[ChefSalad]

The hardest part of quitting drugs is quitting the lifestyle. That means quitting your friends, including the boyfriend. Until you leave all the drug-tainted elements of your life behind, you'll continue to relapse, and eventually, relapse will become a nasty habit.

I had to leave an entire world of friends behind when I quit oxycontin, as did my brother. We're both clean now, several years later (4 for me, 1 for my bro). I quit those friends four years ago when I quit drugs. My brother quit the drugs but not the friends at the same time. He was in and out of rehab several times until finally he left it all behind. I've seen the same pattern (from afar) from all those friends I left four years ago. A number have quit, and have relapsed. A number haven't quit at all. A few have quit and left the group behind and are still clean.

I encourage you to sit down and really think about whether your boyfriend and drug friends are really worth being addicted to oxycontin. You can't make your boyfriend quit (you can't really make anyone do anything) so there's no way to move on from drugs without moving on from him (and, no, no addict has the willpower to stay off drugs when everyone else around them is using. It's like sticking a former alcohic in a bar.). After seeing your example at sobriety, your new friends and your new life, you boyfriend may turn himself around and quit on his own, and then you can be together again.

(Also, don't go to methadone clinics to quit. They're designed to keep you on methadone and keep you coming back. It's how they make money. Go to a doctor and get put on suboxone instead.)