What Else Can I Do To Help Her?
I received the following and was asked to post it on this blog.
A young woman, 29, mother of 2, recovering crack addict, sober for 4 years is crushed by the effect drugs had on her, her 2 kids, 5 and 7, and her life.
She works as a hair cutter in a discount salon and can barely make ends meet financially even with help from her parents. Her ex-boyfriend, father of her youngest, is currently clean and on suboxone and wants to play a role in her life and the life of her son. He is currently unemployed. A few years back when they lived together and were high they supported the family and the habit by selling drugs. She hated that life but now she can’t pay the bills.
Her daughter remembers her stealing the family jewelry and pawning it. Her son is ADD, and she thinks it is the result of her and the fathers’ addiction.
I’ve given her your book and meeting lists and told her about your blog and PROACT seminars for her family. I gave her the Alkermes card and suggested that she contact their website for more info. I pleaded with her to remain active in her sobriety (she still has cravings). But I am very VERY fearful that she may relapse and about the effect all this has on her children.
The stress in this woman’s life is immeasurable, almost unbearable.
What else can I do to help her??
If you have any suggestions, please note them as a comment. The person submitting this query and I were able to identify additional support services, such as the Cash Assistance program, http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/foradults/cashassistance/S_001312, for this woman through her County government’s Behavioral Health Office. Here is the link to the County office,
https://www.humanservices.state.pa.us/Compass.Web/CMHOM.aspx, and both links have been included as part of this post in the event links like these (which are typically available in most states/counties) might prove helpful to others in a similar situation.
Lisa Frederiksen
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