This is not okay! With slow release tablets, you are not supposed to crush or chew them, because the tablets are designed to release into your system slowly. Crushing them is a red flag for a drug problem, crushing such tablets and then snorting them is definitely a problem!!!! It's done to increase the drugs effect and bring it on faster and to cause a "high"

So many sufferers of chronic pain have problems because doctors are afraid to prescribe meds to control their pain, for fear people will become addicts. Behavior such as this only adds to the problem, big time.

Speaking as a person dealing with pain issues, I do not feel any euphoria from my meds, just a reduction of pain, though not total. When I need more help via pain control, I go to my family doc, and she works with me to solve the problem. If I was doped up by my morphine, I wouldn't be able to live on my own anymore because I drive an electric wheelchair and it would be just be an accident waiting to happen before I fell out of my wheelchair, smashed into a wall, ran over my cat or got hit by a car because I'd feel too woozy to see where I was going. (Because of side effects, my doctor dares not prescribe me a larger dose and I am waiting for a pain clinic).

I spent a few years using "alcohol" to self-medicate my depression and at the time, I was the last one to realize I had a problem with alcohol.

Another powder that people snort up their nostrils is a white one devrived from a plant grown in Columbia by men armed with machine guns who would off their own mothers for a nickel. I would be seriously concerned about this girl snorting ANY drug, whether she suffers from legimate chronic pain issues or "borrows" the pills from someone who has pain.

I am not accusing anyone. But anyone can get involved in something like this, even due to curiousity, or as a way to escape problems

This "Nimby" (Not in my backyard atitude) method of denying the problem has caused people to brush the problem under the rug. Doing that, or not talking about the problem, doesn't solve the problem or make it go away. It just gets bigger and it can eventually get out of control.

I spent several years trying to "self-medicate" with alcohol. Health problems, poverty, mental illness, all sorts of things can increase the risk of a drug or alcohol problem. I think you need to talk to someone with more knowledge in this specific area, because confronting the girl in an angry fight will only make her defensive.

What is more, lying about the extent of drug or alcohol use is another sign of a problem, as is hiding alcohol or drugs away. Eventually her body is going to need more and more drug to get the same effect. Addicts will steal from their own families to get the money to buy drugs, or steal medication. Eventually she can get very sick from the drugs side effects and she could wind up overdosing. Addicts have been even known to sell their bodies to get their next fix.

I am not trying to cause panic, but there is nothing benign about drug abuse. And if someone can't get them on their own, they will steal it or start dealing with the kind of slimeballs that will soon have the police at your door.

This isn't just "harmless" fun. The drug is being used illegimately, and if the girl is not using her own drugs to get high, she could be buying them or stealing them from someone else, or getting them from criminals, which could very well lead to her doing bad things too.

I am a very strong believer in "knowledge is power". So I've did some searching for you. Just for you. I am glad to do it. Even if I can't use or don't need certain knowledge myself, I've learned over time that sooner or later, I will run into someone who does need that knowledge. We are put on this earth to help one another. I have cerebral palsy and have a wheelchair. Many might see me as useless. But if I have information that could save a life and don't give it out, figuring that they "will manage fine" on their own, it might very well turn out that NO ONE ELSE ever spoke up, when I could have.

Some people let bad things happen and ignore it as a private family matter. Well, the person in the situation might be in need of serious help, and might need someone to offer assistance when no one else will. And someday, the people who stood by might be the ones needing help. I might wind up needing help.

And many people have helped me over the years and it's not often I get a chance to do some helping myself. I am sorry about this situation, but I would be very happy to look up some things on-line, or leave an open in-box if you need an ear. I have my own issues, but never too many to help another human or a friend in need.

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/teens/prescription-drug-abuse-5

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