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    My brother has a problem with taking excessive amounts of prescription drugs, especially Xanex and Vicadin. The first change in his behavior was his blurred speech. As his addiction worsened, he no longer cared about hygiene or the way he looked. When he didn’t have any pills, he was highly agitated and constantly roaming the house, rummaging through cabinets and drawers, trying to find anything to take. When my mother noticed that a brand-new bottle of Tylenol PM she had placed the day before in a bedside table drawer was empty, we began to check the other over-the-counter medications we kept in the house and discovered that anything that ‘might cause drowsiness’ was emptied as well. He did not leave the house for almost four months, and the last straw was when he began to steal from us. When my brother is ‘pilled out,’ he is this other person. By ‘pilled out’ I mean having 10 or more Xanex in his system. He once took a horse tranquilizer and blacked out in the bathroom, striking his chin on the corner of the vanity and busting it open. Another sign that he was taking pills was that he would become overly emotional, sometimes weepy and other times hateful and aggressive.

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    Name : Amber31541, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 31, City : Tulsa, State : OK, Country : United States, Occupation : high school teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 
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