My Mother Gave Me My First OxyContin
How familial love and devotion fueled my addiction to painkillers
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7 min readAug 2, 2019
During my sophomore year of college, when I was 19, my mother gave me my very first OxyContin, and I fell in love with it. There were extenuating circumstances (there always are): I was deeply depressed and threatening suicide, she was terrified for me and on Oxy herself, and it was 2000, when…
