[ellissa]

My partner is currently taking about 40 30/500mg co-codamols a day, yes a day! I’ve no idea how it feels or why he does it, but clearly it’s an addiction. He has said he has been taking them for about 15 years and that he was on them once before but quit, then needed to take them again 2 years later fue to the pain he was in.

He wakes in the night to ‘top up’ on his pills, under the guise of using the toilet.

We have spoken about his use, he is honest about the prescription meds, but not so much about the over the counter ones he’s buying, he says he will quit once he retires next year, but I feel in the past year his intake has increased.

He gets his prescription along with that of 2 other people and he buys over the counter. Visiting up to 6 different chemists.

im not sure he will be able to quit having been on them so long and at such high doses. He says he takes them to feel ‘normal’  and that he doesn’t feel lethargic only energised?

I have no idea what to do or how to help.

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