Any updates? I have been thinking about you and your family.
I have just read this thread. My sympathies to you and your family.
The one thing I have to offer is that you must protect yourselves. My cousin was and is an addict, and has essentially taken her mother for everything she had. My aunt is nearly 90, and has been left with essentially zero assets.
A co-worker’s son is another case. As he is underage, the actions she can take with him are limited. She twice had him convinced to go into rehab, but he changed his mind at the last minute. He finally wound up assaulting her, and as a result was placed into court-ordered rehab. THAT’S what it took. He’s coming home next week, and she’s a wreck. He may stay straight, he may not. She’s basically counting the days until he turns 18 and she can kick him out.
I have only just seen this thread and wanted to say to you purple haze, my heart goes out to you. You have all my thoughts and hugs.
Maybe a good idea would be to research halfway houses which are kind of far away. That may help with recovery. Getting out of a toxic area.
I have a friend who was doing the “sober addict” thing. She wasn’t on anything, (had been: alky, coke, and script meds previously) but was just totally acting like an addict. She was doing stuff like just lying around the house every day, whining that she was too “anxious” to go out (and most of her anxiety was self generated) and just acting all fucked up, like lying in bed binging on chedder potato chips (she would spend money on cigerettes and chedder potato chips while her bills went unpaid)
She’d been living with her parents. She had to get a place of her own. She stayed in town (bad move as this area is very toxic if you’re not the “right” person.) and just repeated the same behavoirs. She got shipped off to rehab again this past summer. (she tried to get me to pay for some Klonopin she was trying to get via an illegal script) Frankly I think she’s never going to be sober. That plus she has a TON of health problems (morbidly overweight, smokes and already has high blood pressure, even thou she’s only 29 and severe sleep apena) I doubt she’ll make 35.
I hope and pray that your daughter doesn’t go through something as bad as that.
It’s a horrible monster. I witnessed the stuff my friend did, and SHE was sober AND it was just script stuff. I can’t imagine how bad it must be for a “hard drug”
and god…threads like these are exactly the reason why I think that legalization could never work. Fucks up everyone’s life.
Naltrexone is one useful tool in the toolbox for dealing with opiate addictions, but countless cases of addicts who relapse while on naltrexone show that it is not a cure-all and anyone that touts it as such is to be viewed with suspicion. Lots of opiate addicts have died trying to ‘over-ride’ the naltrexone with high doses of their opiate of choice.
As for INFOTURN, I’d suggest checking out treatment options closer to one’s home than Serbia (unless one lives in or near Serbia, I suppose). Even then, Caveat Emptor.
For those who are confused, the post that QtM quoted isn’t there because I have banned that person as a content spammer.
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