Pls advise the treatments which worked. I have read lots about methadone…?

cocaine addiction

I met a wonderful guy at a hospital. He wants a serious relationship and i have just split up with my husband of 6 years. I really like him!!! He also told me that the reason for his hospital stay was a 10 year drug addiction. He is trying to quit. Do you think it is possible? should i even start a relationship based on this info?

cocaine addiction

Ok here’s what is going on he’s 25 in the hospital right now for heroin addiction and I can’t get any information from them I’ve tried to find the next program for him to go into but I’m now being told that he has to write have an intake and then they will make the decision. Well this isn’t working for me number one I don’t think he will go to the next place he can’t come back here where all his friends and dealers are so what do we do as parents to try and help them. Not only is he dealing with the heroin I now think that they are using methadone and I’m reading up on this drug which really sounds just as bad so he will have to be somewhere that can deal with this too. We are in Massachusetts and the programs here are no help and any where else I can’t afford. I’m a single mom and his dad is no help. He’ll be out in less than 20 days and I don’t know what to do or even how to do this anymore. He hasn’t been in my life for 3 years and I just can’t sit back any longer. HELP

rapid detox

Both he and I are heroin addicts. I have began methadone treatment program and plan on attending NA meetings and seeing psychologists/psychiatrists on a regular basis. I have relapsed many times but I want this time to really work. Well, my bf of 7 years has yet to quit. I am so worried about him. He moved out and back home which is best for us right now especially since he is still using. He is fearful of quitting because of how sick you get from withdrawl. He can’t afford the methadone clinic like I can. He really needs residental, inpatient treatment and somewhere they detox you kindly and not cold turkey with no medicine. He has no job and no insurance. His parents are ready to kick him out and he will basically be homeless. Where do poor addicts go for treatment? Yesterday, he had to go to the ER and they told him his kidneys may be starting to fail from heavy usage of drugs. This is scary. When I met him, he was a very kind, loving guy who only smoked pot. HELP!

narcotics addiction

I have been using opiates for over a year now, sometimes with a perscription sometimes with out. Oxycontin has been my main obsticle and being that it nearly costs a dollar a milligram it can cost up to $100 just for one day. I have not been using everyday but every chance I get money thats where almost all of it goes. My mom is aware of this addiction and I have been trying to stress to her that this is a very hard one to break. I have used marijuana, adderall, benzodiazapines, and other perscription medicine. Opiates have this grab on me that is very hard to quit.

Withdrawls are the worst, I dont feel like doing anything, I get these unstopable cravings, and I feel very depressed. Not having insurance that covers rehab I told my mom that going to the Methadone clinic would help all my cravings and withdrawls and that I can slowly get off Methadone. My mom said that “you cant use another drug to get off a drug” Apparently she knows people that have used Methadone for pain problems and it has had very bad side effects and could cause cancer? thats what she told me. She said that I should go to NA meetings but I have been and it hasnt been all that eye opening for me.

Is there another route or will I just have to go on the Methadone program without her knowing? I am of legal age to do so.

methadone withdrawal