Help! My boyfriend is seriously addicted to drugs, is there anyone out there who can give me advice?

Both he and I are heroin addicts. I have began methadone treatment program and plan on attending NA meetings and seeing psychologists/psychiatrists on a regular basis. I have relapsed many times but I want this time to really work. Well, my bf of 7 years has yet to quit. I am so worried about him. He moved out and back home which is best for us right now especially since he is still using. He is fearful of quitting because of how sick you get from withdrawl. He can't afford the methadone clinic like I can. He really needs residental, inpatient treatment and somewhere they detox you kindly and not cold turkey with no medicine. He has no job and no insurance. His parents are ready to kick him out and he will basically be homeless. Where do poor addicts go for treatment? Yesterday, he had to go to the ER and they told him his kidneys may be starting to fail from heavy usage of drugs. This is scary. When I met him, he was a very kind, loving guy who only smoked pot. HELP!Help! My boyfriend is seriously addicted to drugs, is there anyone out there who can give me advice?
You need to get online and investigate any facilities in your area. In some places, charities and other organisations offer some help to addicts.





I can understand him not wanting to go cold turkey - that wouldn't be everybody's choice. But I don't understand his reason for not giving up. If he's fearful of how sick you get from withdrawal, why isn't he fearful of how dead he's going to get soon if he keeps using? He has to get some help soon or he will have an early and miserable death.





Also, I'm sorry to sound harsh, but he has to want it for himself. If you're doing all the running around trying to find him some help, and all he's doing is using and getting sicker, you have to ask yourself if he wants to stop.





You love him and you want the best for him, and he's moved back home so his family obviously love and support him. However much you all love him, if he doesn't get involved in finding his own treatment, he may not ever give up. He needs to decide to quit for himself.





I hope your efforts to get clean work for you, and I hope your boyfriend also decides to get clean.Help! My boyfriend is seriously addicted to drugs, is there anyone out there who can give me advice?
i knw that it isnt going to help but you need ot fix youa nd not worry about him get htis book form the library i believe its called candy its fictiona bout a heroin addicts life. i hope it helps you to understand you really need ot worry about yourself youll never have a good life being on dope and i hope and pray for you everyd ay that youge tbetter but treatment is not a cure or a fix all there was a deep rootted issue that made you turn to drugs in the first palce so please get help and treat yourself and when he is completely clean then maybe you can start over. but unfortuanltel if you keep hanmging with him he will jsut keep you in drugs an dyoull never get out sometime you have to leave the one you love to help yourself and them and a lot tfo the times your better for it. i know my ex husbadn was a crack addict and it took everything i had to leave him becasue he was also abusive i love him still to this day but cant be with him he did so many things wrong to us that we had to let him go and still to this day i have nightmares about my life with him. seriously the best thing you can do is move on with your life. good luck and keep praying god loves youa nd will lift you out of this despare.
im quite shocked a heroin addict has got a computer and not sold it by now, theres loads of places you can go depend on your area, you can go through the doctor who will refer you to a drug counceler, who will see him assess his situation and will start the ball rolling to find a detox and a rehab for him, thats the way i went i wernt a heroin user, but i am an alcholic and was using very large amounts of amphetamines and extacy, after i was in contact with the drug and alchol councelers it was around 4 months b4 i got a place at the detox then went strate from there to rehab, this didnt cost me anymore as the social services pays the fee, but first he has to be willing to make an effort, and it sounds like to me he aint, and if you keep worrying to much about him heel drag you back down, and that wont be good, tell him youll support him if he is willing to help him self, if not youve got to think of your own life. good luck hun and well done its still a long hard road.
honey you need either to save a dollar a day to get him in the prgram you were in.Save more money.Cause you always want to take care of your man.Now dont do anything that will upset him that can cause alot of bad things.Try spending more time with him and make him not think about the drugs.Go out withy him have.Show him how life can be without drugs.make him drink canberry juice to cause that helps with the liver.if you need any more help tell me.
I say kindly ask ur parents to lend him enough money to make it through and say u love him and u dont want his kindeys to fail and if they say no i dont know what to do for ya
First, I want to congratulate you in making the right choice. It is very hard but you are worth it.





I am from Canada but living in Usa for only 2 years; I do not know how the health care systems works here but it seems like your bf could use the advice of a Social Worker. She then could direct him to where people in his situation can go. There is no way the system will let him die on the streets. I can hardly believe that.





What about joining a support group like the AA, but for drugs. The people in charge of these groups could tell him where to go as well.





Well, your bf also has to make the choice of either dying from it or suffering temporary hell that could save his life after all. Not a very exciting perspective I admit. The hardest part is watching people we love destroying themselves and being helpless about it. My ex boyfriend was a coke addict so I am sympathizing with you.





check out these web sites:


http://www.drugfree.org/intervention


http://www.soberforever.net/heroin_abuse鈥?/a>





Good luck.
You don't say when you quit or that you have actually started going to NA meetings and seeing mental health professionals, so I assume you're in VERY early recovery yourself. It sounds harsh, but he will get you using again before you get him sober.





You don't need to be thinking of what to do for your boyfriend. He's a grown man, and HE'S certainly not thinking about it. If he has no income, he should find out what is available from Medicaid.





The ';I won't quit because I'm scared of withdrawal symptoms'; seems to indicate he's really not ready to do whatever it takes to stop. I knew someone who refused to seek treatment for alcoholism because he was afraid of the DTs. He died drunk at 34 years of age.





There is nothing stopping him from attending NA meetings. People there might at least have an idea as to what options are open to him.





But his recovery should not be your priority. YOURS should be.
I would go to small church and let th pastor pray. There have been alot of people who got off heroin after that. Alot didnt have any withdrawals