Looking for ideas of songs to use in a slideshow of pictures of staff, volunteers and clients who have been involved in drug/alcohol treatment center over past 35 years. Songs about addiction, recovery, sobriety, moving on, healing, changing, friendship, memories, etc. Any ideas?
Don’t let the sun go down on me. Elton John
The drugs/alcohol are out of control. He drives/drunk or high and avoids getting caught. He dissappears for days. He never pays taxes. He uses the Emergency Room as a doctors office and never pays the bill. He refuses drug treatment voluntarily. I am at the end of my rope. I want to see him stopped, but not go to jail. I want to see him court ordered into an inpatient rehab center, where he can get some help. How can I alert the authorities, so they can find him drunk driving or in posession of drugs, and know that the judge will NOT put him in jail, but order mandatory rehab?? I’ll even pay for the rehab if it isn’t too expensive. But, I need the court order to make sure he stays for the entire period. If he doesn’t, then the judge can throw him in jail. Who do I contact at the state, county or township level to ASK for the Rehab sentence ahead of time??
My son is 25 y/o.
"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse. "- Brendan Behan
If you turn him in he will go to jail. The criminal justice system is not the answer to drug addiction. If he goes to jail he will most likely develop harder addictions, experience things that will scar him forever, and it will be that much harder to turn his life around with a drug conviction.
As a parent the most you can do is have an intervention…confront him with what his behavior is doing to the people who love him. If he doesn’t agree to go to rehab you have to break off contact with him and let him hit rock bottom by himself, but let him know that when he is ready to turn it around and can show that he can STAY sober you will let him back into your life. It’s hard but you can’t cure addiction by force. And whatever you do DON’T INVOLVE THE POLICE.
If he gets busted himself, however, inform him that you will not help him out financially with bail, lawyers, etc. Going to jail for a mistake he made will teach him more than being betrayed by his mother.
I work as a drug detox and rehab consultant and I am compiling helpful information for clients who are trying to end drug abuse. What have you found that has helped stop cravings?
it depends what they are craving though i would think .. you cannot really replace one thing with another they need to feel what they are feeling to get better .. face there cravings head on .. or else they wont be able to manage in future such as if you replace a drug with a bit of food .. they will turn obese in the end then revert back to that drug to make them feel better bout there weight gain, they have to face these feelings , deal with them , then they will eventually be able to say no! to the drugs that have ruled there lives .. if they done face these feeling then they will just turn from one evil to the next … such as food .. it is good for you if you eat healthy though you shouldnt replace something with food as results in weight gain , sometimes deperssion depending what foods … there are a hole list …
find out what they are really feeling and why they started taken in the first place … they have to go back to the beginning in order to deal with today … get them to face there demons , get them to talk about what they are feeling , but never replace a drug with something else it will work good for the short term but not to end up , get them a hobby or something every time they want to do drugs get them to think why, what drives them to it , what is maken them feel like they need it , it is not a easy thing but in time the temptation gets less , there will be times when they feel like they cannot go on butif you reach them how to face these problems and deal with the feelings that they are feeling then that will be a step in the right direction
how ever if it is heroien and harder things then they will be drugs that will help them come off these a little easyer , such as methadone and others .
good luck you are doing a good job , helping others ,
hugs x
there are no police records or court orders. i want to help him before things get that bad.
You can’t. He has to want treatment before you can get him into a facility. Otherwise, it is never going to work because he is not motivated to quit. You can help him by convincing him to seek treatment and then once he says yes, take him to the nearest ER where they will help him detox and find a place for him. But, he has to be motivated before this will ever work. He probably has to hit rock bottom first, losing his job, maybe losing his house, his wife, his kids, etc before he will ever consider treatment.
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I have always been interested in this field but I really don't know much about it. Do you work in a drug treatment center? Are your patients there by choice? Are you comfortable financially? Is this a flooded field?Any dangers or bad personal experiences? Is this harder for females? I'll also take any advice you'd like to give. Thank You.
It has its rewards but more often there is failure.Many patients are court-ordered and present problems rather than seeking treatment. Many believe they don't have a problem and are trying to beat the system.
The money isn't very good. I have had patients try to bite me, stab me, throw things at me, spit on me; one even found out where I live and tried to set my house on fire.
Females run the risk of being raped or harmed if the patient is sick enough or a sociopath.I don't do it for the money. I do it to afford those who are serious about recovery the opportunity to learn about it in a safe environment.My rewards aren't in money but in seeing people change the way they live despite having an incurable, and often fatal, condition.
Sadly, more people die than live. Sadder still— IT ISN'T NECESSARY TO DIE FROM ADDICTION.
