Help! I Need to Go to a Drug Rehab but Can’t Afford It, Any Suggestions on How to Find a Sponsor?
Question by Bree DaCosta: Help! I need to go to a drug rehab but can’t afford it, any suggestions on how to find a sponsor?
Should I write a newspaper article, contact the news, etc..? If I don’t get help soon, I will die. I am 23 and believe it or not, am still articulate and preety. My parents used to have money years ago but my Mom did some bad business investments and now we’re broke. I cannot work because of my addiction as well as severe depressioin and anxiety. There are cheap treatment centers but they are mainly for street people or people that are court ordered and don’t want to really be there. I want to go somewhere with people who really want to get better. I want to go somewhere comforting, serene, beautifiul with very caring staff that enjoy their jobs. I have found several places that would be perfect but they are around $ 14,000 a month and I’d atleast need to go 2 months I think. My Mom could probably pay atleast $ 5000 at the most and that’d still hurt her financially. I have been an addict for almost 6 years
something around Massachusetts or Vermont will be fine
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Answer by Milton
Start by going to a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous. There, you will find people who have been there and done that and have knowledge of every road to recovery because they have traveled those roads. They will provide you with a sponsor at the first meeting if you are ready to accept direction from another human being. It doesn’t have to cost $ 14,000 to have a 5% chance of recovery — that is the odds on a first rehab working.
Rehabs help, but only after you have made a decision that you and all mind-altering substances and behaviors need to stop if you are to survive.
So, ask yourself … are you willing to surrender about 90 days of your life to try something new? Are you willing to listen to the voice of reason instead of the idiots who make up your present circle of acquaintances?
Here is a guarantee i can offer you: If in ninety days of working at recovery wherever it may be (and i recommend NA as a start place) you do not find that life is a little better, come see me and i will refund all the misery you presently feel … with interest.
Bless you for trying and you will make it if you want to. Addiction is the only disease in the world that you can decide if you want to live in its prison or not. You will always be an addict, but you do not have to always be a substance user.
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