Doctors often don't know their patients are in recovery, and patients rarely volunteer it. Early recovery is risky when cravings hit, especially for people with obsessive-compulsive traits who are more vulnerable to addiction.
So I know both sides of the story. Therefore, I really try to educate them and what we see most of the time, they do not share that they're in recovery with the doctors that they're going. They don't tell you, they don't come to you and say, hey, I'm in recovery. If they're in early recovery and they're still, their mind is still in this tricky stage that, oh, it would be so nice to have a couple of pills so that I can get high and it's going to be prescribed so I'm allowed to take them. And I will really try to make them share that information from the get go. From the, from the first time they're meeting, Hey, I cannot take this, this, this type of medications.
Yeah, maybe from a. Because that's a complicated.
Mindset, you know. Yeah, the addictive, you know, mindset.
High functioning people, folks have a lot.
Of obsessive compulsive, you know, type behaviors and those, those.
Types of personalities, not to generalize, but those people have the.
Ability to become addicted, lead to alcohol.
Or other.
Substances, and.
That'S not uncommon.
