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Why People Get Addicted To Pain Pills

19 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A short conversational clip from a YouTube video (creator: Amber Hollingsworth) explaining common pathways to opioid/pain-pill addiction. Amber and another speaker describe that use can start legitimately (doctor-prescribed for injury) or socially (parties/friends), may feel beneficial beyond pain relief, escalate over time, and lead to dependence and withdrawal even when initial intent was innocent.

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Probably just ignorant to this but I just like, is it like a doctor prescribed for an injury or something like that? Or a friend, another high performing friend is like try this.
All of the above, right? Sometimes it's like I get an injury and then I start taking pain pills to deal with an injury but then I sort of kind of like them and I notice it gives me some other benefits so I start taking like more of them, you know, and then it starts out innocent enough and then it builds and builds and then one day you don't have any and you get sick and you think you're just sick and then you realize you're in withdrawal and then it's like holy crap. Or it can start because you're at a college party and somebody says, you know, snort this pill with me, you know, and it starts a lot of different ways but it ends the same.