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<blockquote data-quote="Lena D" data-source="post: 761250" data-attributes="member: 28600"><p>Hi there. I am new to this forum and would love to receive input from anyone who has gone through a similar situation. Long story short, when my son was 21 years old and in college he came to me (his mom) and told me he was addicted to opioids. I eventually trapped him and stopped giving him money and told him he needed to get a job if he was going to continue spending money like this. He eventually came to me and told me that he could no longer live like this, this was not him and that his next step was heroin. He came home from college during and went to rehab for 5 days and was going to counseling. He has since graduated college and is now 24 years old and has a great job - but it is stressful - where he is the number one sales man nationwide for his company. Since this incident he has been receiving Vivatrol injections for the last 3 years . Before he can receive the Vivatrol he has to take a drug test. There is no opioids in the results but THC. He smokes what I consider to be a tremendous amount of marijuana. I think it's called "waking & baking" He plans on moving to Colorado in January with his job and does not plan on continuing the Vivatrol treatment. I know there are dispenseires everywhere and he will be able to get marijuana at any time. My relationship with my son is good except he hates when I worry about him. While he loves his father, their relationship is VERY strained. Until his move to Colorado, he has been living at at home but rarely talks to us . God forbid you ask him a question - he responds with attitude and just goes to his room and watches TV or plays a video game going out occassionaly with his friends from work on the weekends. I try to talk to him about cutting back on the smoking and he gets angry. If stops the Vivatrol injections, I'm afraid he will relapse and lose everything he worked so hard for. Of course I blame myself for his situation. He is a grown man now and I will worry about him always and forever. But what can I do to stop this worrying and have him listen to me about the dangers of smoking marijauna and go back to therapy? While he says it's nothing, he doesn't realize that eventually he will become immune and will crave something stronger and so on. Thanks! Lena</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lena D, post: 761250, member: 28600"] Hi there. I am new to this forum and would love to receive input from anyone who has gone through a similar situation. Long story short, when my son was 21 years old and in college he came to me (his mom) and told me he was addicted to opioids. I eventually trapped him and stopped giving him money and told him he needed to get a job if he was going to continue spending money like this. He eventually came to me and told me that he could no longer live like this, this was not him and that his next step was heroin. He came home from college during and went to rehab for 5 days and was going to counseling. He has since graduated college and is now 24 years old and has a great job - but it is stressful - where he is the number one sales man nationwide for his company. Since this incident he has been receiving Vivatrol injections for the last 3 years . Before he can receive the Vivatrol he has to take a drug test. There is no opioids in the results but THC. He smokes what I consider to be a tremendous amount of marijuana. I think it's called "waking & baking" He plans on moving to Colorado in January with his job and does not plan on continuing the Vivatrol treatment. I know there are dispenseires everywhere and he will be able to get marijuana at any time. My relationship with my son is good except he hates when I worry about him. While he loves his father, their relationship is VERY strained. Until his move to Colorado, he has been living at at home but rarely talks to us . God forbid you ask him a question - he responds with attitude and just goes to his room and watches TV or plays a video game going out occassionaly with his friends from work on the weekends. I try to talk to him about cutting back on the smoking and he gets angry. If stops the Vivatrol injections, I'm afraid he will relapse and lose everything he worked so hard for. Of course I blame myself for his situation. He is a grown man now and I will worry about him always and forever. But what can I do to stop this worrying and have him listen to me about the dangers of smoking marijauna and go back to therapy? While he says it's nothing, he doesn't realize that eventually he will become immune and will crave something stronger and so on. Thanks! Lena [/QUOTE]
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