The gateway event
Addiction could be biologically driven, too, but a door needs to open for the process to begin. However, when it all started with a legitimate prescription for, let’s say, pain medication, the story could become all too familiar. You simply injure your back, and then the doctor prescribes you intermittent doses of certain opiate-based painkiller medications.
Some of the most famous ones might include Percoset, codeine, Darvon, Demerol, Dilaudid, fentanyl, hydrocodone, morphine, oxycontin, tramadol, Ultram, and Vicodin. Well, it seems that everything goes south the moment your pain doesn’t stop. In fact, it might even get worse in some situations.
Your doctors might decide it’s time to prescribe you a long-acting opioid. After many weeks, you might mix them up just to make the pain go away. Well, at a certain point, you might only be dealing with pain management, not addiction. However, if the story sounds remotely familiar, then you need to know what you’re dealing with.
