#1. Buy “End Your Addiction Now” Book. Read it and get what you need.

#2 LEAVE ALL USER FRIENDS BEHIND. PERIOD. If you can’t do that part, the rest won’t work. If you happen to live with the user and you are really, really really BOTH COMMITTED to the same plan, maybe. If he/she isn’t willing to do this – you shouldn’t be with that person anyway. In either case, have someone with a bit of compassion and that you trust around the first few days to a week to be there for you, just in case one of you is caving, or just to run a hot bath or get you a puke bucket… I don’t think it’s a big deal to take a 1/4 of a Subox a couple times a day for the first few days – there’s really no reason to be in complete agony – but not more than a little for a few days – your goal is to get off drugs, not switch. Being a little sick isn’t the end of the world – being a lot sick, just isn’t necessary.
#3 Eat only organic food and as much of it uncooked as possible, even beef and fish – I don’t think you should eat raw chicken, but trust me, grass fed raw beef is good and who doesn’t like sushi-mi? If you can’t stand the thought of raw meat, skip meat for now, cause there’s no meat in the average grocery store you should ever eat. Try to get Wild caught fish – Trader Joe’s has a decent selection in the freezer section that’s affordable and unless you live in the way-back-40, you have one reasonably close. LOTS of fruit and green leafy veggies – like pounds of it every day. Cut out sugar – all of it- certainly no soda’s, candy bars, etc… only what’s in fruit cause sugar triggers drug cravings. Lastly, try to eat food with sugar in it a couple hours apart from food with fat in it – it will digest/absorb faster/better and you need all the help you can get in that department right now! Take walks when you’re able or just lay in the sun if that’s all you can manage. The sun is how your body produces Vitamin D, which fights depression.
#4 Acupuncture, massage and hot baths for pain – if you can’t afford it, see if there is a holistic practitioner who is willing to barter or wait till you are better and working again. Acupuncture is a huge relief though detox.
#5 As soon as you can, start exercising – even if it’s just a few minutes at a time. The drug residue attaches to your fat cells and when they get used for extra energy the drug in small quantities is released back into your blood stream which can be a cause of relapse. Exercising to a sweat will get all that crap out of your body faster so you don’t have to deal with that possibility and exercise can become an addiction in it’s own right – just a much healthier one than you currently have.

The book will give you a list of Nutraceutical Supplements to increase the vitamins and minerals of the organic diet to replenish and balance your neurotransmitters, which stabilize your mood and make you feel good without medicating. This may sound expensive – that’s what most think when they hear words like organic, but let me tell you, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than drugs, not to mention a funeral. Drugs not only keep you from eating right, but diminish the amount of nutrition your body absorbs because of all the side effects – constipation, nausea, etc and since you are putting synthetic chemicals into your body, that in itself causes the body to have to use energy to fight this foreign substance.

It may seem way to easy that you can simply eat your way to health, but a healthy brain comes from no other source. You have nothing to lose by trying it – eating well has certainly never killed anyone! Best of Luck. The good news is, this is a great pay forward program. When you’re better, help someone else. Let’s get our world healthy.