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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 509602" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>vligrl,</p><p></p><p>My daughter was going downt he same road. She started smoking pot in high school and drinking and she barely graduated. She enrolled in one of our universities and we moved her into her dorm two months later. Two months after that she was arrested for smoking pot and drinking on campus. She was suspended from college and required to go to counseling and do community service. A year later she enrolled in community college and repeated the pattern. She did just what you son is doing. We took her car away the year before so we were driving her to school. Soon she got rides from other drug users and stopped going to classes. She was smoking/drinking all the time.</p><p></p><p>To make a long story short we took her to a substance abuse tratment center where she stayed 60 days and then spent another tow months in outpatient care. She relapsed and was smoking/drinking more than ever and we finally kicked her out of the house. That was a year ago this past Friday. She lived with a neighbor friend who smoked/drank/did owhatever other drugs they did 24/7 for 6 weeks when she finally called and asked to come home. We refused and told her where to go for help. </p><p></p><p>She lived in a sober house for the next nine months and began working the AA program and is now living in a an apartment with another sober girl and has all sober firneds and a job and is doing well. I won't say it' been easy and there have been small slips but if we had not kicked her out of the house she would probably be dead because the things she was doing when she was out of the house were unimaginable.</p><p></p><p>Your son needs treatment. If he is smoking pot and acting that way he is most surely doing other things and you will never find out the full extent. We had to decide what the line in the sand was for us. Were we going to let her continuelivingin our house and doing drugs and making all our lives miserable or were we going to try to get her help. It was a terrible tome in all our lives but I believe it was the only alternative.</p><p></p><p>You can tell him that he can go and get help or he needs to move out of your house.....today. We tried tellignour difficult child she needed to move out but she had no job, no money and was in no condition to do that. So what we did was bring her bottom up and force her to accept treatment or die. It sounds harsh but just last week another young 20 year old girl that difficult child knew died from a drug overdose. I hope you can get him help. This disease ruins too many people.</p><p></p><p>Hugs,</p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 509602, member: 59"] vligrl, My daughter was going downt he same road. She started smoking pot in high school and drinking and she barely graduated. She enrolled in one of our universities and we moved her into her dorm two months later. Two months after that she was arrested for smoking pot and drinking on campus. She was suspended from college and required to go to counseling and do community service. A year later she enrolled in community college and repeated the pattern. She did just what you son is doing. We took her car away the year before so we were driving her to school. Soon she got rides from other drug users and stopped going to classes. She was smoking/drinking all the time. To make a long story short we took her to a substance abuse tratment center where she stayed 60 days and then spent another tow months in outpatient care. She relapsed and was smoking/drinking more than ever and we finally kicked her out of the house. That was a year ago this past Friday. She lived with a neighbor friend who smoked/drank/did owhatever other drugs they did 24/7 for 6 weeks when she finally called and asked to come home. We refused and told her where to go for help. She lived in a sober house for the next nine months and began working the AA program and is now living in a an apartment with another sober girl and has all sober firneds and a job and is doing well. I won't say it' been easy and there have been small slips but if we had not kicked her out of the house she would probably be dead because the things she was doing when she was out of the house were unimaginable. Your son needs treatment. If he is smoking pot and acting that way he is most surely doing other things and you will never find out the full extent. We had to decide what the line in the sand was for us. Were we going to let her continuelivingin our house and doing drugs and making all our lives miserable or were we going to try to get her help. It was a terrible tome in all our lives but I believe it was the only alternative. You can tell him that he can go and get help or he needs to move out of your house.....today. We tried tellignour difficult child she needed to move out but she had no job, no money and was in no condition to do that. So what we did was bring her bottom up and force her to accept treatment or die. It sounds harsh but just last week another young 20 year old girl that difficult child knew died from a drug overdose. I hope you can get him help. This disease ruins too many people. Hugs, Nancy [/QUOTE]
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