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<blockquote data-quote="saving grace" data-source="post: 39151" data-attributes="member: 1538"><p>Mikey, I have just read through your posts and the responses and mine will be similiar. I want to give you some background on my difficult child.</p><p></p><p>15 yrs old got caught drinking and smoking pot. Brushed it off to experimenting, being in the wrong place with the wrong people, swore it would never happen again it made him sick, he was grounded for a month.</p><p></p><p>it never stopped, it got worse, each year. He said to me then "its not like I am shooting heroin, its just grass" </p><p></p><p>I was in a similar situation as you with his age when it got bad enough that I realized he needed serious help. His school ordered him into counseling and drug tests to be able to graduate, he went to a private school. He complied for 4 months, graduated and got stoned. </p><p></p><p>He moved on to Extacy, Oxycontin, crack, cocaine, and now he shoots heroin (see above)</p><p></p><p>I prayed that the law would get involved somehow, he was pink slipped twice held for 2 weeks, evaluated and released.</p><p>I had him arrested for assualt and battery (on me) he was in the system for 2 1/2 years, jail 4 times, rehabs,(mulitple) detoxes (mulitple) each time he swore never again. </p><p></p><p>He has lost jobs, cars, friends, family, he has been homeless. </p><p></p><p>Mikey, remember he just smoked a little grass. He is now a heroin addict and will be 21 in June. He has been clean of heroin for about 2 months. It will never end he will be an addict for the rest of his life. The rest of his life, The rest of his life.</p><p></p><p>Good Luck, If I could go back to the begining, I would know that drugs were the problem, he was self medicating and still is but the drugs are the problem if you fix that everything else will fall into place with the proper help, but the proper help will not work if he is using</p><p></p><p>Grace</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saving grace, post: 39151, member: 1538"] Mikey, I have just read through your posts and the responses and mine will be similiar. I want to give you some background on my difficult child. 15 yrs old got caught drinking and smoking pot. Brushed it off to experimenting, being in the wrong place with the wrong people, swore it would never happen again it made him sick, he was grounded for a month. it never stopped, it got worse, each year. He said to me then "its not like I am shooting heroin, its just grass" I was in a similar situation as you with his age when it got bad enough that I realized he needed serious help. His school ordered him into counseling and drug tests to be able to graduate, he went to a private school. He complied for 4 months, graduated and got stoned. He moved on to Extacy, Oxycontin, crack, cocaine, and now he shoots heroin (see above) I prayed that the law would get involved somehow, he was pink slipped twice held for 2 weeks, evaluated and released. I had him arrested for assualt and battery (on me) he was in the system for 2 1/2 years, jail 4 times, rehabs,(mulitple) detoxes (mulitple) each time he swore never again. He has lost jobs, cars, friends, family, he has been homeless. Mikey, remember he just smoked a little grass. He is now a heroin addict and will be 21 in June. He has been clean of heroin for about 2 months. It will never end he will be an addict for the rest of his life. The rest of his life, The rest of his life. Good Luck, If I could go back to the begining, I would know that drugs were the problem, he was self medicating and still is but the drugs are the problem if you fix that everything else will fall into place with the proper help, but the proper help will not work if he is using Grace [/QUOTE]
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