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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 585525" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Rose...it is good you are a Christian. Then "Let go and let God" will make sense to you as will this, my favorite go-to verse when I feel powerless:</p><p>God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,</p><p>the courage to change the things I can,</p><p>And the wisdom to know the difference. (I used to wear a serenity prayer necklace).</p><p></p><p>There is absolutely nothing you can do. If you are a believer then try to let go and allow God to be his guide and hope that he follows Him. I am not a Christian, but have a very strong, enduring belief in a higher power and I always feel a bit better when I give my helplessness over to my HP. At the same time, I strong recommend attending Narc-Anon meetings for exhausted and worried parents of children who have gone the drug abuse route. I clung to my meetings when my daughter was so entrenched in drugs that I thought she was either going to end up in jail or die, with my preference being jail. It is comforting to find the strength in others who are either going through the same thing or who have been there already.</p><p></p><p>If this helps, my daughter was heavily drenched in all kinds of dangerous drugs until she turned nineteen (but she started at twelve...yes, twelve...no, we had no clue; we still thought she was a child). She did pot, ADHD drugs crunched into pillcrushers and snorted (a favorite), coke, meth and even tried heroin. SHE QUIT!!!! I am not saying this is the norm...but it does happen. So never ever give up the ship. We had no hope that Daughter would EVER stop using drugs and, along with the using, there was the selling and the paying on loan and the drug dealers after her. </p><p>So try to find some peace for yourself in spite of this because this next step is up to him. And you are right that his upbringing has NOTHING to do with it. You were good, caring parents teaching him strong values. Just that peers sometimes overwhelm kids and become more important than parents during certain key years. Why one child gives into peer pressure and one does not is a mystery to me as none of my other kids was involved with drugs. </p><p></p><p>Be good to yourselves and seek out help for the rest of your family and Keep the Faith!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 585525, member: 1550"] Rose...it is good you are a Christian. Then "Let go and let God" will make sense to you as will this, my favorite go-to verse when I feel powerless: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. (I used to wear a serenity prayer necklace). There is absolutely nothing you can do. If you are a believer then try to let go and allow God to be his guide and hope that he follows Him. I am not a Christian, but have a very strong, enduring belief in a higher power and I always feel a bit better when I give my helplessness over to my HP. At the same time, I strong recommend attending Narc-Anon meetings for exhausted and worried parents of children who have gone the drug abuse route. I clung to my meetings when my daughter was so entrenched in drugs that I thought she was either going to end up in jail or die, with my preference being jail. It is comforting to find the strength in others who are either going through the same thing or who have been there already. If this helps, my daughter was heavily drenched in all kinds of dangerous drugs until she turned nineteen (but she started at twelve...yes, twelve...no, we had no clue; we still thought she was a child). She did pot, ADHD drugs crunched into pillcrushers and snorted (a favorite), coke, meth and even tried heroin. SHE QUIT!!!! I am not saying this is the norm...but it does happen. So never ever give up the ship. We had no hope that Daughter would EVER stop using drugs and, along with the using, there was the selling and the paying on loan and the drug dealers after her. So try to find some peace for yourself in spite of this because this next step is up to him. And you are right that his upbringing has NOTHING to do with it. You were good, caring parents teaching him strong values. Just that peers sometimes overwhelm kids and become more important than parents during certain key years. Why one child gives into peer pressure and one does not is a mystery to me as none of my other kids was involved with drugs. Be good to yourselves and seek out help for the rest of your family and Keep the Faith! [/QUOTE]
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