Inpatient heroin rehab?

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My brother's been in recovery for heroin addiction for 3 years, and recently had another relapse. He's been on suboxone, which works well for a few months at a time, but then he either stops taking it, or it doesn't keep him from using again. It usually takes a while for anyone to realize he's relapsed, as he's super-functional (works long hours, no heavy withdrawl symptoms) when he's using.

My parents have been trying to help him, but are really in over their heaRAB, so I've been looking into other options for him, as his current treatment hasn't been working. I feel like inpatient rehab could help - at the very least, it's something we haven't tried yet. But researching online has just led to a bunch of aRAB for places that pretty transparently want your money, but are short on details about what they actually do.

Does anyone here have any advice? Will inpatient help him where suboxone, drug counseling, etc., isn't? Or are relapses just part of recovery and we have to let him keep trying the path he's on? And does anyone know of a good place in upstate New York?
 
I am sorry for your brother's relapse but if you are to help him you must not do anything. There isn't anywhere that he can go that money isn't first priority no more than if you were to go to a regular hospital....they all have to have money...and the longer he can be in the hospital the better and 30 days is a good amount of time for them to give him all the tools he neeRAB to stay clean and sober...but it seems he already has the tools to stay clean and sober and yet he chose to relapse. Addictions are the hardest to treat because the patient has to want to get treatment ...the patient is the one that has to be the one to find their own treatment...it is the patient that has to check themselves in. As helpful as you want to be it is not helpful and in fact it is quite destructive for him. The only thing you all can do is not to allow him around any of you if he is not clean and sober. He must understand all that by now or are you an enablers and allow him into your life when he is using... The one thing you can do for him is for you to go to Al-anon to learn how to treat an addict when they sturable...that is why it is called tough love...it is very hard to do but it is the only thing that has proven to work. good luck.
 
Thanks for the advice. It's pretty much what I knew but didn't want to accept - that we can't do a lot more to help him. Getting clean has never been a problem, but staying clean for more than a few months has. We live in different cities, so I don't see him that often, and I feel like I'm watching helplessly from the sidelines. I wish there was more I could do, besides hoping he has it in him to beat this.
 
Subooxone is great when used for short term, detox purposes. Usually when used long term the patient is un successful. As it says in the NA literature, its important for us to be off of all mind and mood altering substances. I do agree with the person above me when they say you can learn more in al-anon, or nar-anon (which is same as al anon, but for the frienRAB and familys of drug addicts rather than alcoholics). Also, as a great start, you can try and maybe taking him or getting him to goto a few NA meetings, you can find the times and places in your area online. Inpatient's are always the best option though for any addict.
 
If you want to help him there are plenty of things you can do. Whent the person below me said the best thing to do if you want to help him is to do nothing, I think and hope what they mean is to do nothing to enable him to keep on using. Besides that, you can do anything you think may help. There is plenty online that will teach you about possibly getting a bunch of people closest to him (like you, your parents, etc), and doing an intervention, if you google intervention you can learn tons on it. Also, while inpatient rehabs, alot of them are out for the money (they are businesses), it doesn't mean they aren't great. Me and my brother are both recovering addicts. There are great places I can reccomend.
 
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