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<blockquote data-quote="KFld" data-source="post: 37977" data-attributes="member: 2442"><p>it's easy to stay clean and sober when you are in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and the right environment. The true test is being around your old friends and at that age it is extremeley difficult to stick to what you know you should be doing vs. what everyone else is doing. My son went into a few Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s and as soon as he was back around his friends, he went right back to using, no matter how determined he was while in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) to no go back to it. </p><p></p><p>You may want to seriously think about what his options are when he leaves Residential Treatment Center (RTC). You have just seen for yourself what it is going to be like when he comes home for good. Him leaving the house for 10 minutes made you anxious. Would you consider talking to him about soberhousing. My son is in a wonderful soberhouse now. He has lived there for almost 6 months and it is the longest he has remained clean. He only lives 20 minutes away from us, but he is in a house with clean and sober people, and far enough away from his old friends that he doesn't see them every time he walks out the door. Now his friends are his roommates in his house. He works full time, pays his rent and is learning to become a responsible adult. He plans on living there for a long time. I know he finds it so much easier to not have the influence of people who are using in his life. He learned from experience last year when he left a soberhouse after only a month and moved into an apartment with others from his house and they all relapsed one after another because they didn't have the supported they needed for long enough before going out on there own. </p><p></p><p>You could always talk to the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) about options when he leaves there. My son's set his soberhouse up for him so the day he left rehab, he went right to the soberhouse. </p><p></p><p>Just something to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KFld, post: 37977, member: 2442"] it's easy to stay clean and sober when you are in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and the right environment. The true test is being around your old friends and at that age it is extremeley difficult to stick to what you know you should be doing vs. what everyone else is doing. My son went into a few Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s and as soon as he was back around his friends, he went right back to using, no matter how determined he was while in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) to no go back to it. You may want to seriously think about what his options are when he leaves Residential Treatment Center (RTC). You have just seen for yourself what it is going to be like when he comes home for good. Him leaving the house for 10 minutes made you anxious. Would you consider talking to him about soberhousing. My son is in a wonderful soberhouse now. He has lived there for almost 6 months and it is the longest he has remained clean. He only lives 20 minutes away from us, but he is in a house with clean and sober people, and far enough away from his old friends that he doesn't see them every time he walks out the door. Now his friends are his roommates in his house. He works full time, pays his rent and is learning to become a responsible adult. He plans on living there for a long time. I know he finds it so much easier to not have the influence of people who are using in his life. He learned from experience last year when he left a soberhouse after only a month and moved into an apartment with others from his house and they all relapsed one after another because they didn't have the supported they needed for long enough before going out on there own. You could always talk to the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) about options when he leaves there. My son's set his soberhouse up for him so the day he left rehab, he went right to the soberhouse. Just something to think about. [/QUOTE]
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