PRESCRIPTIONS RUN OUT –
July 21, 2023 – As so often happens, Zac’s surgery to remove the tumor introduced him to strong painkillers (opiates), prescribed by his medical team. Tayshia Adams’ ex-fianacé said the drugs not only took away his surgical pain, but he experienced “a high that I had never felt before.”
“Despite the fact that I loved to party in college and after college,” the addiction recovery counselor admitted, “this was new and it was exciting and I felt great.”
Even though he’d just had a growth “chopped out of [his] dome,” everything was great. But then the drugs ran out. Once he was released from the hospital and began to recover, the doctors stopped prescribing the opiates.
“I quickly started to feel like sh*t,” Zac said. “I went into withdrawals. No medical professional sat me down and explained that I was probably going to be addicted to opiates. [So] I took matters into my own hands.”
In order to feed his addiction, the Recovery Release founder went “out into the streets” to buy Oxycontin, the brand name of the painkiller released by Purdue Pharma in 1996. Despite paying $60-80 per pill, he was able to continue that habit for a couple of years, until it just got too expensive.
