methadone
My stepson (still in the hospital) is being set up on a methadone program. The only one available is going to be over an hour and a half away from his mom's (where he is supposed to go when he is released in 8 days.) Ins. will be providing him transportation for this 3 hour a day legal drug run. Everyday.
He's addicted to heroin, any opoids really and also meth. Part (most or all ) of the reason he is in the hospital is from using dirty needles.
The meth makes him psychotic and and the methadone isn't going to help with that or craving the meth.
IF he sticks with the regiment, it can eliminate the dirty needle problems.
His tolerance is so high I do not have much hope that he will stick with the regiment. Well that and he doesn't believe that he needs to give up his "friends"
I WANT to believe that somehow he'll become more functional. But I don't really believe that I guess. Not much time to look for work with that 3 hour a day fieldtrip. Just more fodder for excuses.
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He's been out of our house for over 6 months now. This week, his dad found a stash of paraphernalia . 6 MONTHS later. In a room where grandbabies go unattended. I packed up all his stuff months ago and thought I had found it all. So so mad. So tired of it all. It feels like it has been going on forever even though it has really only been a few years.