Author: Breezy_Ann

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:42 am

I am not sure there is one right answer. First you will have to be completely honest with yourself should you get injured. Is the injury really severe enough that you will require pain meds. As addicts we have a tendency to over dramatize the pain because we want those pain pills. If your injury is bad enough that you require pain meds, you should give them to someone so you have no choice but to take them as prescribed, if we could control this we wouldn’t have been addicts and gotten on sub in the first place. As far as telling the Dr I would have to say in my opinion this is a grey area. Ideally you should be able to be honest with the dr and still get the pain control you need and deserve bit some dr.s will hold being an addict against you and not treat your pain adequately. If it were me I would have to feel the Dr out before I decided if I would tell him or not. You don’t deserve to suffer because of a Dr.s prejudice.

It is a slippery slope so should you require pain meds you are going to have to remember you are an addict and take every precaution possible to not get back into active addiction.