stealing,where do i hide my prescription next

my question is how do people in there own family have the nerve to steal meds .from the people that really need them and make that person suffer especially when they know that person is in chronic pain.i know that they are addicts to but to watch your family suffer like they do.i personally could not do that.any suggestions.

[allaboutmary]

Your best bet is to get a lockbox. Yes us addict's will do almost anything to get our pills.

[sway1]

that shows you how bad this disease really is. i have stolen meds from my family in the past. just one of many things that i sooo regret. while you are in that mind state, you would do anything (almost) if the opportunity arose. i am sorry this is happening to you. i have seen the pain that it causes. peace, sway

[jollyman069]

addicts will be addicts.....I know

[youngdude421]

yes this shows how bad the disease of addiction gets when your locked in the grips of addiction nothing else maters but getting the next fix(guilt and remorse go out the window) as a recovering  addict ive also done this i almost have a year clean, this is sumthng i have done while i was active a lock box, maybe finding a place out of the house to keep youe meds....... a family member of mine got a lock box and i still got my hands on the pills.. good luck

[catmagnet]

Yes, I have to admit I have stooped that low, too. It's terrible and I did feel guilty, but the cravings overpowered it all...and I'm sure most of us are not "bad" people.

[whitie]

yeah, I conned them away from family members in the past.

did not steal, but lied to get them.........

[fujibug]

i am not an addict. but i do occasionally take a perc or something. I didn't think it was a big deal when i stole two from my cousin who i am not even that close to. but when i got to thinking about it i felt so guilty i had nausea in the pit of my stomach. i am not a bad person and i feel so bad. i just hope he didnt notice because then i will lose his trust and feel even worse. i promised myself i would never do it again.

[dominosarah]

You stole meds from a cousin your not close to and this isnt a problem?

[desperado57]

I have a beloved nephew whose young life has been shattered by his addiction to opiates, benzos, cough medicine, Coricidn ~ just about ANYTHING.  When he was 14 (he's now 21) he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a particularly evil, virulent type of bone cancer.  He bet the cancer with a 15% chance of survival, but came away from it all with an addiction to opiates and benzos.  He's currently living in a half-way house, under house arrest, for an attempt to purchase heroin two years ago.  His disease has ripped our family to shreds - not apart - we all share the grief, but it hasn't been an easy road for anyone.  Anyway, when our mother, his grandmother, was dying a very difficult, painful death in early '07, he was stealing her morphine pills.  Once we discovered that, calling the Hospice nurses to tell them what had been going on was one of the most mortifying experiences we ever had.  And, our mother was still alert enough to know what he had done.  She died forgiving him; we all forgave him, but it something that will likely never be forgotten.

[avisg]

Frist get a lock box to keep you meds locked up so you know they are there when you need.Them
2nd  I am going to be honest here I didn't care about others pain I only cared about my addiction . I took every opiate in my parents house all of the way marked to 1970s .They have a huge bag of meds they do not get rid of them they just put them in this bag.
I have been clean 2 years and I have remorse but them I was to messed up to care .take  care you of you .

[mtgoat911]

if you live with an addict or alcoholic the best suggestion would be taking the chemicals out of this house until your loved one is stable and able to deal with their urge to use, if it is someone who visits your house that is stealing medication you could press charges after that they will not do it agian
i have stolen money from my dads company, one time he went in with our neighbor who was a obgyn and bought a hair removal bussiness, i took that payroll checkbook and wrote tons of checks, eventually my parents pressed charges and i never did it again
i have only stole meds from one person, a cousin that was very sick, i took xanax, i was about 16, but i felt guilty so i brought them back, he was injured / paralyzed playing college football before that he was like a big brother
looking back i did not feel guilty stealing from my parents because they had so much money, most of the time the never noticed it was gone, now i feel horrible, and have made many finacial amends to them
and fyi............a lock box will not keep an addict out, not to step on any toes, i guess its better than nothing, or if you hide the lock box, that might work
you have to have a lock box to take home methadone or suboxone from the clinic, i have had those meds stolen from me several times out of those boxes, might try a safe, or getting the theif out of your home

[leeisgettingclean]

good advise

[Axl_0113]

It's funny you mention that about the lock box.  In my addict days, I became a self-proclaimed, self-trained professional safe cracker!  Had never run accross a safe/lock box that could keep me out!  lol

Of course- I feel ashamed about that now...

[mtgoat911]

sometimes we just have to laugh about our past, axil you are awesome, all that is behind you now!!!!
i thought about you a couple days ago, we watched monstors vs. aliens, you need to see that one