EP 193: Naked Life Story – Tiffany

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Think professional people wouldn’t show up to work impaired? Well, think again, because it does happen. Sometimes even the best of the best of them fall victim to addiction that impairs their professional judgment. And today, you’ll meet a nurse who did go to work impaired. Annie talks with Tiffany, a nurse who started her addiction journey with Vicodin – to treat migraine headaches. Coupled with a drinking problem, it was double the fun….until it wasn’t. Join Annie as she walks through this unbelievable story of hope with Tiffany who lived under a cloud of shame until she finally got Naked.

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Episode Links:

Tiffany's Blog - Scrubbed Clean RN

Recover and Rise Website

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I am so excited to have my guest
0:32.5	Tiffany here with me today. Hi, Tiffany, welcome. Hi, thank you. Happy to be here.
0:36.8	Oh, so cool. Thanks for taking the time. So, what are you just kind of walk us back to
0:42.3	the beginning for you? Like, where did it all all start for you? Okay. So, I'm a nurse and my story,
0:52.2	it really revolves around my relationship to alcohol and opiates. I think it was probably 2011 or
1:02.5	2012 when I received a prescription for vikin and for migraines and I think that's a pretty common
1:10.2	story in this opiate crisis world that we get prescription medication that is addictive and
1:18.2	then become addicted to it. Shocker. So, I was, you know, I think eight or so years into my nursing
1:26.0	career, highly functional, a single mom, running half marathons and kind of living life on the outside
1:36.1	that looked pretty put together, pretty dreamy. But I was terminally addicted to vikin and
1:47.3	beginning to drink pretty heavily as well. So, it progressed to the point that I, you know, was
1:58.2	running out of my own prescription and needing to find ways to obtain. And how was it for you?
2:07.0	Because I remember getting a prescription to vikin and for a dental procedure and
2:13.6	definitely feeling like way more of a draw to the pills than, you know, I thought I ever should
2:19.1	and kind of like, uh, putting them a little bit and it was a dental thing. So, it wasn't ongoing
2:23.5	and I can imagine something like migraines. That's obviously ongoing. Like, who knows, you could
2:27.3	have a migraine every single day. So, it was like, kind of like a gradual thing where you were
2:33.6	literally just taking them for the migraines and then over time it was like, oh, I don't feel quite
2:37.7	good. Yeah, just give me some flavor. Sure, exactly. So, I knew I liked opiates and it was actually
2:45.4	because of a dental procedure, probably when I was, I don't know, 21. I had my wisdom teeth out.
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