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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 395908"><p>I agree with midwest mom that the natural consequence is that you take complete control of the medications and dispense them. The other natural consequences of drug use are way too serious to let them happen when he is 14. Then you still have influence and legal responsibility that it makes sense for you to intervene any way you can. Once they are 18 there is not much you can do and you do need to hope and pray they will have natural consequences that are not too terrible and come to their senses and get help for themselves but at that point there is not a whole lot you can do. I speak from experience as my 19 year old is currently in drug rehab.</p><p></p><p>As far as confronting him. I would not ask him as he will lie. You know this so asking him is pointless. I think I would let him know you know.... so you might say from now on I have to dispense the medications to you because there have been some missing and we know you are misusing them somehow. I found that if I approached it from a place of knowledge then sometimes, but only sometimes, I would get some part of the truth.</p><p></p><p>MWmom is right.... he may admit to smoking pot, but it might be more. That was also our experience, even as he was getting to go to rehab from jail. "They will laugh at me cause I just smoke weed".... Our son did not see himself as having a serious drug problem because he did not need to go to detox and yet he was fooling around with all kinds of bad stuff and was sitting in jail. He was headed towards a path of serious drug addiction.</p><p></p><p>And make sure you are also locking up any OTC medications.... those are abused a lot by teens. Especially the cough medications like robitussen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 395908"] I agree with midwest mom that the natural consequence is that you take complete control of the medications and dispense them. The other natural consequences of drug use are way too serious to let them happen when he is 14. Then you still have influence and legal responsibility that it makes sense for you to intervene any way you can. Once they are 18 there is not much you can do and you do need to hope and pray they will have natural consequences that are not too terrible and come to their senses and get help for themselves but at that point there is not a whole lot you can do. I speak from experience as my 19 year old is currently in drug rehab. As far as confronting him. I would not ask him as he will lie. You know this so asking him is pointless. I think I would let him know you know.... so you might say from now on I have to dispense the medications to you because there have been some missing and we know you are misusing them somehow. I found that if I approached it from a place of knowledge then sometimes, but only sometimes, I would get some part of the truth. MWmom is right.... he may admit to smoking pot, but it might be more. That was also our experience, even as he was getting to go to rehab from jail. "They will laugh at me cause I just smoke weed".... Our son did not see himself as having a serious drug problem because he did not need to go to detox and yet he was fooling around with all kinds of bad stuff and was sitting in jail. He was headed towards a path of serious drug addiction. And make sure you are also locking up any OTC medications.... those are abused a lot by teens. Especially the cough medications like robitussen. [/QUOTE]
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