Perspective: Withdrawal is the most important aspect, and it’s barely given lip service in the response to the opioid epidemic.
, doctors could no longer write multiple prescriptions. I had an enormous 8-year-long habit from prescription opioids. It was impossible for me to stop without becoming dangerously ill. My only choice was heroin.
I don’t understand how he stood it. He says he stayed with me through the horror because he knew I was worth saving. That must be the most inaccurate statement in medicine. A friend says doctors always leave out the part about “psychic death.” It didn’t work. The uncontrollable retching continued. I begged for just one ice chip to no avail. My mouth, throat and entire digestive track felt scalded. After a couple of hours, a doctor came in and said they were transferring me to a medical hospital.That’s when my rage kicked in. The absolute ineptitude of the entire medical community to treat opioid withdrawal was never in sharper relief to me than at that moment.
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