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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 656568" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>My vote is no. He is so early in his recovery. We were told at one of our Difficult Child's rehab programs that the best chance of a lasting recovery is if the person stays where they got sober (city . . . not necessarily rehab) for at least a year while participating in an aftercare program. </p><p></p><p>I would absolutely not let him come home and monitor him. Monitoring will accomplish nothing. I know because we tried to monitor our daughter in a similar situation. We would test her for alcohol and go to bed and then she would drink. She also was shooting up heroin in our house and we had no idea. It made me so angry that I was put in that position.</p><p> </p><p>If anything, since your Difficult Child is so young and has expressed an interest in going to school, I would look into college programs designed for students in recovery. When my Difficult Child was younger, a program like that was suggested but she didn't want to go which told me that she really didn't want to stay sober.</p><p></p><p>Here is a great link about college recovery programs: </p><p><a href="http://collegiaterecovery.org/programs/" target="_blank">http://collegiaterecovery.org/programs/</a></p><p></p><p>Honestly, though, I would not even talk to him about leaving until he has at least 6 months of sobriety behind him and the people running the program think he is ready for the next step.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 656568, member: 1967"] My vote is no. He is so early in his recovery. We were told at one of our Difficult Child's rehab programs that the best chance of a lasting recovery is if the person stays where they got sober (city . . . not necessarily rehab) for at least a year while participating in an aftercare program. I would absolutely not let him come home and monitor him. Monitoring will accomplish nothing. I know because we tried to monitor our daughter in a similar situation. We would test her for alcohol and go to bed and then she would drink. She also was shooting up heroin in our house and we had no idea. It made me so angry that I was put in that position. If anything, since your Difficult Child is so young and has expressed an interest in going to school, I would look into college programs designed for students in recovery. When my Difficult Child was younger, a program like that was suggested but she didn't want to go which told me that she really didn't want to stay sober. Here is a great link about college recovery programs: [URL]http://collegiaterecovery.org/programs/[/URL] Honestly, though, I would not even talk to him about leaving until he has at least 6 months of sobriety behind him and the people running the program think he is ready for the next step. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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