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1. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   Okay, well I have certainly received more advice than I expected. For those of you that think I am "supporting" or "enabling" him, you are wrong. I do plan on intervening when I know exactly how and when to do it, which is why I turned to this forum ...

2. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   Nadanow, he has a legit script from his doc for vicodin. That is how he is passing his drug tests. It comes up positive for opiates. Period. No I am not cool with him goig to work like this, but I can only assume(since I am not there) that he is not ...

3. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   For southernbeegirl, it is so odd to hear you say some of those things because he also has burned so many things around this house with cigarettes and we have NEVER smoked in our house before. We just always had a rule about that because of the kids....

4. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   I have thought of an intervention before. And I certainly am concerned with the patient care side of things. But there is so much more background than I am able to post here. But to make the story even more complicated, he was pre-med when he was jus...

5. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   Then how is he passing drug tests? He told me himself that they are testing him and they watch his every move since he has been written up twice before. They even went through his locker and found some things that should not have been there. He said ...

6. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   I really have been doing alot of research on the subject. So much that I feel it has consumed my life. My goal is to get him help but I know from what I have read that this stuff does chemically alter the brain and I can tell that he just is not the ...

7. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 replied to joker2's topic in Recovery

   Thanks to all of you for your responses. I guess the really difficult part of it all is that he went back to school at age 35 to pursue this degree. He stopped working so that he could dedicate himself to school, while I supported our family. It was...

8. RN husband addicted to opiates

   joker2 posted a topic in Recovery

   Although I am not the RN in the family, my husband is, I am very concerned about him and thought maybe one of you can give me some advice. He just graduated a year and a half ago and over this time period, has developed a problem with opiates. He sta...