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<blockquote data-quote="Sister's Keeper" data-source="post: 695019" data-attributes="member: 20051"><p>This is 1/2 helpful, 1/2 not, but my sister is 31 years old and she has been an IV heroin addict since she was 17. She had a few years clean around the births of my nephews, and a month or so here and there after getting out of jail, a month or 2 clean with half-assed attempts at recovery to avoid or reduce legal charges.</p><p></p><p>I can't tell from the tome of your posts if he is taking recovery lightly or if he is accepting responsibility. Either way, he needs to accept the responsibility.</p><p></p><p>I think that you need some emotional support. It is really difficult to walk the line between supporting and enabling. I find Naranon a great support system.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nar-anon.org/find-a-meeting" target="_blank">http://www.nar-anon.org/find-a-meeting</a></p><p></p><p>...but you do have to allow him to do this on his own. Not having a car is not a big thing in the era odfUber, even if you don't have good public transport. Cars are usually a trigger. Too easy to get drugs, too easy to earn under the table drug money.</p><p>If they don't take personal responsibility, they don't succeed. Recovery should be for them.</p><p></p><p>Don't forget the past. That being said, if someone is trying and working hard, dragging up the past, I don't think, is entirely helpful either, but reminding him of how YOU felt when he overdosed, in this situation would be helpful. Also reminding him of how far he has come might be. too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sister's Keeper, post: 695019, member: 20051"] This is 1/2 helpful, 1/2 not, but my sister is 31 years old and she has been an IV heroin addict since she was 17. She had a few years clean around the births of my nephews, and a month or so here and there after getting out of jail, a month or 2 clean with half-assed attempts at recovery to avoid or reduce legal charges. I can't tell from the tome of your posts if he is taking recovery lightly or if he is accepting responsibility. Either way, he needs to accept the responsibility. I think that you need some emotional support. It is really difficult to walk the line between supporting and enabling. I find Naranon a great support system. [URL]http://www.nar-anon.org/find-a-meeting[/URL] ...but you do have to allow him to do this on his own. Not having a car is not a big thing in the era odfUber, even if you don't have good public transport. Cars are usually a trigger. Too easy to get drugs, too easy to earn under the table drug money. If they don't take personal responsibility, they don't succeed. Recovery should be for them. Don't forget the past. That being said, if someone is trying and working hard, dragging up the past, I don't think, is entirely helpful either, but reminding him of how YOU felt when he overdosed, in this situation would be helpful. Also reminding him of how far he has come might be. too. [/QUOTE]
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