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Opioids for ten years. how is it affected your life? your relationships, your goals? >> at first, for the first 6.5-7 years, fine. it never got out of control. but they dont tell you is that when you take opioids, your tolerance to pain decreases but your tolerance for the medication increases. theres no backwards tolerance. you keep building and building until you need more and more and more up until the point where there is no more. they wont give you more. so ive done rehabs, 30 day programs,...

How is it affected your life? your relationships, your goals? >> at first, for the first 6.5-7 years, fine. it never got out of control. but they dont tell you is that when you take opioids, your tolerance to pain decreases but your tolerance for the medication increases. theres no backwards tolerance. you keep building and building until you need more and more and more up until the point where there is no more. they wont give you more. so ive done rehabs, 30 day programs, ive been clean for 16 ...

Ten years. how has it affected your life, the goals that youve had, your relationships with other people, whats it been like? >> um, at first, for the first six and a half seven years, fine. uh, never got out of control. but what they dont tell you is when you take opioids your tolerance, the pain decreases but your tolerance for the medication increases. theres no backwards tolerance. so you keep building and building and building until you need more and more and more up untilld the point where...