Originally Posted by
shockozulu 
Glad to see your messages Davey. For me, taking the prescribed dose of pain medications actually helps keep me sober and clean. Self medicating my physical and emotional pain was a default mechanism for many years.
By working my tools more often SMART and SR helped me from using my pain meds off label.
It's always good to see you post.
This is one of the things I've learned, taking medication to deal with pain due to a medical illness is not shameful. I was just self medicating with alcohol but at least the pain meds I'm on won't cause the type of damage that alcohol was doing. I guess sometimes we just dont' want to ask for help, so instead of seeing a doctor for the pain I told them I was fine and drank myself into a stupor.