Many of you aren’t addicts. You are physically dependent on prescription pain killers but you don’t take them for the “high”. You take them to “feel normal” and to help treat pain that was once there but now has been replaced by a mirage that feels like pain. And now...

When you think about quitting pain killers a lot of scary things cross one’s mind. One of the scariest things about the prospect of quitting painkillers is what to do with all of that time. You know, all the time spent: being high, getting prescriptions filled, going to doctors appointments to...

(First Published Nov, 15 2008) I remember -pretty clearly- those feelings I had the last few days before I decided to quit the pills. I can even remember talking to my Mom (awwww….so precious) about the decision; because many of my family members have had issues with either drugs or alcohol. Great...