Demi Lovato “is overcoming the curve” of her drug addiction by receiving injections to prevent a relapse.
The singer “Sober” says she receives monthly injections of Vivitrol, a drug that interrupts the effects of opioids.
The treatment, which blocks opioid receptors in patients’ brains, can only be taken temporarily – but Lovato believes it will give him a good start in long-term sobriety.
“At least for a few years, it can’t hurt me,” she says in her new YouTube documentary series, “Dancing With the Devil”.
Lovato, who suffered a near-fatal overdose in 2018 after taking oxycodone with fentanyl and heroin, admitted that he still smokes marijuana and drinks alcohol in moderation.
But she says she “ended” the heavy drugs that took her to the hospital.
“I know I’m sick of the things that are going to kill me,” she says on the YouTube series. “But I wish I could get some relief, maybe like marijuana or something, right?”
She adds: “I learned that closing the door on things makes me want to open it even more.”
Another sober celebrity, Elton John, appears in the documentary and explodes Lovato’s 28-year-old thought that she can get involved with marijuana and alcohol.
“Moderation doesn’t work, sorry,” says John, bluntly.
Lovato says that despite lying about her sobriety in the past, her health now comes first because of the shocking revelation that she craved fentanyl more than heroin.
“The only slip I made with these drugs again, the scariest thing for me was taking heroin and realizing, ‘Wow, this is not strong enough.’ Because what I did the night I overdosed was fentanyl, and that’s another beast.
“Realizing that the cockroach I wanted would kill me was what I needed to clean myself up forever.”