Patricia is a nurse who not only had to tend to patients, but to her family. She had to provide round the clock care for her husband, her sons and even her father. The workload was just too much for Patricia, and she found her escape not with drugs from the street but the pharmacy. She lost herself in Stadol, the pain medication. Patricia path to drug addictions is also detailed her book, “Impaired: A Nurse’s Story of Addiction and Recovery.”
