For years Jean-Marie Ossart suffered from severe back pain. In 2012, a CT scan revealed a congenital spinal defect, which caused degeneration of the intervertebral discs (degenerative disc disease).“I was in so much pain that, some days, when I came home from work, I would sit on the sofa, not moving until the next morning, without eating…”remember this fifty-year-old glassmaker.
“The doctors first prescribed me painkillers, muscle relaxants, then they gave me prolonged release morphine, Skenan”a powerful opioid.It was 2012. no doctor warned him of the risk of becoming addicted if he took a high dose. Does not read the instructions. The pain goes away for a week, then returns. “Plus I was moonlighting. » He talks about it to his doctor, who has a “better idea” and prescribed another form of morphine, actiskenan, fast-acting, at a dose of six tablets a day. “I took it to be able to work: you have pain, you take one and you can leave”he tells us. In total, it was about ten pills a day. Become addicted.
Every three months, his doctor renews his prescription without examining it, without questioning him… But,in 2017,suffering from vomiting,sweating,diarrhea,he was taken to the emergency room. It’s a withdrawal crisis. “They gave me my dose and I felt better. » The emergency doctor suggests that he consult to stop and directs him to the university addiction service in lyon (located at the Hospices Civils and at the Le Vinatier hospital center). As part of this service directed by him, Benjamin Rolland created, in May 2023, the Lyon Resource Centre for Drug Addiction (Cerlam). Little by little Mr. Ossart reduces the doses. “Why was I allowed to binge on drugs from 2012 to 2017? Why didn’t anyone tell me…? »we still ask ourselves today.
Jean-Marie Ossart, former morphine addict, followed by Benjamin Rolland, psychiatrist-employee of the Edouard Herriot hospital, in Lyon, on November 7, 2024.
What drugs are we talking about? Opioids include natural substances such as morphine, opium, codeine, and synthetic compounds such as fentanyl or tramadol. They are prescribed for moderate to severe pain, post-surgery or cancer-related, such as. They act on opioid receptors in the brain and play a key role in the central nervous system, regulating the perception of pain and increasing feelings of pleasure, reward and well-being.
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