Best course of action for coming off crack cocaine/heroin???

[beena]

SWIM has been addicted to crack for seven or eight years now and she's come off it several times for anything between three weeks and six months at a time, she just can't seem to stay off. At Christmas time SWIM went away to get herself cleaned up (stopped using on the 3rd December) and SWIM's boyfriend joined her two weeks later and also stopped using. SWIM found out that in the two weeks that she was away without her boyfriend he had gone and got himself arrested. January SWIM and her boyfriend returned home, off drugs and feeling positive. SWIM enrolled at uni to do a masters degree. The SWIM's boyfriend had his court case and got sent to prison for four months (served two). At first SWIM coped alright, was taking opiates but nothing else. She started college and as always when something good happens in her life she sets about ruining it, so she went to a mates house and took crack and heroin. Afterwards she felt guilty and said she wouldn't do it again but a couple of weeks later she found herself back there. She got a taste for the heroin and would buy crack with her so-called mates then take the heroin to have at home on her own. These drug binges happened more and more often and lasted longer each time. By the time her boyfriend got out of prison she was taking heroin every day. Now her boyfriend is out and really wants to clean up his act so he doesn't go back to prison. He doesn't and never has touched 'h' and he is quite anti it. SWIM doesn't inject but she is sniffing between £40 and £60 worth each day. When she tries to stop she feels shivery, wants to stay in bed for prolonged periods and gets aches in her body when she does. Plus she feels really, really depressed and can thing about nothing else but h. SWIM wants to know what the best course of action would be. She can't go in anywhere or away anywhere cos of college....she has thought about methadone but would she be a suitable candidate for it? I mean she doesn't inject and has only been taking it a few months...from the stuff she has read about on df, methadone sounds like it is as hard to get off as heroin and she doesn't want to make more of a mess of her life than she already has.What do you guys think would be her best option. SWIM looks to the day when she will be off everything...