To the Times:
Suffering from opiate addiction family blues? Of course you’re suffering. You probably don’t know how to help your loved ones addicted to heroin or opiates. Are you wondering if you can afford rehab? Are you worried you won’t be able to get your loved one to go to rehab? Here are some suggestions that I have found to be helpful.
1. Find a rehab that accepts Medicaid if you don’t have insurance sign up for Medicaid.
2. If you’re on Suboxone, you have probably been on it for years. You’re fooling yourself.
3. It takes a long time to get clean, especially if you have been addicted for awhile. After rehab make sure you receive your once a month Vivitrol injection, proven to prevent relapse in opioid-dependent patients. Your brain needs to adjust to new habits, this means you need to remove yourself from the people and places you were getting your drugs.
4. Do you move, relocate? Yes. You’ll survive. Stay where you’re at and chances are you won’t.
5. Families, praise your loved one. If they relapse and they might, be understanding but firm.
6. Get back in rehab and start all over again.
Judith Cassidy R.N., Atlantic City
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