Author: travispnorton
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:36 pm
It would really shock me if your husband didn’t have any idea that something has been off with you at one point or another if you have been taking illicit opioids for 11 years! I’d encourage you to have a heart-to-heart with your husband, explain to him that you have a problem, that you have been looking into ways to address the problem and that you have found one in Suboxone that you wish to further explore. If your husband loves you, he will support you. For better or worse, right? Only people you want to let in have to be let in, if you don’t want his family to know, how will they know? You can talk to your husband about this now and try to address the problem by getting into recovery, WHATEVER your version of recovery is going to look like (suboxone or not), or you WILL continue to use opioids and something drastic will eventually happen and many people including your husband are going to connect the dots. Someone mentioned methadone…I don’t think you even stated what opioid you were using/how much, so I don’t know if that would or wouldn’t be appropriate, but I do know that if you stick with the dishonesty route and want to hide your recovery from your husband…methadone isn’t going to be the way to go unless you could explain away $15+ dollars for doses daily plus at the very least an hour being mysteriously gone each and every day early mornings-noon. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge advocate for methadone in certain populations, but I’m not sure if you do or don’t fall into that population…But I digress… At any rate, you should get honest and get into recovery!
-Travis
