Demi Lovato ‘appears on the curve’ of her drug addiction by receiving injections to prevent a relapse.
The ‘Sober’ singer says she receives monthly pictures of Vivitrol, a medication that stops the effects of opioids.
The treatment, which blocks opiate receptors in patients’ brains, can only be taken on a temporary basis – but Lovato thinks it will give her a good start with long-term sobriety.
“It could not hurt me for at least a few years,” she says in her new YouTube documentary, “Dancing with the Devil.”
Lovato, who had an almost fatal overdose in 2018 after taking fentanyl round oxycodone and heroin, admitted that she still smokes marijuana and drinks moderate alcohol.
But she claims she is “done” with the hard drugs that landed her in the hospital.
“I know I’m done with the things that are going to kill me,” she says in the YouTube series. “But I wish I could maybe get relief through weeds or something, right?”
She adds: “I learned that by closing my door, I want to open even more.”
Elton John, co-sober celebrity, appears in the documentary, exposing 28-year-old Lovato’s idea that she could get into weeds and alcohol.
“Moderation doesn’t work, sorry,” John said bluntly.
Lovato maintains that, despite lying about her sobriety in the past, her health now comes first due to the shocking revelation that she craved more fentanyl than heroin.
“The one I’ve ever had with those drugs again was the scariest thing about picking up heroin and realizing, ‘Wow, that’s not strong enough anymore. ‘Because what I did the night I overdosed was fentanyl, and that’s another animal.
“To realize that the highlight I wanted to kill was what I needed to cleanse myself.”