Heroin-Addicted Woman Accepts Rehab
Mallory appeared on today's show and opened up about her 3-year struggle with heroin. Mallory said her lowest point came when she was arrested the day before her appearance on "Anderson Live," and admitted, "I just haven't explored the options to get the help I need."
Addiction specialist Kristina Wandzilak, who has been sober for 19 years, recommended that Mallory immediately enter treatment. Mallory was offered a chance for a better life from Behavioral Health of Palm Beaches. The program, which Mallory accepted, includes six months of intensive in-patient treatment that will start as soon as she leaves the show.
About Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches:
Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches in Florida offers clients state-of-the-art residential alcohol and drug treatment and rehabilitation with the highest success rates for alcohol and drug addiction recovery today. They are one of the few in-patient drug and alcohol addiction centers that provide detox, intervention, and substance abuse rehab programs based on the leading cutting edge research and development methods of treatment.
A majority of competing clinical treatment programs often overlook other contributing factors of addiction, such as dual diagnosis, trauma, grief, pain, anxiety, anger, depression and bipolar disorder. Because they are a behavioral health based treatment center, they specialize in treating the cause of patients' addiction as well as their actual addiction, which is the key to their industry-leading success rates.
For more information, visit BHPalmBeach.com.
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Saw the follow-up on Mallory and was thrilled to hear that she accepted the offer made to get help. There was no mention about her mother getting support so that she can learn to set healthy boundaries.
As the parent of a couple of addicts, I can attest to the fact that the disease of addiction is truly a "Family Disease." We learn that we respond in unhealthy ways to addiction and the addict whom we love: relationships suffer terribly and many family members end up being the "collateral damage."
Please let Mallory's mom know about Nar-Anon Family Groups:
www.nar-anon.org
Our family forum is open 24/7: www.naranon.com/forum
I was truly moved by your show today about addictions and enabling. It made me reflect on my community, a Native community where our youth suffer from addiction. Our addicts receive support from our small close knit community, but after your show, what I think we do is enable them to continue to use. The whole community is like the mother on your show today who was part of the problem. How do you force a community to deal with (or not deal with) its addicts? More and more of our youth are becoming addicted.
My granddaughter needs help and I can't do it. Her mother died of Heroine overdose, now she is snoting it. She's been in jail, no place to live, no job, lives with someone who got her out of jail. Now she has to go to court. She's only 22 years old. Had a job with Pet Smart, they sent her to school for grooming. Hurt her back picking up a dog, started taking pain pills and lost her job. I live in PA, she lives in NJ. She has tried, she said, to get into a Rehab, they have no beds. So she is waiting. In the meantime she sells drugs for money. HELP ME HELP HER. PLEASE.
If your going to place something on your TV show Anderson, you must not just turn your back on the #1 killer in this country...Small town child adults are dying ever 3 hours...This drug is the DEVIL...You make a short story regarding an addict and there is no follow up on your comment's...This epic drug is overtaking our children like they have been brainwashed...I made this facebook site and if there is anyone that needs to just reach out, comment on there and I will help direct you if I can..Or, just talk with other's that have a child adult using or lost them to the DEVIL...HEROIN is taking over...It is brainwashing our children and they never come back....They are injecting this evil in their vein's not knowing if it is their last...Not, afraid because they are held in the shackles of their disease...This is my facebook site....If you came from here (another story to get viewer attention for ANDERSON) let me know... Mothers Against DOPE..Drugs Overtaking Population Everywhere...It is not just for moms...I help everyone....GOD BLESS YOU ALL BECAUSE IF THE DEVIL IS IN YOUR CHILDS LIFE YOUR GONNA NEED HIM....<3 thea
My dearest Anderson,
I have written you complimentaray email few times, but now I really need YOUR HELP.
I have 29years old beautiful son who started to drink 2 years ago. He was in rehab for 3 weeks twice, but it didn't work.
I wouldn't even know where to send him for a long period of time. It is killing me watch him destroying his beauty and class, simply giving up on his life. I don't know what caused his self-distaction, but he is killing me and at the same time killing himself too. I cannot kick him out because his father did and it din NOT help at all.
Please Anderson, please my gold, could you help him?
I'm not working due to my 4 (four) surgeries, going for the fifth one. No surgeon is willing to do another surgery, since the second surgery for ulcer in my intestine went terribly bad and the surgeon put into a morgue while I was still alive.
Had I been working I would have make a good money because my education is Medical Lab. Technician. I know that you are getting tuns of email and I pray this one will reach you.
Thank you so much in advance.
Yours truly,
Diana Heidinger
Todays show still has me crying its the life of my son now but add a 2year old daughter and a baby due in March. We have been trying to get him into a rehab for a week and having no luck. Money is the biggest part of problem he needs a place that has a good success rate hes been to the county funded quite a number of times. He was clean for 2 years and they were getting on track they were doing well so he decided to stop treatment at methadone clinic, they took him off too fast and boom hes on heroin again and their bills are piled so high. The whole family has depleted funds trying to help due to babies being involved. We are at wits end and hope there is something or someone to help him very soon before its too late. It's too long of a story to keep going, is there any kind of help?
First of all I want to say how much I enjoy your shows....I even record them.I was watching your show today, and I was wondering if you know of anyone that could help my friends alcoholic daughter whose 26 I thinkShe needs to be in a home for awhile, she has had DUI's, and her family is afraid she will literally die from her disease.The problem is, they can't afford a homeCan you please help me or her find somewhere she can go? She lives in ROckford, Il.
I am typing this trying to regain my composure. I am home sick today, and I had no idea when I turned the TV on this would hit so close to home. Seven years ago this February my son was arrested for cooking meth. I made the decision not to bail him out of jail. He spent seven long months in there waiting for his case to come to trial. He begged me and several family members to bail him out. I truely believe the Lord gave me the strength to hold strong and not get him released.
When he was released (after pleading guilty)he was a totally different person. He was respectful, drug-free, and the son I used to know.
Today, he is the type of father his little girl needed seven years ago. He is married, lost 60 lbs with the help of a trainer, and has an awesome sales job that he totally loves!He has been made district manager and supervises six sales associates.Yes, his company knows his past, and was willing to put it in the past since he has shown he is a value asset to the company.Can you tell I am extremely proud he has overcome his demons?