Baznme
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Hey just saw your response. I have spent the last 30 minutes reading and trying to decide what reference to use to explain what I am talking about and there are 100's if not 1000's so please give me a while! LOL!
I agree Oxycontin is a very addictive drug but not all people have the chemical imbalance in their brain that makes them an addict. Addiction is a disease not a choice. Abusing drugs to get a high or feel good feeling is not addiction because you can take it or leave it. You use it because you want to. An addict has no choice they have to have the drug to survive or so they think. They have to have more and more to maintain their need. They cannot just walk away and say no more. I hope I am making sense. I am in no way arguing with you or anyone. I have taken Oxycontin a number of times over the last nine years and after the course prescribed my body did not need anymore. I was done, no more pain meds of any kind. Actually have disposed of left over Oxycontin. I have had 18+ surgeries in the last 10years from small to very serious so I know what pain is and the need for relief. Thank the good Lord I am able to stop as soon as needed others are not so lucky and not by their own choice. It is awful what can happen with the use of drugs.
I had a close family member who many years ago had a drug problem and was in rehab and we went every weekend for group family counciling to understand how to help our family member. The one big thing the doctors said over and over "it is a disease they will have the rest of their lives". They also told about a 76 years old woman who had been thru their program who had never had a problem ever until she retired and moved locally and joined other retirees socially. She had never in her life drank any type Alcohol until then, one drink and she became addicted and went into a downward sprial and had to be admitted to rehab. The doctor said if she had never had that drink after she retired she would not have become an addict. It is cause by chemicals imbalance in our brains. Some people have it some don't but it does run in families. I can have a drink and not have another for months and months if ever but someone addicted to alcohol can't have that one drink because their body wants/needs more. It's like trying to stop smoking some people can stop wham no problem just walk away others fight it for years and years. Now food addiction is something I can tell you all about! That is/was my drug of choice. I need carbs! No question that is true! After years of yoyo dieting trying everything possible I had gastric bypass surgery and lost 100 pounds to save my life! Do I still have to be careful of course GB is only a tool not a cure. It is a struggle everyday of my life not to give in to my carb addition even when I know it will make me so sick I sometimes throw up my body still wants the darn stuff. Through a lot of hard work I have managed to keep the weight off for eight years. The bad thing about food addiction is you have to keep eating or you will die. If you overeat to the point you loss control you will die. So even though it is no comparision to someone addicted to Oxycotin most of us have some form of addictions but not to all things. My new addiction is WS and wanting to bring closure to all these families who are missing a loved one!
I still believe RC is a drug abuser because he likes the good feeling he gets but he can put it down and walk away only to go back when he wants to have that feeling again not because his body is crying out because of the need. Just like I can go to a party and have several drinks feel a buzz enjoy the company then go home (not driving) and have absolutely no need for another drink ever. Google drug abuse vs. drug addiction or oxycotin drug abuse vs. addiction and you will get tons of info on the difference.
I think we can all agree RC is a seller/dealer/user. I think it all fills his addictive ego of being the "Man" and "Mr. Tough Guy". I just want him put away before he destroys more lives than he already has mainly Haleigh and Jr.s
I must have not have made myself clear on the Oxy issue. This isn't a recreational drug. I bolded the part of your post I maintain to not fit RC and his abuse of this drug. He cannot put it down, nor did he put it down at any time surrounding the time Haleigh went missing. He was allegedly walking around with them in his pocket (loose) around the time GR did the interview with him, yet he claimed he did not use drugs. Chelsea stated on the NG show, there were loose pills all over that house all the time and Misty has claimed that RC was injecting it IIRC from the jailhouse tapes with her father.
When you abuse this drug and try to stop on your own, you get very sick. If you took this drug for pain in the proper dosages as it was designed for, you most likely would not have a problem unless it was for an extended amount of time or taken in improper dosages. This drug is highly physically and psychologically addictive. But for a person in pain, a nondrug-abusing patient does not have euphoria after being administered opioids, possibly because their level of pain may reduce some of the opioid's euphoric effects making a patient less likely to become an abuser, (the category you probably were in while having to take this drug).
RC didn't just stop using once he got to jail because he's Mr. Tough Guy. At that point, he had no choice. I am fairly positive he was put on something like Suboxone to treat his withdrawal from the drug once in jail. Many people cannot withdraw from it on their own. It's not something you use a few times and stop, then do it again and stop. The human body does not react like that to opiates from the Heroin family and the normal person does not have loose pills laying around the house, in their pocket like M and M's nor do they inject it. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree GrannyL. RC IMO is an addict and always will be.