| It's easy - too easy - to get addicted to pain pills. | | | | Do you lie to get the pills you need? |
| We often underestimate the addictive nature of | | | | Do you lie to family or friends about your |
| these seemingly safe pharmacy purchased drugs, | | | | consumption? |
| and the truth is they just feel too good. | | | | Do you do things you regret having done because |
| Most of us don't even realize how bad things | | | | of your intoxication? |
| have become until we try to stop one day, | | | | Have you tried to quit and failed? |
| always a day of painful realization. | | | | Have you tried outpatient therapy and failed? |
| But once you realize that you are addicted, what | | | | Are you experiencing health deficits due to your |
| do you need to do to get better? Do you need | | | | use? |
| drug rehab, will outpatient therapy work? You | | | | Are you neglectful to your responsibilities due to |
| don't want to waste your time and money on | | | | your pain pill use? |
| unnecessary treatment, but on the other hand, | | | | Do you drink with pills? |
| you don't want to minimize the problem either; | | | | Have you been using for longer than 6 months? |
| and if intensive drug rehab is what's needed, there | | | | Answer honestly and introspectively, and the |
| is little point in delaying the inevitable. | | | | more yes answers you get, the greater the harm |
| There are few easy answers, and what works | | | | done by your addiction. The greater the harm |
| for one won't necessarily work for another, but | | | | done, the greater the need for the intensity of |
| there are certain indications that point towards | | | | drug rehab. |
| the appropriateness of different forms of | | | | Drug rehab takes time and energy and |
| treatment. Here are some questions you need to | | | | commitment - not to mention money - and you |
| ask yourself, and the more yes answers you get, | | | | wouldn't want to enter into a month or more of |
| the more likely you need the intensity of inpatient | | | | therapy if it were not required. Think about how |
| drug rehab. | | | | much harm your addiction does and evaluate your |
| Self assessment questions | | | | need for the intensity of drug rehab. |
| Has your pain pill use reduced your ability to | | | | You need help, your addiction isn't going away, |
| function professionally? | | | | and you need to decide just how aggressively |
| Has your abuse harmed your relationships with | | | | you want to tackle this problem. |
| family or friends? | | | | |