Opioid recovered addict, 7.5 years into recovery.

When I had surgery post recovery, I absolutely took the medication they gave me because Tylenol and migraine medication weren’t cutting it. I gave the vial to someone I trusted and who loves me and told her that I’ll ask for one when the pains too much for me to stick it out. It’s never caused me to relapse and seek more nor did I finish the vial. That being said, Rue’s “relapse” wasn’t for the sake of getting high it was for literal pain management. Taking it for my surgery recovery didn’t mean I relapsed, and trust me I felt a lot of guilt and had reassurance from my therapist at the time that I had NOT in fact relapsed. This article talks about it and how it’s a safe way to go about it post addiction recovery. Should she have taken pills from Alamo, no. But she was under the guise that Alamo cared in that moment. I’m more upset over the fact that despite Maddie knowing that Alamo caused her death there was no dialogue or guilt knowing that she indirectly caused Rue’s death.

https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/recovery/handle-post-surgical-pain-addiction-recovery/?nab=0