Drug Addiction Treatment Centers: A Fresh StartWritten by David Westbrook
You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as resource box is included, and you do not take credit as author. You must send a courtesy copy of your publication or a website link to, recoveryresources@gmail.com . Note: This article has been formatted to 60 CLI. Drug Addiction Treatment Centers: A Fresh Start Half a decade ago, I started working on a hotline to help addicts and their families find drug addiction treatment centers. Thousands of calls later, I still remember first time I picked up line. I could hardly make out what woman on other end was saying to me. Shelly (not her real name) was sobbing. She had just arrived at her father's apartment and had found him passed out cold on couch with a needle still sticking out of his arm. Why she called our line instead of 9-1-1 was a mystery. I called for an ambulance and waited on phone with her until they arrived. She told me how her father had been a construction worker, though his dream was to play guitar in a band. Shelly said her parents split up when she was thirteen because of her dad's drinking. He moved away to live in another state for a couple of years and they began to lose touch. He would send occasional card or make a call on her birthday first couple of years, but that eventually ended. After college, Shelly decided to find her dad. It turned out that he had moved back and was living just a couple of miles from where she grew up. Somewhere along way, he had picked up a heroin habit. Shelly tried to talk him into going to treatment, but he always had an excuse for why he couldn't. Shelly said she visited him weekly, helped him keep his apartment up, bought his groceries and kept after him to quit. She said she they had just talked night before and that he had, for first time, agreed to try treatment. On my end, I could hear ambulance approaching and then a knock on door. Shelly hung up and I never heard from her again.
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