DEAR DR. GOTT: I am writing to you with a very serious problem that I have not seen addressed before, yet must plague a great number of people.

I am addicted to narcotics. The drugs have been prescribed to me for chronic pain (spinal) and I have used them regularly for 2 years.

I feel they are no longer necessary and would prefer some other form of pain therapy; however, I cannot stop taking them without extreme physical sickness from the withdrawal.

It is to the point now that I take the medicine (Oxycontin and Percocet) to stave off the withdrawal sickness instead of for the pain. I never intended or expected this to happen. Would you please inform me as to the proper regimen to follow which will eventually leave me drug free and not addicted?

Please help!
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