Being proactive about your addiction recovery is one of the best decisions you can make in life. Drug and alcohol abuse, including addiction to opioid pain medications, can do damage to a person’s life in a lot of ways. Thankfully, addiction treatments are available to help you stop taking opioid medications, no matter how the substance abuse started. The opioid epidemic that has affected cities and towns across the country for the last two decades has impacted people of all ages and from all walks of life.