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I’m interested to know if anyone on Wired In has had any experience of AddictionsUK or would like to comment on whether it would help them today, or would have helped them if they’d known about it. It’s been around since 2004.
AddictionsUK market themselves as an “addictions treatment at home, including home detox, as the means to recovery from drugs, alcohol and other addictions”. But it isn’t clear from the website how much of the treatment is provided by AddictionsUK themselves, and how much they outsource to other people.
I’m guessing they provide the glue to allow a home experience to take place, employing some people directly to fill the missing gaps.
Peter.
Hi Peter,
I am sure that they ring a bell. Personally I can see a great deal of merit in home detox as long as there is some sort of linkage to mutual aid.
I had a home detox – which was very professional on the medical side but left me high and dry in terms of recovery support.
Sorry to be so sceptical, but if home detoxes worked, people would have been successfully doing them, which they aren’t.
ive looked at your website and detoxes will work any where if the addict is ready to change recovery all about change and change comes with time and support if you can offer that then may be,
dave.
Sapphire : I kinda agree with your scepticism. Treatment at home may help some people. Depending on their addiction, what stage it’s at, life situation (how much chaos, risk there is), how motivated the addict is to change, and the quality and effectiveness of the support.
From what I’ve seen, treatment at home isn’t enough for most people. It certainly wouldn’t have been enough for me. But I have an open mind, and would like the believe that with the right things coming together, it is possible in some situations. But I don’t think it’s a mainstream treatment option. I was hoping (and still am) that someone can convince me otherwise.
Michaela : Interested to know who organised the home detox for you (if anyone), and how you managed to move onto a sustained recovery path from there. I’m guessing from what you’ve said, a lot of it was left to you to seek additional support. And was very much hit and miss in finding support that helped.
I’m still interested to know if anyone has had any experience of a home treatment service, AddictionsUK or otherwise, how it worked, what was provided and when, how it helped. The testimonials on the AddictionsUK site don’t look like they were written by real people. Someone seeking a home treatment option (or any other option) has to have to have total confidence in the organisation doing it.
As it stands, with the information provided, the AddictionsUK site wouldn’t have convinced me to use it. Even though I was latterly very motivated to move away from my addiction. I was incredibly scared during the latter stages of my addiction, which undoubtedly affected my decision making. Along with clouded thinking due to pre-frontal cortex erosion. Along with the chaotic lifestyle I was leading, a full time job, and therefore very little time to seek out possibilities that had a chance of working for me.
AddictionsUK would have had to convince me that they were able to detox me properly to begin with. As in my experience, and the experiences of many others I’ve spoken to over the years, many many organisations aren’t even able to do that effectively, for heroin addiction at least, never mind all the other things that are needed to have a good chance of sustaining a recovery.
Peter.
Success of home detox has nothing to do with a persons readiness to change or motivation…its quite simply not suitable for all. It depends on the severity of the addiction and whether or not a person needs more support than a home detox can give. In answer to your question: no it wouldn’t have helped me.
