my husbands addiction

[anna clerk]

hi,my husband has been addicted to oxycontin(and any other oxycodone
product) for about ten years! we first met 2 years ago and he quit-
cold turkey about 5 months later, this lasted about 6 months.
since then we are in my husbands10th detox cycle for oxycontin. This
is day 4, the worst of it! I think he's ready this time! This is not
just wishful thinking or me being completely naive! i remember all the
other times clearly! And this time his life is in ruin, his family
will not let him around thier children, his buisness partner has had
enough, and i have FINALLY had enough as well!
I have seen withdrawals from opiates first hand and can recognise the
false attempts within a day! This is not a false attempt!
I have also hand first hand experience at withdrawals from other
drugs, (cocaine, alcohal), and find opiates to be the most damning and
destructive of all!
It is fully incidious, and it changes people so subtly at first that
they have no idea that they have changed at all! (AT FIRST) believe me
it took at lot of convincing for him to believe that i did not just
have a "feeling" he was using again, but as time passed even he
realized, then much later, admitted he was not the man he was
pretending to be!
This was the first try, it was a false attempt!
There was another false attept, then a real one! it lasted 2 weeks!