Medical Negligence And Addiction

Summary

You may have grounds to sue a hospital or doctor for medical negligence if their prescription of opioids led to your addiction and subsequent trauma. Medical malpractice claims can be complex and typically require proving that the healthcare providers actions deviated from standard care, directly causing harm. Given the severe impact on your life, including addiction, homelessness, and PTSD, consulting a medical malpractice attorney in California is advisable. They can help assess your case, gather necessary evidence, and guide you through the legal process.

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Can I sue a hospital or doctor for this ? I am now 29 years old. When I was around 18 years old I needed to have surgery on my thyroid. After the surgery I was prescribed with a lot of medications like Percocet, oxycodone, oxycontin, codeine, Vicodin, morphine. All at the same time sometimes.. I developed a very serious addiction to Opiates, and I lost 10 years of my life struggling with intense addiction. It led me to be homeless for a small portion of time, where I had been assaulted, sexually molested robbed. And forced through severe emotional trauma. I now live in my home and have almost no social media and am very afraid to go outside and every day I am haunted by the memories, to the point where I shake, it is physically and mentally debilitating to the point where I was not able to keep a job around other people. I had to work an overnight job alone which paid very poorly and I was never available and could never afford to do things with friends, and after the addiction my face looks morbid to the point where I have lost all confidence in myself and have not had a relationship for nearly 6 years. I have not even had a hug in almost 5 years. This all happened as a domino effect of being given a highly addictive substance by someone claiming to be a medical perfessional. I was given many different kinds of opiates, and some were 60 day supplies, and they told me to take them exactly as prescribed. And I did. And as soon as my prescriptions ran out I became immediately sick and became violent and felt extreme migraines sometimes lasting * to 10 days. It caused me to drop out of highschool, from a very good academy, and ruined my chances of getting a good start on life. I am nearly * and still trying to pay off debts to begin college, but I permanently shake and I have lost my ability to concentrate due to hyper fixation of anything around me. It nearly led me to suicide, I recently just spent a few days in a mental institution because of suicidal ideations because of the fall out of being told by a doctor to take opiates in a way that would make me addicted. I had no idea what the word opiate even was when they were administered to me. I had zero clue of the risks involved and I was caused over a decade of highly severe emotional physical and mental duress. And I suffer heavy PTSD from being molested. After I was told I could not get more medication and there was no immediate rehabilitation available. I was shaking and sweating and vomiting for days and begging any one to help me stop the pain. And someone told me they knew what it was ( I had no idea I was addicted to opiates. I still didn't know what they were) and that person ended up kidnapping me and molesting me. It has completely changed my personality and given me a dark hatred toward the world. I lay awake in bed every night angry at the past. To the point where even a decade later it is still getting worse and worse
I am now 29 years old. When I was around 18 years old I needed to have surgery on my thyroid. After the surgery I was prescribed with a lot of medications like Percocet, oxycodone, oxycontin, codeine, Vicodin, morphine. All at the same time sometimes.. I developed a very serious addiction to Opiates, and I lost 10 years of my life struggling with intense addiction. It led me to be homeless for a small portion of time, where I had been assaulted, sexually molested robbed. And forced through severe emotional trauma. I now live in my home and have almost no social media and am very afraid to go outside and every day I am haunted by the memories, to the point where I shake, it is physically and mentally debilitating to the point where I was not able to keep a job around other people. I had to work an overnight job alone which paid very poorly and I was never available and could never afford to do things with friends, and after the addiction my face looks morbid to the point where I have lost all confidence in myself and have not had a relationship for nearly 6 years. I have not even had a hug in almost 5 years. This all happened as a domino effect of being given a highly addictive substance by someone claiming to be a medical perfessional. I was given many different kinds of opiates, and some were 60 day supplies, and they told me to take them exactly as prescribed. And I did. And as soon as my prescriptions ran out I became immediately sick and became violent and felt extreme migraines sometimes lasting * to 10 days. It caused me to drop out of highschool, from a very good academy, and ruined my chances of getting a good start on life. I am nearly * and still trying to pay off debts to begin college, but I permanently shake and I have lost my ability to concentrate due to hyper fixation of anything around me. It nearly led me to suicide, I recently just spent a few days in a mental institution because of suicidal ideations because of the fall out of being told by a doctor to take opiates in a way that would make me addicted. I had no idea what the word opiate even was when they were administered to me. I had zero clue of the risks involved and I was caused over a decade of highly severe emotional physical and mental duress. And I suffer heavy PTSD from being molested. After I was told I could not get more medication and there was no immediate rehabilitation available. I was shaking and sweating and vomiting for days and begging any one to help me stop the pain. And someone told me they knew what it was ( I had no idea I was addicted to opiates. I still didn't know what they were) and that person ended up kidnapping me and molesting me. It has completely changed my personality and given me a dark hatred toward the world. I lay awake in bed every night angry at the past. To the point where even a decade later it is still getting worse and worse