So, I feel down the stairs last year in November and hurt my foot very badly, but being at home and not going to work was NOT an option. I was in pain but I had to go to work, I have a friend who's a pharmacist and he'd sell morphine to me without a prescription. Long story short, I got hooked on it. Without morphine I'd start get withdrawal symptoms. I could never have imagined how painful it would be, so I went to the psychiatrist this year and she prescribed me 10mg methadone daily. I feel just fine when I take the methadone, but the other day I forgot to take it and felt so much abdominal pain I could barely work. Will I have to take methadone forever? It's still very easy for me to get morphine, but the pain and suffering that it causes later... I don't know if I should go to those drug meetings or to therapy. If I'm on methadone am I considered "sober"?