Author: Ironic
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:26 pm
| kimg70 wrote: |
| Hi, my son is an addict, started doing heroin at 16, he is now 21 he also got into oxys and other opiates pretty heavy from what he tells me. he stole anything we had of value over and over again, he swore up and down he did not have a problem, I was the only one who knew better, finally I got tough and told him it was rehab or we weould not have anymore to do with him he finally agreed to go, I was online calling the 1-88 #’s within moments of his agreement, beware of the 1-800 #’s but that is another story, before he went, he begged me for money to go buy a suboxin, this was the first i heard of these but I guess he had been doing them regularly wehn he could for a while, and when his friends supply ran out, he would go into horrible withdrawels, mood swings etc. ( I se this in hindsight) anyway,, he got on a plane for the west coast across the country from us. the first stop was a 7 day detox- I did not know this at the time but the detox consisted of suboxone, then they brought him to the 30 day ctr, this place does not believe in subscribing suboxone, so he spent the next 10 days to current withdrawing from that, he says his chest hurts, the first days he could not eat, sleep , was depressed, it did not get better, the ctr prescribed flexoroll, anti – anxiet , about 6 diff pills, today they told him he was bipolar and add so he is on librium , flexorol, blah, blah, blah, he insists he just needs suboxone and he will be able to focus and function and that he wants to leave, I have been thinking suboxone is what caused all this angst in the first place but reading here I am wondering if I am right or is he? will things get better and is the addict just trying to get out? is he getting more messed uo by this new drug cocktail, should I find a suboxone clinic and try to get him moved? will outr lif EVER be normal, is he truly bipolar , add, blah, blah, blah? he was a normal kid until we moved and other life- changing events occured when he was 13 so I can’t believe he is mentally ill. any help and advice and insight would be greatly appreciated. thanks and God Bless! |
Treatment centers pull that bullshit all the time. They diagnose a withdrawing addict with all types of mental illnesses and put them on a million different medications (Vistaril!! They CHARGE people for benadryl in a prescription bottle, which is all Vistaril is, and pretend it works as an anti-anxiety medication).
The rehab he is at is 12 Step, no? Steppers mostly rally against Suboxone, saying people who take it aren’t clean. So let me guess, according to the treatment center, Suboxone is BAD, but these other medications are totally necessary. If you want NA’s official position on Suboxone, look here: http://www.na.org/?ID=bulletins-bull29
If this were my kid, I wouldn’t have ever used a 12 Step treatment center. I would pull him out and send him to a Sub doc..but nothing will work if he isn’t ready to stop..and it sounds like he isn’t, considering he wouldn’t admit he had a problem in the first place. When I first tried Suboxone a few years ago, I would just save my pills and use them while I was in withdrawal. You have to be motivated to take it as prescribed and not sell/trade it for pills, try to shoot through it, etc.
