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If you've tried Plan A, Plan B and Plan C and still continue to fail then you may want to consider Plan D: Quitting Heroin in a Drug Rehabilitation Center If you have the funds or health care insurance, then admitting yourself into a drug rehabilitation center may be the best way for you to go if you simply can’t stop using heroin while living on the outside. However, if you have children, a baby, a pregnant girlfriend, house payments, car payments, a business, a career or other major responsibilities then things can become a little more complicated. You may be willing to lose the house, the car and even the job but you can’t just leave a baby, your children or a pregnant girlfriend behind. You will have to make some form of arrangement without abandoning your responsibilities. But if the circumstances are right, and you have the means of covering the costs for treatment, then a good long stay in a drug rehab center just might help you accomplish ‘The Impossible Dream’, and that is to quit heroin, stay clean, and turn your life around. In rehab, you’re safe. You’re far away from the dope spot, the dope-man and all of your dope friends. Relocation, isolation and inaccessibility to opiates such as heroin, percs and oxy's can help make your physical and mental battles much more easier to cope with. More than 2 million people in the U.S. alone are addicted to heroin. Only 1% of heroin addicts manage to quit heroin, stay clean, and turn their lives around. And You can be a part of that 1%. Yet due to the high costs associated with professional treatment, only a small fraction of these people are able to obtain the help they need. That’s unfortunate, seeing that long term and professional drug treatment programs often have high success rates. The right program, in the right place, surrounded by the right type of staff, can really make a difference in the recovery of these individuals. But once again, money and policy changes everything. If you have no money and no health insurance then you’re basically on your own. Plan A becomes your best solution – Quitting heroin cold turkey. However, there are some free, state-run, detox and rehab facilities in most states and some countries as well. But if you're here in the United States then you can find a free or low cost, state-run detox center for you or your loved ones to go to by calling 1-800-662-HELP (4357). There’re also many long term, church ran rehabilitation centers which will accept you for free, as long as you can read, right and work. The reason being is that most church ran programs are actually work programs where they help you but put you to work as well to pay for room and board. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Work is good. While you’re there, you may even learn some good solid principles, become a hard worker, and learn how to get along with others in a civilized manner. It might be a good place to go, even if it’s just to get away from all the drugs and give you enough time to get your stuff together. To find such a program all you have to do is start visiting your local churches in your area, find the people in charge and ask them to direct you in the right direction. However, with this new health care reform plan, you may have a better chance of obtaining health insurance in order to get into a good quality, drug treatment center. The cost to enter into a professional drug treatment center can range anywhere from $3,000, $10,000 to $20,000 or more. If you have insurance, then check with your health insurance provider to see what your options are and what they have to offer. They may have a list of their top picks for drug rehabilitation centers. And they may cover all or most of the costs. Then once you know you’re covered or have the funds to pay for your stay in a good rehabilitation center then do it. Start searching for the perfect drug rehabilitation center and then proceed to make the necessary arrangements to go there.
You’re going to be living there for as long as you can. The more decent and clean the facilities are, then the more comfortable you’ll feel while staying there. Ask them to send you pamphlets and brochures. Try to speak to the counselors who will be working with you beforehand in order to get a better feel for them. You can even ask them to send you a picture of them to your email address. As you’ll soon find out, your relationship with your dedicated counselor will have a great effect upon your stay and recovery. Furthermore, your counselor will have a good understanding and maybe even some personal experiences of what heroin addiction is like and not just some insight from what they’ve learned from their textbooks. Most heroin addicts will tell you that they would much rather receive counseling from someone who at one point in their life was addicted to heroin and has managed to break free from the drug and stay clean for good, than from someone who has taken 6 years of mental health courses but has never touched a single drug in their life. No one will truly understand what a heroin addict is going though like an x-heroin addict will. Many, many years ago, I admitted myself into Brookside Hospital in Nashua, New Hampshire at the age of 19. It was a very nice, clean professional treatment center. I was on my mothers’ insurance policy at the time. And at $1,000 per day I thought I’d be living like a king. It had nice bed rooms for 2, a nice but small backyard with a few picnic tables, clean modern cafeteria, nice meeting room, etc. I think it even had a gym but I never got to see it. Yet the type of treatment I received there was not worth the money. After a few days of painful detox, my dedicated counselor took me outside to have a chat with me for the first time. She wasn’t too pretty to look at, that’s for sure. She looked and acted as if she was burnt out and wasted. She started smoking her cigarettes, blowing smoke all over the place and telling me that she knew exactly how I felt and what I was going through because she herself used to be an alcoholic at one time. Then she said, “it’s all the same; heroin addiction, cocaine addiction, alcoholism was all the same. An addiction is an addiction”. That’s what she said. But that’s not true. She just didn’t understand. There is no drug addiction like heroin addiction, especially when there’s needles involved. There is no lifestyle such as the lifestyle of a heroin addict whose brain has been programmed and hardwired to seek and use heroin no matter what. When she said that, I thought to myself, “man, this lady has no idea of what I’m going through. She doesn’t understand anything”. Needless to say, I shut down and didn’t say a word to her. I don’t care how professional she thought she was or how many years she spent taking psychology courses in college. Neither her, nor any of the other staff, including the director of the center were able to get through to me and help me with my heroin addiction. I may be wrong, but I strongly believe that people have no idea of what goes on in the mind and life of a heroin addict until you’ve been a heroin addict yourself for at least 1 to 4 years. Yet it wasn’t because of her that I left. And there was nothing wrong with Brookside Hospital itself. The place was fine. I left because of my outside circumstances and also because of the fact that I was only 30 minutes away from home/the dope spot. I had a pregnant girlfriend on the outside and I couldn’t bear to leave her alone any more. She was crying every day, (or was that just an excuse for me to leave). So I got up and left after a few days. Needless to say, I went right back to the dope spot. I should’ve stayed there for at least 2 to 3 weeks. I should have made arrangements, moved my pregnant girlfriend in with my mother and asked my family to keep her company. But I had neither guidance, nor direction on what to do. So I left. Your outside circumstances can end up having a strong pull on you. However, if you can make the necessary arrangements beforehand and if the funds are available then do it. Find the best drug rehabilitation center and go. Turn your life around.
You won’t be going into rehab just to get off of heroin. You’re going into rehab to re-educate yourself and re-create yourself all over again from scratch. The drug rehabilitation center will be your safe haven - a place to get away from all the bad things in your life. It will also become your training grounds to learn how to live the rest of your life as a drug free, decent and moral individual. While you’re there, you’re going to make a new man, or a new woman out of yourself. And it takes time and effort to change who you are so plan on staying there for as long as you can. A 3 to 6 months stay in a professional treatment center can work wonders. Once you get there, make yourself at home. Don’t be cold or mean to the staff. Drop that wannabe gangster act. That’s not you. You’re a good person who wants to quit heroin and turn your life around. That's why you're reading this now. Be kind and respectful to everyone around you. And be extra nice to the lady who hands out the meds. She’ll be your new best friend while you’re there. They’re all there to assist you, so it won’t do you any good to put on the tough guy act or act like a stuck up brat to those who are there to help you change your life. Submit yourself to their authority and they will treat you with kindness and respect. If you have to go through the detox phase then most likely they’ll give you your own room, or divided room for the first 3-4 days. During those first few days, no one will bother you, other than to give you your medication, pain killers etc. However, be forewarned that most drug treatment centers make you do it cold or warm turkey with the help of medications like Clonidine, Ibuprofen etc... Take whatever they give you and be thankful – it could be worse. Then they’ll either introduce you to your counselor or have you start attending group meetings. Be kind and cooperative with your counselor and everyone else involved. And since you’re paying for it, make sure to get everything off your chest. Let it all out so that he or she can begin to help you find a possible solution to each and every one of your problems. When it comes to introducing yourself and participating in group meetings, things can become a little awkward and unpleasant, unless of course, you’re already a social person and enjoy talking to others. However, most heroin users are not sociable so it’s like being forced to be around people who you simply don’t want to be with. But hopefully, little by little, you can overcome that common, anti-social feeling in order to get help and get to know your fellow patients. Little by little, you’ll start to feel more comfortable in these types of settings. You’re all there for the same purpose, and that is, to quit drugs and turn your lives around. After you’re feeling better physically and emotionally and you’ve become used to your daily routine, ask the head of staff to allow you to use the gym first thing in the morning. Exercising 3 to 5 days per week, first thing in the morning can help you to become healthier, physically and emotionally. This will also help you to live a better life within the treatment center for the long term. You’ll begin to feel much better as the days go by when you exercise 3 to 5 days per week. While you’re there, try to help your fellow man (or woman), by encouraging them every day. Even if you just send them a thumbs up or a few smiles through out the day, your positive energy can begin to have a great effect upon their lives. Don’t be cold to anyone. Be kind and courteous to everyone there. Before you can become a positive influence to anyone then you’ll need to at least be on the right track yourself. You’re there to fix your own life but if you can manage to become a positive influence upon someone else’s life then everybody wins. It will come back to you. When you’re not involved in group meetings, activities, counseling, and daily routines then take some time to read your books on self help, personal development, health, nutrition, finance, business and careers. Re-educate yourself daily. Use this time to also think about all the wrong you’ve done to your friends and family and how you’re going to do your best to make things right in order to make amends. This is called restitution, and restitution must be paid in one form or another. Use this time to create, design and plan your future. Write down your goals and dreams in a notebook. Include as much detail as you can. Then create and write a step-by-step plan on how to achieve those goals as quickly as possible. You can start changing your life in rehab even before you go back out into the world. You can also use this time to write about yourself, what your life was like as a heroin addict and how you’ve come to the place to where you are now. Then once you’ve been clean and have remained clean for some time, then you can publish your writings on the internet to help inspire and motivate other addicts to quit heroin and turn their lives around just as you did. Make the most of your time while you’re in rehab. Use this time to renew and transform your mind and manner of thinking. Work on your attitude, your personality, and everything else you don’t like about yourself. Prepare yourself well before you go back out into the real world - the battle field. If you put these words into action then you should do well in rehab and even more so in the real world as well. Just remember to take it one day at a time. Each day without the use of heroin is a great accomplishment so give yourself credit for that. You can do this. You can go into rehab, quit heroin and turn your life around, once and for all. You can do anything you put your mind to. All you have to do now is just get up and do it. Good luck. And may the good force be with you.
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