Thank you Paddy, I am addicted to vicodin and so afraid to stop. I started taking it for back pain a year ago and am now taking up to 10 a day. I have not had a drink in 25 years, thanks to God and AA. I stopped going to meetings about 8 years ago and need to go back but I am afraid too. I'm trying to get my back healed so I can stop taking the vicodin but have had no success yet.
I know I need help but don't know what to do about my back pain. I do know that taking vicodin (10 a day) is not just for pain but to feel high also . It is beginning to just cause depression in me but I take them anyway hoping for that good feeling I used to get. I know that it never gets better , only worse.
I have not been able to admit this to any one but myself. I also have bipolar and am afraid of a deep depression when I stop the vicodin.
I will save your story because it gives me hope , thank you again.