Swim hasn't used any heroin for three months and even managed to reduce her methadone down to low levels, for a while she felt really positive and things were going well. This last week all SWIM thinks about is using heroin again, she's very stressed out as her father is very ill with terminal cancer and her GP is putting her under pressure to reduce her methadone further, he even told her he was dropping the dose anyway even though she said she couldn't do it at the moment. It was only when SWIM picked up her prescription she found out he'd kept it at the original dose, it was more stress she didn't need and got very close to using the night before she collected her weeks supply of methadone.
SWIM goes to a Relapse Avoidance group every week which does help but it's starting to feel almost inevitable that she's going to bang up some gear again soon, how the hell does SWIM get this shit out of her head and get back on track to recovery. SWIM knows using heroin to shut out life's problems only works short term and then she has an even bigger problem to deal with but she feels like she's been in a fight but now her strength is slowly going and now she may loose that fight.
Any suggestions on how SWIM can get back in control before she uses would be very welcome
31-01-2008, 13:57
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