Author: Romeo
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:56 pm
Hey Jim,
I know you posed your questions to Bboy, I hope you don’t mind that I’m popping in with my thoughts.
I understand how Suboxone knocks the hell out of cravings for a lot of us and that is truly a miracle on its own. But there’s SO much more to addiction than just not taking drugs anymore. Through working with my counselor and now NA, I’ve learned that addictive behaviors tend to permeate an addicts life, even while on Suboxone. Heck, I wasn’t even aware of a lot of the addictive behaviors I was exhibiting, while still on Suboxone, until my counselor pointed them out to me. In my mind, one of the benefits of counseling or AA/NA or SMART recovery is learning how our "addictive ways" have become a part of our everyday life and then learning how to "fix" those addictive tendencies.
There’s a member of this forum who has been on Suboxone for about 2 months and she has relapsed multiple times. She has asked and asked to be hooked up with a counselor, but for whatever reason, none have been available. It’s people like her who I think would benefit greatly from an addiction counselor. How do we make sure people like her get counseling?? Or would counseling do her absolutley no good??
Like you, I am NOT trying to come off as argumentative either. I hope you know me well enough by now to know that I am not trying to be a pain in the ass either. I just find this topic fascinating and honest to God, I’m really quite proud of the fact that everyone has been very respectful to each other while discussing this hard to discuss topic.
