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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 656539" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm serious when I say give him a YEAR of being sober. Even then, he could relapse and it could be as quick as the first user he runs into in the street. He needs a plan to fight his addiction cravings, which will be there strong, once he gets out. For all you know, he is putting on an act to get out and use again. Heroin is Heroin. It overrides family, civility, everything...it is very physically addicting and users and addicts do all they can and will step on a beloved grandmother's face to get it.He has picked the demon of all drugs to try to detach from and it will take more than three months in a rehab or a religious conversion to keep his body from making him look for heroin. He has a lifetime fight on his hands and does not sound motivated enough for that level yet. He doesn't even address his addiction. Just says hes bored. Bored??? Um, he's an adult. We work most of the time. We don't party. We obey the law. We pay rent. We are men and women and we don't live with Mom and Dad anymore. Or else we are not ready to get out of rehab after heroin...and there really is no "after." He will always crave it.</p><p></p><p>Wait until he has made a plan with rehab for restrictive and strict aftercare or he will fail. N/A is not enough for heroin. Also...wait until he has a job and can pay for his own place. Wait until he has ventured out in the streets and give him los and lots of time to be sober. Even then, I would not allow him to come home. He can pay to go to school. My daughter did after she quit drugs. She got a loan and some grants all by herself. She worked at the same time. Every night she had a stable home to go to, but it wasn't ours and she did not ask for money nor did she even ask us what to do with her life. She had made a decision to leave drugs behind and she meant it. She was ready to do it and to grow up. She was 12 when she started. She was 19 when she quit. Your son is not too young to stop. It's better to do it young before all the damage to your brain and body...and so much baggage you can't take back</p><p></p><p>It is eons too soon for your son and the stakes are too great. He will relapse...then what????</p><p></p><p>Do you have a plan for that probability?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 656539, member: 1550"] I'm serious when I say give him a YEAR of being sober. Even then, he could relapse and it could be as quick as the first user he runs into in the street. He needs a plan to fight his addiction cravings, which will be there strong, once he gets out. For all you know, he is putting on an act to get out and use again. Heroin is Heroin. It overrides family, civility, everything...it is very physically addicting and users and addicts do all they can and will step on a beloved grandmother's face to get it.He has picked the demon of all drugs to try to detach from and it will take more than three months in a rehab or a religious conversion to keep his body from making him look for heroin. He has a lifetime fight on his hands and does not sound motivated enough for that level yet. He doesn't even address his addiction. Just says hes bored. Bored??? Um, he's an adult. We work most of the time. We don't party. We obey the law. We pay rent. We are men and women and we don't live with Mom and Dad anymore. Or else we are not ready to get out of rehab after heroin...and there really is no "after." He will always crave it. Wait until he has made a plan with rehab for restrictive and strict aftercare or he will fail. N/A is not enough for heroin. Also...wait until he has a job and can pay for his own place. Wait until he has ventured out in the streets and give him los and lots of time to be sober. Even then, I would not allow him to come home. He can pay to go to school. My daughter did after she quit drugs. She got a loan and some grants all by herself. She worked at the same time. Every night she had a stable home to go to, but it wasn't ours and she did not ask for money nor did she even ask us what to do with her life. She had made a decision to leave drugs behind and she meant it. She was ready to do it and to grow up. She was 12 when she started. She was 19 when she quit. Your son is not too young to stop. It's better to do it young before all the damage to your brain and body...and so much baggage you can't take back It is eons too soon for your son and the stakes are too great. He will relapse...then what???? Do you have a plan for that probability? [/QUOTE]
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