One Is Too Many - and A Thousand is Not Enough -

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I've known not to have a first drink for twelve years. But nobody told me not to take a prescription for oxycocet from my doctor. I hurt my back at work - and he gave me that stuff. Never once said that I could get addicted - and he knew how alcohol nearly killed me - like it did my dad. Every time I tried to stop - the pain got worse - and the good ol doc upped my script. I knew that hell could exist in a bottle. But I didn't know them managed to also squeeze it into those little pills.

Pissed on Methadone - Sarnia, Ontario

 
 

Its not the last drink that will do me in. Its the first. I have no idea where or in what condition I'll end up - if I choose to take that first drink ever again. I pray not.

Jonah - Guelph, Ontario