Robert Whitfield MD discusses why patients in recovery often hide it from doctors, and how early recovery patients may rationalize prescribed medications to get high. High-functioning people with obsessive-compulsive traits face particular risk.
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, 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 addict, lead to alcohol or other substances and that's not uncommon.
