Author: ReRaise
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:18 pm
Again I think it’s personal choice. Our recovery is our own and should not be rubber stamped. My opinion. If I go to reading school and come out and can’t read then I should keep going to reading school. I gave my history and AA helped me alot. It gave me the tools and a foundation and a way out if necessary. So do I just keep going if the obsession is gone and I can now get on with life and not spend an hour a day around people praying and discussing their personal issues or do I live my life. I am an addict it’s always about me and not everyone else’s recovery ……..if it was I would be a counselor or a treament worker.
Today my Sub Doc said for so many years "me and my peers did not get opiate addiction". He said when "I ran the pain clinic I would dole Oxys and Percs and tell them now be careful it can be addictive. If I thought they were taking too much I would just cut them off not realizing what they went through with w/d and cravings". He said he often wonders how many people over the years that just disappeared overdosed because he cut them off.
So for me……..me only….taking a pill keeps all that at bay and for now I am ok with that. I will tell you I would have done the same if they had the same thing for alcoholics….and maybe it is suboxone because even though going to AA helped relieve the obsession to drink…. since I have been on Sub I still am ok with not drinking.
My Sub Doc said that if you want to taper off I will put you on a schedule and help to get you off. But so far I have not had one patient die from an overdose because they chose to stay on sub and he is ok with that. So yes I think there are alot of people that know that Sub may be a lifelong thing for them……….and that is ok too.
Jim
