teen using drugs

Hi all! I know again I don’t get here as often as I’d like but I’ve spent the morning catching up on most of your posts I do follow along as much as I possibly can. Today is the day son comes home from his six months in long-term residential rehab. He has made some excellent progress he had one...

we just came back from dropping our son off at his long term in patient rehab program. This last 36 hour was excellent not a hitch to his goals and behaviour. He had a very rough week and this is the second week life had be n tough in the rehab program. There have been a number of new...

Hi all; Well Evan is half way through the 6 month programand he is doing very well. He has had 3 leaves 2 24 hour and 1 36 hour that he is presently home for. He was out too late with girlfriend last night and I was up until he came home. Pacing and worried. I do no believe that he has relapsed but...

How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs Interesting that we in Canada have reduced after school resources and programs. Drug use has increase. We had extracurricular programs for our son. When he experienced adolescent depression at 14 drugs were readily available and he for caught up in the...

This is my first post here and let me start by saying I am grateful to have found this forum. We have been through Hell and back again with our 17 (almost) 18 year old son. He began dabbling in pot early on in his teens and it had progressively gotten worse and involved other drugs over time...

Im at my wits end... just don't know what to do with this kid :-( we had a semi-decent day Sunday some light arguing from her but settled into the evening...and we were all watching tv and kids playing video games. daughter had the wii gamepad and you can get to Internet from that. I saw her typing a...

Today we met with the School Counsellor, Assistant Principal, Drama Teacher and the School Resource Officer (cop on campus). We "narc'd" on our own daughter, her abusive Demonboyfriend and his best friend. We told them everything we knew about the drugs/alcohol, physical and mental abuse...

I have been gone for a little while. My son went to visit his grandparents, which is what I feel he needed. He got spoiled by my parents and brother. His trip was all about him finally. So when I got to the airport my mom surprised me with a visit for 1 month. I could not belive she was...

His depression scares me to be quite frank. I am a single mom and I feel like my hands are tied when it comes to disciplining because I worry about what he will do. He doesn't make threats to harm himself but he says he has thought about it more in the last few months. He is 16 and recently...

hope someone will reply to my post/i feel like i am the only one who has a teen with problems this severe/do not know if i will make the right decision/all trust is gone.

Hi there, I have four children, 17, 16, 14 and a half and 4. Older two are boys, and have never had any problems at all. The youngest of 4 is also a dream. The 14 year old girl is an extreme nightmare - been diagnosed by psychologist as having conduct disorder and anti-social personality as...

Hello all. I'm new here, and couldn't find an Introduce Yourself section, so I figured I'd start in here. I'm familiar with message boards, but know that each one is unique. I'm a single parent of a 16yr old daughter who is having a hard time, and giving me a very hard time. The most...

Hello, I need some advice, because I am at a complete loss. Recently my daughter was diagnosed with depression after an overdose. She is 15 and has always had mood swings and anger management problems, but after the overdose things have become worse than ever. She was put on Prozac which does...

Just found this place and am not sure where to post this so thought this forum would work. My husband and I have been dealing with our daughter and her issues for so long now that it has started to have a negative impact on our marriage and our son. Let me back up a bit. Our daughter was...

So, the last time I posted or came to this forum was in 2008. We did the neuropsychological testing in 2009 at the Bluebird Circle at Texas Childrens Hospital in Houston and they said there was nothing wrong with him other than ADD. Sorry I never responded to anyone back then but I actually...

Hi, I'm new to this. I found this site yesterday and was excited to find this because I have felt so alone. To tell you a little about my family. I'm a 29 yr old mom of 5. One of my children has been diagnosed with ADHD. He is 8 yr old. I have tried 5 diffrent kinds of medication, but the medication.s...

Looking for a bit of advice. I'm in Canada and I know it's legal to kick my son out but he just won't leave! He's either wrecked or stolen anything worth while. His brother and sister get the short end because they can't have anything while he's in the house. He's constantly calling me names...

AAARRGGH! He did it again. I got a call from the fraud prevention dept at Chase, to ask if I had authorized charges for XBox Live. :grrr: I told the employee that I do not use it, but my son may have. He suggested I use another ph to call my son, (who was at a friend's house), which I did. difficult child...

I have received so much support over the last couple years through this site! There have been so many days that I could not stop crying and was at my wits end. Now I am hoping that my situation can provide hope to someone else who is struggling. My son is about to celebrate his 15th birthday...

OK, here goes. My son is 12. He has always been a challenge. When he was younger he would bang his head when he was mad, fight me before school about getting his clothes on because his "clothes hurt" tags, zippers and the like. Always defiant and never easy. His father moved away 2 years...