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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 494819" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Our daughter started at twelve, but we didn't know until she was busted at fifteen. We tried everything, including homeschooling her to try to keep her away from her "bad" friends, but she found ways to do drugs and in her case (not everyone's) her drug use escalated. In retrospect, if we hadn't been so naive, I think we would have sent her to a rehab to get her help plus get her off the streets and away from her (cough) friends. When she was eighteen we did make her leave and getting out of this town really helped her...she did get clean. But it was a long, rocky road. If you can get her into a drug rehab, and try to get through to her to work hard at it, that would be amazing and so hopeful.</p><p></p><p>by the way, my daughter has told us she started using drugs because, after we moved to a new town, nobody talked to her at school. She sat alone and was painfully shy. Sadly, the misfit kids are always the most accepting and they took her under their wing. She wanted to be liked so she went along with what they did. But by the time she was really taking drugs, the root cause didn't matter...she was already hooked and our main desire was to help her stop using. So in my opinion it is not always looking at the root cause first simply because a drug fogged brain doesn't do therapy very well. The vicious cycle of drug use/mental illness is like a merry-go-round and in my opinion the drug use makes the treatment impossible. That is why I said an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) may be good. Hopefully, drugs would be monitored carefully there, which they can't be in the neighborhood.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 494819, member: 1550"] Our daughter started at twelve, but we didn't know until she was busted at fifteen. We tried everything, including homeschooling her to try to keep her away from her "bad" friends, but she found ways to do drugs and in her case (not everyone's) her drug use escalated. In retrospect, if we hadn't been so naive, I think we would have sent her to a rehab to get her help plus get her off the streets and away from her (cough) friends. When she was eighteen we did make her leave and getting out of this town really helped her...she did get clean. But it was a long, rocky road. If you can get her into a drug rehab, and try to get through to her to work hard at it, that would be amazing and so hopeful. by the way, my daughter has told us she started using drugs because, after we moved to a new town, nobody talked to her at school. She sat alone and was painfully shy. Sadly, the misfit kids are always the most accepting and they took her under their wing. She wanted to be liked so she went along with what they did. But by the time she was really taking drugs, the root cause didn't matter...she was already hooked and our main desire was to help her stop using. So in my opinion it is not always looking at the root cause first simply because a drug fogged brain doesn't do therapy very well. The vicious cycle of drug use/mental illness is like a merry-go-round and in my opinion the drug use makes the treatment impossible. That is why I said an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) may be good. Hopefully, drugs would be monitored carefully there, which they can't be in the neighborhood. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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