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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 694331" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>You know Darkwing I am back at work in prison in a psychiatric program.</p><p></p><p>A mentally ill person who is a drug addict is a typical patient/prisoner. When in prison they are typically abstinent. While there are drugs in prison the prisoner that I am talking about is typically homeless on the street or close to it, or maybe on SSI, the lucky ones, and would not have the money to buy drugs in prison.</p><p></p><p>Some of these people are nice and sweet and kind--when they are in prison. I am thinking of one man right now. I am highly motivated that he stay off meth--less so, him--his skills, health, capacities--and the kind of life he could have without drugs must not hold a candle to what it feels like on them. I am not sure.</p><p></p><p>While these prisoners will talk to me about the degradation of their lives as addicts, when they know they will be locked up for a long, long time or for life--they seldom do if they anticipate soon getting out. The lure, the call of them, must be too strong.</p><p></p><p>You are very bright and articulate and introspective and cerebral. You are philosophical and motivated to examine every inch and iota of yourself and your consciousness to understand your experience, indeed the human experience.</p><p></p><p>But for these people, so damaged already in spirit and health and hope and capacity--where will they turn? I am not saying it is impossible. Where I live meth has been rampant for more than 25 years. And I see people in the stores and streets, that while wrecked physically, seem to be recovering, seem to find a life worth fighting for.</p><p></p><p>I wish the men I know in prison could see this life too. I fear that few can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 694331, member: 18958"] You know Darkwing I am back at work in prison in a psychiatric program. A mentally ill person who is a drug addict is a typical patient/prisoner. When in prison they are typically abstinent. While there are drugs in prison the prisoner that I am talking about is typically homeless on the street or close to it, or maybe on SSI, the lucky ones, and would not have the money to buy drugs in prison. Some of these people are nice and sweet and kind--when they are in prison. I am thinking of one man right now. I am highly motivated that he stay off meth--less so, him--his skills, health, capacities--and the kind of life he could have without drugs must not hold a candle to what it feels like on them. I am not sure. While these prisoners will talk to me about the degradation of their lives as addicts, when they know they will be locked up for a long, long time or for life--they seldom do if they anticipate soon getting out. The lure, the call of them, must be too strong. You are very bright and articulate and introspective and cerebral. You are philosophical and motivated to examine every inch and iota of yourself and your consciousness to understand your experience, indeed the human experience. But for these people, so damaged already in spirit and health and hope and capacity--where will they turn? I am not saying it is impossible. Where I live meth has been rampant for more than 25 years. And I see people in the stores and streets, that while wrecked physically, seem to be recovering, seem to find a life worth fighting for. I wish the men I know in prison could see this life too. I fear that few can. [/QUOTE]
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