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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 517229"><p>Oh hugs to you. I don't know what the right answer for you is... but we sent my son to a wilderness program and therapeutic boarding school after that when he was 15 and in 9th grade. It was very hard and I also questioned myself. And I still do at times because he is now 20 and still has major drug issues.... so that did not solve the problem.</p><p></p><p>However it did keep him safe and sober for the 16 months he was there and a few months after that. So that did give his brain some drug free development time which he certainly needed. It also taught him some survival skills and gave him some time to learn to be on his own so that now if he is on the street it may be a little better. And truly I am not sure he would have survived this far if he had stayed at home. I don't think anything else would have helped him either.</p><p></p><p>It also gave my daughter some space to grow and blossom without him here. She defintiely needed that and I think it may have saved her really.... because the chaos we were living in was ridiculous. I don't know if you have other kids but him being there may help them.</p><p></p><p>And it certainly helped us... it gave us some peace and a reminder of what living in a healthy peaceful home is like...I think that helped us later when he came home and things got really bad.</p><p></p><p>So I don't know what the answer is. I think you need to know that it may not be the cure all.... but it will give him some time to develop without the drug use which is really important at this young age.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 517229"] Oh hugs to you. I don't know what the right answer for you is... but we sent my son to a wilderness program and therapeutic boarding school after that when he was 15 and in 9th grade. It was very hard and I also questioned myself. And I still do at times because he is now 20 and still has major drug issues.... so that did not solve the problem. However it did keep him safe and sober for the 16 months he was there and a few months after that. So that did give his brain some drug free development time which he certainly needed. It also taught him some survival skills and gave him some time to learn to be on his own so that now if he is on the street it may be a little better. And truly I am not sure he would have survived this far if he had stayed at home. I don't think anything else would have helped him either. It also gave my daughter some space to grow and blossom without him here. She defintiely needed that and I think it may have saved her really.... because the chaos we were living in was ridiculous. I don't know if you have other kids but him being there may help them. And it certainly helped us... it gave us some peace and a reminder of what living in a healthy peaceful home is like...I think that helped us later when he came home and things got really bad. So I don't know what the answer is. I think you need to know that it may not be the cure all.... but it will give him some time to develop without the drug use which is really important at this young age. TL [/QUOTE]
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