A local mother is back with her daughter after working hard to overcome drug addiction and benefitting from one of the country's largest research projects.
Project HOMES is a saving grace for Sarah Saidock, drug-free more than three years. She is benefitting from one of the country's largest research projects through The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Health and Human Services Commission’s Texas Targeted Opioid Response Program .
"That helped change my life, to have a set of principles that I live by today, to have guidelines to living that was very, very helpful because before I just felt like I was floating free, not really having a future, not really having a purpose, not really knowing kind of what to do with life, just kind of floating through life, making horrible decisions.
"Opiate withdrawals are probably the worst ever: cold sweats, shivers, stomach knots, constipation, vomiting, nausea, it's like having the flu but times 1,000," explains Sarah. That's when Sarah was referred to UTHealth's program and lived in one of the recovery homes for months. Dr. Michael Wilkerson with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health is a Co-Investigator in the study and has been working with similar programs in other states. He closely studies how to make these homes function properly to offer the highest success rate of recovery.
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