Substance Use + Mental Health: Your Guide to Addressing Co-occurring Disorders
It’s hard enough if your child is struggling with substance use, but what if they’re also struggling with mental health, like depression or anxiety, at the same time?
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Justin M Rozelle
Im 28, employed with full benefits and struggling with drug addiction. I want to so inpatient treatment. Will my fmla and short turm disability be available to me?
Josie Feliz
Thanks for your message Justin. We have forwarded your message to one of our helpline specialists who can help better answer your question, and she will be reaching out to you shortly. Our Helpline is a good place to start if you’d like to talk to someone about what you’re going through. Feel free to connect with us in whichever manner you choose in the future: https://drugfree.org/helpline
Thank you. -The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
Marie smith
I need help for my teenager son
Josie Feliz
Thanks for your message Marie. We have forwarded your message to one of our helpline specialists who can help better answer your question, and she will be reaching out to you shortly. Our Helpline is a good place to start if you’d like to talk to someone about what you’re going through. Feel free to connect with us in whichever manner you choose in the future: https://drugfree.org/helpline
Thank you. -The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
Jill Dennis
Why won’t the FDA approve ibogaine? It’s been accepted in other countries and has like a 75% recovery rate (for heroin addicts). Yet, it’s illegal in the United States. It doesn’t appear to me, that the United States wants to find a solution. Methadone is just as highly addictive as heroin. So, that’s not a solution. Nor is suboxone or Subutex. They are just as addictive.
Catherine Villanella
Hello,
I am a mother of a 26 year old daughter struggling with mental illness and substance abuse. I have tried everything I know how to to get my daughter help but since I cannot involuntarily commit her I feel like there is no hope. This has been going on since she was 18 and the mental illness started about 3 yrs ago. Been through the court system and they will not address the mental illness, only the drug problem and have forced her to state funded rehabs that either don’t have space or cannot handle her mental state therefore have left her back on the streets. There has to be a law to where parents can involuntarily force treatment and there needs to be more facilities in San Diego so we are not forced to move to other states just to help our children. What can we do??
Josie Feliz
Thanks for your message Catherine. We have forwarded your message to one of our helpline specialists who can help better answer your question, and she will be reaching out to you shortly.
Our Helpline is a good place to start if you’d like to talk to someone about what you’re going through. Feel free to connect with us in whichever manner you choose in the future: https://drugfree.org/helpline
Thank you. -The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids