"Very excited, need advice"

[road2recovery]

For anyone who can help me with this or just give me some opinons, i am open minded, so please tell me exactly what u think i should do...OK---I just had a visitor...I would not say she is a friend of mine, but more of someone i purcharsed pills from...When i stopped doing pills, she called and told me her and her husband had some if i needed..Well i told her that i was not interested anymore and was getting clean...Well a few days later she called again, i then didnt' answer and blocked the number...I later found out that her husband had been arrested...I freaked because it could of been me buying from him at the time...anyway he is still in jail....I have not heard of seen from her since then...Well she drove up here, and knocked on my door and at first i didnt' want to let her in, but my gut told me i had too...So she came  in and told me she had went to church the last sunday and she saw me and she saw how good i looked...now at this point she is crying..she looked terrible..SO she told me that she wanted to get clean and needed help...all of her family gave up on her, and she has no one..She asked me how i did it, etc...Now then i asked her what she was on and how much...TO my surprise, since i only bought lortabs from them, she said oxy's....And she is taking 2 to 3 80 a day....She said she started trying to just take lortabs and kind of goes back and forth...She tried to taper and could not......She tried calling some detox state run programs and they are full and waiting list is long....I asked her if she has ever heard of sub, she said yes, but she knew someone who is in a methadone clinic and she thought it was the same thing....and scared of that...
Okay my question is, she has money to go to a sub doctor, what do you that are on sub or have did sub think about this??  oh and she has been using for at least 7 yrs everyday...
I asked her to be totally honest with me with everything she is taking....She said she is taking zoloft, and valium...besides the opiates....
I really want to help this girl, but what route to you think she should go????
She has a job, and has 2 children, that are 13, 15....
I do not want to associate to much with her because just seeing her set off a craving, ERRRRRRRR!!!!  But the good news is after talking to her, I had no more cravings and thanked god for me being clean today...
She is not asking me for money, or to stay here, just how to get clean....She said she knows she needs meeting after, and is willing to do whatever it takes...She said she just can't handle the w/d's....
Any suggestions?????
thanks'
r2r

[NautyOne]

" I don't want to be naive"  you said it......not me.   You might as well ask for your money back too...........

[worried878]

You should feel good...she is lucky to have known to turn to you for help :)

[road2recovery]

opi----LMAO, that is a good idea....
avis, toxic,beenthere, thanks....Well, the darn helper in me has just called 3 sub doctors , and they can all take her next week if she chooses..

Ok, now that is if she is being honest with me about the amount....I will give print everything out, give it a day, to get everything together, but now that opi said he had that much by 10...Not sure if i beleive her...But i am thinking why would she drive here to lie??
not ask for money? or a place to stay?
i don't want to be naive in this.....But i feel good about it.
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[avisg]

You are such I giving person .Willing to help and be there for others :) .Just plz be careful I could totally see how seeing her might set off cravings . There is nothing wrong with helping her find info on sub I think that is great .It will help her be informed with whatever decision he decides to do.Take care of you ...........
:)

[road2recovery]

yea , my first thing was get on the forum, she was like what are you talking about???
LOL.....SO when she left i told her i would get some info, and then i would get in touch with her, because i still have her blocked...yes, i know, i will do my best to help her, but also not get to involved....
She told me that the she has stopped before right when he went to jail but the cravings are so bad that she keeps getting back on , to more and more...
That is why i was thinking sub, with some counsouling....

new--thanks, i get what u are saying...And i have to say, after talking to her i really fetl very strong about staying clean....She really looked bad, and i know if i would of continued i would be right there too...
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[opi]

i would see if she could just do a detox somewhere for 7 days to get over the hump....are there big waiting lines in the states for that?....i would have that many oxy's in me by 10 am so she could just try cold turkey if she has it in her...how much of your tiime and energy are you willing to give her?....telll her to read some stuff on this forum,,,she probably does not know how much of a plague it is,,,plus all the free advice from pill poopin pro's.......hope she does herself right,,,,watch your own back in the meantime,,,if it were me i'd be saying,,,,well hon,,,what you do is bring all your stash here and i'll help you tapper...once i got her stash i'd say....welcome to day one cold turkey and slam he door...hehehehehehehehhe....  joke..k...joke