PROSPERITY -
Recognizing the signs of addiction is just the first step to recovery. Once an addict has come to terms with their own addiction, where do they go next? Finding help may not be as easy as you would think.
Tucked among the rolling hills of Prosperity... this old dairy farm is now a sanctuary for 10 men....held hostage by their own addiction.
"Addiction is something that doesn't care about who you are, where you came from, all it cares about is just destroying you that is all it does," Ryan Fields, Recovering Addict said.
Field's life could have been destroyed by his deadly usage of oxycodone and heroine, which began at 16-years old.
He now stands at Brian's Safe House ONE day away from graduation....but for most addicts in southern West Virginia... help is hard to find.
"A lot of places will turn you down if you don't have insurance or if your insurance quits paying. I think the biggest problem we have is that the programs aren't long enough," Steve O'Field, Counselor said.
O'Field says if you are lucky to find help.... a short term program isn't going to cut it.
"I can tell you anything under 6 months isn't going to work. I can tell you, you are 100% going to relapse," O'Field continued.
It is like a band aid covering a gapping wound. It sends the addict right back into the streets ill-equipt to face their demons
"The drug.... it is only a phone call away," Ryan Fields, Recovering Addict said.
With a GROWING pill epidemic in Southern West Virginia, Fields says reaching for the phone to dial a drug dealer is a whole lot easier than finding help.
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