My Addiction_(1)
I sat in the group looking around as I prepared myself to tell my experience. Three months pregnant and two months clean. I was a soccer mom addict. Hooked on prescription pain killers I was willing to do almost anything to get my fix. Thus I was here, in front of a group of near strangers telling them things my husband didn’t know. I was 38 when it began. Mother of three kids, the oldest was 16 and the youngest was 8. I had just had carpal tunnel surgery and a bottle of oxycodone to manage the pain. I didn’t think I had an addictive personality, but apparently I did. The pain was gone, but I still lied to my doctor and managed two more refills. When he didn’t give me a third I had …