Tramadol now being tracked along with opioids

I really was just wondering what it meant.I guess  I am a housewife and I live in a very small town. The drug problem with young adults and teenagers also the elderly on the east coast is not very good between oxy and other pain relievers to heroine. I know drug problems are always put to a face of someone you would think that would do drugs. Over the past few years of working in schools working with doctors and families there really isn't a face that goes with it. It could be the school nurse or one of the principals of the school.It is very sad. I will admit that I do have anxiety that I do take prescription medications for it. I met a doctor at a friends house one night and I had a headache and she was going thru her cabinet and she found percocet and he  just slid it into his shirt pocket. I was like that was weird. I won't go to the ER because they automatically think you are there for drugs. They have to ask if you are in pain and they have to give it  to you. I have gone for pain in the past but I will wait unless it is urgent before I go to the hospital for something.

Thank you for replying!

OK ...  the point I was trying to make is that addiction to prescription drugs is all around us - not just with "drug addicts" in big cities, but soccer mums etc in small towns etc ...  Drug seeking and doctor shopping is not just in the underclass or underbelly of our main cities.

Your neighbour and my neighbour are just as likely to be a drug seekers as the 20 something living rough in our capital cities!   There really is no difference ...

At first I wasn't sure how to reply at first. I totally understand it is all around us no matter a big city or small town USA.I have a person in my distant relative who one night was like I drive better when I take vicoden. My daughter who was 12 at the time.This was on Christmas Eve.She tells the woman you do know that is a narcotic?But it was laughed off. It really doesn't matter where  we live it is all around us. I have a wonderful doctor and I have been going to him for ten years since we moved here and I go to a therapist two times a month.I think where I live the alcohol problem is major where we live with the elderly community.But that is another long post. 

Take care

Susan 

That really scares the crap outta me when I hear stories about how some people "convince" themselves that it's okay that they drive under the influence of ANYTHING. It ****** me off when I think about those people and I look in my rear-view mirror and see my 3 little ones

What is scary is she is a seventy some year old woman. Who should know better. 

omg !! wowwww... I expected you to say someone like in their 20's (you know, the invincible ones) ;) hahahaa

 This woman was at least 72. I almost fell of my chair.The weirdest thing was no one really noticed.About a year before this woman was having a party at her house and she" wasn't feeling well".I told my mother I think she was in withdraw.The next time we saw her she looked fine.But she is one of the ones that jumps from doctor to doctor.And she is a retired school teacher.When my daughter said something about vicoden being a narcotic to the woman I was really proud of my daughter for speaking up.

I agree on both counts.  I have been on the Vicodin for so long that I have not only developed a tolerance for it,  but I periodically go off of it for 1-2 weeks because I noticed that when I didn't need it for pain and therefore didn't take it for several days, I had some signs of physical dependence (which is scary!).  So I know how easy it is to become addicted even when it is originally prescribed for a very legitimate reason.

I have also seen LOTS of clients who are addicted to benzodiazepines (and some of them have not been on them for very long), so I have real world evidence that my Psychopharmacology text book was correct when it said that benzos are one of the most easily addictive legal substances! I take Ativan when I get a PTSD flare up, but he prescribes 20 at a time (no refills) and that usually lasts 6 months.

One of the BIGGEST fights on here that I can remember was when an OH member who was an ER nurse said that a middle class housewife member on here (who had to go to rehab for her addiction to pain pills) was not the same in terms of drug seeking as someone else's drug addicted son ...

She couldn't understand why so many of us got upset ...

Sorry I missed that one, LOL.