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How To Get Rid Of An Addiction To Roxie?

My daughter is addicted to roxies, she is shooting them up. I am so afraid she has lost so much weight, her teeth are breaking, she looks so bad. We have not money for treatment and have had not luck with state funded. Help, I just do not know what to do. Hopeless
Mon, 1 Sep 2014
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I am assuming this is Roxicet, one name for oxycodone, a narcotic. Quite a bad addiction and often fatal. For this reason substitution of other narcotics under controlled conditions (METHADONE) is often used just to lower the death rate. Suboxone programs can be used also and this drug has less problems than methadone.
But addiction is a mental condition rather than a pharmacologic one. 12 step programs such as Narcotics anonymous are needed to help actually get one's life back.
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How To Get Rid Of An Addiction To Roxie?

I am assuming this is Roxicet, one name for oxycodone, a narcotic. Quite a bad addiction and often fatal. For this reason substitution of other narcotics under controlled conditions (METHADONE) is often used just to lower the death rate. Suboxone programs can be used also and this drug has less problems than methadone. But addiction is a mental condition rather than a pharmacologic one. 12 step programs such as Narcotics anonymous are needed to help actually get one s life back.