forgotmyname
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Powerful show. I have to tell you that I have often wondered myself if I hadnt started pain/anxiety meds due to a legitimate reason,would I have started taking them? I know I am in pain and have serious anxiety problems but the finding, buying, affording the meds seems to cause as many or more anxiety than my original disorder. It seems to add to it. Of coarse with Blue Cross insurance it wasnt like this and I had and excellent pain doc. But I could relate to this show. Especially the lady tracking her vicodin order from an online pharm. It not being on the truck. Her going to the hub and finding it. Opening it in the parking lot and taking her pills. She took 7 though. That was a shock for me to see. The bottle label looked SOOOO familiar. Just reeling from this show and they havent even got to the intetvention parts yet. Its very powerful
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emb708
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i seen that show but i don't understand how she took 7 at one time! i know that would kill me.did you see the end of the show i think it read that she didn't stay clean but not sure as it hard for me to read the TV from my office
Edited by emb708 (03/21/05 05:05 AM)
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forgotmyname
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It said she was kicked out of rehab for taking anti-anxiety non prescribed pills. I have DirectTV and when you click on the button to that give you a small paragraph about the show, it said this was a story about a lady who forged doctors prescriptions and about the CUTTER girl whom I though she was beautiful, talented, smart and generally seemed happy. But If it showed something about the forging scripts, I didnt see it, I was flipping back and forth between channels but did you see when she ripped open the fed ex package and got her bottle of pills? Did you see the bottle? I TiVo'd it. Very well known pharm. I will not say who but OMG i tripped out.
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roop
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When does this show air?
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dmg
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I would like to just add that while what I will say does not apply to many people, I would be willing to bet my life on the fact that many many people do some of the same things that this women did...ie open the script first thing in her car and down pills, and also the fact that she took 7 at a time. I know for a fact that there are plenty of people who have reached this level, again, not everyone, probably not the majority, but there are people out there who have gotten to this level of use. So while it may seem to be outrageous behavior, in actuality many of us may be very similar to this person.
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KrisMom
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I too watched that show (10PM Est on A&E). I sat there wondering . . . is that me?? But I realized that I too take med for a specific reason and OMG 7 pills at one time - or even in a day!!! That would certainly cause me to panic and run to the Dr. for some help. If I take more than three a day, then I get concerned. I feel badly for the people on that show yet glad that they try to be helped. The "cutter" girl Tamela, was absolutely beautiful, talented and just all around good - and she was so very unhappy. Another example of "you never know" what goes on in other peoples lives.
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fouiller
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I watched it too. I saw her counting Norco and taking
7 at a time when her package wasn't delivered to her
house. She tracked it down at the hub, but she didn'take the pills in her car I don't think she had a car.
I think she has lost everything because of her addiction.
I wonder if she is a member of this site.
They said she was off to a good start but then was 'asked to leave' the treatment facility because she was taking unprescribed anti-anxiety medication.
I've watched it every week since the beginning.
I like the format. They have two people on every episode,
one chemical dependency issue, and one behavior dependency issue.
Last night the behavior dependency was self mutilation.
Last week I think it was cocaine and gambling addictions.
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forgotmyname
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Yeah, she didnt have a car. She ripped it open right there on the corner outside the hub and took 7. It showed her fumbling onto a bus and walking around then she confessed to her terminally ill boyfriend whom she steals pills from that she is back taking Vico's. It was very very compelling and scary to watch her. I was in tears.
Also the other girl, the cutter, she was beautiful, talented, funny, smart and becuase of being molested when she was younger she used cutting just to FEEL, she said. It was scary to watch.
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Tylertoo
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I find this show very powerful, as you said, Forgot. I appreciate how they intersperse addiction issues with behavioral issues, and the actual intervention sessions, while shown in an abbreviated fashion, really show the level of denial that people can experience, whatever their addiction is. Particularly the gambling guy - that was extremely intense.
I missed the show about the online pharmacy and the "cutter" girl, but i do know some people who have self-mutilated, and their feeling was that when they were doing it, it was a way of actually seeing the pain they were experiencing inside themselves on the outside of their bodies...an actual, physical wound they could look at and say "that hurts," which they were able to use to process their feelings inside. Such a sad thing.
I think this show goes a long way toward unraveling the puzzle of denial, and hopefully hits home for those who may need help.
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joffrey
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It's not hard to get up to that level, unfortunately. It may be tolerance, an addictive personality, having taken stronger meds before (such as oxycodone), being a miserably unhappy person (self-medicating) any or all of the above. When I have pain, I have to fight myself not to take more than two Norco at once, even though two are sufficient usually (and may seem like overkill by some). Why? Because I don't want to end up like the person on "Intervention"; I'm too much like her: Compulsive about some things. What she was doing was a form of "chasing the dragon," trying to attain the same feeling (very good) that she got the first time she took a Vike or two, and one doesn't. So, you may as well just take two (dependent on your pain issues, a variable thing), hope for the best and try to keep your tolerance down. Taking more than a couple (or maybe three -- see how it starts?) is just a waste on a number of levels, and can lead down a very sad, miserable, expensive, destructive road, as demonstrated. Just my IMO, FWIW. And I'm not casting stones; I'm just sayin'.
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cozmoford
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I have been taking 2 Contins, 8-9 break thru meds, 4 somas, 3 neurontins, and 1-2 sleep aids daily for 2 years now. But even with all that I dont take 7 pills at a time...lol....altho I have heard of people taking 200-300mg at a time of hydro.
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forgotmyname
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It was just watching her checking the tracking status, pacing, rechecking tracking, calling fed ex, calling and calling and finally just going to the hub and once in hand ripping open and downing 7 that just blew me away. If I have been out of meds for a day before my shipment comes and I am in withdrawls, I act the same way. I dont take 7 but I may take one more than I should to get the withdrawls gone as fast as possible. It is an excellent show and it also shows how some people can end up in these situations. Like I said before, I think, she started Vico's after a dental visit and it just so happned to be at a time in her life when it seemed to help her deal with her life problems. I saw myself in her and it scared me BAD
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IrieVibe
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I agree that this show has been pretty powerful (all of the episodes so far). But...I'm not a *fan* of reality television (too much editing and yes, scripting) and I watch it wondering, what the *rest* of the world really thinks when they see this type of show and haven't a clue about chronic pain issues, addiction, or any type of disorder in general. Although "Intervention" is a pretty okay thumbnail view - how many parents and friends will rail on their loved ones because they see something in this type of format and think AHA!! that's HER or HIM! WE MUST GET HELP NOW!!!
Interventions were a HUGE money maker about 15 years ago - when everyone and their dog was going to Betty Ford, Hazelden and other rehabs - everyone was looked at with that *eagle* eye - and if you look close enough we all have a flaw that would send us into the arms of a money making *center* for our supposed *betterment*
I'd like to think people are smarter than I know the general population to be - in other words, I certainly hope we don't have a rash of *interventions* when that isn't the needed resolution. In most of our situations here - this resolution (OP's) is what we have come to (been forced to) for our chronic pain issues - we have had to form our own world, this board, us as family and understanding friends. When it should be that the health care system is trustworthy in supplying what we need for our various and sundry ailments and we are not forced to keep any of it a dirty little secret.
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nomadic
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Quote:
I'd like to think people are smarter than I know the general population to be - in other words, I certainly hope we don't have a rash of *interventions* when that isn't the needed resolution. In most of our situations here - this resolution (OP's) is what we have come to (been forced to) for our chronic pain issues - we have had to form our own world, this board, us as family and understanding friends. When it should be that the health care system is trustworthy in supplying what we need for our various and sundry ailments and we are not forced to keep any of it a dirty little secret.
Amen.
nomadic
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