I lost 24 people before I graduated high school from overdoses, I stopped counting in my mid 20s at 75 people. After being put on OxyContin AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, first script 60 count 20 mg.(because I was taking 120 ct 10/325 hydrocodone in a month; my liver function test showing that I was functioning at 30%). I was going to the best doctors in the state of Texas. I wanted to know why I couldn’t play baseball with the rest of my buddies and why I had to lay in a bathtub crying praying to God to take my pain away. By the time I’m prescribed opiate medication that the doctor said that I would be dependent on for the rest of my life. We’re talking 125mcg fentanyl patches, 120 mg oral morphine suckers, 90 ct 2 mg clonazepam, zaleplon( a hypnotic sedative), Hydro morphon hydrochloride, (90ct 8 k8’s), and intramuscular vercet, a short acting IM and IV benzodiazepine. It led to a 15 g a week heroin habit.I filled all those prescriptions every month from the time that I was 12 to the time that I was in my mid-20s. I could fill those prescriptions and I could shoot snort and be out of them within a week personally you only and I will be back in the hood buying heroin so I wouldn’t be deathly sick. I’m clean now by the grace of God. And I take nothing for pain other than the occasional Suboxone because for some reason it helps with my pain. I just recently lost my brother and I lost my best friend three days ago to a fentanyl overdose. Ask me anything… Even through all that I stayed relatively functional. I’m going to finish my masters in divinity from an accredited seminary here in Texas. If you’re not religious, let me know. It doesn’t have to be about that and I wouldn’t push that on anyone, but sometimes when you go to ask God, why have you given me so much favor with man why do you love me so much when I’m this way? it’s a pretty breaking experience when he says because “i love you, and why has it taken you so long to ask?”