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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 412622"><p>Interesting points. My difficult child definitely jumped in head first, and also was #3 Nomad talks about... problem with drugs is they often don't hurt the first several times, in fact they can be fun and feel good!!! I believe my son was experimenting on his own with alcohol when he was around 12 or 13. That was the scary thing, we discovered some beer missing and he had taken it out into the woods and drank by himself to start with!!! This was not a kid who was peer pressured into drug use.... I think he went looking for peers who were into drugs and of course he found plenty. This was a kid who looked around the house for things he could find and tried them. Yes I do think he was self medicating, and also trying to escape his reality. So I don't think all kids get into it just because of peers, although certainly like minded peers help keep it going. </p><p></p><p>I do think there are plenty of kids who will try some pot or alcohol at a party and do a bit but not get into in any kind of serious way. I was one of those kids.... thing is it never did enough for me or I didn't really care about the high that much. It was fun..... but I did not crave it or go looking for it. You probably are not going to see those kids in any kind of drug counseling program and they may not need it.</p><p></p><p>As far as being the one who wants to make a change. I agree with that, although i do think people often go to rehab due to external forces and don't really want it themselves at first... but can get to that point during rehab. I would put my son into that category. He had some strong external motivation but I don't think he was internally motivated at first, my hope is that he is more so now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 412622"] Interesting points. My difficult child definitely jumped in head first, and also was #3 Nomad talks about... problem with drugs is they often don't hurt the first several times, in fact they can be fun and feel good!!! I believe my son was experimenting on his own with alcohol when he was around 12 or 13. That was the scary thing, we discovered some beer missing and he had taken it out into the woods and drank by himself to start with!!! This was not a kid who was peer pressured into drug use.... I think he went looking for peers who were into drugs and of course he found plenty. This was a kid who looked around the house for things he could find and tried them. Yes I do think he was self medicating, and also trying to escape his reality. So I don't think all kids get into it just because of peers, although certainly like minded peers help keep it going. I do think there are plenty of kids who will try some pot or alcohol at a party and do a bit but not get into in any kind of serious way. I was one of those kids.... thing is it never did enough for me or I didn't really care about the high that much. It was fun..... but I did not crave it or go looking for it. You probably are not going to see those kids in any kind of drug counseling program and they may not need it. As far as being the one who wants to make a change. I agree with that, although i do think people often go to rehab due to external forces and don't really want it themselves at first... but can get to that point during rehab. I would put my son into that category. He had some strong external motivation but I don't think he was internally motivated at first, my hope is that he is more so now. [/QUOTE]
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