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When I first began using pain medicine it was innocent enough, I had a back injury from a car accident and was prescribed Vicodin by my physician.  I had 2 herniated discs and the first few months after my accident I was in almost constant pain and needed the pain killers in order to function.  I was going to work everyday and performing to the best of my ability.  I was also still leading a very active social life but I began to feel the need for more and more pain medication.  My descent into addiction was quick and began when I found myself taking more medicine than I was prescribed.  I was supposed to take three pills a day, as needed for the pain, and I can still remember the first time I took an extra dose of Vicodin and thinking to myself that it might not be a good idea.

I began to run out of my prescriptions early and be left with nothing to treat the very real pain that I still had plus the drug habit that was growing.  I would go to the pharmacy and make up all kinds of stories to tell the pharmacist in order for him to fill my medications early.  At that point I knew that I had a drug problem and that I might be a drug addict, but I was not ready to quit.  I continued to use for three miserable years until I finally had enough.  I was waking up sick every morning and needed to swallow up to ten pain killers in order to get myself out of bed.  When I was ready I knew that I had to go to a medical inpatient detox and come off of the prescription medication slowly.  I never thought that I would be able to stop using drugs and now I am in recovery and loving life again!