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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 710236" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>There are physicians that are addiction specialists who supervise withdrawal and use prescribed medications. A reputable physician who is an addiction specialist would set up a multi-modal therapeutic intervention that would probably involve a therapist, counsellor, groups, etc.</p><p></p><p>There are different medications that counteract addiction to pain pills or benzo-addiction.</p><p></p><p>If it were me I would call the nearest major medical school and look for the faculty practice in addiction medicine. If you have trouble call the psychiatric department--that is what I would do. Or I would google: residency in addiction medicine, to see what medical centers and universities have the most highly noted programs. I would actually google the work of specialists.</p><p></p><p>I think you know that my son has a serious illness. That is what I did when he was diagnosed and when his illness worsened. I got him linked up to a faculty practice at a university hospital a few hours from us, and for the past 8 years his treatment has been supervised by a foremost specialist (to the extent he has been treatment compliant.)</p><p></p><p>In circumstances such as yours I have made treatment a condition for my continued help (*housing, etc.). It does not work right off. But as we get increasingly strident and make it more and more uncomfortable for him, he seems to be going along with OUR program more and more instead of imposing his own on us.</p><p></p><p>If you think about it everything your son needs to STOP and to stay off is at hand or near....</p><p></p><p>We control access to a great deal of resources. We can make these contingent. The change is to see our own power and to begin to take control over our environment, by changing our own responses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 710236, member: 18958"] There are physicians that are addiction specialists who supervise withdrawal and use prescribed medications. A reputable physician who is an addiction specialist would set up a multi-modal therapeutic intervention that would probably involve a therapist, counsellor, groups, etc. There are different medications that counteract addiction to pain pills or benzo-addiction. If it were me I would call the nearest major medical school and look for the faculty practice in addiction medicine. If you have trouble call the psychiatric department--that is what I would do. Or I would google: residency in addiction medicine, to see what medical centers and universities have the most highly noted programs. I would actually google the work of specialists. I think you know that my son has a serious illness. That is what I did when he was diagnosed and when his illness worsened. I got him linked up to a faculty practice at a university hospital a few hours from us, and for the past 8 years his treatment has been supervised by a foremost specialist (to the extent he has been treatment compliant.) In circumstances such as yours I have made treatment a condition for my continued help (*housing, etc.). It does not work right off. But as we get increasingly strident and make it more and more uncomfortable for him, he seems to be going along with OUR program more and more instead of imposing his own on us. If you think about it everything your son needs to STOP and to stay off is at hand or near.... We control access to a great deal of resources. We can make these contingent. The change is to see our own power and to begin to take control over our environment, by changing our own responses. [/QUOTE]
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