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Can I trust her when she says she wants to change?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 673815" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>The bad news is that she is only 13 and the good news is that she is only 13. That means you still have a lot of control and can take actions needed. Once they get older it is harder to get them into treatment.</p><p></p><p>We took our daughter at 16 to an intensive outpatient program for teens and was told that she wasn't as "bad" as the other teens in the program and that she could learn bad things from them. So we didn't put her in the program.</p><p></p><p>Well, she ended up an addict anyway and overdosed on heroin a few years later. My husband found her on the couch in the nick of time and was able to do chest compressions until the EMT's could get there.</p><p></p><p>I guess I am saying that your daughter is already very troubled and using meth at 13 is very serious. I think the need for treatment overrides any concerns of her being around other troubled teens.</p><p></p><p>I am glad that you are being proactive. Please don't underestimate what is going on, though. We kept thinking our daughter was just going through a rebellious stage and waited too long to get help. When we did, we just went to counseling which wasn't enough. Looking back, I would have sent her into a residential treatment center if I had realized what was really going on.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 673815, member: 1967"] The bad news is that she is only 13 and the good news is that she is only 13. That means you still have a lot of control and can take actions needed. Once they get older it is harder to get them into treatment. We took our daughter at 16 to an intensive outpatient program for teens and was told that she wasn't as "bad" as the other teens in the program and that she could learn bad things from them. So we didn't put her in the program. Well, she ended up an addict anyway and overdosed on heroin a few years later. My husband found her on the couch in the nick of time and was able to do chest compressions until the EMT's could get there. I guess I am saying that your daughter is already very troubled and using meth at 13 is very serious. I think the need for treatment overrides any concerns of her being around other troubled teens. I am glad that you are being proactive. Please don't underestimate what is going on, though. We kept thinking our daughter was just going through a rebellious stage and waited too long to get help. When we did, we just went to counseling which wasn't enough. Looking back, I would have sent her into a residential treatment center if I had realized what was really going on. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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