Drug rehabilitation centers across New Jersey are full as the amount of overdose deaths are rising in the state.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says that the state could see 3,000 drug overdose deaths by the end of the year. This amounts to eight deaths per day.

One New Jersey family tells News 12 New Jersey that getting help for their loved one proved to be difficult.

Nichole Anderson says that her brother Angelo Vega is currently in a detox center in Boonton. She says his stay there ends Friday afternoon. After that, the family does not know where he will go.

“He has Medicaid right now, but even with the Medicaid they don't look at it as anything. They keep turning us away. I called 12 places and got rejected by all but two,” Anderson says.

Drug abuse recovery advocates say that rehab beds are in short supply and that something must be done.

“It's such a difficult situation when I have a mother crying on the phone that’s like, ‘I don't know what to do, I'll put my house up to get my son into treatment,’” says Erika Shortway, with Morris CARES.

Shortway is a recovering addict who's been clean seven years. Part of her job is finding rehab centers that will quickly accept people without private insurance.

“There's a small grace period, a small window, when someone says they want to get help and they're willing to get it, for us to get them in and get that help for them,” she says. “When they're being told they have to wait three days, a week, sometimes three weeks, to get that bed, they feel hopeless.”

Anderson says that her brother’s addiction worsened after a divorce and the death of Anderson’s mother. Vega was living with Anderson earlier this year, but then disappeared.

The family found him six months later living under a railroad bridge in Dover. Anderson says that his reaction was surprising.

“He embraced me, he didn't run. He told me he wanted to die. He was losing hope. He was under that bridge waiting to die. And he said when we came up there, he realized there was hope. And people who cared. And that touched my heart, you know? I lost my mom, I don't want to lose my brother,” she says.

New Jersey’s Medicaid program will start covering long-term residential treatment for addicts in recovery starting Oct. 1.