Detox Methadone Withdrawal | Making a Change
I heard back from my friend who lives up in San Francisco. It seems he is doing better and was able to find the help he needs at the drug treatment facility I told him about. He told me when he arrived in Orange County he was experiencing a heavy detox methadone withdrawal; the shakes, nausea, and a host of other symptoms.
They took him in, set him up with Suboxone and he’s been attending individual and group therapy sessions right on the campus. I could tell his spirits were up because he was commenting on a possible move to Southern California. I just told him to sit tight and not make any big moves for at least a year if he could help it!
It is advice I freely give because it’s what I was told when I was first getting sober, oh so many years ago. There is a certain ‘pink, fluffy cloud’ that more often than not follows us when we are first getting sober. We sometimes believe that this is the time to make big moves. Sure, sometimes we need to clean up the wreckage of the past, which could include a move of some sort, but if the change is not ‘needed’ then sit tight and just let life begin. Changes can come later.
Are you newly sober? Have you made big changes in your life?