My aunt is addicted to prescription drugs and has been for a while. She also has an eating disorder. She only drinks water and never eats. She is also addicted to smoking. She takes pain killers and morophene patches constantly. She doesn’t even need them but one doctor she goes to continues to prescribe them. He even knows whats going on. She gets so high on the pain killers sometimes she passes out in bed with a cigerette lit and she has almost burnt herself up multiple times. She gets so bad she can’t walk or talk she is so high on them. She don’t even know where she is and what day it is. I have suggested to my other aunts that we should do something but they say that the only person that can do anything about it is her son and husband (that is is seperated from). Her son is an alcoholic and doesn’t care and her husband would never say anything about what she is doing. I fear I am the only one that can help. Is there anything I can do to help her?
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My new in laws are addicted to weed total alcaholics and the grandmother abuses prescription meds and sleeping pills while drinking heavily. I married my wife and have a step son now we decided to pull him away totally and have no contact. My wife is suffering separation Anxiety but my son seems to be doing fne. did we do the right thing? should we continue this separation? and also she and my new son lived with these people for 5 the childs whole life. he is 6 years and autistic
I have no idea, but in infants who were born addicted to meth, did their teeth come in weird, or not in order? My son has beautiful teeth, but they come in top first, and not from front to back. He’s 15 months, with 2 sets of molors, and just the front bottom 2. I’m wondering if this has anything due to being born addicted. Sorry I asked in this section, however, not many meth addicted moms answer in the toddler section.
My aunt has never been straight.But she was usually just drunk alot.Then she started taking painpills constantly.This is when she started to try to abandon her children.But now she is on crack cocaine and now my sister has her son and her daughter is living with one of her friends.The son is 13 and the daughter 16.She is out of her mind.No one knows for sure where she’s been living.I believe she goes from place to place with her bf.Her bf is also a crack addict.My family is affraidand won’t do anything about this because they don’t want to see the children put in foster care.I personally don’t like this woman and I don’t care if she gets in trouble.She has another daughter who is 20 but she is on drugs bad too.What could one do to have her put away.Whether it’s jail or rehab.I don’t care but how do you go about reporting someone like this?Who can you report them too?
Briefly, my wife of 3yrs. & mother of my 2.5 yr.old, used crack cocaine. several x’s. now she says she has 60+ days clean. she just regained more visiting time for her 8 yr.old son which she lost 5yrs. ago, from prior heroin addiction. She’d been clean about 6yrs. prior. she’s now not allowed to see him by court order. she’s had both kids around drug users & dealers. when i was at work. she’s stole, lied, & cheated. she would’nt even keep a pt. time job, keep house clean & would’nt take very good care of our son. she’s bi-polar,depressed, on med’s for it. slept,smoked cig’s,talked on phone most of the day. i had to put him in daycare. she really did nothing. she’s now in her own apt. w/a female ex-felon (crack)w/a 15yr.drug use habit. I pd. for the first month rent just to get her out of the house. now she’s unable to pay rent. says she attends 2-3 N/A mtg’s. a day. Our son is w/me. she says she made a mistake.& wants to return home. how many chances does she have to get it right? w/me
My ex just came back into the picture after being gone for 6 months. Now he wants to see our son regularly again. He agreed to an hour long visit in a park today with me present. I just stayed in the car and read while he and my 4 year old son played. He admitted to me that he got mixed up with some really bad people and it involved drugs and he feared for his life because things went bad with them and that he was doing meth. He said that he stopped doing it about a week ago and that it’s not something he was addicted to just something he did to not feel depressed.
He hasn’t given me much hassle, any hassle at all, actually about seeing our son with me around. We do not have custody or visitation set up through the courts. Before this we dealt with one another to.
I felt very bad for him today. He seems to be in a very bad place. But he was very happy to see our son and my son was happy to see him. But I do worry about my son’s safety… so I’m thinking if he does want to start seeing him more or without me around that we might have to go through the courts.
What I’m wondering is… Is it believable that someone could be doing meth fairly consistently probably for the past 6 months or longer and then suddenly quit on his own a week ago and stay clean? Or is he probably still using? I hear it’s VERY addictive and hard to kick.
My ex just came back into the picture after being gone for 6 months. Now he wants to see our son regularly again. He agreed to an hour long visit in a park today with me present. I just stayed in the car and read while he and my 4 year old son played. He admitted to me that he got mixed up with some really bad people and it involved drugs and he feared for his life because things went bad with them and that he was doing meth. He said that he stopped doing it about a week ago and that it’s not something he was addicted to just something he did to not feel depressed.
He hasn’t given me much hassle, any hassle at all, actually about seeing our son with me around. We do not have custody or visitation set up through the courts. Before this we dealt with one another to.
I felt very bad for him today. He seems to be in a very bad place. But he was very happy to see our son and my son was happy to see him. But I do worry about my son’s safety… so I’m thinking if he does want to start seeing him more or without me around that we might have to go through the courts.
What I’m wondering is… Is it believable that someone could be doing meth fairly consistently probably for the past 6 months or longer and then suddenly quit on his own a week ago and stay clean? Or is he probably still using? I hear it’s VERY addictive and hard to kick.
I have been through many detox and substance abuse programs. My father was the southeasts largest supplier of cocaine in the 80`s and 90`s. I had him arrested thinking that if I could take away the ease of access I could take away my addiction. I only made my addiction more expensive as now I have to pay for the cocaine that I use. I have cut way back (from 1/2 ounce daily in 1990 to several grams a year). The problem is when I get started I can`t stop until I have no more money. THis causes a strain on my marriage (to my fourth wife) as I do not come home until I`m broke and hurting.
Please someone give me some advice, if you have ever seen the movie where johnny depp plays the drug kingpin, this was my life in the 80`s and 90`s, but not as the kingpin, but the son caught up in the game. We had police paid off, planes running dope from Mexico to USA. I saw corruption, racketeering, money laundering, even murder of DEA officials and witnesses for the state. This left me scarred foreve
How do I let my resentment go? How do I let him know that I do not want our 5 month old son to grow up and think that it is normal to drink every single day?
An illegal immigrant who fled to Mexico after killing his boss for drug money in 2005 was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday in Howard County Circuit Court.
It took Howard police and prosecutors more than four years to find and extradite Joel Nunez Valles from a Mexican jail, where he was confined for an unknown crime. Prosecutor Susan Weinstein said Valles’ sentence, life in prison with all but 40 years suspended, was the result of a plea agreement because the main witnesses were his own family members, who were “reluctant” to testify.
According to police, Valles, a cocaine addict, killed Juan Miguel Gonzales, 51, of West Friendship, the owner of a landscaping company where Valles worked. Valles stabbed Gonzales 19 times in the face, neck and chest with a screwdriver after the owner refused to give him cash for drugs. Valles took a bus back to Mexico the next day, though it took two days before anyone discovered Gonzales’ body.
“What’s important to understand is that Mr. Valles didn’t just take one life. Mr. Valles took the lives of my family,” said Gonzales’ son Alexander Garza, 23, in a victim’s impact statement. “You took any chances of my siblings having an argument with my father,” he said, as well as Gonzales’ ability to see his children graduate from Centennial High School, or later from college.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-valles-sentence-20100802,0,4111624.story?track=rss
I was told illegals from Mexico never use drugs and it is only an American problem is this a misprint illegal from Mexico Addicted to cocaine ?
I really don’t know what to do. My sister (she has kids 12, and 16 yr. old) took in this guy, and shortly thereafter she started using meth. Her kids can’t stand him, she thinks they love the low life. He is another story. Anyway her life is a mess, she doesn’t have clue on how to raise and supervise her kids, she is going down the tubes fast and just clings to her boyfriend. She says she loves her kids but she makes drugs (parties all night) and her boyfriend her #1 priority. Meth is the kind of drug that totally distorts her reality, and she’s very hostile about everything. I have called drug counselors and they say she has to lose everything BEFORE its apparent that she needs help. Her children are very difficult to deal with, so I can’t have them move in with me, and besides if I took her responsibilities off her hands then she’d just party full time. As I write this I am getting frustrated because for 20+ years our family has been on a roller coaster with her addictions, and all her bad decisions in life. The only reason I am writing this is because when she had a moment of sobriety (6years) we did everthing together. She was my best friend. Our kids loved to be together and just hang out. The moment she brought that man and drugs into her life, she has been a total different person. I miss and love my sober sister, and I have not seen a that side of her for 3 1/2 years. I want to just give up and wait for the phone to ring…that she overdosed on meth and her heart stopped. Her drugs have torn my family apart on more than one occasion. What do I do? She said she doesnt’ have a drug problem, she only uses meth “recreationally” and can handle it. Lets see, her oldest son moved out, two cars were impounded and taken away, she has been served a 30 day notice, and her section 8 was just taken from her because she had a man living with her. Please save your welfare judgement, we are on the same page when it comes to MY tax dollars supporting people like this. I am her only family member that she MIGHT listen to eventually, or should I just give up?
We adopted our son at birth, and the first mom did meth just in the early part of the pregnancy (when she found out she quit), and the day he was born. Now, at the age of 29 months, he’s showing signs of being very hyper. We constantly do things, and he’s very, very smart, spelling and writing his name already, counting to 20, and recognizing his alphabet, but he will literally run around the flower bed, and is on the go much more than my biological son. We keep processed foods and candy to a minimum already, but from those who’ve adopted addicted children, is this normal, and what else to expect? Thanks!
my son is addicted to drinking mostly water this makes him wet himself often and he even drinks so much that he makes himself physically sick. we have even had to put locks on the doors in the kitchen and bathroom cause he will go in there when we are asleep or not looking and drink out the tap he does it n e where school and even friends houses. its getting a real big problem no matter how i punish him he just keeps doing it i have had medical tests on him for his bladder and for diabites but they all come back and say hes fine i dont know wat it is or what i can do please help he has been doin this since he was about 2 years old but has got worse lately
I’m a recovering meth addict, but my kids dad just can’t kick it. He’s been in and out of prison, and now he just got released and already using. He isn’t even concerned with being sent to prison becouse his P.O. told him he’ll just have to go to a Soberliving home. I’m trying to stand by him but with disappearences and when he does show up I really don’t want my son to see him. He says that he wants to stop but I don’t see that happening. He beg’s me NOT to leave him, that I’m the only good he has in his life. But yet he rather still get high. To be very sincere, I don’t want to leave becouse then I know I’ll always wonder what if? So if there’s any recoved drug addicts that do have a success story please let me know. I know that as drug addicts everyday is just one more day that we have again been able to say no, but I know that there’s days when we can’t. And that I understand, but I don’t understand him anymore. He’s just doing it because he has money, or he got mad it his mom.
I have been with this man for 5 years, married for 3. I married him once he was 6 months sober. He has not touched alcohol in almost 4 years now, but has had a round of appx. 5 knee surgeries in the past year, and each came with a prescription of pain killers. Last surgery was 7-30 and he is still on and running out of pills. Now he’s taking anything he can get, even if it’s not for pain. He has turned into a mentally abusive man and we have a 4 month old son along with his 3 children from other marriages. I now have my own son to look out for and, being a Christian, don’t want my son around this behavior, but also have a problem with divorce. Now, everything is my fault and I’m some crazy womansince he’s started this nonsense. Now I’m taking care of the baby, the step-kids, the house, the bills, and making the money – he hurts too badly to go to work. I’m very confused and very hurt. I went thru all this before with alcohol. Sure don’t want to do it again with a new baby.
This has been obvious for years. My mom started her addiction when I was 15, 6 years ago. She has always been the type to get easily addicted. She once was a cocaine addict, alchoholic, and she was addicted to pain shots from the doctor. It was so bad when I was around 8, she would actually have us walk to the hospital so she could get her fix and she still will go to the doctor if she has no pills. She went to the hospital so much at one time they refused to see her anymore at about 2 to 3 hospitals around our area. Anyway, she started driving a truck and got a back injury and was perscribed pain pills. She then quit her job and stoped working from then on. She hasnt had but 1 or 2 jobs in all this time. She is not the same woman she used to be. Come to think of it I wouldn’t recognize my mother if she was completely sober. She is actually addicted to gambling to, I am talking about so addicted that we went without electric while she was a truck driver addicted. So she has also got my sister hooked. I just dont know what to do anymore I know its just the drugs, but because her and my sister have that in common they’ve pretty much abandoned me. I am a mother of two who is a stay at home mom. My point is that i’ve actually called her crying for help and her say no, but she’ll watch my sister’s son any day of the week. It hurts, I am fed up, and I want to help them. So I can have a real mother and my daughters a real grandmother. Any idea on how I can help them.
We have had the police, DYFS, JSMC (local hospital), crisis intervention, my insurance company and a million people spoken to. Nothing. There is nowhere in NJ. My son is out of control on prescription pain killers, pot, alcohol and who knows what and there is no place in NJ that will take him unless he wants help. Even though he is a minor at age 17. They will not take him unless he says he needs help. Some new laws or something. We are going crazy as he wastes his life away. Anyone, please help!
This has been obvious for years. My mom started her addiction when I was 15, 6 years ago. She has always been the type to get easily addicted. She once was a cocaine addict, alchoholic, and she was addicted to pain shots from the doctor. It was so bad when I was around 8, she would actually have us walk to the hospital so she could get her fix and she still will go to the doctor if she has no pills. She went to the hospital so much at one time they refused to see her anymore at about 2 to 3 hospitals around our area. Anyway, she started driving a truck and got a back injury and was perscribed pain pills. She then quit her job and stoped working from then on. She hasnt had but 1 or 2 jobs in all this time. She is not the same woman she used to be. Come to think of it I wouldn’t recognize my mother if she was completely sober. She is actually addicted to gambling to, I am talking about so addicted that we went without electric while she was a truck driver addicted. So she has also got my sister hooked. I just dont know what to do anymore I know its just the drugs, but because her and my sister have that in common they’ve pretty much abandoned me. I am a mother of two who is a stay at home mom. My point is that i’ve actually called her crying for help and her say no, but she’ll watch my sister’s son any day of the week. It hurts, I am fed up, and I want to help them. So I can have a real mother and my daughters a real grandmother. Any idea on how I can help them
My Brother – in – laws girlfriend is a proud user of Cocaine and other heavy drugs. She has heart problems most likely as a result. She is now pregnant and it is assumed that she has stopped however she is 19 and immature so she does leave my BIL frequently to go home when she is upset with him. Her younger brother at home is also an addict.
Now my main concern is that she adamant that she is going to continue doing cocaine after she has the baby which is Absolutely disgusting behavior!!
I am very worried about my nephew as he is already a high risk pregnancy.
What would you do? Can Child Services help in alberta? Or with they likely shrug it off? Is there oh er organizations in alberta that can help?
If you have a son, him getting a girl pregnant…
Why?
