While addiction to anything can sneak up on you when you are least expecting it, there are ways to quit and it is best to stop as soon as you noticed that you might be addicted. Whether you started using pain pills for a legitimate reason, like pain management or just experimenting, the strong effects of these drugs can be too much to bear for most of us. I once heard a doctor say that "he has seen the biggest, strongest men come to him, crying like a little girl from the withdrawal symptoms. Just know that if you do find yourself addicted to pain pills or anything else for that matter, you are not alone. Statistics show more than 6 million Americans currently addicted to pain pills.
Some of these pills can be as addictive as heroin, but since they are prescribed, people tend to believe that they can't get addicted. This is nothing further from the truth. Doctors usually don't warn the patients enough and since the pills make us feel so good we don't care at the moment.
The most commonly abused pills are opiate type narcotics, and whether Vicodin, Demerol, Oxycontin or morphine, they all share a commonality of physical addiction, and a very long and painful period of withdrawal. When you make the decision to get off of the drugs, you have three basic options for your cessation of use.
It is very likely that you will need professional help to get through your addiction and most importantly your withdrawal. Withdrawal can be very painful, agonizing and dangerous. If you believe that you can quit on your own, this is great. The best way is to try to taper down, and decrease your dose a little each day until you don't take any at all. If you find that you can't do it on your own there is more than just one option out there.
3 most common ways to get off pain pills
1) You can try a long and gradual tapering of the dosage, until ultimately you are down to none a day.
2) You can try an opiate substitution program, such as methadone maintenance, where intoxicating opiates are switched for non intoxicating methadone, and then the dosage of methadone is gradually reduced.
3) You can enter into a rehab or drug treatment program, and detox quickly yet painfully off of the opiates, and then undergo therapies and counseling to ensure that you stay off of the pills for good
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