Question by Heather: Pain-pill Addiction to Lortab & Xanax?!?help!?
Someone dear to me has been “clean” for a few years now from a Cocaine addiction. Lately, this person has been hanging out with this friend who provides Lortab & Xanax to my friend to be sold & for personal use. My friend just recently popped Lortabs & snorted 5 Xanax & has recently came clean to me that they are in fact “addicted to pills” now. This person is COMPLETELY aware that they have an “addiction” and is trying to “stop” cold turkey because they have NEVER done pills before, & they don’t want to go to Detox again. What can you do when you have friend(s) who provide you with pills & you are selling pills also. They also KNOW they need to quit hanging out with these certain individuals; yet they can’t seem to “get away” from them. I wish I knew what to do to help this person. My friend says all they think about is getting on their phone & calling up for pills & I can’t just take their cell phone. I doubt that’d even help. What can my friend do? and What can I even do???

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Answer by ? Sek ?
I don’t normally answer questions in this section but recently I have been diagnosed with some things that require pain medication so I have been reading this section to see what people or going through.

My advise to you is be a good friend, be there for them, let them know you don’t support what they are doing. Suggest getting help to them. You know there is a old saying “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” and this applies here. In all my readings I have found that for a person to want to quit or get help they have to reach their “bottom” and what might seem like a “bottom” to you or I, might not be to them. I think maybe when they reach their bottom that they will cry out for help….until then I think you being the friend can only offer your support. But make it clear your support is only for getting well and not for when they get caught and go to jail. Remember them in your prayers…..Its bad enough that they are abusing these drugs like they are but they are even selling them and there will come a day when they get busted. Maybe that will be their bottom. Maybe not. Unfortunately some people never reach their bottom until it is too late….they die from doing this. I would suggest getting off of them and get a doctor to help with this, I think they make a medicine that helps with the withdrawal symptoms and be there for them then while they are going through that and trying to help themselves. Its a vicious cycle they are involved in and I can only pray and hope that they see the light before it is too late. Please don’t take this on as your mission to fix them because you can’t…..not until they are ready for help. I think you are being a wonderful friend in even trying to help them. So many people just wash their hands of friends when they go down the wrong path. Just talk to them, suggest seeing a doctor to help with getting off of them. That is the best you can do. Taking their cell phones would accomplish nothing….except a angry drug addict and I don’t think you need to deal with that. I am sorry I seem like I am rambling I am just trying to help you to help them……

I wish you and your friends the best ~~
Peace be with you ~

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