17 year old daughter sinking fast

[graceupongrace]

ccbt,

I'm sorry you're going through this.

Prescription drugs have become a new gateway to illegal drugs. I heard this recently from a group of sober teens who started out using drugs prescribed to them or others. They started with Vicodin, Oxycontin, etc. prescribed for sports injuries and went on to marijuana, ecstasy, heroin, etc.

Susiestar is right -- users are almost always doing more than they admit to. But until kids are clean and sober, you can't deal with the other issues.

[BCt20]

My daughter likes how Adderal makes her feel and uses it to cope w/ anxiety and depression. So it is nearly impossible to treat her depression and anxiety as Adderal interfers w/ Seritonin uptake inhibitors is what I think. But the depression meds work slowly and Adderal works quickly. She is getting the Adderal from other students. I struggle with whether to discipline her Adderal taking with not using her (our) car or not. She will lie about whether she is taking it so I use urine drug test at home but now she is starting to say she will not give me a sample unless if it is positive she can still have her car. I am pretty close to giving up all discipline and letting her fight her own emotional battles. She is very depressed at times. She doesn't like doing what would help her like counseling and seeing her MD as is takes too much time away from her social life. I don't know if I will put down boundaries of living w/ me at 18. Hard decisions. Any suggestions or comments. I want to do what would help not hurt her- I love her so much.