my mother is addicted to hydrocodone. how can i detox her at home?
March 16th, 2010
my mother does want to stop! she is begging 4 help. i do not take care of her. i live with my husband and child while she lives 30 miles away! but i plan to stay with her to help her. i need advice though. my plan is to ween her off. im a nursing student and kinda know what to expect… but is it possible and how long should this process take??
This is very difficult to do. I would call the doctor and ask the best way to wean her off of the medication.
She has to want to do it. It is better then if you involve her doctor in case she needs medicine to help her get through withdrawal. Also you could contact Narc anon.
http://www.na.org/
you can’t really detox anyone unless they want to be detoxed. most of the time, especially with Rx drugs, it should be done under a doctors supervision. good luck!
you can’t do anything to help your mother. that’s not your roll. your roll is of the child, not the parent. you’ve probably been taking care of your mom for a long time, raising her maybe instead of the other way around and I’m sorry for that.
get into a support group like Ala-non. it’s a group for those who love people who are addicts. you will get the support you need to take care of yourself. get couseling. and love your mother with something called “detachment”. Stop taking care of her. If she passes out on the couch, leave her there, let her freeze, don’t put the blanket on her. Don’t go to the store for her. Don’t call in sick for her. That’s her job. If she doesn’t take care of you or your siblings like she should call child protection, call the police, tell a teacher. They are the ones who have the job of taking care of your mom, not you. Love her by holding her accountable for her own actions. Otherwise you’re just enabling her to death.
As mentioned above, in order to have a successful/sustained end to narcotics one has to want to be done. That is not to say that efforts shouldn’t be made if the person is an addict and doesn’t want help, however.
Withdrawing form narcotics, like hydrocodone, is not pleasant, however is not as dangerous as withdrawing from alcohol.
Withdrawing from alcohol abruptly can be deadly. Withdrawing from narcotics abruptly is actually more unpleasant, than dangerous.
That said, a medical professional is likely prescribing these meds to her and should know that she is abusing them and help her through it.
Good luck.
you can not totally take her off you have to ween her off of it. In this case you would have to control how many pills she takes in a day. If she takes 10 pills a day. cut it down to 8 pills a day and so on. do you have control of her meds? or can you get control?
Wean down the milligrams over a period of about 1-2 weeks. This will minimize any withdrawal symptoms. I would definitely talk with her doctor and have the doc taper her off – that’s the safest way.
WARNING:This only helps the physical aspects of withdrawls..She will need some sort of mental support whether it is counseling , family or church.
I dont know how old you are,but there is a contriversial herb that can use after you wean her down.If she is willing to try…I can set you up with a wean off method that has worked for me a couple of times….its staying clean thats the hard part.I slowly weaned down to a bare minimum a day and then switched to an herb called KRATOM.Now kratom itself can be addicting if you let it…so its imperative not to stay on kratom for more than 2 weeks if she can.4 weeks top.I suggest you do some research with “Bali” Kratom.This is a perfect strand that fights withdrawals from opiates.I will give you a very informative link…you can skip thru alot and scroll down to pharmacology.You can obtain it anywhere on the inet…I use ebay or direct from “emailed to you” Just tell them josh sent you LOL…anyway just make your own decision after reading more about it…here is a start http://www.wholesaleshamanicherbs.com/kratom-mitragyna-speciousa.htm
Now these people here used kratom to get off OTHER opiates like heroin,methadone but it works very well with hydrocodone and much less severity than they mention.But its a good place to start reading.There is no one way to do this treatment.You can only go by experience.Ive use kratom to get off a 15-20 pill a day and for as low as a 6-10 pill a day habit.It will work if she wants to stop http://www.drugs-forum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=26335
read what I wrote on 2nd pg http://www.heroin-detox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8150&whichpage=
AS I SAID IT IS STILL A VERY CONTRIVERSIAL SUBJECT.RESEARCH AND YOU DECIDE.