My Mom and My Sister Are Both Addicted to Pain Pills.?

Question by sweets4thesweet: My mom and my sister are both addicted to pain pills.?
This has been obvious for years. My mom started her addiction when I was 15, 6 years ago. She has always been the type to get easily addicted. She once was a cocaine addict, alchoholic, and she was addicted to pain shots from the doctor. It was so bad when I was around 8, she would actually have us walk to the hospital so she could get her fix and she still will go to the doctor if she has no pills. She went to the hospital so much at one time they refused to see her anymore at about 2 to 3 hospitals around our area. Anyway, she started driving a truck and got a back injury and was perscribed pain pills. She then quit her job and stoped working from then on. She hasnt had but 1 or 2 jobs in all this time. She is not the same woman she used to be. Come to think of it I wouldn’t recognize my mother if she was completely sober. She is actually addicted to gambling to, I am talking about so addicted that we went without electric while she was a truck driver addicted. So she has also got my sister hooked. I just dont know what to do anymore I know its just the drugs, but because her and my sister have that in common they’ve pretty much abandoned me. I am a mother of two who is a stay at home mom. My point is that i’ve actually called her crying for help and her say no, but she’ll watch my sister’s son any day of the week. It hurts, I am fed up, and I want to help them. So I can have a real mother and my daughters a real grandmother. Any idea on how I can help them.

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Answer by Angela F
Yikes. I don’t have any “helpful” answer other than the obvious “They need professional help” card. I think I get where you’re coming from; you’re sad that your family is going through this and maybe frustrated at the same time, be it with your mom and sister or yourself.

“It hurts, I am fed up, and I want to help them.”

You sound pretty secure about which step you want to take next: a step toward helping your family. I don’t want to sound negative. I really don’t. But with my very LIMITED experience I can tell you that people don’t change if they don’t want to. If confronted, they respond with angry denial or nonchalant shrugs or hurtful laughter. Especially when they are older than you, or just adults in general. Adults have more freedom and can feel like they are in control and no way is their daughter or some younger punk gonna tell them what to do. I’m sorry for what you’re going through, and all I can say is that I hope you are strong enough to be constant with them in urging them to get help. However, don’t purposefully place yourself in a depleting environment. You don’t need people around you and your children if all you’re going to get is pain.