A Woman's Battle Against Prescription Drugs

 

These stories are not uncommon at all in the chemical dependency counseling community and every day there are new people finding presciption drugs to be a real problem. 

"In June of 2008, at 49-years-old, Jamie Lee Curtis admitted to the world that she had become addicted to pain pills at the age of 35. She states that her addiction led her to steal painkillers from her sister, who had them legitimately.

Curtis successfully hid her dependency from her entire family, including her husband, Christopher Guest. She says that she used the drugs to get high, battle loneliness and admits to binge drinking for years. Curtis believes that her dependency issues stemmed from the pressure she felt to stay young and thin in Hollywood. She says that she was finally able to discontinue her drug use nine years ago, due to her concern for her daughter, Annie.

In July of 2009, the buzz around the death of Michael Jackson and painkillers brought Curtis’ drug addiction back to the forefront. She can relate to Jackson, because she became addicted following her own routine cosmetic procedure.

She believes that he was in pain. Jackson was an addict, he wanted relief and would get it any way that he could. She is sure that attempts to intervene were made, but an addict will get what an addict wants, which is relief from the pain in his life. Curtis states that morphine became her warm bath from which to escape her painful reality. She was able to see that her pain had started a long time ago and that finding the narcotic was only a matter of time.

Curtis says that her recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest achievement in her life. She feels that without recovery, her life would have just fallen apart. She continued with, “Recovery and motherhood are the two single greatest things in my life.”

Jamie Lee Curtis Calls For Addiction To Be Considered A Disease

In February of 2012, Curtis refers to Whitney Houston’s death and requests a call to action against drug addiction in society, as well as the Obama administration.

Addiction has become an epidemic. Curtis requests that the Obama administration consider addiction a disease, just like cancer. She feels that the media spotlight on Houston’s death should be utilized to create change.

Gil Kerlikowske, the Drug Czar for President Obama, calls Houston’s death a teachable moment. He also believes that the administration needs to treat addiction as a disease.

Curtis feels lucky that she did not have to lose anything, as some stars have. She says that recovery is accepting that your life is a mess and it has to be changed. Curtis has let her hair turn grey and quit wearing high heels as part of her recovery process. She also works as a volunteer for anti-drug campaigns. If you or a loved one is dealing with addiction, contact us at the Delray Recovery Center today."

Source: http://www.freedomdrugrehab.com/jamie-lee-curtis-battle-with-addiction-to-pai...

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