Demi Lovato “gets ahead of her drug addiction” by getting injections to prevent relapse.
The “sober” singer says she gets a monthly injection of Vivitrol, a drug that stops the effects of opioids.
The treatment, which blocks the opiate receptors in patients’ brains, can only be given temporarily – but Lovato thinks it will give her a good start into long-term sobriety.
“At least for a few years, it can’t hurt me,” she says in her new YouTube docuseries, “Dancing With the Devil.”
Lovato, who received a near-fatal overdose in 2018 after taking fentanyl-laced oxycodone and heroin, has admitted she still smokes marijuana and drinks alcohol in moderation.
But she claims she is “done” with the hard drugs that have landed her in the hospital.
“I know I’m done with the things that are going to kill me,” she says on the YouTube series. “But I wish I could maybe get some relief from like weed or something, right?”
She adds, “I’ve learned that when I close the door on things, I want to open the door even more.”
Fellow down-to-earth celebrity Elton John appears in the documentary, ruining 28-year-old Lovato’s thought of dabbling in weed and alcohol.
“Moderation doesn’t work, sorry,” says John bluntly.
Lovato claims that despite lying about her sobriety in the past, her health now comes first due to the shocking revelation that she craved fentanyl more than heroin.
“The only mistake I’ve ever had with those drugs, the scariest thing for me, was picking up heroin and realizing, ‘Wow, this isn’t strong enough anymore.’ Because what I did the night I overdosed was fentanyl, and that’s a whole different beast.
“The realization that the high I wanted was going to kill me was what I needed to clear me up for good.”