Question: I am looking for a drug treatment center for my husband, who is currently at Righteous Oaks in MS. All it is is preaching, no 'meat' at all. He will be there until January. He then wants to go to a place where he can work the 12 steps, and have one on one counseling and really work on his issues. We have no insurance. And I am unemployed. Is there a place that is affordable? Thanks so much! Jenna

Lita Perna Says...:

I have provided a list of facilities in your area.

Drug treatment is expensive. Call these places. Ask for referals from each of them if they can't offer a negotiated reasonable rate you and your husband can afford.

Has your husband checked to see if he is eligible for Medicaid?

He can contact community mental health centers in your neighborhood. They may be able to refer him for financial and treatment help.

And now for you.

Here's a question for you to think about: Why are you, instead of your husband looking for another treatment facility?

Isn't this his responsibility, his job and his treatment?

Why did you write instead of him?

Your husband making the calls to find a more suitable place is an importand and essential step towards his taking responsibility for his recovery. 

Here is a start:

• Special Care Hospital Man Corp: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug program, Residential short term sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug treatment, Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Baptist Memorial Hospital: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Residential short term drug rehab program sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term drug rehab treatment sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Pine Grove Recovery Center: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Residential short term drug rehab program sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term drug rehab treatment sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug program, Residential short term sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug treatment, Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Saint Dominic Behavioral Health Servs: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug rehab, Hospital inpatient substance abuse program, Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab
  
• Common Bond Association Inc: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug program, Residential short term sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug treatment, Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• South Central Regional Medical Center: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Residential short term drug rehab program sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term drug rehab treatment sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Extra Mile Sober Living Residence Program: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - for inpatient rehab.
• East Mississippi State Hospital: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Residential short term drug rehab program sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term drug rehab treatment sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Alliance Health Centre: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug rehab, Hospital inpatient substance abuse program, Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Parkwood Behavioral Health System: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug program, Residential short term sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug treatment, Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• North Mississippi Medical Center: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug rehab, Hospital inpatient substance abuse program, Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Marian Hill Chemical Dependency Center: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Residential short term drug rehab program sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term drug rehab treatment sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug rehab/Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.
• Mississippi State Hospital: Inpatient Drug Rehab Mississippi - Hospital inpatient drug program, Residential short term sober living (30 days or less), Residential long term sober living (more than 30 days), Outpatient drug rehab, Partial hospitalization drug treatment, Substance abuse day treatment for inpatient rehab.

...And another question for you; How have you been taking care of yourself lately?

Question: Know any rehabs that work with couples who are addicts, and that are free? My boyfriend and I want to go to rehab but we are homeless and cannot afford to pay, and we want to go together...

Lita Perna Says...:

Try

Gold Country Alliance-Mentally

520 N Main St

Angels Camp, CA 95222

Tel (209) 736-4264

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Find the biggest city near you and begin calling mental health centers and drug programs to ask their suggestions where you can go for help. Try to get the name of the person you are talking to and write it down.

Keep trying different cities near to you and then further away.

Be prepared to spend hours and to make many, many phone calls. Be prepared to be frustrated.

If you are serious about this and willing to work to save your life (because it has become a matter of life and death...hasn't it?) you will succeed.

Question: I have to report to jail in 5 weeks to serve 7 months for grand larceny. I am addicted to opiates. What's the best way for me to kick before I need to go in?

Lita Perna Says...:

I don't know a 'best' way for you. 

Five weeks is not a lot of time.

Check a medical detox program.

Check out Rapid Heroin detox.

http://www.heroinaddictionhelpguide.com/rapid-heroin-detox/

Get information.

Get phone numbers.

Start calling around.

Do it soon.

Question: My son used suboxone for heroin addiction. Now it's his drug of choice and is ruining his life and health... what is the treatment he needs to get off of it?

Lita Perna Says...:

Nate needs to see an addiction specialist. He should call an addiction treatment center.

He won't do this until he is ready. No matter what you think or do or say, he has to want help and he has to get it for himself.

You need help too. Check out Al Anon groups in your city. Al Anon is for family members coping with the alcohol addiction of a loved one. It will help just being with others who are suffering in the same way you are.The particular drug doesn't matter. All of them steal hope, destroy families and break hearts.

Help yourself, mom.

Question: If someone is just released from jail and needs a free rehab facility or program in Maine, what do they do?

Lita Perna Says...:

Start here.

It's going to take work. You'll need patience. It isn't going to be easy.

Think of finding free treatment as a kind of test.

Are you up for it?

Call some rehab programs in your area and ask them to refer you. Ask them for phone numbers. Tell them what you need.

Ask your parole officer.

Go to an AA or NA meeting (easy to find) and ask around.

Also try this: http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/

Question: Do you think ibogaine is a good option for a heroin addict? My brother has tried detox and he has tried methadone and he always goes back to heroin after not very long. I feel that he is treating the symptoms of his problems and not his problems with all this drug use and that maybe if he tried something like ibogaine he would gain some information about why he needs to use drugs and maybe gain some health and closure. He says he is willing to try something new and that he is desperate to get out of the lifestyle he has right now. I am willing to pay for his treatment and in doing some research I have found that some of the Ibogaine clinics in Canada and the Caribbean are more affordable than a lot of regular rehabs here at home. I know there are some risks involved but he is hardly living a risk free life right now either. I would like to get some feedback from any experts in the addiction treatment field about whether or not, at the very general and non individual level, this is a good idea.

Lita Perna Says...:

I think Ibogaine is worth researching.  There is much information on the web.

You can also check out the two sites ---with attached videos--- where I have written about it. I wrote these a while back so you'll need to check for updated information.

I cannot tell you if Ibogaine is a good choice for your brother. All I can do is direct you and your brother to find out as much information as you can.

http://sobersearch.blogspot.com/

litap.hubpages.com/hub/Ibogaine-Painless-Drug-Withdrawal

Question: I am uncomfortable with a certain aspect of drug rehab addiction treatment, namely the family therapy part. I am scheduled to check in to a rehab next week. I have a problem with vicodin and I think it’s time that I take some steps to stop using. I cannot do this on my own, I have tried. My daughter is 12. She does not know that I have an addiction to pills and I do not really want her to know that her mother is a drug addict. The rehab people have told me that family therapy is an important part of the healing process and there is a family weekend where everybody is supposed to come and participate in different activities. I do not want this. I think she is too young to be involved in something like this. Is there really any benefit in having a child get involved in all of this? I can just imagine her in some sort of therapy group with a bunch of heroin and meth junkies and me. How is she supposed to respect me as a mother after something like that?

Lita Perna Says...:

Where does your daughter think you’ll be when you are in rehab?

I admire you for wanting to protect your daughter. I also understand your concerns about her losing respect for you.

What would you feel if I told you that she already knows more than you think? There’s a good chance she’s been protecting you. That’s a heavy load for a 12 year old. How can you best help her if she’s been keeping her own sad and scared feelings inside? Could this be the perfect time and place for her to begin her own healing?

Talk to the rehab people about your concerns. Ask them about the activities your daughter will participate in. Ask them how this can benefit your daughter?

You’ve probably heard that addiction is a family disease. When there is addiction in a family, everyone is affected.

It is important for your daughter to be able to acknowledge and talk about how your behavior has affected her.

It will take courage for you to face this truth. It will take courage for you to hear what she has to say.

Did you know that research has shown that children of addicted parents show more depression than children of non-addicted parents and are more likely to have anxiety disorders? It has also been shown that children of addicted parents have a higher risk for psychiatric and social problems and future maladjustment.

As a parent, this can be one of the greatest opportunities to teach her valuable lessons that will last her a lifetime.

You will teach her that when you have a problem that is bigger than you can handle, love yourself enough to ask for help. You will teach her to take care of herself, emotionally and physically. You will teach her that shame is in keeping secrets and that courage is in telling the truth.

How could your daughter not respect a mother who had the courage to admit she had a problem and took steps to deal with it?  Why would she not respect you for your wanting to get well? How could she not respect a mother who values the truth?

I’d be proud of a mother like that.