I had to admit that, for the last two months of this year, I’ve been having withdrawals. Yes. I’ve been having withdrawals from prescribed medication. I realized this was happening after I stopped taking a pill that was supposed to help my body heal. I couldn’t move my left arm at first. Then it moved to my right arm. Then all over my wrists, fingers, and jaw. Every day, I had some new ache and pain disabling my ability to move. There was depression. There was insomnia. There were a lot of annoying situations where the people who were supposed to understand kept annoying me to do certain tasks I’m not in the mood to do. Opiates. I love what it does to me. I understand why people get addicted to them. But what I don’t understand is why do hospitals do this? Sometimes people think it’s a myth because it hasn’t happened to them. But when you get pumped with a cocktail of oxycodone, hydrocodone, neurontin, and melatonin with the comfort of nurses...
