I hear the same thing- but I also heard that Jordan was as close to a 15-year HOF D end as you'll find these days. One thing to remember though, pain does not play favorites and if you're hurting, NFL doctors make sure you get the good stuff. That's where the road to addiction starts for most athletes...and it's why I get worried when any young person gets injured. I lost a niece to prescription pain meds after a really bad car accident. Pre-law student, super smart with a great mindset, model-level gorgeous, and her world was rocked with dozens of shattered bones in her face. After prescription drugs didn't cut it anymore, she found street alternatives and eventually took her own life. It all came down to bad pain management and that's when I started paying attention- it's a real epidemic in this country. That's why I cringe when I hear about any young athlete getting seriously hurt- will they self medicate like Jordan or Ricky Williams? That whole process scares me.
The problem at my high school was Methadone. They called us "heroin high". It was kids getting their hands on their parents prescription drugs. But keep fighting weed, politicians! It's MUCH worse! Sorry to hear about your niece. My cousin struggled with pills but he's great now. Comes down to the house to fish and kayak multiple times a week. You can tell he's much more at peace.
You don't have to be a young athlete... but it seems that a lot of them wind up taken by the meds they wind up needing. I have had two long term rounds of high power pain meds... and they become almost seductive. If not for my wife and some good friends and faith in God - I have some doubts about where I would be. Your niece was desperate - desperate enough to leave this life rather than put up with the pain. I am very sorry for a young life robbed from your family - I deal with it often enough for it to cause me to use words I should not - but do. I do pray that you, and the rest of her family have found some peace - though with a young person - those memories have a way of intruding out of nowhere. The Lord be with you and yours.
It's been a few years now so I'm dealing with it okay, but her parents will never recover. They have no idea how to. And it's heartbreaking to think that families go through what we did every single day- that's why I always say something when this topic comes up.
I lost a good friend to a heroin overdose. He had been in a motorcycle accident that left him in a coma and on morphine for a while. Of course, he got hooked and turned to the streets for relief. Hopefully this administration fulfills their promise to curb the opioid epidemic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I can understand this. I've always been a straight arrow. No drinking, no drugs. I was given a pain medicine for kidney stones and it helped and I felt myself thinking "I need that medicine." I realized, thankfully, that I did not and dumped it all out. It is scary stuff.
They won't ever get over it, they will hopefully learn to live with it... That is the only way to survive
Sorry I didn't reply to everyone- it sort of came back and "hit me" once I started thinking about my niece. I loved that girl something fierce because she was so smart and radiant when she walked into a room...you could just feel that she was destined for something great in life. The car accident stole that away but it was the prescription drugs that made her a slave. She went through hell for seven years, ended up in a rehab group, and met another guy there who wanted to end it all (he had a similar story- straight arrow, bad accident, pain meds, then eventually street drugs). Out of nowhere, he hung himself one Sunday afternoon...my niece did the same about two weeks later. She was talking about moving to the Carolinas and living with my family about a month before she ended it all- I still wonder if I had fought harder to get her here, could I have "saved her"? It's just a horrible story and the heart-break of my life. Thanks for all the kind comments though! I still don't regret writing all of this because if you have a loved one that gets hurt, you now know to pay attention. Oxy, morphine and similar drugs are just as addictive as heroin to some people- eventually they will "run out" of pills before they can get a refill and that's when they realize that they're a junkie. First they turn to friends for old prescriptions but eventually, they're going to turn to that street dealer and take whatever is available. Crack, meth, acid....whatever calms the pain. So when you pull a muscle in your back and the doctor prescribes perkiset (I probably spelled that wrong), think twice before taking them every four hours. Take the pills when you have to, not when it's convenient, and get help early if you find them calling your name.
