How Do I Get My Son Off Drugs?

My sons ex-girlfriend, who is 16, and lives down the street from us has a lot of family problems. We have taken her in tons of times, and she dated my 18 year old son for a while and they broke up and i think they’ve been having lots of problems lately. Whatever, that’s their business..

Well last night i guess things were okay with everyone at home…but the dad gave her a glass of coco cola with coconut flavored rum in it and let her drink as much as she wanted and she got really tipsy and freaked out on my son and called him like screaming at him and cussing him out and stuff. I only witnessed this because we were watching a movie together when he answered the phone. He asked her if she was drunk and she said that her dad gave her some stuff and that she felt really weird. I think in the least to say, he told her to stop talking to him because she was saying very hateful things and deleted her off facebook. Well she just wrote on my facebook, “Hey Mrs. Robyn can you have Cole call me when you see this?” So she’s starting drama on my facebook now…

My question is…what parent just gives their kid alcohol and lets them get totally tipsy and out of control and doesn’t at least take their phone away so they don’t make total fools out of themselves? I let my son have a few sips of wine, he’s had a little bit of a wine cooler but no where enough to get him buzzed or tipsy. But i never have just let my son drink however much he wanted and get out of control.

What will be/are your rules on drinking? Will you allow your kids to drink at home?
What would you do if you were in my situation last night?
Note: I even had a glass of wine last night that made me VERY sleepy and batty. My husband was quick to shut down the computer and told me to go to bed. But i am 39 years old and i can control myself better than a 16 year old can. What parent does that…? It’s really just beyond me…

http://www.thosewhohost.org/TexasUnderageDrinkingLaws.htm

Read the drinking laws.
cath- i was too. but apparently it was just a little bit of coke and it was a FULL like beer glass…

it was well deserved! My husband has an unhealthy relationship with his mother b/c she has a substance abuse problem (for the past 25 years ) and wont help herself…And I try to be the middle man to keep her included on our lives as much as possible B/c she is grandma regardless of the sub abuse to our son . Anyway, the hubby and I have a rocky marriage and I thought separation for a little while would do good along with counseling. My MIL was furious with me that I was thinking about doing this b/c for some reason she turns it into me keeping our son away from their side of the family and that I’m ruining my 2 yr. olds life. CRAZY !!!! She wrote some crazy emails to my Father inlaw who was out of town about how my son isn’t safe with me or my side of the family b/c i wanted a separation in my marriage and how she wanted to buy her son a car just in case he needed to kidnap the baby take him out of the country if i tried to divorce her son and she wanted to rush out here to Chicago to take the baby b/c he was better off with her .Well, after i read these outlandish emails, i called her up and confronted her and basically couldn’t hold back, i went off on her and said she was a drunk and how dare she say these things like that behind my back when she is the one who ruined her own sons life by being an alcoholic and she hasn’ t even seen her grandson sober. Who is she to judge! I’m an amazing, sober, well educated Mother So, anyone stepping on my toes questioning my motherhood is gonna hear it from me. Especially from a MIL who thinks she has rights to have influence over my son. She was sending me threats like “i will use the fullest extent of the law” to see my grandson. Which is funny b/c not once did i ever threaten my husband or her to not see him if we separate.
I know that she is crazy and i shouldn’t have let her crazy babble get to me……But it was so heated that she couldn’t deal with that I read those emails. Regardless she was defending everything she wrote and even threatened to hire her son a really good lawyer. She was just fueling her own little fire in thinking that I would keep my son from their family , I never once said anything suggesting that !!! CRAZY LADY. Anyway I really dislike her and dont want to deal with her crap so, i feel okay in what I did/said. What do you do when you burn bridges with your MIL But, really i had no choice, she can’t go around just saying whatever the hell she wants!

My husband and I are trying to get full custody of his son. The mother is on drugs, was arrested last year for pos. of meth, and then indicted this year. We have pictures that show where she put bruises all over my step-son’s legs for spilling something on a new rug. Her and her mom have taught Dalland, my step-son, to act like a girl. He hardly plays with boy toys, he is attracted to girl things. He is better some, but he gets picked on at school. We just don’t know what to do. We have a lawyer, but we don’t have the money to go to court. Is there anyway around the money issue?

What did he/she do? Mine was an alcoholic who was going to sell his 5 year old daughter to a child pornographer for $100.00 and a case of beer. His sons(both adults) found out, hid the girl, beat the crap out of their father then ran him out of town. They raised their sister until she was grown.

I would, his/her life would be hell untill their 18.

How many of you would do the same?

How many of you are dillusional and believe talking to your child, or letting him live his own life is the way to go?

Thx
@revolt, its a figure of speech.

Im not literally gonna stand there and try to kill my child, im saying if my son ever does such a thing, theres gonna be some serious punishments, and you bet your ass he wont even think about doing it again.

In the past two years I have lost my father, underwent an enormous home renovation while living there, had a breast cancer scare, lost my year old granddaugther when her mother abruptly moved away with her, put my son through drug rehab for cocaine addiction, lost my job of 9 years and am now looking for a new one, my second son decided to live with his father, I will be turning 50 next week and my husband and I are separated because he feels I haven’t been there for him. My extended family all lives 1200 miles away and my few friends I have locally are married with busy lives of their own. I feel so alone and depressed. I don’t know how to handle all of this. I cry all the time despite the fact that I exercise regularly and eat healthfully. I go to church but dont know how to fit in. It seems no one really needs friends but me. I’m certain there are others out there who do, but I don’t know how to find them. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

so me and my husband have been married for almost two years. when I met him he had a drinking problem. when I got married and got pregnant things only got worse. long nights of sitting up when he wouldn’t come home since he was out at bars with his friends, money missing, coming home from work to a passed out husband, it has been a long road. last summer we had split up after he had left to supposively go to iowa where his mother is to look for work and got incacerated after 2 days of being there for public intox. at that time I had made up my mind and told myself i was done! well six months went by and he started doing good. i talked to him everyday and he got a job and started sending money and i let him come back home. since january he hasn’t drank but I could never give hima fresh start and always brought up the past. his dad who is an alcoholic is on person though I never trusted him around becuase he just was a bad influence on him and I knew what would happen. well off of a sudden he started sneaking around my back and started talking to him and having him meet him up at his work. I would get mad and we’d fight, so bad that I’d even come up to his work starting things. I just never trusted him and couldn’t let the past go. well come to find out my husband started talking to another girl and I’d hear accusations that he was wanting to leave me, that he just couldn’t take the fighting anymore. I just had a hard time, to me I felt I gave you all this time to straighten up and over the years I took so much emotional abuse that my mind was so messed up and I just couldn’t trust him, where was my time?? well my mom and dad start hearing the accusations and I begin to hear more and more that he just wasn’t in to me and didn’t want to be with me so we split up. 2 months has went by and he is now begging me to give him another chance and to try to work things out if I can give him that fresh start but I just don’t know what to say? all these accusations that were made, my parents hate him! how could it ever work,could they ever forgive him?? we are getting divorced no matter what, but what can I say to him. he calls me crying everyday, he sends money to help support our daughter, he isn’t drinking, nor is he trying to see anyone else right now. I also don’t know what was true, al these accusations of things he supposively said and did, I feel like how could he do this after so much I went through with him and tried to be there and stay with him. I just don’t know, so far all I told him is that right now we should be friends. since we spilt up I had to move back in with my parents and if they even had a clue I was talking to him they would probably disown me as their daughter and want us out! I can’t jeopardize a roof over my head right now nor my relationship with them… I’m just so confused and son’t know where to go from here????

so me and my husband have been married for almost two years. when I met him he had a drinking problem. when I got married and got pregnant things only got worse. long nights of sitting up when he wouldn’t come home since he was out at bars with his friends, money missing, coming home from work to a passed out husband, it has been a long road. last summer we had split up after he had left to supposively go to iowa where his mother is to look for work and got incacerated after 2 days of being there for public intox. at that time I had made up my mind and told myself i was done! well six months went by and he started doing good. i talked to him everyday and he got a job and started sending money and i let him come back home. since january he hasn’t drank but I could never give hima fresh start and always brought up the past. his dad who is an alcoholic is on person though I never trusted him around becuase he just was a bad influence on him and I knew what would happen. well off of a sudden he started sneaking around my back and started talking to him and having him meet him up at his work. I would get mad and we’d fight, so bad that I’d even come up to his work starting things. I just never trusted him and couldn’t let the past go. well come to find out my husband started talking to another girl and I’d hear accusations that he was wanting to leave me, that he just couldn’t take the fighting anymore. I just had a hard time, to me I felt I gave you all this time to straighten up and over the years I took so much emotional abuse that my mind was so messed up and I just couldn’t trust him, where was my time?? well my mom and dad start hearing the accusations and I begin to hear more and more that he just wasn’t in to me and didn’t want to be with me so we split up. 2 months has went by and he is now begging me to give him another chance and to try to work things out if I can give him that fresh start but I just don’t know what to say? all these accusations that were made, my parents hate him! how could it ever work,could they ever forgive him?? we are getting divorced no matter what, but what can I say to him. he calls me crying everyday, he sends money to help support our daughter, he isn’t drinking, nor is he trying to see anyone else right now. I also don’t know what was true, al these accusations of things he supposively said and did, I feel like how could he do this after so much I went through with him and tried to be there and stay with him. I just don’t know, so far all I told him is that right now we should be friends. since we spilt up I had to move back in with my parents and if they even had a clue I was talking to him they would probably disown me as their daughter and want us out! I can’t jeopardize a roof over my head right now nor my relationship with them… I’m just so confused and son’t know where to go from here????

so me and my husband have been married for almost two years. when I met him he had a drinking problem. when I got married and got pregnant things only got worse. long nights of sitting up when he wouldn’t come home since he was out at bars with his friends, money missing, coming home from work to a passed out husband, it has been a long road. last summer we had split up after he had left to supposively go to iowa where his mother is to look for work and got incacerated after 2 days of being there for public intox. at that time I had made up my mind and told myself i was done! well six months went by and he started doing good. i talked to him everyday and he got a job and started sending money and i let him come back home. since january he hasn’t drank but I could never give hima fresh start and always brought up the past. his dad who is an alcoholic is on person though I never trusted him around becuase he just was a bad influence on him and I knew what would happen. well off of a sudden he started sneaking around my back and started talking to him and having him meet him up at his work. I would get mad and we’d fight, so bad that I’d even come up to his work starting things. I just never trusted him and couldn’t let the past go. well come to find out my husband started talking to another girl and I’d hear accusations that he was wanting to leave me, that he just couldn’t take the fighting anymore. I just had a hard time, to me I felt I gave you all this time to straighten up and over the years I took so much emotional abuse that my mind was so messed up and I just couldn’t trust him, where was my time?? well my mom and dad start hearing the accusations and I begin to hear more and more that he just wasn’t in to me and didn’t want to be with me so we split up. 2 months has went by and he is now begging me to give him another chance and to try to work things out if I can give him that fresh start but I just don’t know what to say? all these accusations that were made, my parents hate him! how could it ever work,could they ever forgive him?? we are getting divorced no matter what, but what can I say to him. he calls me crying everyday, he sends money to help support our daughter, he isn’t drinking, nor is he trying to see anyone else right now. I also don’t know what was true, al these accusations of things he supposively said and did, I feel like how could he do this after so much I went through with him and tried to be there and stay with him. I just don’t know, so far all I told him is that right now we should be friends. since we spilt up I had to move back in with my parents and if they even had a clue I was talking to him they would probably disown me as their daughter and want us out! I can’t jeopardize a roof over my head right now nor my relationship with them… I’m just so confused and son’t know where to go from here????

so me and my husband have been married for almost two years. when I met him he had a drinking problem. when I got married and got pregnant things only got worse. long nights of sitting up when he wouldn’t come home since he was out at bars with his friends, money missing, coming home from work to a passed out husband, it has been a long road. last summer we had split up after he had left to supposively go to iowa where his mother is to look for work and got incacerated after 2 days of being there for public intox. at that time I had made up my mind and told myself i was done! well six months went by and he started doing good. i talked to him everyday and he got a job and started sending money and i let him come back home. since january he hasn’t drank but I could never give hima fresh start and always brought up the past. his dad who is an alcoholic is on person though I never trusted him around becuase he just was a bad influence on him and I knew what would happen. well off of a sudden he started sneaking around my back and started talking to him and having him meet him up at his work. I would get mad and we’d fight, so bad that I’d even come up to his work starting things. I just never trusted him and couldn’t let the past go. well come to find out my husband started talking to another girl and I’d hear accusations that he was wanting to leave me, that he just couldn’t take the fighting anymore. I just had a hard time, to me I felt I gave you all this time to straighten up and over the years I took so much emotional abuse that my mind was so messed up and I just couldn’t trust him, where was my time?? well my mom and dad start hearing the accusations and I begin to hear more and more that he just wasn’t in to me and didn’t want to be with me so we split up. 2 months has went by and he is now begging me to give him another chance and to try to work things out if I can give him that fresh start but I just don’t know what to say? all these accusations that were made, my parents hate him! how could it ever work,could they ever forgive him?? we are getting divorced no matter what, but what can I say to him. he calls me crying everyday, he sends money to help support our daughter, he isn’t drinking, nor is he trying to see anyone else right now. I also don’t know what was true, al these accusations of things he supposively said and did, I feel like how could he do this after so much I went through with him and tried to be there and stay with him. I just don’t know, so far all I told him is that right now we should be friends. since we spilt up I had to move back in with my parents and if they even had a clue I was talking to him they would probably disown me as their daughter and want us out! I can’t jeopardize a roof over my head right now nor my relationship with them… I’m just so confused and son’t know where to go from here???? he has made so many promises in the past and broke everyone of them!!!

Genuine Council Complaints
extracts from letters sent to various Councils and Housing Associations throughout the U.K.

I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.

I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage and their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.

I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.

My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand.

I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.

Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant. We are getting married in September and she would like it in the garden before we move house.

I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.

50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and the rest are plain filthy.

I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.

The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.

Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.

Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.

Would you please send a man to repair my spout. I am an old age pensioner and need it badly.

I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6a.m., his cock wakes me up and now it’s getting too much for me.

The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.

Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third, so please send someone round to do something about it.

I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man I have on top of me every night.

Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.

I have had the Clerk of the Works down on the floor six times, but I still have no satisfaction.

This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we can’t get BBC2.

My bush is really overgrown around the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.

…and he’s got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can’t take any more.

…that is his excuse for dogs mess that I find hard to swallow.

Due to the fact my back dr has me on a narcotic for my back and my family dr. has me on two narcotics for my headaches. I feel that I need to be in pain management. I was told by my nephew that his friends dad is on methadone for his cronic pain and that it is timed released. Point you don’t use as much and it is a lot better then what I am on and that it would help me not to become addicted to pain killers again.

I talked with my Dr. today and he is going to refer me to our local medthadone clinic . I was just wanting to know what all gones on their? I am kinda scared and I don’t scare easily. All
I know is they do regular drug test and their dosing hours are in the mornings.

Do they give the meds to you in pill form or a shot?
duh the pill has to desolve (dang spell check isn’t working sorry) in liquid I recall reading that now last night.

My brothers and sisters and I and our friends used to buy stink bombs and play jokes on people with them. We cracked them open in church during the preaching and threw them under people’s pews.
My brother and his friend {the preacher’s son} set a smoke bomb under the friend’s brother’s car and he thought his car was on fire. You should have seen him run out to his car lol!
They also were playing near a grave yard one day and decided to be stupid and rearrange the flowers and decorations. They put the flowers by tombstones bought by people who were still alive and decors that would say grandpa and set them by graves of guys who were only 20 when they
died.
That only happened once to my knowledge. I wasn’t there. But they were only 12 and 14 years old then and didn’t think at the time it was wrong and illegal.
We also did things like duct tape one tree to another tree that was across the road {It was a small town, small road} and watch as cars squeal on their brakes as they tried to avoid crashing into the blocking.
Thats only a few of the many dumb things we did. And I’m not counting the time we walked a treshold and almost got killed by a train.
I mean, were we abnormal kids or what?

What did you do as a kid?

I am asking more rhetorically, as a vent…

Was in an exclusive relationship with a man for 9 months.. even talked about him moving in with me and my kids…our future, getting married.. then one day he was supposed to come for dinner and tells me he was on his way… but instead two hours later I get this cryptic text (mind you this man is 40! not a kid) and he tells me, I have some work stresses happening and will not be coming… I try to call and he does not answer… so I text him back saying, can he give me at least a fast call about it?? But no response… instead, he just blew me off…I got a gut feel – a bad one… so I drove down to his place – texting him, well I will come to you and serve dinner there.. but no reply…

fI go to his place (he gave me key) and he was not home.. so I text him saying, are you sti,ll at work, I will drop off dinner for you (mind you this is a relationship I was not just some hook up or dating buddy)… no response… so I text him saying whats happening you are not at work or home… are you ok, upset, what is happening now I am worried.. and NOTHING…

So I go back to his place and wait.. I finally went home at like 2am – no sign of him… this was on Wednesday.. since then I have heard nothing from him.. but I KNOW he got my texts, etc.. because he has been on his video game (world of warcraft).. my 8 yr old plays it and saw him on there… at first my kid says hello to him and he blocks “ignores” my kid.. wtf? This is NOT the man I met 9 months ago and fell in love with…

Anyhow, that is about all, I did send him and angry text or email or two – because its not the idea if he wanted to break up, yes that would of course hurt.. but its the way he just goes from saying I love you… I have so much respect for you — to a total 360 turnaround… it would hurt less if he just said, I met someone or its not going to work, etc… so of course I felt no choice – then I texted him saying I am done 100% I can not deal with this.. next day my kid is on wow again.. and he tells my son he’ll always be his friend.. and he will always be mommy’s friend..

WTF this is screwed up… and on top of all this.. he was acting funny about 3 weeks ago, so I said, do you want to see others, we can just go back to dating and he flipped saying I am not going to date someone I am in love with… so why is this happening now.. it makes no sense at all.. like he is a completely different person or on drugs or something.. I can not make sense of it, it hurts and makes me angry at the same time.. we were best friends.. did not have any big issues happening our sex life was good and we genuinely liked one another – or so I thought… we were going to a premarital counseling this (his ide) before he moved in, etc.. but he was never good at dealing with conflict… it just makes no sense to me and I am confused.. of course all my girlfriends say hes a jerk and just move forward – and I am trying… but I liken it to the death of someone… just *poof* gone — so I guess I am just venting wondering if this is typical male behavior nowadays… I am divorced and not really big into the dating scene.. my friends say he is a commitment phobe – but he has had stable job for 8 years and he was married once before.. so I do not know much about if that would be it.. but things were going good and all of a sudden nothing.. makes no sense and is driving me nuts.
First I need to add in response to joe flee below.. I never rushed him into anything.. the whole idea of moving in with me came from HIM.. he moved from a rented condo to a rented townhouse I have a 5bdrm home I own.. he said had I asked him to move in, he would have.. that was a month ago… its the inconsistency in what he recently said he wanted compared to a complete blow off… . And yes, perhaps going down to see him and follow my gut was wrong, when I think about that YES I could still be with him living in ignorance is bliss mode… but where would that get me? The bottom line is he was caught in a lie and can not deal with it… he ran and hid (by not responding) because he does not know how to seal with confrontation… however, it ruined any ounce of trust I had in him… not every time we are hurt is it our own doing…

I had this really toxic relationship with my ex-fiance:
we were both abusive to the other in some manner
(he financially and verbally abused me, I was verbally abusive in return)
he really brought out the worst in me
we just weren’t right for each other
and the worst part is that we wasted 6 years on each other
he kept me locked up pretty tight:
isolated me from my family/friends and broke into my bank account
so it was hard to do but I finally I got out

And it didn’t take long for things to turn for both him and me:

Without my ex in my life I was finally able to meet my mr. right,
he and I got married,
he works a military job while I stay at home and take classes
we have a spacious apartment, a solid car,
great communication- very open and honest and respectful,
a very experimental and all-around fun sex life,
which resulted in us now being 7 months pregnant,
(my husband calls our son our “surprise blessing”)
I finally have everything I ever dreamed of
its not perfect, but I’m happy,
and its been so long since I’ve been happy…

My ex, on the other hand, was pretty happy when we were together,
he freaked out when I left,
even joined the military in an effort to win me back
when that didn’t work, we tried to be friends
the friendship was going great
I talked to him and coached him into asking a girl out that he liked
he sent me the greatest wedding present when I got married
but as soon as he found out my husband and I were pregnant
thats when things went down hill real fast:
he started drinking…he now binge drinks every weekend
and when he drinks he texts me to say some pretty cruel things…
having been together 6 years, he really knows how to hurt me
so I stopped talking to him
and eventually he stopped trying to talk to me

I figured it was best that way…we lost our friendship a long time ago
no point in trying to keep something alive when its long dead

But now…now I don’t think I’ll be able to avoid him anymore since
he’s been assigned to the same base that my husband will be based on for at least the next year…
even with hundreds of soliders, the base is still considered very small, and you can barely go anywhere in town without running into someone you know from base.
Plus, my husband has just taken a new job…which might make him my ex’s boss for alittle while when he first comes to base…
I really don’t think my ex is dumb enough to say anything to me
and, even if he is dumb enough, my husband could take care of it.
I know my fears are completely irrational
but having been in such a toxic relationship with him…
I’m afraid that his mere presence in the same time zone as my husband and I will ruin everything…
like all of my happiness, all the things that are finally going right for me, all of it will crumble before me when he shows up…
I know thats not going to happen but I’m still just so afraid…

have any of you had this happen?
where you think you’ll never have to see this person again
and you’re glad because the relationship was just so horrible
but then you’re thrown together,
living in the same town, on the same base
and you’re just so scared by their presence
with no real reason to be scared….
please tell me I’m not alone on this?

I can’t figure out why I’m so afraid…
my husband says not to be so afraid, that he’ll protect me.
And I really doubt that my ex will try anything…but I’m still just so frightened.

Some years ago, my son and I were sitting at our dining table when the door blew open and a tall figure dressed in black entered our home. He passed us and went down the hall to our bedroom where my alcoholic husband was sleeping off a binge. Even though I did not follow this figure, I could mentally hear what he told my husband,”Change your ways, or you will not be here for long.” Afterwords, the figure left. Our son said he did not see anything, but felt a strong wind come in. I asked my husband if he had seen this figure. He told me that he had felt a hand on his shoulder, He looked up and saw a figure in a black cloak who filled the room. He said he had received a warning. Not long after this visitation, my husband gave up drinking alcohol with the help of a psychiatrist.

have you ever left someone alone ( you were in a relationship with ) for a long time because even though things were not horrible you knew they may never get better? my recent ex of 4 years i love him to death i feel like we are perfect for each other – but we have so much drama that when he told me to leave because of something that happened i did and i havent been back ive talked to him one time in a week and a half and it wasnt pretty – his mommah is out of control she smokes crack – steals from everyone ( includeing me and her son ) she doesnt pay any bills, doesnt clean up, has a smart mouth – my boyfriend doesnt understand why i dont want her in my house, i would never make him choose between us – thats his mother – he says it wont be like that forever but i know shell never be able to take care of herself – she makes comments to me so he cant hear them and when i say something he only hears me n thinks im starting the drama. he has put her out b4 but she
comes right back
and i wont lie i wouldnt let my mommah run the streets either and not let her be safe when i can provide that – i left and i doubt ill go back – but its so hard because when it was just me and him living together we had so fewer problems and doesnt understand where im coming from – his nana used to take care of his mother ( support her and her habit ) and she passed away – when she did he promised her he would take care of her and his little brother ( who finally grew up and got a job i am happy for him and proud of him ) and i promised i would watch out for him – i dont even know why i put this question up there – maybe i really just want to hear someone else say yeah i left someone i loved with all my heart becasue it wasnt right at the right time -

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.

He is 5 yrs old. I adopted him. He was drug exposed. (meth) although normal weight and term. He seems to not be getting better although he is in speech therapy and a small vlass size. Problems with short term memory, two-step directions, blanking out spells, talks like a two year old.

what drug was it? How did you recover? how long was you addicted? how long have you been in recovery? are you still seeking therapy?

I have a 22 year old nephew hooked on heroin. This is causing are family much turmoil, He is going to rehab today, but only for 30 days. This is his second or third attempt to come clean and I seriously think he needs longer treatment. Any comments would be helpful . Thanks !!