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<blockquote data-quote="Sister's Keeper" data-source="post: 700833" data-attributes="member: 20051"><p>A few things. JLC, if your daughter has been on benzodiazepines long term they cannot just stop them or stop prescribing them. She WILL have a seizure and there is an actual risk of death from abrupt withdrawal of benzos. They need a very slow and medically supervised detox.</p><p></p><p>Naltrexone only works with opiates. It won't work with benzos or alcohol, and it will only work if the addict is compliant with it, it can't be forced on someone.</p><p></p><p>I think it is very easy to place the blame on someone else. To say it is the doctor's fault because they prescribed it, they got them hooked, but that is making a huge assumption and giving doctors a whole lot more credit than they deserve. There is no way to tell who will become and addict. That is a very special blend of genetics and psychology, one that a doctor cannot possibly be expected to recognize. </p><p></p><p>The other is that addicts are great liars and manipulators. If someone comes in requesting pain medicine for whatever condition, unless they are covered with track marks or are actively stoned or drunk how in the world is a doctor supposed to know that they are an addict. They lie. They claim they are allergic to certain medications, or have ulcers that preclude them from taking NSAIDs, and NSAIDs will very, very rarely ever be prescribed to someone with any type of claim of kidney disease because they are metabolized through the kidney, same as a person with liver disease will never get tylenol.</p><p></p><p>My sister is the type of drug addict that everyone here thinks of as the gross and untouchable. She is a long term IV heroin abuser covered with needle tracks and homeless half the time, probably, begging on the street. It would be nice or, maybe, make me feel better if I could blame someone else for her addiction, but truth, and hard and painful truth, is her addiction is her fault, her responsibility, her choice She chooses to keep using, she chooses this life for herself. She has had and has the opportunity to change this, she chooses not to. </p><p></p><p>That is part of recovery, accepting responsibility for your own life and choices. It doesn't help our addicts accept responsibility of we make excuses for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sister's Keeper, post: 700833, member: 20051"] A few things. JLC, if your daughter has been on benzodiazepines long term they cannot just stop them or stop prescribing them. She WILL have a seizure and there is an actual risk of death from abrupt withdrawal of benzos. They need a very slow and medically supervised detox. Naltrexone only works with opiates. It won't work with benzos or alcohol, and it will only work if the addict is compliant with it, it can't be forced on someone. I think it is very easy to place the blame on someone else. To say it is the doctor's fault because they prescribed it, they got them hooked, but that is making a huge assumption and giving doctors a whole lot more credit than they deserve. There is no way to tell who will become and addict. That is a very special blend of genetics and psychology, one that a doctor cannot possibly be expected to recognize. The other is that addicts are great liars and manipulators. If someone comes in requesting pain medicine for whatever condition, unless they are covered with track marks or are actively stoned or drunk how in the world is a doctor supposed to know that they are an addict. They lie. They claim they are allergic to certain medications, or have ulcers that preclude them from taking NSAIDs, and NSAIDs will very, very rarely ever be prescribed to someone with any type of claim of kidney disease because they are metabolized through the kidney, same as a person with liver disease will never get tylenol. My sister is the type of drug addict that everyone here thinks of as the gross and untouchable. She is a long term IV heroin abuser covered with needle tracks and homeless half the time, probably, begging on the street. It would be nice or, maybe, make me feel better if I could blame someone else for her addiction, but truth, and hard and painful truth, is her addiction is her fault, her responsibility, her choice She chooses to keep using, she chooses this life for herself. She has had and has the opportunity to change this, she chooses not to. That is part of recovery, accepting responsibility for your own life and choices. It doesn't help our addicts accept responsibility of we make excuses for them. [/QUOTE]
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