Taking Oxycodone To Quit Alcohol And Morphine Addiction?

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I recently found out that my girlfriend has relapsed with her alcohol addiction. I also found that she has been taking 15mg Morphine ER release 3-4 times a day to help her not want the booze. She has admitted that she now has an issue with the pills but is not drinking.

Her Dr has now given her 10mg Oxycodone IR and she tells me that she is taking that to get off of the Morphine.

This past week she has had severe mood swings, has had a headache every day this week, and has told me she has not had a pill in two days.

I need help understanding what is happening here. Am I being lied to and her addiction is taking a turn for the worse or is she really doing what she says she is?

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She's lying to you. Oxycodone is much stronger than morphine, trust me, I'm prescribed both of them every month for chronic pain. If she's gone 2 days without a pill, she'd be in full withdrawls. Sick as hell. Also, they don't give you addictive painkillers to stop drinking. Her best bet would be Xanax for anxiety and Wellbutrin SR 200 x 2/day to combat depression while getting off the alcohol. I tell you this as someone with 18 yrs experience with opiates and my sister is a Nurse Practitioner. 1 step from a doctor. She told me about the Xanax (or ativan) and Wellbutrin SR. Addicts will say anything, lie constantly and are VERY good at it and very convincing. She just substituting one addictive habit for another. Hope this answers your questions. - Mac

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Re: Mac (# 1) Expand Referenced Message

Wrong advice above, Morphine is a Class II, Oxycodone is class III. II is worse than III. That person is thinking of oxycontin, and yes your gf is lying to you, she's prob. still drinking and taking pills, which will cause what i call, ''the whitney houston cocktail" or ''whitney houston's daughter cocktail" or 'janis joplin' or heath ledger, she will go to sleep, stop breathing and not wake up. Whoever is prescribing these to an alcoholic is an *****. I would let her drink before the pills. 3-4 times/day, she's hooked on the pills also. Check her purse, you'll find a bottle of pills and alcohol. If she's in pain with headaches, it means she's prob. not taking them. When she's all lovey dovey and nice, she's jacked up. Not much you can do, she needs to decide to quit. Just pray she doesn't move on to heroin, class I, it's a certain death sentence. If she's hanging out in the bathroom for hours, she's using.

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Re: SigSgtu (# 2) Expand Referenced Message

Actually oxycodone is 1.5 times stronger than morphine. It was erroneously scheduled by the DEA as being weaker than morphine. Google it to be sure.

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In an unsolicited opinion I would definitely say this person should be admitted to a facility for substance abuse treatment. There is no way to accurately assess much less give advice on an internet forum. A medically supervised detox would be the first order of business.

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