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<blockquote data-quote="WiseChoices" data-source="post: 752742" data-attributes="member: 24254"><p>Copa, DC1 has not smoked pot since moving home (May). We don't allow it in the house and it's been a rule since teenage years , so he has always observed that rule. He does not have many friends in the area, some old acquaintances only whom he has not contacted (he isolates). I have feeling that his substance use is similar to how mine was: it has to do with being accepted into a group of people. As far as I know son has never smoked by himself . He also has not had any alcohol since moving home except for one day when his buddy from the big city visited (someone he had used with) and they went to the bar and son got very ill since he is on medications now (anti depressant Wellbutrin and anti anxiety Buspar). The alcohol and the medications made him feel sick and the friend had to bring him home where son slept it off. He also knew that most employers in our area drug test and he needed to land a job. My son may not be alcoholic but just have addictive tendencies. I see it with gaming, and other things with him. I was just like that. I got caught up in partying and followed the crowd down to heavier and heavier use , lots of drinking, and one day I couldn't do it anymore and went for help . I do believe addiction is a spectrum disease and while progressive, develops very slowly in some people (depending upon the substances used if course).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WiseChoices, post: 752742, member: 24254"] Copa, DC1 has not smoked pot since moving home (May). We don't allow it in the house and it's been a rule since teenage years , so he has always observed that rule. He does not have many friends in the area, some old acquaintances only whom he has not contacted (he isolates). I have feeling that his substance use is similar to how mine was: it has to do with being accepted into a group of people. As far as I know son has never smoked by himself . He also has not had any alcohol since moving home except for one day when his buddy from the big city visited (someone he had used with) and they went to the bar and son got very ill since he is on medications now (anti depressant Wellbutrin and anti anxiety Buspar). The alcohol and the medications made him feel sick and the friend had to bring him home where son slept it off. He also knew that most employers in our area drug test and he needed to land a job. My son may not be alcoholic but just have addictive tendencies. I see it with gaming, and other things with him. I was just like that. I got caught up in partying and followed the crowd down to heavier and heavier use , lots of drinking, and one day I couldn't do it anymore and went for help . I do believe addiction is a spectrum disease and while progressive, develops very slowly in some people (depending upon the substances used if course). [/QUOTE]
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