Likely pain killers, sadly.
@Jack Russell The trouble with narcotics is that the more you use them,the less well they work. Unfortunately,too many people who have demanding jobs like executives,tv stars,etc,etc,etc start taking them because they HAVE to "be at work at 7 AM Tomorrow,ready to produce!"
This works fine until it doesn't. One day in the near future they all suddenly "discover" that the "2 pills I used to take to manage the pain well enough to get me through the day no longer work,so I now have to take 4 of the damn things!"
Guess what happens next.
"Denial" is NOT just a river in Egypt.
I am one of the VERY lucky ones who managed to party my ass off for years,and only quit because thanks to the blackouts,I didn't know if I had been having any fun or not,but it became glaringly obvious from the nasty looks I was getting from people I only knew casually that I WAS pissing people off.
Even had one guy stop to pick me up one day in his new van while I was hitchiking (the company work truck had broken down while I was on a trip to get parts for a asphalt spreader),and I honestly thought this guy was a friend of mine until I got in his new van and he told me "I didn't really want to pick you up,but I was afraid you would rip the side off my new van if I didn't". Since the air temp was in the upper 90's that day and the van had AC,I didn't ask him why. I just accepted the ride back to the construction site in silence.
A few more similar instances from people I THOUGHT were friendly convinced me that maybe I needed to back off from the alcohol and drugs just a tad,but it didn't take long for me to realize I have a "all or nothing" personality,so I just quit drugs,and while I was at it,I quit drinking and smoking,also.
AND.......,it was VERY easy for me to do.
I take ZERO credit for quitting because it was so easy,and I know plenty of people,mostly alcoholics,that spend their entire lives drunk or trying to sober up,and heard all their stories about "How I quit last month",only to see them loaded to the gills and incoherent 6 months later.
I have not had the first urge to get loaded again,but quitting smoking was the tough one. I did it,but it wasn't easy. Everything else was "Ok,I quit!",and no big deal.
One of these days some geek working in a lab is going to discover a shot or pill that alcoholics can take that instantly removes their desire to drink permanently,and he or she will become the richest geek on the planet because NOBODY wants to be a drunk. NOBODY.
