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Dorothy has a daughter who is not trusted in her home. She claims that even if a police officer accompanied her and did not leave her side the entire visit, Tiffany still would not be welcome. Dorothy believes she would still be able to steal something. “If Tiffany leaves a room, I know she is looking for something to take and then sell so that she can buy drugs. If she wants to go to the bathroom while visiting our home, I have to watch to make sure she doesn’t take a detour into one of the bedrooms on the way back.”
Dorothy has attempted to hold together the sad relationship with her youngest daughter for many years. Too many years. Tiffany is addicted to the pain killer, Dilaudid, called K-4s on the street. She is an intravenous user. Dilaudid is a serious narcotic, usually given for pain in the last stages of terminal diseases, such as cancer.
Like all opioids used for analgesia, hydromorphone (Dilaudid) is potentially habit-forming. It is listed in Schedule II of the United States’ Controlled Substances Act of 1970, and is listed in the Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs.
Almost every American now knows someone or is related to someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol. Those who have never been addicted to a mind – altering substance justifiably has a hard time understanding the mindset of those who have.
With that said, the following is an attempt to help others understand the battle raging inside an addict. This is not an attempt to excuse actions acted upon by addicts, but rather, it is a journey into the many underlying causes through which this disease literally victimizes an addict.
The American Psychological Association (APA) defines “addiction” as a habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one’s voluntary control.
Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary similarly defines “addiction” as a compulsive physiological need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; and broadly defines “addiction” as: persistent, compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be physically, psychologically, or socially harmful.
Having battled addiction to more than one substance for many years, I have learned that a definition for “addiction” is personally hard to come to terms with. The things I don’t want to do normally end up being the things that I do. The things I truly wish to accomplish or
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