My friend has recently given his life to a painkiller addiction. It really sucks. Actually, “sucks” is an understatement. People who suffer from a painkiller addiction never seem to have a problem at first. That’s how it happened for Cole. I had no idea that he was high all the time. It was really strange. I guess there were times that I kind of felt like something was odd with him, but I never mentioned it. I guess I thought that if I didn’t see a problem then there wasn’t one. Obviously I was wrong, but back then i didn’t know that as much about addictions as I know now. Cole finally came clean to me before I had to bring it up to him(thank god for that) and he was definitely ready to get some help. He told me how long he had been suffering from his painkiller addiction and he filled me in on how hard it was to not tell me about how it was killing him inside. Cole hasn’t fully completed his drug treatment just yet, but he told me that his drug rehab is going great. I know that he’ll make it out okay because he’s in good hands.

Filed under: Drug Treatment, Addiction on August 7th, 2007