Mental Heath Facilitate or a Rehab Program??

Question by irishfirefighter762: Mental heath facilitate or a rehab program??
My wife has abuse prescription pain killer and sleeping pills in the past. She says she is clean but her recant behaviors tell me differently. She is living at her mother now so I can’t confirm weather or not she is using them at night. She has been going to AA but things have not been getting better. The biggest problem we have is the lies she tells. She says she lies because of the fact that she doses not wont to disappoint me. Just the other day she went to lunch with a friend and told her that we are living together and that we have been trying to have a baby. I was able to find out from a mutual friend who knew what we had been going threw and was concerned. I feel like her realty and the rest of the world is to different things. She has agreed that she need more help with her life problems, she claims she has been clean from her pills for three months. I wont her to go to an in patient program. Would she be better off at a My wife has abuse prescription pain killer and sleeping pills in the past. She says she is clean but her recant behaviors tell me differently. She is living at her mother now so I can’t confirm weather or not she is using them at night. She has been going to AA but things have not been getting better. The biggest problem we have is the lies she tells. She says she lies because of the fact that she doses not wont to disappoint me. Just the other day she went to lunch with a friend and told her that we are living together and that we have been trying to have a baby. I was able to find out from a mutual friend who knew what we had been going threw and was concerned. I feel like her realty and the rest of the world is to different things. She has agreed that she need more help with her life problems, she claims she has been clean from her pills for three months. I wont her to go to an in patient program. Would she be better off at a mental heath facilitate or a rehab program??

Best answer:

Answer by jen
There are rehab facilities that specialize helping people who are also having mental health issues. Research the facility carefully because some rehabs are very clear that if there is a mental health problem, they can not give treatment.

Answer by raysny
So NOT put her in a drug rehab that dabbles in mental health, it will almost certainly end badly. If a person uses drugs or alcohol to self-medicate, they won’t stop until they address their problems.

Over 90% of all drug & alcohol programs are 12step based (AA/NA). They are not equiped for mental health issues even though there is a 50% overlap. (50% of people with substance abuse issues have mental health issues; 50% of people with mental health issues have substance abuse issues.) Many people in AA & NA feel that taking medication means you’re not really sober/clean and that if you follow the program of AA correctly, your mental health problems will magically go away.

The rest of the rehabs are either Narconon (Scientology) which doesn’t believe in mental illness or deeply religious and believe God will take care of it or people are posessed.

Find a mental health clinic, most have a dual diagnosis program. Contact your local NAMI to find what’s available in your area:
http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=Your_Local_Nami

“What works”:
http://www.behaviortherapy.com/whatworks.htm

I bounced in and out of 12step treatment for 20 years, it wasn’t until I got decent mental health help for depression that I was able to stay stopped.