When you’re running your own outpatient recovery like a Suboxone treatment, it’s crucial that you put some effort into creating a strong support network. You need peers who are going through the same thing you are to commiserate with and mentors who have been there and done that who can give you advice. You also need a little impartial guidance. So how do you get the support you need during outpatient Suboxone detox? Just ask.

Peer Support During Drug Addiction Recovery

This is as simple as showing up to an NA meeting, sparking up a conversation with someone at a coffee shop or a bus stop. Addicts in recovery are everywhere in all walks of life. You’d be surprised how forthcoming most are about their pasts, too. Most who have been through it know the benefits of sharing their experience and how important that can be to someone who’s in the beginning stages of detoxing and getting clean, no matter what the drug of choice.

Alternatively, there are a number of blogs where people who are going through exactly what you are talk about the things that are happening to them. Here are just a few (besides this one, of course!):

• What Winners Do
• Recovering Beauty
• The Fleeting Present
• Improve Our Conscious Contact
• Diary of a Quitter

Mentor Support During Drug Addiction Recovery

You can find mentors and role models in recovery in the same places that you find peers. When you’re first starting out, it’s important to see that others have followed the path of sobriety and succeeded. These are the people who have jobs, children, who don’t pick up every day. They may not always be happy or nice or anything like you want to be, but they’re functional and they’re clean and sober and you might just learn something from them.

Impartial Guidance During Drug Addiction Recovery

Impartial guidance is best found in therapy or religious figures. If you are particularly religious, then a group leader at your local meeting place may be a good person to talk to. If not, then a therapist or counselor is another way to go. This person should be able to help you see through the fog of recovery so that you may better find yourself rather than blindly clinging to the prevailing wisdom of any one 12-step group.

Getting What You Need

The point is that support is out there. Friends and family members who are clean and sober and want what’s best for you would most likely be willing to aid you. My post on getting out of the house during recovery can facilitate the meeting of any number of new people outside of recovery and these kinds of contacts are just as important. Don’t limit yourself and don’t be shy. If you want support, you have to ask for it.

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