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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 584762" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Rehabs are only as good as the person working the program. I had a daughter who used drugs heavily and quit without rehab because an incident in her life scared and motivated her to do so. If she can quit anyone can. She was using pot, speed (ADHD medications crushed in a pillcrusher/snorted through nose), cocaine, meth alcohol and even tried heroin a few times. When she told me that, I freaked out because I had always felt once you tried heroin you were hooked automatically. At any rate, we though she was going to end up in jail or die, but she did quit. I'm one who is not sure that rehabs are the magic answer unless the person is desperate to quit and that includes turning his/her back on his/her druggie friends once he comes out. My daughter was very lucky because she had a brother in Illinois who is strict and straight and allowed her to live with him when she called him begging (after we threw her out). So she left Wisconsin and her crowd and had no car to drive around and meet new druggies with. In all, it worked. I wouldn't spend your entire life savings on rehabs if he is reluctant to change. And I would do anything for him if you see a difference in him that seems permanant (like trying to dump his drug friends which is what my daughter tried to do before she got out of Wisconsin--these druggies can be very persistent though). But in my opinion the first step to knowing your child is serious is when the child tries to elude the druggies he used to hang out with. If you can, getting him to a new environment isn't a bad idea IF he is serious about quitting. If he's not, he'll just find new drug buddies in his new town. Hope I didn't get too off topic. I wish you the best of luck. It's not easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 584762, member: 1550"] Rehabs are only as good as the person working the program. I had a daughter who used drugs heavily and quit without rehab because an incident in her life scared and motivated her to do so. If she can quit anyone can. She was using pot, speed (ADHD medications crushed in a pillcrusher/snorted through nose), cocaine, meth alcohol and even tried heroin a few times. When she told me that, I freaked out because I had always felt once you tried heroin you were hooked automatically. At any rate, we though she was going to end up in jail or die, but she did quit. I'm one who is not sure that rehabs are the magic answer unless the person is desperate to quit and that includes turning his/her back on his/her druggie friends once he comes out. My daughter was very lucky because she had a brother in Illinois who is strict and straight and allowed her to live with him when she called him begging (after we threw her out). So she left Wisconsin and her crowd and had no car to drive around and meet new druggies with. In all, it worked. I wouldn't spend your entire life savings on rehabs if he is reluctant to change. And I would do anything for him if you see a difference in him that seems permanant (like trying to dump his drug friends which is what my daughter tried to do before she got out of Wisconsin--these druggies can be very persistent though). But in my opinion the first step to knowing your child is serious is when the child tries to elude the druggies he used to hang out with. If you can, getting him to a new environment isn't a bad idea IF he is serious about quitting. If he's not, he'll just find new drug buddies in his new town. Hope I didn't get too off topic. I wish you the best of luck. It's not easy. [/QUOTE]
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