thanks guys, i did recommend he try getting online as one of his support mechanisms. he isn't very technical but he was interested. im trying to reach his wife as I found an NA meeting 5 miles from his house tonight. also i spoke with an addiction councilor at a local practice who wants to talk to them and apparently has a lot of experience working with insurance companies and getting them to cough up the $$$. i will be back with an update soon and hopefully with some good news and my hope is he'll hop on here as well.
Yep, most treatment centers don't recognize cocaine addiction as treatable, maybe cause it's not curable and there are no physical w/d's except for the horrible crash and cravings that can bring you to your knees. It's a shame drugs like cocaine/crack are hard to get help for, they completely destroy lives. Like mtgoat said, check out N/A, there were a few cocaine/crack users there when I went and most had signifigant clean time. As a cocaine addict myself I know that alcohol goes hand and hand. Alcohol caused immense coke cravings for me, ones that i just could not fight, so he will need to give up both if he wants to stay clean.
It's so important to get support, to have people that can help him through the cravings and hold himself accountable. He needs to learn the tools on how to stay clean and change thought patterns. Since he is willing to do anything to get help, ask him to come on here also, it's a great support group. I would love to talk to him. Good luck
yeah, health insurances do not see cocaine as a phsical addiction, do not get me started on that!!!
i do not even like cocaine but if i try one line the mental obseesion with that drug will have me doing it for a week straight
i suggest that he try na, not aa, not to step on aa's toes, i just found there to be more information on addiction in na liturature,
if you can get to an na meeting tonight, just ask around about inpatient tx centers with or without insurance
there are several ways to find tx, one is to make an appointment at your local vocational rehabilition center, most people think that this department is to help people with disibilities find jobs but they forget addiction is a disibility and this resource center will not only find you a tx center they will help you find a job
try this and see if you can get him in tx, detox does have a place for cocaine addicts its called "social detox" i am sorry you insurance company did not tell you about that