Shoreline

Well, It finally hapepend to me. I'll try to make it short. My next door neighbor hurt his back in November, He's been to several surgeons and Pm docs, He's presently taking percocet for pain but always asking if I had something stronger. At first I told him all my meds were given through the pump and I had no orals. As thing went on over the months and he hopped from doc after doc trying to find an answer I started talking to him more and developed trust and let it slip about other meds and what I used for BT, 30 mg Roxicodone.

Anyway, His phone has been cut off for awhile without the income, yada yada and he was here using mine when it was time to head over to MIL to have dinner with my wifes sister who is in town. He knew I was leaving, even asked what time I would be back. I didn't think much of it, assuming he was asking how long I could stand to be at my MIL's, he knows we don't get along.

This was at 6pm, his wife and 3 kids were home I locked the house, deadbolted the back door but not the front. I've locked my myself out of the front and all it takes is a drivers licence to get back in. I forgot to lock the deadbolt and we got home about 8:30. About 10 minutes later I hear my neighbor leave, didn't think much of it.

I was getting ready for bed about 11pm and had just filled my monthly planner with the roxi that day when I picked up the script. I had shoved it under my coffee table when he knoced but when I went in the room I could see the edge of the clear plastic planner so he could see it too, sitting on my couch using my phone. Knowing he's in pain and the number of times he's asked for meds, I wouldn't leave him alone in the room with my meds. But didn't think about security with his family home right next door and being back before dark.

As I was getting ready for bed I pulled the planner out from under the table and about choked. Someone had gone through the 28 compartments and taken 3 roxi out of very one. He was kind enough to leave me one pill a day for the month, he didn't take the 4 Soma or klonopin in each compartment, didn't go upstairs and take wifes meds which he doesn't know about and nothing else was missing.

I went right next stoor, beat on the door and his wife answered, I asked where hubby was, She said he left 3 hours ago in their only car, took the cell phone, their only comunication but said he would be back in 10 minutes. That was 3 hours ago, he weas to be back in 10 minutes.

I told her what occured and then told her what the meds would be worth on the street. She's freaking, said he has a crack problem and probably took them for the money. She walked a few doors down the other way and knocked on that neighbors door. She talked to the lady that lived there. She hadn't seen him since 8:00 when he came by stinking drunk and asked if her husband was home because he had some killer pain pills he wantd to get rid off. She told him he's not interested and closed the door.

Come to find out, my new neighbor "lived there about 8 months" has been through rehab 6 times in 8 years for everything under the sun. Was drunk as a skunk , he's missing, my pills are missing so I called the cell phone and left a little mesage for him. About 2am, I here 2 car doors slam and go outside, and his wife came out and said someone followed him and picked him up after he dropped the car off with the keys in the ignition and left the cell phone in the seat.

She's going nuts, I just want my meds back and about 3 am he calls crying from a phone booth and denies everything but hasn't been home since, Today is thursday, he's MIA, I have one pill a day for the month but I did call the police the next day because I didn't want him getting cought with them and trying to get out of it by saying I gave or sold them to him. They fingerprinted my planner, lifted a few prints and I'm waiting for a detective from burglary to come by.

As sure as I am and his wife is that he did it, unless he left prints, I can't prove it.He could even say I showed him the box and justify his prints being on it. But who would pick through the box, leave me one pill a day, leave soma and klonopin and take nothing else, now jewlry, no other meds, nothing else was missing. His wife doesn't think he's coming back, apearently she told him last week she wants to seperate. I didn't know that or I would have at least been aware he was in a deperate state and why he was drinking again.

So I'm SOL, I signed a contract to keep my meds safe and that no lost or stolen meds would be replaced, so I'm not going to even ask.I know they have heard the were lost or stolen a thousand times. I can suck it up for the next 28 days and I won't die.

This guys addiction is so sick, he traded his wife and kids for 74 roxicodone or however much crack you can get for them. He also has a capius out on him for failure to appear in trafic court where he was given 15 days for wreckless driving. I haven't slept in a few days, staying up and listenting because I want to wring his neck. His wife hasn't seen or heard frm him since and she thinks he won't be back. She's already been down this road 6 times in 8 years with him.

I've done so much for them, as far as watching kids, using my phone as a contact for his docs and apts, driven him to most of his apts and this is how I'm repaid. So it comes down to you don't know anyone and what they are capable of, but you can certainly pay a price for trusting people and thinking locking your house and putting meds out of easy sight is safe enough.

This could get worse if it gets to my doc that i didn't have my meds secured,or he OD's or someone he sells them too OD's. They don't play at my clinic, 0 tolerance for anything. They don't call in any meds because they have already been burned, already do pill counts and date checks on refills and UA's.S I may end up even more screwed than now.

The moral is, protect your meds, don't tell anyone anything and it amazes me that his famly is so disposable. He's probably half way back to Pittsburg by now and I'm still waiting on the detective. It would have been nice to see him cought but I doubt I'll see that. Without direct proof, I don't have a case for the police to take to the DA, dispite the overwhelming circumstantial evidence. If he didn't do it, why hasn't he come home? Who would leave the stuff that doesn't have a high street value? He has no money for drugs, his inlaws just turned their electricity back on for him.But stealing from someone that's done nothing but help and do right by him is an option.

I just love drug addicts. It's like it's their job to pull as many people down the hole with them as possible and you can't help them.
Later, Dave