Questions about Coricidin

[lordknowsimweak]

My fiance is an addict..whether he'll admit it or not, he can't/won't stop stealing/buying Coricidin or any other form of dextro. It is to the point where I am ready to take our daughter and leave. While he is on the Coricidin he is the nicest person in the world, but as soon as he is out, he turns into a monster. He gets a very short temper and spazzes at the smallest things. He has been abusive, physically and verbally. I am at my wits end. He denies that he has any kind of addiction to it..says that he just enjoys it. When I am in tears begging him to stop, he accuses me of just trying to be controlling. It isn't a matter of me wanting to play mommy to him, I just don't want to find the love of my life laying dead one day. Every time he leaves for the store, I am scared that he will get caught stealing the pills. He takes an entire box throughout a 4 hour span. I am concerned about any effects it could have or reactions with his current meds. He is currently taking Paxil for anxiety and Levoxyl for his thyroid. Does anyone know if the two combined w/ dex could have a bad reaction? He has been doing the 3 years we have been together...and at least a year before we met. This is really my last resort I guess. I am sitting here in tears, just wanting this to end. I just want him to be sober. He compares his addiction to me smoking cigarettes. Soo I told him I'd quit smoking cigs if he quit the dex. I quit cigs, he has yet to quit the Coricidin. Does anyone know if there is any form of withdrawl when you quit taking Coricidin? What can I do to make him stop? I know, I know..he has to want to quit. I've delt with severe addictions within myself, and with my father (oxycontin). I just want him to want to quit. It makes me feel as if he needs those drugs to be able to handle being around us (his fiance and daughter). I am letting his issues get me down, to the point of wanting to end my own life because of his addiction to porn and Coricidin. I have asked him to go to counseling or rehab, and he denies he has an addiction..so he won't do it. He has been through counseling before, and he said they all say the same thing..tell you the same stuff to do. (I guess I kinda agree there.)

I guess I just needed to vent. Thanks in advance for any responses.

[beachtowel]

Sorry for the story I know your upset........

The ingredients in Coricidins are what people make Meth from............

The problem is so bad and nation wide that now you can't even find Coricidins on the shelf anymore........they now have to keep them in the pharmacy where you have to ask for them..........
It is a serious addiction............

[beachtowel]

"cause thats the s h i t"

[beachtowel]

you brought back a memory I would like to share with you a couple of years ago when I was at inpatient detox a young chick of 19 walked in that looked just like a Zombie.......
Two days later while I was in the yard smoking she walked up to me in asked me for a cig.....
I told her I would give her one is she told me what the h e l l she was on when she came to the detox........
She told me her and her friends stole about 10,000 boxes of Coricidins and they each took 45 tabs.......
I then asked her why and she answered "cause thats the ****"