How get someone off of pharmaceuticals

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My mother has been addicted to pharmaceuticals for decades first tranquilizers

like Valium and Darvocet and now Xanax and painkillers. She is neurotic and

unwilling to make much of an effort to improve herself in any way. She is

seventy. She has always been destructive to everyone around her not only

herself with her addictions including cigarettes but lashing out at people and

draining the family's finances. I would like to first reduce her destructive

behavior towards those around her and later help her improve herself. We don't

have the means to pay for an expensive drug treatment program, and I don't

believe there is much government assistance to treat drug abuse. What social

services are available for drug treatment? What is the best method to get

someone off of drugs without costing a fortune? Thanks for any replies.