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17 1/2 yr old...Hard choices coming up quick.
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 606402" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Hello again. Welcome back. I could have written your entire post but I would have to add that my daughter did move on to heroin. It has made a big comeback and as prescription pills are getting harder to get because of state and local crackdowns on pill pushers, addicts have moved on to heroin. It is not a big leap from opiates in pills to heroin. Heroin, unfortunately, has made a huge comeback as it is cheap and easy to get.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if you have read my other posts but my daughter went from pot and alcohol over the years to pain pills and finally heroin. My husband came home from school one day to find her overdosed on the couch. Luckily, our housecleaner was there and heard him screaming her name and called 911 and they took turns doing chest compressions until the EMT's came and administered Narcan which brought her back around. The EMT's told my husband that if he had come home 2 minutes later she would have died.</p><p></p><p>That was the eye opener that it took for me to say the hell with money and find the best residential treatment center I could find. It did not take insurance, either, but it didn't matter because my daughter was too old at that point to be covered by our insurance. So we bit the bullet and took the money out of our retirement accounts to fund the 3 month stay and the follow up after care. </p><p></p><p>Yes, we know it was a risk and it may still be money down the drain. However, as I have explained before, I looked at it as if she had cancer and someone told me that there was an expensive program that had a 50% chance of being successful and saving her life. . . would I have even thought twice? Of course not. Would it be considered money down the drain if she still had died of cancer? No, we would look at like we had done everything that we could to save her life. </p><p></p><p>Bottom line, the answer to your question is that I absolutely think you need to do something now while you still can. Not everyone on the board agrees with me and will tell you it is useless to send him if he doesn't want to go and I respect that. However, the interventionist we worked with said that only 15% of addicts seek treatment voluntarily because as long as their brains are clouded by drugs and alcohol, they won't agree to go. </p><p></p><p>She also told us that most addicts go into treatment because of family pressure or court orders. She said that it takes a month for them to even get all of the drugs out of their systems so they can start working on the addiction and mental health issues. For that reason, she recommended at least a three month residential program followed by aftercare.</p><p></p><p>I would give anything to have a chance to go back in time and send our daughter to residential when she was still your son's age. Maybe she could have gone back to school and her life would be so much different today. While we are thrilled that she is in recovery and working full time, her dream is to go back to school and that will be very difficult for her at this stage in her life. She would have to work full time and go to school and she doesn't really make enough money to do that. </p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 606402, member: 1967"] Hello again. Welcome back. I could have written your entire post but I would have to add that my daughter did move on to heroin. It has made a big comeback and as prescription pills are getting harder to get because of state and local crackdowns on pill pushers, addicts have moved on to heroin. It is not a big leap from opiates in pills to heroin. Heroin, unfortunately, has made a huge comeback as it is cheap and easy to get. I don't know if you have read my other posts but my daughter went from pot and alcohol over the years to pain pills and finally heroin. My husband came home from school one day to find her overdosed on the couch. Luckily, our housecleaner was there and heard him screaming her name and called 911 and they took turns doing chest compressions until the EMT's came and administered Narcan which brought her back around. The EMT's told my husband that if he had come home 2 minutes later she would have died. That was the eye opener that it took for me to say the hell with money and find the best residential treatment center I could find. It did not take insurance, either, but it didn't matter because my daughter was too old at that point to be covered by our insurance. So we bit the bullet and took the money out of our retirement accounts to fund the 3 month stay and the follow up after care. Yes, we know it was a risk and it may still be money down the drain. However, as I have explained before, I looked at it as if she had cancer and someone told me that there was an expensive program that had a 50% chance of being successful and saving her life. . . would I have even thought twice? Of course not. Would it be considered money down the drain if she still had died of cancer? No, we would look at like we had done everything that we could to save her life. Bottom line, the answer to your question is that I absolutely think you need to do something now while you still can. Not everyone on the board agrees with me and will tell you it is useless to send him if he doesn't want to go and I respect that. However, the interventionist we worked with said that only 15% of addicts seek treatment voluntarily because as long as their brains are clouded by drugs and alcohol, they won't agree to go. She also told us that most addicts go into treatment because of family pressure or court orders. She said that it takes a month for them to even get all of the drugs out of their systems so they can start working on the addiction and mental health issues. For that reason, she recommended at least a three month residential program followed by aftercare. I would give anything to have a chance to go back in time and send our daughter to residential when she was still your son's age. Maybe she could have gone back to school and her life would be so much different today. While we are thrilled that she is in recovery and working full time, her dream is to go back to school and that will be very difficult for her at this stage in her life. She would have to work full time and go to school and she doesn't really make enough money to do that. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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