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19 year old son on k2
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<blockquote data-quote="pinevalley" data-source="post: 516099" data-attributes="member: 3710"><p>Welcome to this community. You will find a lot of advice and support from parents who have been through the kind of crisis that you are living with right now.</p><p>I also have an 18 year old son who was addicted to K2 last fall. He told my h and I that K2 was really scaring him, because he had a couple of bad reactions while high on this drug. He was concerned enough to agree to enter a 30 day rehab program, and our difficult child was clean of drugs when he came home after 30 days. When he was discharged from rehab our difficult child told us that he was never going to use K2 again. Unfortunately he relapsed on other drugs a few days after coming home from rehab. In just one month he started to steal to get money for drugs. He was arrested for theft and residential burglary, and for the last 3 weeks he has been sitting in jail. It is a nightmare for my h and I to have a son in jail, but at least we know that he is not using drugs and he is safe now. </p><p>You and your wife will have to establish rules about what you will accept and what is not acceptable from your son. I can certainly understand why you do not want your difficult child to live at your home again, and I hope that you wife agrees with you. Your difficult child is legally an adult now, so he does not have any right to live at your home. We refused to give our difficult child any money at all, because we didn't want our money to be spent on drugs. We knew that our difficult child would get desperate for money when he was not getting it from us, but my h and I had to take a stand about not supporting his drug habit. We also did not let him drive our cars at all, and we always had to hide our keys (and literally sleep with our car keys) to prevent him from driving our cars. Now that your son is 19 you can not force him to enter rehab. But you do not have to support his drug habit. He will have to reach a point where he wants his life to change before he will agree to enter rehab. I know how hard it is as a parent, but you must remember this important message: You didn't cause it, You can't control it; and you can't cure it. </p><p>Keep posting on this board, and stay strong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pinevalley, post: 516099, member: 3710"] Welcome to this community. You will find a lot of advice and support from parents who have been through the kind of crisis that you are living with right now. I also have an 18 year old son who was addicted to K2 last fall. He told my h and I that K2 was really scaring him, because he had a couple of bad reactions while high on this drug. He was concerned enough to agree to enter a 30 day rehab program, and our difficult child was clean of drugs when he came home after 30 days. When he was discharged from rehab our difficult child told us that he was never going to use K2 again. Unfortunately he relapsed on other drugs a few days after coming home from rehab. In just one month he started to steal to get money for drugs. He was arrested for theft and residential burglary, and for the last 3 weeks he has been sitting in jail. It is a nightmare for my h and I to have a son in jail, but at least we know that he is not using drugs and he is safe now. You and your wife will have to establish rules about what you will accept and what is not acceptable from your son. I can certainly understand why you do not want your difficult child to live at your home again, and I hope that you wife agrees with you. Your difficult child is legally an adult now, so he does not have any right to live at your home. We refused to give our difficult child any money at all, because we didn't want our money to be spent on drugs. We knew that our difficult child would get desperate for money when he was not getting it from us, but my h and I had to take a stand about not supporting his drug habit. We also did not let him drive our cars at all, and we always had to hide our keys (and literally sleep with our car keys) to prevent him from driving our cars. Now that your son is 19 you can not force him to enter rehab. But you do not have to support his drug habit. He will have to reach a point where he wants his life to change before he will agree to enter rehab. I know how hard it is as a parent, but you must remember this important message: You didn't cause it, You can't control it; and you can't cure it. Keep posting on this board, and stay strong. [/QUOTE]
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