reahab detox or drug treatment?

michele
#1. February 9th, 2009, at 8:27 PM.

If the outpatient methadone treatment is working, stay with that. You’re dealing with enough guilt as it is. If you left your family for rehab for months, you’d be dealing with even more guilt.

Keep walking your path.

You’ll make it!

Best of luck,
~M~

malemute1
#2. February 10th, 2009, at 11:24 AM.

Do the outpatient thing and immerse yourself in NA..90 meetings in 90 days!!

lindsay_jo_294
#3. February 13th, 2009, at 11:54 AM.

congrats on realizing you have a problem and are trying to get yourself treatment. I agree with the others if the out patient deal is working stay with it. go to meetings, keep your life moving.

GOOD LUCK!

sassylyn
#4. February 16th, 2009, at 2:39 AM.

If the outpaitient is working hang in with it. If you go to rehab for 3-4 months you will fill even more guilty. I want to give you another approch inconneciton ith the outpaitent. Find you a really good christian bible believing church. a true christian church will not judge you and will help you with the support you need at a time like this. Assembly of God, or a Church of God Would be the best Maybe one who has a younger pastor. The Church of Christ is another on which will give you really good support. If you there is any thing else I can do just let me know.

nicole26
#5. February 16th, 2009, at 10:01 PM.

I do not know what state you live in but some places that do rehab are grant funded. Try to see if there are in available in your area. That will at least take the burden of getting 27,000 together for treatment. Suboxone is a newer treatment for opiate addiction and is given in outpatient treatment like methadone. It might help you more than the methadone

understandingrecovery
#6. February 17th, 2009, at 10:40 AM.

try the outpatient first
have a thorough physical to determine if you need any medication
go to meetings, get a sponsor
don’t give up

erin.savage
#7. February 19th, 2009, at 11:32 PM.

I actually went into a lock-down psyche ward of my local hospital for 5 days where they helped me detox from opiates and they provided a lot of needed therapy.

Have you checked out anything like that? You could detox as in-patient and then also attend an outpatient program for a couple of weeks.

You can check out my personal addiction recovery site I talk about my before and after