Drug addiction?
Please assistance! My best friend came to me with a problem that i have no idea was going on. She have been addicted to a pill called ultram for 3 years. She said the moment she wake up she takes it and takes give or take a few 7 a day. I thought she'd be dead by very soon! She knows she has a problem and requests to get help, but the problem is that she have a 1 year old son and is in college. She said she couldnt afford going to treatment. She couldnt undergo with the fact of someone else have to take care of her son knowing that she be in a rehab. So what i wanted to ask if near is a possibility to recover without going away to rehab or something. Are in attendance any recoverers out there that can help me oblige my friend. Also her doctors prescribes her this medicine and it's not even a narcotic (or so she said) so im also wondering if you had to rate would you deliberate this drug to be a little better than vicoden or anything like that?
Answer: if its a non narcotic im really not sure...i parsimonious for opiates they have something called saboxin (don't know if i spelled that right) but its an opiate blocker and it help the person not to go through withdrawl...but you hold to get a doctor to give it to you, and im pretty sure the individual doctors that give that out are the rehab ones.
I don't know what her symptoms are, and i definately think she should a short time ago suck it up for her sons sake and just go to Rehab (its gonna hurt him WAY more if she stays a drug user, than if she lets someone else watch him for for a time while till shes better.she might say its because of her son that she wont go to rehab, but everyone who is addicted to something similar to that makes up excuses not to go because they are scared)
If there's NO possible road that you can get her to go, than i would speak she can try like weening herself off of them, by taking smaller quantity and less a day untill her body isnt as dependant on them, and than hopefully she'll capture to the point where she can not take any anymore. Its really firm to get off of stuff close to that.
I had an ex fiance who is addicted to pain killer, he quit a billion times (and told me he wasnt takin them anymore), he never wanted to go to rehab, other thought he could get off them by himself. Hes still addicted, and guess what, he doesnt enjoy a fiance anymore.
I mean she obviously know that she has a problem, and does want to change, but consent to me give you alittle advice roughly people like that, they get out to you for answers, you help them in every possible route that you can, and usually they go right back.or they start lieing to you recounting you they aren't taking them when they are.
I've tried to help soooo many ancestors...and you know what i realised.Get away from those kinds of people, cuz they aren't going to shift, and they are EXTREAMLY selfish. The drugs make them that bearing.
So help her out all you can, but don't be suprised if she doesnt get hold of alot worse before she gets any better. Most of the relatives i've seen had to hit rock bottom earlier they'd suck up their pride and do something real to try to help themselves..
Allright! If she feel she doesn't need this for her health, she sounds close to i did, she is gettin a guilty conscience for something she is doing that is wrong. I don't know what that medicine is she is taking but to gross her feel better, tell her to cut down at least possible 1/2 and then 1 pill a day, and wean herself rotten them. she will feel better about herself later and not feel guilty about raise her child. she can do this by herself. Good Luck, and many happy years next to her child. You should look into to suboxone treatment. Its for opiate dependents. You dont have to go to rehab or anything similar to that. You need to find a certified doctor in your nouns who prescribes it. It usually costs $350.00 for the initial visit and $100.00 per visit thereafter.
http://www.suboxone.com/ this will back you understand everything.
http://www.naabt.org/patient_doctor/spla... this will help you find a doctor.
I hope this help your friend.
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Not being able to afford treatment is an excuse...I havnt salaried for one treatment, and i went through a 90 inpatient last june and next to a treatment center, ( I relapsed after 8 months sober,), for 6 days only to medical detox about two months ago. I DONT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, OR ANY MONEY and i get the help i needed. Call you're city health centers and see what nice of funding or assistance they can help her with, its out within. It may take a few phone calls to find it, but its out there and WORTH the time and effort.
yes, here is a way she can recover minus going away to treatment.
shes probably going to want to go to a detox center to get the support she desires while shes going through withdrawls. but Im sure she could go to a treatment center for less than a week basically to detox.
Then there's Alcoholics Anoymonous or Narcotics Anoynmous. My drug of choice is Heroin, and yes I go to A.A. more than N.A., just because in that are more A.A. meetings available. The program has worked miricles for various people. I get skeptical roughly it sometimes, BUuuuuuT, I KNOW that when I was regularily attending meetings (one scheduled time a day) i was sober and starting to feel ecstatic. A few weeks after I slacked on my meetings, and eventually stopped going, I started getting high again.
I would recommend treatment though...im not a doctor but, it cant hurt. Addiction is a serious disease.. and I guess if she wants to do the best thing for her child, she should put her sobriety first and do anything it takes to get on the right footprints, so she can be alive physically and emotionlly to care and love her child.
College can wait.
If she continues on the roadway of addiction without help, she will lose everything.
start making those call!
look online! google your city and "substance abuse" and call a number that pops up.
I dunno what numbers to give you rationale im not sure what city you're in.
I hope I was some minister to..
Ultram is a type of narcotic-like oral pain reliever that is repeatedly prescribed to treat low back pain. Ultram (tramadol) be approved by the FDA in 1998 and acts centrally (in the brain) to modulate the sensation of misery; it is not an NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) does not have the anti-inflammatory effect of an NSAID, however. Its mechanism of act is similar to acetaminophen (e.g. Tylenol), but Ultram is a stronger pain reliever than acetaminophen and has a shabby narcotic effect.
i copyed and pasted that shes lying and its just as bleak as vicodin