Review: There but for the Grace of God go I
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
I read this book with great interest and considerable sympathy for Amanda Jenkins. I'm not addicted to opiates, but I strongly suspect that if I ever got started on a strongly addictive drug I would have great difficulty in breaking the addiction. Amanda Jenkins has given us the benefit of her experiences and hard won expertise in getting off opiate addiction.This is an excellent book for the 9 percent of us who are addicted to opiates, but I also recommend it for their loved ones.Some years ago I had an extremely badly broken wrist. The doctors gave me high doses of morphine for the pain. Then a few years later I developed a condition that was painful until an operation temporarily fixed it. The last time the problem happened was in 2006. The morphine relieved the pain as usual, but I also felt how nice the feeling induced by the drug was. In my drug affected state I was even looking forward to the next episode of the painful condition. I realized what I had thought and decided there and then to never have morphine again. I am lucky that the condition has not returned, and look back on a near addiction that I narrowly escaped.