I admit that I abuse these drugs on a daily basis.
What I do now, a lot of times,
I'll have to go through a whole chemical process
of getting the shells off, crushing them down.
I inject the medication to get that high.
Here is an injection site that was recently infected.
I use wherever I can reach, so all of those track marks
are from injecting.
Since I'm a registered nurse, I know at what point
an overdose would be possible.
That's part of the reason why I've never tried heroin.
I don't know where that line is with that.
When I get up to go to the bathroom at night,
I literally can't fall back to sleep
until I see you breathe or move.
I know what my tolerance is.
I just don't understand how you can be so arrogant.
In order for me to get the pain medication
that I abuse, some of it is still written for me
as a script.
I run out of it so quickly that I have to resort
to friends that I know who take my drug of choice
and what we'll do is trade those
almost like we're trading baseball cards.
I've been a nurse in a hospital.
In the ER, the availability of narcotics,
it was like a kid in the candy store.
I had so much excess, it was unreal.
Over the years, I have probably taken
so many narcotics, so many that I've honestly lost track.
I have considered using heroin.
One point, I drove into a neighborhood
that's known for their drug sales.
I even approached somebody on the street,
and he didn't know where to get it.
I'm grateful because had I been able
to get it that day, I would've used it.
You're not in any denial about the fact
that you are completely dependent.
Correct.
And how much would you say you're...
Using at this point?
Depending on what the medication is,
or, I don't know, I'm probably injecting five times a day.
Just depending on the medication, what's available.
It's an all-day-long cycle, getting it,
reconstituting it, trying to find a vein.
It sickens me, and I hate to see my dad cry.
But you never call me either, dad.
You never call me to see if I'm okay.
Neither do you.
And how do you think that makes me feel, too?
I'm the one that's gotta be babysitting her.
I have no help, and it seems like nobody wants to care.
Nobody cares!
She has to babysit you
with your alcohol issue. No.
Not on a daily basis.
Because honestly, it doesn't matter
when the basis is.
You guys shouldn't have to babysit each other at all.
You guys are adults.
You guys are supposed to be
the mature ones in this situation.
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This started as a prescription issue, with you,
and you became addicted to the prescription medication.
There is truly an epidemic
that you're caught up in the midst of.
Robin and I were just on Capitol Hill
testifying about this opioid crisis, at this point.
You know Robin, I think you remember making the comment
that if the prescription is filled...
Even one time,
the likely hood of addiction
at one year is like one in three, is it?
They can refill that prescription one time
and become addicted to it.
So you are on a very slippery slope at this point.
And, it's obviously clouded your judgment
because you're not being a very good thief.
In West Virginia, the complaint about against you
states that there were diversions of fifteen vials,
and in two vials of Morphine from July 2017
to August 2nd of 2017.
So, I mean, this stuff is tracked, it's recorded.
So it's not like you're getting away with it,
so you know at the time it's going to be found out.
But at that time I'm so desperate
that I don't think about it.
I put it in the back of my mind,
and just try not to get sick.