LdiJ
Senior Member
You spelled it right.All the drugs that OP has said her sister was on are opiates (sp?). Methadone is one of the prescribed "cures".
I have more sympathy (at least in some circumstances) for people who get addicted to pain meds. For many of them, the addiction ends up being a result of original legal usage. The use of pain meds also doesn't seem to make people unable to function like normal human beings. Heroin or meth however, those drugs are scary as heck.
I was prescribed Vicodin a couple of years ago for a very valid pain situation. It worked wonderfully but it scared the bejesus out of me after taking it for only two days. I ended up flushing the rest of my prescription (which unfortunately, I later found out was a BAD thing to do), because I didn't want to be tempted to take anymore.