LIT77,
Thank you for your concern and your prayers. I'm always sorry to hear of another mother who is suffering through this nightmare. I think the police have a policy of only arresting people for felonies. Josh has been stopped for shoplifting and having drug paraphernalia (spelling?) but those are misdemeanors and they let him go. I looked into having him taken in for a 72 hour observation but they don't do that for drug addicts, only the mentally ill, and he has not been diagnosed. Also, you have to file in person, and we live across the country. I've decided to call the police tomorrow and file yet another report. Hopefully, any officer who comes across him will take the time to call me when he's still in their presence instead of after the fact. The facebook post I did in early January got a lot of empathetic responses but no one who actually encountered him and had any interaction with him. I'm pretty much out of ideas. I wish I had the time and the financial means to just go to Phoenix and hang out in one of the main areas he has been seen, in the hopes that he would eventually come. But I can't do that as it could be days and even longer.
