Opiates are the hardest to get off of. William Burroughs said something to the effect that opiates change a persons DNA. Do what you will bc I was the same way with my mom. She was a hardcore IV addict from the time I was four till she died when I was 50. It was only during the last ten years of her life that I finally cut strings bc I just couldn’t take the insanity anymore.
To speed up the process, my advise is to let her fall almost as low as she can go bc the more you and others help her, the longer she’s gonna be on drugs. You guys are making it easy for her. An addict truly has to hit the absolute rock bottom when the addiction is at the level of your ex-wife. Yes, she could overdose and die in the process but something has to happen either way. Right now, you’re keeping her in limbo and she’s doing the same to you. Limbo goes nowhere. A decision has to be made to cut her off and leave her to her own devises and at that point one of three things will happen:
A) she overdoses and dies B) she just keeps on doing drugs with no end in sight C) her life finally reaches a point where she can’t take it anymore and genuinely wants to quit.
My mother was an IV cocaine user during the 70’s to late 80’s and then from ‘95 on she was an IV opiate addict, ie dilaudid, opana, etc… Put it this way, nothing changed her the way that the opiate addiction did. She died in 2021 and I was with her. She was in the hospital dying AND going in to withdrawals bc the hospital didn’t have any doctors that were qualified to administer her “medication,” so she had to wait for her primary doctor to show up. I’ll never forget it bc the morning of her death, her doctor walked in and asked my mom if she was ready for her meds (dilaudid) and my mom nodded her head and then I caught the glance they gave each other, as in saying “this is the one to put you to sleep.” So even in death, my mom had to have her opiates.
As hard as it is, let your wife go her own way bc you aren’t gonna change a damn thing, I’m sorry to say.
I woke up 10 years before you did… 2008/09 ( bc of AIG) and around the same time I got on Voat and discovered Pizzagate. I told my kids, looking back, when I was talking about Pizzagate I bet that in the US , there were roughly only about 1000 of us.