more likely to experience a pleasurable experience with an opiate, it makes so fucking much sense to me. My brothers got into opiates when they were 15 and 16 because their best friend was stealing oxys from his parents. I firmly believe that they were addicts from the very first time they ever tried it. They have said as such many times over the years. The experience was just too overwhelmingly pleasurable for them, it's like they were hard-wired specifically for it. However, I have only taken painkillers one single time in my life (after I got my wisdom teeth taken out) and it was a genuinely horrendous, negative experience for me, and I ended up flushing all of the pills. 3 siblings and two very different reactions to such drugs. It's interesting.
I truly believe in the addict brain and that my brothers could only have avoided opiate addiction (and eventual death from fentanyl poisoning) had they never, ever encountered the drugs entirely. What started with marijuana turned very quickly (and so young) to oxy which turned to heroin which turned to coke and crack and meth and fentanyl until it killed them. My brothers were incredibly smart, talented, funny, hardworking, artistic, loving, empathetic, sensitive people who deserved to find out that there was a life for them outside of their addictions, but it has to come from within. Nothing my parents and I did over the course of 15 years ever had any effect at all. I really feel as though my brothers simply submitted to their addictions and accepted their fates and could not see a way around it. But I believed in them until the very end. My parents never gave up on them. These boys were not living in the streets, unwanted, they were loved and supported and they didn't have mental illness, adversity, poverty, any sort of the typical challenges. I just firmly believe they were predisposed to addiction and and it was worse than my family ever really realized. I know there's a different timeline where they got clean and got to live the good life. But on this timeline, the drugs and the addiction speaks so much louder than love and logic, and bad, horrendous, God awful things happen to good people.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your brothers and the life that it led your family through.
So sorry for your loss. Fentanyl is an evil drug and has robbed my son of 7 years of his life. I hope and pray one day that he will overcome his addiction. 🙏
This is SO HELPFUL!! Thank you very, very much! From the non-addict wife of an opiate addict :) God Bless You!
One thing I learned throughout my addiction journey is that once I reached the point where I even wondered whether or not I could be dependent it was already too late. People who aren’t self medicating aren’t even pondering the question, it’s not going to be on their radar. If you’re thinking about the ‘what ifs’ and even slightly concerned about whether or not you’re at risk - it’s likely because your subconscious is making observations about your frame of mind and thoughts or behaviours that already indicate that you’re not in safe waters.
I am raising my daughters 2 children ones 1yr and ones 3yr.
My daughter used heron , fentanyl & meth… while pregnant! Baby daddy used the same as well .
They lost there rights to the kids .. There is a bond that the 3 yr old has with his mom & dad! He adores them .. and they visit often..
My heart is so broken for them!
This helps me so much! Still is there more I can do to help my grandchildren avoid addiction as they get older?
I got a double whammy, my dad was an alcoholic & my mom a prescription addict to opioids. Two out of 3 of kids turned out addicted to opioids & the 3rd can't even take a Tylenol.
Wish I could be as pain free and anxiety free as the dog sleeping peacefully on the floor. Beautiful dog
It's inevitable and if the addict has money, or access to it, society enables them. Somehow I was blamed for a drug problem that existed before I was around and has persisted long after I left. Witnessing familial destruction from afar ever since.
I had a codiene addiction was nasty!! Yeh i know its only doctors medicine but it stil an opiate!! Still addiction an stil went through same shit an luckily i got help an started to value myself again. Traumas also add addiction!!!
This is not even possibly with the twisted world we are leaving. So many families are broken one parent only that person has to work 2-3 jobs just to play the bills
Florida pill mill got me hooked after a batch wisdom tooth extract. I lived with migraines for 15 years than a dr. gave me oxycodone an it helped me survive. Used correct I didn't see how they are bad. Same milligrams a day, no problem.
Thanks so much for this informative and helpful video!
There are many different factors for many people, I feel. Positive vibes, love and blessings to you all! 💪✌️❤️
What's passed down is mental illness which left untreated leads one into self-medicating and turns into drug addiction. Untreated bipolar depression anxiety etc.
I so agree with the parent child relationship... that was a huge factor for me
Question - what if the addiction to opioids in the parents or parent occurred after the birth of the child? Does the genetic risk lower or is it still the same?
wow u guys are doing a fantastic job keep going with more deep subject about drug to help people to get their life back thx
I know several people who both there parents are addicts and they was exposed etc and they won't n have not done anything because they seen that growing up so 🤷
Respectfully, I’ll offer a metaphor so you might see the flaw in this statement:
You are 8x more likely to die in a car accident if you don’t wear a seatbelt. “I know a few people who don’t wear seatbelts and haven’t died in car accidents so…”
I have fibromyalgia as one of my pain conditions and gabapentin is often prescribed for fibromyalgia pain and works quite well for it
Such a complex issue, but I think we need to widen the lens and think mutli-systemic and multi-factored... What about values of society.... we need to be perfect in our career, income/resources inequalities, the perceived worthlessness if we don't have a 100 000+ /per year salary, owning cars, having the perfect family; impoverished communities, climate change impacting our daily lives without realizing it....i think the medical field needs to come down it's pedestal and start taking into account the importance of "environmental factors" (i.e pass individual/families factors)
sugar is the gateway substance.
I became addicted to fentanyl when I got shingles. It was chemical lobotomy and was frankly not a good medicine for that kind of nerve pain. I tried to stop again and again, but the withdrawal happened far too quickly and I soon started again. My doctor helped me quit with buprenorphine and clonidine. It was excruciating, but far better than cold turkey. The pain from shingles is treated with low-narcotic medicinal cannabis from Holland. Works perfectly.
I realized recently I'm an opiate addict. I was taking one 7.5mg hydrocodone from a friend each morning. My knee and back has been hurting for years but no doctor takes it seriously is why I even took the first ones. Over the last year I found myself needing more and more just for function. The other day I realized I had taken 140mg spread out over 8ish hours but I was still hurting. I took the last few I had and decided I should not get anymore. I'm honestly considering telling my doctor I need to taper down slowly but I am afraid they'll never agree and worse blacklist me thinking I'm just always exhibiting addict tendency.
I don't live un the US, I Just can't believe how easily people can get opiods prescribed by doctors for things like tooth acke. I feel really releaved that in my country opiods are not easy to get even by doctors prescription
It use to be that way. Now it's extremely hard to get pain killers for anything.
Can u do a video about chronic pain like spinal cord trauma or spinal conditions. Getting off opioids what can u do so ur not on them but can help.
I got addicted from when they was giving out 240 a month now I only get 60 which does nothing for my pain...I keep telling my doc to just give me one more and he says he'll never go up, so this Friday I plan to tell him I'll be leaving to go back to my old doctor where I was for 10 yrs just left due to a doc lying to my face and the doctor who's practice it was didn't try to help or talk to her, guess I'll give them a call a couple days before my appointment Friday to make sure I can go back which I know I can but they so busy now its hard to get a call back
I didn't notice the dog until 6:52. 😅
Thanks for sharing this,
The dog is soooooooo cute lying there facing the doctor 😂
At 9 years old i was given percodan around the clock for 2 weeks for my wisdom teeth pulled I have battled opiate addiction all my life I’m now 55 years old and I’m dependent on percs my life has been hell
I come from a family where my father was a GP, but many years ago, he came down with dementia, before he passed away in his 80's. I had over the years, after my father could not be my GP, a number of injuries that were things like hairline fracture, twisting my arm so badly, my elbow swells to the size of a tennis ball and my median nerve is damaged. i am not prone to family addiction as is presented, however during these instances, the strongest painkiller the hospital will prescribe me, including post surgical injury was paracetamol or ibuprofen. Ironic when the pharmacies sell over the counter in the UK & Ireland Codeine up to 8 mg. It's no wonder people go to a very dangerous black market to buy a fake Oxy laced with fentanyl for pain relief. I did it.
One of the problems is that even professionals like this doctor tells you that it is ok for some people to use some recreational drugs and almost all movies in America show that it is ok and normal to do drugs.
In nov.2019 I got a 3 level acdf level surgery c4c5c6. I need a lumbar fusion. But forget all this chronic pain and I use 20mg oxycodona and smoke high quality cannabis joints thru out the day . The pain is crazy and cold weather messes me up.... I'm only 40 years old and I feel like 60...crazy how life suxks
Off topic but I need to know…is it possible for a therapist to convince someone that they have DID?
Why would they
To study it, write a dissertation, believe that the diagnosis is correct. Sick yes. Just wondered if it was possible.
vicodin for a toothpain why?? In europe we dont use for such cases at all, there are so many other way to control pain.
That dogs on heroin
Maybe not a good, nor a bad thing but, having grown up in a country where you are not so likely to get a prescription to deal with mental health, but rather therapy, and only in some cases, medication, I don't think the medicine cabinet of an average home in Mex would be stashed with anything like Percocet. Now... buying alcohol, is incredibly easy for teenagers.
What if the sperm of the father had opioids in it at the time of conception yet the mother was clean?
Is there still that 8 /10% for future addiction to opioids?
Is the answer yes, due to the fact that the sperm enters the uterus, to then flood the uterus and the blood stream of the mother??
Asking as my father was an opioid user , but not my mother.
Thanks
It has to do with DNA. You would biologically be more susceptible to becoming an addict. Nothing to do with opioids in sperm haha.
Dude the interviewer had little understanding of how the addiction progresses. It is rare for someone for the first time to seek out heroin even if there parents were addicts. It can happen to anybody it normally starts out as an Injury being treated with opiates and most likely due to the genetics that person really liked the way it made them feel. time goes on and they want something stronger until it inevitably gets to expensive and there options become heroin or more recently fentanyl.
You should blame pharmaceutical companies first! And corrupted doctors
Amen!!!!!
No. People CHOOSE to abuse legitimate medications. Hold the "addicts" accountable for their bad choices.
"don't mention the war!!!" (John Cleese in Fawlty Towers)
The part for inherited addiction makes no sense... The genetic as a field is still far away and not researched or proven to make statements that a child from an addict has 8 times more chances to become an addict...
Inherited mental illness that's what it is
Never been addicted to anything I took co codamol 30/500mg for 4 days after a car crash.
Early sign - I would get a new 45 record & play it over & over & ...non-stop, exclusively. Pursued sex relentlessly, can sit at a slot machine endlessly...so drugs followed a pattern? Or was it only the need to help regulate severe pain, and the addiction came along with the relief? SOME pain relief medication need not carry a physically addicting component with it? Seems could be effective analgesics available or developed that would NOT be physically addictive. Like opioids. With this pain, I am Dependent more than addicted? All problems don't go away for me, just this pain is dampened.
there is no ritual in swallowing a pill
It's a slipery slope
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EPIGENETICS
ALL THEORY! NO FACTS!
I have adhd very bad and my dad drinks about 5 cups of coffee daily. I use caffene like its cocaine, ive snorted and smoked more caffene pills than likely anyone you know
Snorting morphine rn
I honestly don’t think this guy knows what he’s talking about. Would like to see his sources and also I would have preferred a less stigmatizing mental health professional to cover this topic. Really outdated and fearmongering tactics here
Clark Kent and Mr. Rogers.
We shouldn't even have pills that do this! All the science and we can't do better.
Well if you ever have a painful surgery or accident I bet you would change your mind😮
nor on herion what cos of codiene that is wrong say that u shouldnt u apolgise !!!!!!
codiene addition me
well i like takeing cocodmol i am addioted and i drrfrrrink i feel great with my meds !!!!!!!😂
If drugs weren't amazing, nobody would use it.
If truth wasn't shitty at times, everyone would speak it.
Ps. If it's not by free will, but choice due to medical reasons. That's a little different.
Why is it intense? A pill or some smoke might seem innocent, but 'good things may come in small packages' something has to be a certain degree of intense to influence a body. Also once the body gets used to prescription amount, then the amount goes up if it has to keep doing it's job. Take that step 5 times getting back to 0 is 5 times more of a shock to your system. But that's just a part if it. Aside from genetics. We all differ, our thresholds do as well. ✌
I need to tell you something that I think so many people in authority, particularly law enforcement, just don't understand. Essentially, addiction problems should be handled by MEDICAL personnel, NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. Let me make it clear to you what happens, and results, which do absolutely no good, but instead cause terrible damage to a user and society in general. because of things a user of illegal psychotropic drugs is forced to doWHEN A PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCE/DRUG BECOMES ILLEGAL ***(NOTE: I'll use the term "psychotropic" essentially to mean a substance that gets you "high."
It's clear to me, and very many others, including those in the medical and legal community, the main reasons for making certain psychotreopic drugs illegal, which I'll list below:
First off, It makes law enforcement look good, in that they are doing their job and getting the illegal drugs off the street as well as punishing those addicted to those drugs, often by incarcerating them.
Those who truly benefit from the illegality of psychotropic substances are as follows:
(1) Law Enforcement, including police officers making a fortune in overtime just to process a simple marijuana arrest, which they are more than happy to do.
(2) The Judicial System, which includes judges, lawyers, prosecuters, and others with jobs in the legal profession
(3) The prison system, which is all too happy to keep drug offenders in their jails. Much of the prison system in the U.S. is privately owned, so the more people incarcerated in their facilities, the better for them. There are literally THOUSANDS of people who are doing time for possession of small amounts of marujuana, which is a disgrace to this country but a real bonus for the prison system.
(4) ORGANIZED CRIME - Anyone who has a knowledge of the prohibition of alcohol in this country that began in the 1920's and lasted into the 1930, will realize the DISASTER and total failure that it was. It spawned the Organized Crime organized groups that are still in existence today, and are flourishing for the same reason...the illegality of psychotropic drugs.
It is clear that making a psychotropic drug illegal DOES NOT WORK!. Besides benefitting organized crime, it has much worse effects, as I'll show below.
The facts I will show came from this CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/202205.htm
HERE IS WHAT IT SHOWED:
DRUG TYPE (DEATHS 2021) (DEATHS 2020)
Synthetic Opioids (fentanyl) 71,238 57,834
Psychostimulants (meth) 32,856 24,576
Cocaine 24,538 19,927
Natural/semi-synthetic (prescription) 13,503 13,722
As you can clearly see, the deaths due to Fentanyl overdoseswere FIVE TIMES the deaths from PRESCRIBED OPIOIDS (Vicodin, Percocet, etc.). What is the reason for that? It's the absolute failure of Law Enforcement and non-medical people to understand addiction! Law Enforcement is bragging about how they have taken PRESCRIPTION pain medication off of the streets and made it almost impossible to get in any legal way. ALL NARCOTIC pain medication is strictly monitored via a database throughout the U.S., and in effect has stopped "doctor shopping" and made it nearly impossible to get legal pain medication without a prescription, which nearly every one is sent to the pharmacy electronically.
You, and Law Enforcement, would think that taking Opioids off the street would end the massive amount of deaths due to PRESCRIPTION Opioids. THAT COULDN'T BE MORE INCORRECT! Instead, addicts turned to buying street "Opioids," which in effect are some filler (like lactose) with Fentanyl added to it in order to give the user a high and stop the terrible pain of withdrawl. The problem with that is the fact that Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S.. Because of the potentcy of Fentanyl compared to prescription Opioids, the terrible result is this:
Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdose deaths in the United States. In 2017, 59.8 percent of opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl compared to 14.3 percent in 2010. Also see the chart above for the years 2020 and 2021.
I am making this comment to the author of this RUclips post in the hope that he will pass it along to the people that truly understand what drug addiction is all about - that by taking Opioids off of the street and making them nearly impossible to get them legally by prescription has NOT HELPED TO REDUCE DEATHS DUE TO OPIOID USE - IN FACT IT HAS MADE IT 5-TIMES WORSE!
What is needed is an entirely different approach to the Opioid problem. PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO OPIOIDS NEED TO BE ABLE TO RCEIVE THE OPIOIDS THAT THERE BODY CRAVES IN A SAFE MANNER UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION. Until that happens, very many people will die from Fentanyl overdoses. The great musical artist, Prince, was one of the casualties of a Fentanyl overdose.
I am begging you, Dr. Sportelli, to make it clear to others, especially our legislators, that the current method to solve the Opioid problem IS NOT WORKING and they need to understand why. PROHIBITION NEVER HAD, AND NEVER WILL, PREVENT THE USE OF SOMETHING THAT IS IN DESPERATE DEMAND BY PEOPLE. THAT IS A KNOWN FACT THE WE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED FORM THE PROHIBITION LAWS THAT WERE PASSED IN 1920 AND LASTED TO 1933.
Many will deny what I am about to say, but not much has been done to truly do what needs to be done to finally end the Opioid problem in this country BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE IN POWER THAT I HAVE LISTED ABOVE IN NUMBERS (1) - (4) ARE RECEIVING HUGE FINANCIAL BENEFITS FROM THE ILLEGALITY OF OPIOIDS AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS THAT ARE KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.
When my mom read an article in the news paper she used to say... oh no ! then we asked what is it and she would read it to us. She would also cut an article and just put it on the kitchen table and children are curious so we read it... no need of morale talk LOL and it works sorry for my english, I'm french :)
That dog looks stuffed
My nephew is addicted to drugs, Alcohol and smoking and there is nothing we could do to help him because there is no man and money power. My marriage broke down and I am literally going through bad phase of life. Unable to explain my situation.
IT could work putting him into a room with no chances of ever escaping. And taken care of... treatment food water whatver he needs. But never never fall for what he says. Treatment given there is suboxone in droping doses and after continuing with naloxone. And freed after at least 6 months of this treatment. If he goes back....turn Ur backs because IT is IT what he wishes and u cant do shit about IT. Take Ur goodbyes and wish him luck and strenght and take care of Ur life keep urself well take care of Ur mind and spirit dont look no more at devastating ppl or situations.life is beautiful If u want IT to make IT so....with the simple stuff ...eat Something u like, surround urself with even stramgers...but with whom u feel comfortable and ok..and step by step...u LL get there. This comming from an18years old heroin addict...recovered at my will And fathers support. Hugs and lucks 🙌
@@sab2924 All I can say you are fortunate and you have a great Dad. Thanks for sharing your story. It really helps.,
@@shad6519 all the Best for u! ❤️
@@sab2924 Thanks 🙏