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Post-Acute Withdrawal Is Often Not Recognized in Early Recovery
My daughter was in rehab for 28 days for drugs and alcohol. While she was in rehab, she wanted contact with both her family and her in-laws. Now that she is out, she only wants contact with her rehab buddies - none with her in-laws, husband (who is off on military orders), or parents. Has decided that she may want a divorce and for me to stay out of her life. As my only child this is breaking my heart. Both myself and her husband have cut her off financially as she won't communicate with us. I'm in an online support group and I've encouraged her husband to go to meetings on base. She threatened to have her father in law arrested if he stopped by the house again (the house belongs to him and its up for sale). I don't understand what is going through her mind and it is so opposite and extreme to her previous self. I know I didn't cause the addiction, can't cure it, can't change it. But I am open to suggestions... Bless you all..
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My brother has hepatitis C, he is HIV positive and he is in a lot of pain from abscesses on his toes and legs from injection injuries. He can barely walk at this point and he is only 36 years old. He will not go to the hospital to get the treatment he needs because if he was laid up getting the IV antibiotics he couldn’t be on the street injecting cocaine. My brother rarely makes contact with me other than to try to scam money out of me and since I have been burned by him so many times already he doesn’t succeed to often in doing that anymore. He did get some money out me this weekend though after he called me up and told me he had had his big toe amputated and asked to meet me for some money so he could get a room for a couple of weeks. I gave it to him. He was obviously in pain and having more trouble than normal getting around. I don’t know if he will really get that room or not but it is a shocking thing to see a person (my dear little brother!) who uses cocaine until he needs to have his toe amputated and then still doesn’t want to stop. This is so tragic and insane. I know I can’t make him stop. I have given up on that. I just wish I could make things a little better for him so he wouldn’t be getting gangrene and wouldn’t be suffering such pain from all his abscesses. I know giving him money won’t help, but is there anything I could provide for him that would make his life a little easier and reduce some of the secondary infections and problems he gets from his IV drug use? Should I buy him needles? How many does a cocaine addict need in a week? I have no idea. What else does he need to be able to use without doing himself so much harm?
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