| Subject: Signs of addiction in a friend who is a RN |
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Mark
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Date Posted: 22:33:54 02/18/08 Mon
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I have been a clean and sober RN for almost 3 years, still sruggling some with depression and anxiety but overall the future is good. My problem now is my wonderful girlfrind whom I love dearly. Im seeing some familiar litle signs that make me wonder. Her first response when someone mentions it when we have found her passed out 3 times on the floor as "low blood sugar, Im tired, havent ate... anything rather than say it might be the narcotics or soma or benzos. She did receive a severe nerve root injury to her back which has now put her on disability ad she doesnt work. She was a great nurse for 20 years
I believe she does have pain, but considering the oxy, percocet, MS contin, xanax, valium, the pain clinic placed her on, im just afraid she is dependent on these drugs. I think the worst drug is soma which she gets online. Ive told her soma is a abuse potential drug and I think that is waht slurs her speech and has made her pass out. She claims it is all that will allow her to function. Yet she rarely feels healty or able to funtion physically and her emotional state has made her temperment so anger and hateful. She takes near toxic levels of soma based on what psychiatry told me. (Can cause seizure like sxs. Her injury is real,but im afraid she has a dependency on all these benzos and opiates and is using them to tx emotional and depression related life history. Father, brother are recovering alcoholics. Had an abused 20 plus marriage.
She has refused threapy because she is very stoic and thinks her physical sxs are the only problem. She has become very mean, isolated, lost all her social connections and the mood changes are straining my recovery.
What can I say at this point? She has seen me go through my recovery. I dont want to be way off base yet my gut just tells me something might beup. She often tells me and her family she is not an addict. Evidently in her first mariage this accusation of being an addict was something she heard alot. How do I approach this?
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