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The road to prescription drug addiction is well traveled. Don’t let it happen to someone you care about.

I recently worked on a project with two people who were taking prescription drugs. Both of them had started young – the drugs were prescribed by a doctor when they were school kids, and they were still on them. They have since graduated from college with professional degrees. In fact, they are practicing doctors, both are suffering from prescription drug addiction, and neither has ever considered the possibility of drug detox or drug rehab.

One of them told me she tries to take as little of the drug as possible – it’s Ritalin - but the last time she tried to stop she had a breakdown and had to resume. It was now a year later, and she described herself as still recovering from that breakdown.

Within a month both of them had to stop working on the project because they were incapable of doing the simple steps necessary to complete it - actions done with ease by millions of people every day.

Neither of them are over 30, but both are already failing in their careers, and neither of them have had success in personal relationships. Drug detox and drug rehab could help them.

I tried to hook one of them up with a doctor who could help her get off the drugs but, frankly, she was so messed up she couldn’t even make the phone call to set an appointment.

Many people choose to be doctors so they can help people. These two will help very few. In fact, unless they get into drug detox and drug rehab, they’ll never even make enough money to pay off their student loans.

If you know someone who’s taking prescription drugs, don’t let it slide – get them into drug detox and rehab. Don’t depend on them to do it on their own. Years of taking prescription drugs can really mess you up. Help them out.

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