addiction

The Addiction Battle Kelley Calder, tell us the process that led to your addiction to pain medications and other pharmaceuticals. I truly didn’t know I had an addiction. On-the-job work injuries caused me to have 5 hand surgeries, multiple epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, and nerve burns for pain in my spine.  My doctors did everything they knew to help me, which meant I was put on pharmaceuticals.  Nothing seemed to last long, and when physical issues intensified and I reacted negatively to the medication, they would try a different prescription. The nerve burns just made me hurt worse. I couldn’t function…