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difficult child back on drugs again, very worried and need advice
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<blockquote data-quote="pinevalley" data-source="post: 504934" data-attributes="member: 3710"><p>When difficult child came home after rehab, my h and I wanted him to stay at our house so that he could graduate from hs in a few months. He was always willing to go to school, even if he didn't really do any work at school. But now this attitude is completely different, and he stays out til midnight most nights and then is too tired to go to school in the morning. It is like he has just given up on any goals that he once had. </p><p> Nancy, I didn't know that when many people relapse they do it harder and faster than the first time. This is exactly what difficult child is doing. He is behaving worse now than in the fall when he was hooked on K2. He doesn't think that he needs to go to rehab, because he is "only" using weed (and it is all natural, or course, according to him). I'm glad that he is not hooked on stronger drugs like heroin, but we think he may be using much more weed than before rehab, because he wants to have the high that he had with k2. He is extremely stubborn, and will not agree to anything that we tell him to do, just because he doesn't want to obey his parents. He tells us every day that he is 18 now and he can do whatever he wants to do, and stay out as late as he wants to. We don't give him any money, and he still seems to borrow money from friends to go out and have fun. </p><p> Do you think that we should ask some of his non using friends to try to convince him to go to rehab, since he refuses to listen to what h and I say? I'm not sure if we can get his friends to help us, but he might listen to them instead of us, the mean parents. I am trying to think of any way at all that we can convince him to want to change his life, instead of destroy it. </p><p> I appreciate your comments and advice, because I know that you both have been through hell with your kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pinevalley, post: 504934, member: 3710"] When difficult child came home after rehab, my h and I wanted him to stay at our house so that he could graduate from hs in a few months. He was always willing to go to school, even if he didn't really do any work at school. But now this attitude is completely different, and he stays out til midnight most nights and then is too tired to go to school in the morning. It is like he has just given up on any goals that he once had. Nancy, I didn't know that when many people relapse they do it harder and faster than the first time. This is exactly what difficult child is doing. He is behaving worse now than in the fall when he was hooked on K2. He doesn't think that he needs to go to rehab, because he is "only" using weed (and it is all natural, or course, according to him). I'm glad that he is not hooked on stronger drugs like heroin, but we think he may be using much more weed than before rehab, because he wants to have the high that he had with k2. He is extremely stubborn, and will not agree to anything that we tell him to do, just because he doesn't want to obey his parents. He tells us every day that he is 18 now and he can do whatever he wants to do, and stay out as late as he wants to. We don't give him any money, and he still seems to borrow money from friends to go out and have fun. Do you think that we should ask some of his non using friends to try to convince him to go to rehab, since he refuses to listen to what h and I say? I'm not sure if we can get his friends to help us, but he might listen to them instead of us, the mean parents. I am trying to think of any way at all that we can convince him to want to change his life, instead of destroy it. I appreciate your comments and advice, because I know that you both have been through hell with your kids. [/QUOTE]
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