Need help dealing with my husbands addiction to my pain med.

[chabliswine17]

What should i do when i am in pain and need med for my hip (needing surgery on it soon) and whenever i get my pain med my husband takes the majority of them? He has been to rehab for other drugs like ccc but now he is turning to my med. also my ambien as well. he gets high on them. what do i do?

[allmymarbles]

Who picks up the prescription from the pharmacy, you or your husband?

[specialmom]

Dear, you have a much bigger issue going on here than simply hiding your meds.  As anniebrooke wisely points out, you are living with an addict.  To the point that he is willing to steal from you.  AND, he takes what you really need for yourself.  He's okay leaving YOU in pain to acquire his own fix.  

I understand that you've been there for him while he's gone through rehab.  Sometimes for someone to really get clean, we have to draw a very clear boundary for that person.  

In  my heart of hearts, my best advice to you is to move out if you can.  This would be best for HIS sobriety believe it or not.  Not just because he then doesn't have access to his pills but because he is forced to see what his addiction is doing to the people he loves and to his own life.  The consequences of it are part of why someone finally decides to get clean.  

Narc- anon is also an excellent suggestion.

Please let me know how it is going.  I will be interested to hear and thinking of you often.  peace

[AnnieBrooke]

Hide them, tell him you don't have any, and for heaven's sake go to Al-Anon or is there a Narc-Anon to learn how to live with an addict, if you really want to live with this guy.  It would not be possible for me to live with someone so in the grip of drugs.

[freedom371]

I agree. Hide them. Tell him youve left them with someone, except for the few you have for yourself..and that person is dispensing a few to you periodically. Hey, its a thought. Theres no reason you should have to suffer

[BluCrystal]

Hide them.  Then when he asks you where they are, say you don't recall where you put them, or be truthful and say you hid them from him so he would not take them.  It is actually illegal to take someone else's prescriptions.  You might have to play that card.  Let him know that you are doing this for his own good.  Blessings - Blu