texanlymie

I would appreicate any input if you've had a relative use a treatment center that worked well. My sister has suspected BPD, is in ICU currently for OD on opiates, amphetamines, methamphetamines, cocaine and who knows what else. She is on her 2nd DWI conviction and we are trying to see if her attorney can negotiate with the judge to allow her to enter treatment immediately after she is discharged from the hospital, which could be a week.

The best treatment center I've located is 12 Oaks in Navarre, FL - her insurance is Tricare Standard.


Any suggestions, advice would be greatly appreciated!

Freedom1990

What do you consider a good treatment center? I'm just curious.

keepinon

really any tretment center can work if she wants it to.the one we sent my daughter to was 30,000 (we got a partial scholarship!)a mo in malibu..she relapsed 2 weeks out. Its more about the willingness to work a program.AA is free and thats where almost every rehab takes the patientsI'm sure wherever she goes will work if she works it. You could send her to Betty Ford or Promises or Hazeldon..but it still won't fix her without her willingness to surrender and do the work.Good luck.Have you gone to alanon for yourself? Really helps me deal with my daughters addiction.

suki44883

It doesn't really matter how "great" the facility is, the underlying fact is that unless your sister actually wants treatment (and not just to keep her out of jail) it doesn't really matter where she goes. We aren't specialists in treatment centers or insurance coverages. Perhaps a call to her insurance company would give you an idea of what exactly they will cover and what they won't. Again, unless she is fully on board and truly wants to stop her current lifestyle, you could just be spinning your wheels.

texanlymie

I'm looking specifically for a dual diagnosis treatment center due to her mental issues, just thought some of you may have had experiende with a relative or friend who had a good treatment center/staff. I don't think just a "substance abuse" center will help her, she needs intensive treatment for her mental issues. In reading about treatment centers I notice that some are focused only on substance abuse and others advertise dual diagnosis with an emphasis on the mental/emotional.

I believe my parents and my sister have hit rock bottom or at least I HOPE this is their bottom. Found my sister with her heroin addict husband and their 6 month old baby in a crack house, flop house, whatever you want to call it. A big old rundown house set up like a boarding house with what appeared to be a bunch of junkies etc living there in various bedrooms. Dirty matterss on the floor, baby was dirty, sister was out of it with vomit in her hair, in respiratory distress. They took her to the hospital where she's been in ICU since Monday.

Freedom1990

I'm dually diagnosed.

That being said, I did a 30 day inpatient rehab for addiction/alcoholism. It was a no frills, no tv, get up early, classes and therapy every day, plus being transported to outside AA and NA meetings.

I wasn't diagnosed with mental illness until I had been in recovery about 18 months.

For me, the addictions/alcoholism needed to be addressed first.

As has been said before, active addiction and alcoholism can mimic mental illness.

Chino

The only way they 'work well' is detox, getting them clean in a safe environment. Then they guide and teach. After that, it's all up to the patient, just like with any disease, including follow up and ongoing treatment. They have to manage their disease and nothing will make them do it if they don't want to.

I can recommend a recovery program for you, though

I work the steps, go to meetings every now and then, and see a therapist. I'm so grateful for therapy! My therapist works with just about everything, and his specialty is addiction. I need one on one time, where it's all about me.

"Work the program you wish they would"

That was something I read here that spoke to me. Reminded me of something my dad told me when I was a young girl, "don't ask anyone to do something that you're not willing to do."

suki44883

I only hope someone responsible is taking care of that poor little baby.

Spiritual Seeker

If you need treatment to be paid for by her health insur. your choices will be limited.
In this case you must call her insurance company and have them transfer you to their
behavioral health dept. Usually numbers are on the back of her card.

Often substance abuse/alcohol treatment centers avail. through insur. are on insur. co.
web page. Be sure to ask for treatment ctr. that specializes in DUAL-DIAGNOSIS.
To treat addiction and bipolar. Most often preauthorization is required.

In my exper. working through the maze of insur. is way more than someone as sick as your sister can handle w/o someone stepping up an leading the way to arrange.
Also, one must be a strong advocate to make the many calls it takes to get preauthorized and then continual approval to stay for the extended per. necessary for
req. treatment.

God bless you for being willing to help your sis.

Chino

Seeker, thank you for posting that. I got so hung up on worked well that I completely forgot immediate and practical issues.

Texan, ask for a psychiatric consultation at the hospital, and preferably with an addictionologist.

smacked

So is she willing to DO ANYTHING to get and stay clean and sober? Or is this treatment center deal just to appease a judge?

Cuz unfortuatnely, until that whole 'doing anything it takes' things happens..there's not one treatment center in this universe or one close by that will 'work'.

Who's got the baby?