I am sitting here tonight 1100+ miles from my adult son who has been attending an IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program) for 3 months after committing a crime trying to get his life in order.
Within the first 2 weeks, the house manager was bartering with clients for money ( you buy me cigarettes etc..you can stay out past curfew). Then my son bought a lock for his door and his ID and money was stolen. Police had to be called. He then had an opportunity to leave the sober house to stay with an attorney friend but could still remain in the program. Perfect! Not. Attorney friend (also a recovering addict) relapsed. Son tested positive for morphine but doesn’t know how it got in his system. Son leaves his residence to stay with a trusted employee of attorney. Through all of this, the IOP sent our son to a Dr. to help him with his anxiety, addiction. Talking on the phone with him this past week, he has been hallucinating, seeing & hearing things and paranoia beyond limits. As I type this, my husband and I have been trying to reach the head of his IOP Program for 24 hrs.
No return calls. Set him up in hotel while he walked the streets last night with his luggage looking for a “ safe place”. The cocktail of big time medications he’s on is insane. Suboxone, Xanax, seroquel, propolol, Gabapentin & Vyvanse. These combos are deadly and ALL prescribed. His friend is with him while he’s sleeping today (first sleep in days) and we will be getting him a flight home hopefully in the next 24 hrs.
What court and attorney will believe his story? Will they truly understand that he will need to be detoxed? His ex-wife will call BS and the courts won’t want to hear it.
I’m not quite sure how much more we can take.