I read your post to Pinevalley and wanted to respond to you but not take away form her thread.
I am so sorry your son died from a drug overdose. Your story has been replayed several times with friends of difficult child's. Heroin is a horrible drug. All drugs are horrible but especially heroin. You are right, it is very popular now and very prevalent in our community. It is relatively cheap and our rehab counselor told us that the reason it is so addictive is that you get a tremendous high the first time you use it and you chase that high every time after that and never actually get the same effect but keep trying. And so you use more and more each time. When the addict goes into treatment and their body is detoxed and then they relapse, often it results in death because their body is not use to that much and it almost always causes seizures.
difficult child met a guy in rehab and when she got out she was going to go live with him. Of course we thought it was a horrible idea because by that time we knew difficult child had relapsed and figured so did he. The week before she was going to move in he died from heroin, the first time he used it since his rehab. It was Christmas Day. And he isn;t the only one. Since then several other young people difficult child was in rehab with also died from heroin.
I agree that normally pot use does not cause extreme behaviors and selling possessions. Our difficult child was drinking heavily in addition to using pot. She was drinking a case a night near the end. We also found out she was experimenting with pills, we assume oxy. When she came out of rehab she also did spice having learned about it there. Fortunately she never did heroin, to our knowledge anyway and she has sworn she has not, but I have no doubt she would have eventually if she continued in her drug use.
Several communities and schools around us have made a very public announcement that they are taking heroin use very seriously and are going after any drug dealer they find. They have begged parents for their help in stopping this epidemic.
I am so sorry for your pain but I thank you for sharing your story. Did you attend any meetings to help you through your grief?
Nancy
I am so sorry your son died from a drug overdose. Your story has been replayed several times with friends of difficult child's. Heroin is a horrible drug. All drugs are horrible but especially heroin. You are right, it is very popular now and very prevalent in our community. It is relatively cheap and our rehab counselor told us that the reason it is so addictive is that you get a tremendous high the first time you use it and you chase that high every time after that and never actually get the same effect but keep trying. And so you use more and more each time. When the addict goes into treatment and their body is detoxed and then they relapse, often it results in death because their body is not use to that much and it almost always causes seizures.
difficult child met a guy in rehab and when she got out she was going to go live with him. Of course we thought it was a horrible idea because by that time we knew difficult child had relapsed and figured so did he. The week before she was going to move in he died from heroin, the first time he used it since his rehab. It was Christmas Day. And he isn;t the only one. Since then several other young people difficult child was in rehab with also died from heroin.
I agree that normally pot use does not cause extreme behaviors and selling possessions. Our difficult child was drinking heavily in addition to using pot. She was drinking a case a night near the end. We also found out she was experimenting with pills, we assume oxy. When she came out of rehab she also did spice having learned about it there. Fortunately she never did heroin, to our knowledge anyway and she has sworn she has not, but I have no doubt she would have eventually if she continued in her drug use.
Several communities and schools around us have made a very public announcement that they are taking heroin use very seriously and are going after any drug dealer they find. They have begged parents for their help in stopping this epidemic.
I am so sorry for your pain but I thank you for sharing your story. Did you attend any meetings to help you through your grief?
Nancy