Unfortunately, it is very dangerous for someone to struggle with an addiction to painkillers. There are the obvious dangers that I’m sure everybody knows about, but I will reiterate them anyway in this article.

Then there are the not so obvious dangers that you probably have never even thought about regarding a painkiller addiction. So I’m going to fill you in on as much as I can about this particular topic so that you fully understand all of the potential issues you face if you struggle from painkiller addiction.

How Painkiller Abuse And Addiction Affects Lives

Overdose – this is obviously a serious potential problem to painkiller addiction that you obviously do not want to happen. If you overdose on painkillers, and there’s nobody around to get you some kind of medical assistance, there is a very good possibility that you’re going to die. If you do overdose then oftentimes you have to get an injection of adrenaline shot directly into your heart in order to start your body up again. Obviously that is not an ideal situation to want to be in, so you should avoid this type of addiction at all costs unless you literally want to leave your life hanging in the balance.

Crime – many people who get hooked on drugs eventually have no choice but to turn to a life of crime. And when you turn to a life of crime, you put yourself at risk to get physically harmed by the people you are trying to steal from and the police who are obviously going to be trying to stop you. This is obviously extremely unsafe, and if you try and rob drug dealers to get your drug of choice then you are really putting yourself in jeopardy because they’ll do anything to protect their business and they will kill you at the drop of a hat instead of letting you get over on them.

They can’t let their reputation get tarnished so they’ll have to make an example of you one way or another. Driving – if you are going to spend a lot of time driving under the influence of painkillers then you are obviously taking your own life and the life of the other people in the cars near you in your own hands.

This is a very scary situation and you obviously run the risk of either killing yourself or killing other people when you drive under the influence of painkillers.

This is a seriously stupid mistake and unfortunately, the consequences could be potentially fatal injury and disfigurement.

These are some of the major dangers that addiction to painkillers can potentially cause in your life. So if you happen to be addicted to painkillers then you need to think about all of these different things mentioned and try and use them as a way to get past your addiction. It’s not impossible to overcome painkiller addiction, so give it a try as soon as you’re ready.

Painkiller Addiction Recovery

There are definitely a few different paths you can take when you are trying to recover from painkiller addiction.

But you are certainly going to have to start out your path in one particular way which I will share with you right now.

So if you’ve never been addicted to painkillers, or if you have no idea what you’re supposed to do to get over this addiction.

Then please pay close attention since I’m going to fill you in a little bit on this particular topic now.

Recovery From Painkiller Addiction

The first thing you must do in order to get over your addiction to painkillers is very simple. You have to go through detox, and unfortunately, that is also going to bring about withdrawal symptoms. So when you hit the detox stage, which is the first stage of substance addiction recovery, you must do so with a professional medical staff available to you at all times.

That’s why you are going to need to check yourself into either a drug rehabilitation program with detox capabilities, or you’re going to have to check yourself into the hospital.

As long as they have a detox unit available for you to safely and successfully clean up from your drug of choice.

Once the detox portion of the recovery process is over, then you will have a few different options available to you to choose from. So let’s take a look at some of those other options right now.

Life After Painkiller Addiction

Well, now that you are safely detoxified from your drug of choice, you have a few different options you need to take. You could either stay in a rehabilitation program, or join one if you’re not in one already, and go through that program so that you can learn everything you need to know about your addiction and how to stay clean so that you don’t end up relapsing. This is a very important phase and you obviously cannot skip it or you’re going to end up back on painkillers very quickly.

If inpatient drug rehab isn’t for you, then there is always the outpatient drug rehab option that you might want to try if you are struggling with a painkiller addiction. This is basically like going to school. You are supposed to show up at the rehab Monday through Friday at a specific time in the morning.

Then after all of your different groups and meetings are through, you will be let out at the end of the day and you can go home and live your normal life again. So this is a definite good option that you might want to try which will be very beneficial to you.

The last choice is a 12 step program. You can join narcotics anonymous or opiates anonymous and get some really good help by interacting with the members at this type of program. So look over your choices and figure out which one makes the most sense to you. Then put it into action so you can finally beat your painkiller addiction.