What do you with a client that is pregnant and actively using heroine every day? she is not willing to go to ?

Question

to Detox or Rehab and is for the past three weeks waiting for this or that to go to an outpatient methadone clinic and still has not done it yet?

She keeps giving the case manager the run arounds and still nothing and it is so much liability to have her , pregnant and using so much.

Answer 1

you could get a stack of pictures of retarded babies born to drug moms.  maybe eventually she would feel some guilt about what she's doing.

Answer 2

I can't imagine what to do under those circumstances. Get her arrested would be a start. Heroin use is illegal.  

Answer 3

Involve the police, anonymously.  There's special child endangerment/abuse charges that can be brought against women that are pregnant.  

Answer 4

I'm not sure - does your state require professionals to report potential abuse.  And does your state get actively involved with threats to the unborn.