I've been stealing... What should I do?

[gr33n3y3z]

Yea I always feel like a piece of shit when I take painkillers from my family. For what a quick fix? And then I'm watching my loved ones go through pain because they don't have enough meds to get them through the month.


-Karma will come and bite me in the ass one day-

 

[opiatekrzy]

my 15yrs of addiction has cost me a lot, and took me to the pits of hell. during the peak of my addiction, i went to prison for 4yrs from a heroin addiction, i stole from everyone, my mothers own purse, my parents ATM card, stealing out of stores, jumping over counters to the register, a whole bunch of shit. i really wish i had the patience to sit and write how much pain this lifestyle has cost me (but i feel due to my drug use, my brain isnt the same, and i have issues ADHD like symptoms where i cant focus for too long on a thread or even simply write out a job resume). 14 is when i started getting high, right now im 27yrs old with NOTHING TO SHOW. i sold my car for crack/cocaine (me and my fiance's car, and we needed that car for our 1yr son at the time), me and my fiance are stuck in a co-dependent relationship with 2 kids, and were literaly on the verge of getting out parental rights terminated with grandma having custody..i feel no "epiphany" right now, im lazy, emotionally i feel like a 10yr old, im just miserable. i wish i never ever started drugs...i been on suboxone/methadone on and off for 6yrs, only to prolonge my addiction. its sad. i wish i can smack myself across the head and stop it. i knew i was different/addict before i picked up the drug. i used to steal my dads painkillers and benzos all the time, thank god he never called the cops. one time i dragged his safe out the house, and smashed it, and cut my hand wide open from the metal, and come to find out he had all the narctocs in his car, what an ass i felt..for not finding narctoics, and lastly the guilt of doing that..this was years ago..now im just lazy and have no motivation to do good except feed the codependency with my fiance and her habit, and see my kids when i can...drugs SUCK

 

[Vaya]

i usually just replace them with tylenols or ibprofins that look alike...never know the difference

Careful, now - this is coming dangerously close to giving advice on HOW to steal meds without getting caught. If any moe posts are made suggesting this type of activity (not that you were, necessarily, DrinksWithEvil), Staff will promptly close the thread or unapprove the posts. Please take care with how you word things in this forum; I would kindly appreciate that!

Best,
~ Vaya

 

[pillman1224]

i have this problem to the short version is my grandparents live in wv and i live in de i visit them a few times a year. i started teaking their pain meds when i was 15ish. the first time i did it i had never done opiates before it was awsome. they had 120 bottles of vic 5s lortab 5s and tramadol i tried a little of each. them the next time i went i took lie ninety out of each bottle and promised myslef i would make them last a while. you know how that goes they last about 2 weeks sigh. then things got interesting i noticeed they were low so i emptied them out before i left back home. knowing i would be bac in a month for xmas i figured they would get a refill and i could take even more next time. well i was half right. they noticed and i got a call they told my dad and i denied it. he didnt believe me but had no way to prove it. anyway i went back last summer and had a very tramatic event. they had lie thirty norcos left and i took twenty. then the next day before going to the local buffet i took 6 more. when we got home my 92 y/o grandma is on the porch and ept saying one of you is guilty. my mom believed me but my dad didnt. i hid the pills in the restroom while my dad searched my things. went back to the bathroom were i hid the pills the next morning took em and went on home. havent been about to take any since. guess they started to hide em better. anyways i would like some thoughts on this. thanks and keep on popping

 

[subotai]

<snip> dude people can overlook a couple of pills missing here or there

you were taking like a month's worth of pills at a time

stealing drugs from family members is <dishonest> if I want to get high on my aunts pills I just give her money

I know this is the dark side but you people brought this distrust on yourself because YOU ARE untrustworthy and dishonest

now deal with the consequences

 

[nygiants1313]

Ok so my grandmother just got out of surgery and she has a new prescription of Vicodin but there was an older bottle laying around. I helped myself to about half of it despite telling myself with every pill that it was the last one I'd ever take... Right now I'm trying to decide what I should do about it so I'm not disowned by my entire family and my grandmother. Do you think she will noticed if the bottle sort of just disappeared as in being thrown in the trash? I was thinking about making it look like her dogs got ahold of the bottle and chewed it up/opened it spilling them every but that might look suspicious too. I've also been thinking of flat out coming clean about it and apologizing sincerely and asking if there was any way I could make it up to her but I'm afraid my mother will kick me out of her house if she founds out I stole pills. I've been clean for about a year before this, and I just lost control. My family isn't that aware of my previous addictions, because I was not so bad. I don't know what to do, the guilt is overwhelming me and I don't want to be disowned by everyone I love because I lost control for a little while.

With no other place to live do not come clean. That does not help.

 

[Corazon]

stop being a fucking coward

it's one thing to hurt yourself , it's another to prey on family and others

take some steps to address your addictions
take some steps to address your low morality
take some steps to avoid situations entirely that will test your lack of self-control