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<blockquote data-quote="Mikey" data-source="post: 31041" data-attributes="member: 3579"><p>Thanks KFld. As always, I truly appreciate your responses, and I respect the path you have walked. I totally agree with the need to gain control - still looking for ways how. Also, I may be in the wrong group here because while difficult child has substance abuse issues, docs don't think that's the primary problem - just a symptom of something else. To answer your questions about <em>which</em> substances... </p><p></p><p>Drugs of choice for my difficult child are cigs, pot and booze. When we were testing him regularly, all they found was pot - and even then, sometimes the levels were so low that the test showed negative. And these are tests at a lab, with the THC numbers, not the at-home dipstick tests. Full-panel screening, including cough syrup. Nothing but pot. </p><p></p><p>Therapist thinks that he talks bigger than he walks, because the drug tests (including one blood test) don't bear out his claim as a "master stoner". He definitely smoked, but doctor thinks he talked big to fit in. Current thought is that he wants the stoner lifestyle because nobody expects anything out of them, but he isn't the total pothead he claims to be. Who knows?</p><p></p><p>I also know that difficult child has occasionally tried X, and "skittling".</p><p></p><p>After his last asthma attack, the doctor at the ER got right in his face and told him that if he didn't stop smoking EVERYTHING that the next time he came in to the ER with an attack, he might be going out the back door in a hearse instead of the front door to the family minivan.</p><p></p><p>When he was blue and couldn't breath, that was the right time for him to hear that. So far, I think he's stayed away from anything smokeable, and is taking Chantix to try and stop the cigs. That rules out a lot of drugs. I don't think he'd take anything now that he has to inhale.</p><p></p><p>And needles, for sure, don't work. That same ER visit, they wanted to admit him because he came very near to "coding". In order to admit, they would have to run an IV. difficult child refused, and threatened to "deck" anyone that came close to him with a needle. So he didn't get admitted.</p><p></p><p>So he can't smoke anything, and won't shoot anything up. That leaves stuff he can ingest, and right now that looks like booze. We'll see, though. Another test coming up on Monday that he doesn't know about.</p><p></p><p>Again, I truly appreciate what you say, and will take it to heart.</p><p></p><p>Thanks so much,</p><p></p><p>Mikey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey, post: 31041, member: 3579"] Thanks KFld. As always, I truly appreciate your responses, and I respect the path you have walked. I totally agree with the need to gain control - still looking for ways how. Also, I may be in the wrong group here because while difficult child has substance abuse issues, docs don't think that's the primary problem - just a symptom of something else. To answer your questions about [i]which[/i] substances... Drugs of choice for my difficult child are cigs, pot and booze. When we were testing him regularly, all they found was pot - and even then, sometimes the levels were so low that the test showed negative. And these are tests at a lab, with the THC numbers, not the at-home dipstick tests. Full-panel screening, including cough syrup. Nothing but pot. Therapist thinks that he talks bigger than he walks, because the drug tests (including one blood test) don't bear out his claim as a "master stoner". He definitely smoked, but doctor thinks he talked big to fit in. Current thought is that he wants the stoner lifestyle because nobody expects anything out of them, but he isn't the total pothead he claims to be. Who knows? I also know that difficult child has occasionally tried X, and "skittling". After his last asthma attack, the doctor at the ER got right in his face and told him that if he didn't stop smoking EVERYTHING that the next time he came in to the ER with an attack, he might be going out the back door in a hearse instead of the front door to the family minivan. When he was blue and couldn't breath, that was the right time for him to hear that. So far, I think he's stayed away from anything smokeable, and is taking Chantix to try and stop the cigs. That rules out a lot of drugs. I don't think he'd take anything now that he has to inhale. And needles, for sure, don't work. That same ER visit, they wanted to admit him because he came very near to "coding". In order to admit, they would have to run an IV. difficult child refused, and threatened to "deck" anyone that came close to him with a needle. So he didn't get admitted. So he can't smoke anything, and won't shoot anything up. That leaves stuff he can ingest, and right now that looks like booze. We'll see, though. Another test coming up on Monday that he doesn't know about. Again, I truly appreciate what you say, and will take it to heart. Thanks so much, Mikey [/QUOTE]
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