KFld
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I found some awesome information tonight, thanks to a good friend who knows of many resources. Now I just have to pass it along to difficult child and see what he does with it.
My friend told me about a website that offers all kinds of resources in CT for drug addiction, including a list of recovery houses in the area that you don't have to come out of a program to be eligible for and who also accept methadone/suboxone. You have to interview to get in, submit to random drug testing, attend weekly meetings, etc. etc. etc. Basically live a clean life and have a full time job to be able to pay the rent, which is approx. $135 a week and includes everything but food.
difficult child called me this morning all stressed out again because his girlfriend went back to her mothers and he can't live with this kid who is using anymore. He knows he needs to wait until he gets paid tomorrow night to afford his own hotel room, which will be much more then one of these recovery houses would be. He also told me he got pulled over for his tinted windows, no ticket for that, but found out he's driving on a suspended license. They took his license from him so now he has no i.d. to cash his check or rent a hotel room and has to go to court next Friday which will cost him a few hundred dollars I'm sure.
I sent him a text telling him to call me from work on his break. I will give him this info and phone number. Many of the places say they have a bed available immediatley, so if he doesn't want to do this, I'm going to tell him to just stop calling me. Either he is ready to make the right choices or he isn't and can continue to share a hotel room with his new friend!
My friend told me about a website that offers all kinds of resources in CT for drug addiction, including a list of recovery houses in the area that you don't have to come out of a program to be eligible for and who also accept methadone/suboxone. You have to interview to get in, submit to random drug testing, attend weekly meetings, etc. etc. etc. Basically live a clean life and have a full time job to be able to pay the rent, which is approx. $135 a week and includes everything but food.
difficult child called me this morning all stressed out again because his girlfriend went back to her mothers and he can't live with this kid who is using anymore. He knows he needs to wait until he gets paid tomorrow night to afford his own hotel room, which will be much more then one of these recovery houses would be. He also told me he got pulled over for his tinted windows, no ticket for that, but found out he's driving on a suspended license. They took his license from him so now he has no i.d. to cash his check or rent a hotel room and has to go to court next Friday which will cost him a few hundred dollars I'm sure.
I sent him a text telling him to call me from work on his break. I will give him this info and phone number. Many of the places say they have a bed available immediatley, so if he doesn't want to do this, I'm going to tell him to just stop calling me. Either he is ready to make the right choices or he isn't and can continue to share a hotel room with his new friend!