My roommate and I both have chronic pain and share information about our medications, but lately I think we're enabling each other's over-reliance on pain pills and neither of us wants to be the one to say we might have a problem.
More people experience this than they realize.
Mutual support becoming mutual harm through unacknowledged dependency patterns.
“Where Are You with Medications and how they work?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.