Suboxone

When you combine a Suboxone detox treatment with counseling and other forms for support like a 12 step program, you increase the chances your treatment and rehabilitation will succeed. Much more than a medical condition, opioid dependence effects your relationships, your thoughts, and your daily routines are all tied together.

On occasion, and this doesn’t happen too often here at Pat Moore Foundation, I receive an email regarding someone needing help. Now it’s not so odd about the email, as we get them all the time, but this one specifically addressed to me, Recovery Rob. The email is from a family member of someone trying to kick a pain-killer addiction, and the addict is trying to do it on his own through a Suboxone detox.

If you’re addicted to heroin, and readily admit you have a problem, then you’re probably discovered there’s more than one way to recover from addiction. Enrolling in a residential recovery program is a one to get clean, as is an outpatient treatment program. If you continue to be clean you are most likely attending 12 step programs for group support. Going recovery alone is very difficult.

Continued from Part 1 – A Surprising Interaction 

Scary title for me to type, and even scarier notion for me to comprehend, but one never knows when or how a Suboxone detox and rehab might be in their immediate future. Being diligent to my disease of addiction should always be first and foremost.

It’s estimated that more than 90 percent of those trying to remain abstinent after an alcohol and drug d detox will possibly relapse at least once. Whether it is a Suboxone detox and rehab or an alcohol detox and rehab, the road to recovery can be a tough one and fill with potholes that will flatten your sobriety quickly. But there are ways to make sure YOU don’t experience a relapse.

Whatever your situation, if you’ve been clean and sober for a while, fresh out of Suboxone detox and rehab, or stopping cold turkey and hitting meetings, we all have the emotion of anger. Even people who don’t drink or use drugs to excess have issues with anger. For addicts in recovery, unresolved anger and resentments can surely be a trigger for relapse. To remain clean from drugs and alcohol is one thing, but remaining sober in your life is something very different.

Part of healthy recovery is reaching out to others in need, passing on the good word, so to speak. That’s why I, Sober Sam, became excited when I heard our next guest blogger was going to be the one and only Guinevere. Being a Sober Dad, I am moved by her compelling story. Guinevere is not a ‘graduate’ of Pat Moore Foundation, but I’m thinking if she was she would have experienced a Suboxone detox similar to my own.

Continued from The Beginning of My Drug Detox Days

As it was New England, winter just beginning, at least on the calendar, the snow was falling. It was mostly a dusting, but it was enough to cover the ice and filthy dirt from a plowing just four days past. I’d only been to the detox facility once. I’d gone there with my friend Tom. We never went in, as we only drove past while out for a drive one sunny Saturday afternoon.

It seems Craig Ferguson keeps popping up in my life as of late! And I’m not fighting it one bit. Why would I? I like is his sharp, dry wit, that teams with Scottish chutzpah. He knows how to hold back and not go for the easy joke. There’s a class that long term sobriety can bring, and I believe he has it within his gruff exterior.

I’d like to take a few seconds to introduce a guest blogger. For me, when it comes to recovery from opioid addiction, this is a person I respect and admire. Of course that’s not to say I don’t respect everyone who goes through a Suboxone detox, it’s just that she lives in recovery every day, and reminds me of what can happen.