Desperate Heroin Addict!

[sickatheart]

I am the mother of a 19 year old Heroin addict who is supposed to into a detox facility tomorrow. Can anyone please tell me if an addict has to be very very high on admittance?

I know I am not explaining this very well ( right now I am going through addiction hell!) My daughter is crying hysterically that Princeton House Won't admit her tomorrow unless she is actively high and then she will be in the street.

Can anyone tell me if there is any truth to this at all? She said the facility has to convince the insurance co. you are desperate in order for them to pay. She is dope sick and flipping out. Has anyone ever had any personal experience with detox centers?

Desperate for some info!

Thanks

Sickatheart

[emmer]

I can tell you the last detox I was in simply asked me when the last time i used was and then showed me my room and that was that.
The one before that asked me the questions and i was in.

hope this helped

[PaperDolls]

I don't have any personal experience with detox centers but I have to say I think that sounds a bit fishy. I'm sure some one will be around to give their personal experience.

I'm sorry you're going through such hell right now. SR is the right place for you to be. Lots of good people here.

[tennchick9598]

You absolutely do not have to be high to get in.. If fact they mostly (and Ive been to a few) prefer that you arent, they just asked the last time you used, and they try to adjust your meds. If you are on benzos or an alcoholic, they have to really help you come down. I think that sounds a bit fishy to me. maybe she is just WANTING to get high one last time? Not to be mean, but as an addict, I know thats the way I was when I had to go to inpatient rehab.......Call the place yourself and ask questions.....I bet they say thats not true

Best of luck, many prayers for you, adn good wishes, Becky

[exjunky]

Of course you don't need to be high upon admittance but it's very very common for an addict to do that. There was a thread here recently covering that subject and I was surprised to see that just about everybody here (even those among us who have been clean for years) admitted to going on a binge right before rehab.

Remember, she is sick. If she could quit by her own free will she wouldn't need to go to rehab, right?

[kelsh]

I have never heard of this as a requirement....in some cases they won't admit anyone that is intoxicated or under influence of drugs...my brother had his girlfriend drive him to his last treatment center and he drank all the way there then had a terrible hangover the next morning when he checked in.

When my son went into treatment they did a breathalizer and UA as soon as he arrived. Our son asked us to leave then....he didn't want us to know what he had been using.

When I went to treatment I was detoxed in the local hospital for six days & had been sober a month before I went to the treatment center.

I don't know the requirements for detox except a lot of people need to be detoxed in a medical setting if they haven't had any sober time.

kelsh

[Sugah]

Detox and rehab are different. Detox is for the acute stages of withdrawal and lasts three to seven days. Rehab is longer term and is usually meeting-group-therapy intensive and aimed at changing addictive thinking and behavior. Some rehabs have detox units and some won't take a patient until after the detox period is over. If your daughter is dope sick and obviously so, there shouldn't be a problem with her being admitted to a detox. If not, she's still a candidate for rehab.

Peace & Love,
Sugah

[VanessaLee13]

I think I have responded to you on the friends/family forum. But my abf went into detox with 2 days clean. It really does sound like she is just trying to get some money out of you to get high. From you and your other daughter's posts over the last several days, it seems like she is trying a lot of different angles to get some money out of you to get high. I suggested to your other daughter (concernedsister . . . I don't like calling her "your other daughter", but I don't know her name! I know your AD is Kristina, right?) that you guys all have a family night and do something fun together without worrying about Kristina (or at least trying not to). And Ann suggested maybe going to a family meeting together.
All your posts just have this air of desperation to them, and my heart goes out to you. I know it is hard to detach from your daughter and stop engaging her, but I hate seeing from afar how she is dragging you down into her addiction with her. She will find detox/rehab when she is ready, and really doesn't need someone to hold her hand to get her there. Actually, holding her hand would more than likely have the opposite effect in getting her clean. Try to take care of yourself. You have a husband and another daughter and grandkids. Try to enjoy them instead of letting Kristina consume your life. I hope I don't sound mean. I don't mean to.But Kristina will find recovery if and when she is ready. Don't live your life for whether or not she gets clean. As probably all of the addicts over here on this board will tell you, no one could do it for them, or make them get clean, or love them clean. Please take care of yourself.
<3, Vanessa