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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 564940" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I disagree with some of what you say PG. An addict will rob for pot or at least shoplift and steal from people's purses or homes. In our meeting last week we had a speaker from an adolescent treatment facility and I asked what the most abused substance was that they are seeing. She said it was alcohol and pot. So I asked if that dispells the thought that pot is not addictive. Her answer was that to an addict pot is just as addictive as alcohol is to an alcoholic. I was surprised to hear that heroin was not the most abused but she is from an outpatient facility and the heroin addicts usually go into residential, outpatient just doesn't work for them.</p><p></p><p>Now I am sure there are some addicts that can stick to pot and never go on to other things but it's a very slippery slope.</p><p></p><p>And TL you are right, my difficult child was very violent after smoking pot if she didn't get what she wanted or if we confronted her or if we didn't allow her to go out when we knew she was going to smoke pot. We had to call the police several times, once when she threw all the glass drinking glasses on the wood kitchen floor and broke them and another time when she kicked me as I was on the garage floor trying to keep her from getting the car keys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 564940, member: 59"] I disagree with some of what you say PG. An addict will rob for pot or at least shoplift and steal from people's purses or homes. In our meeting last week we had a speaker from an adolescent treatment facility and I asked what the most abused substance was that they are seeing. She said it was alcohol and pot. So I asked if that dispells the thought that pot is not addictive. Her answer was that to an addict pot is just as addictive as alcohol is to an alcoholic. I was surprised to hear that heroin was not the most abused but she is from an outpatient facility and the heroin addicts usually go into residential, outpatient just doesn't work for them. Now I am sure there are some addicts that can stick to pot and never go on to other things but it's a very slippery slope. And TL you are right, my difficult child was very violent after smoking pot if she didn't get what she wanted or if we confronted her or if we didn't allow her to go out when we knew she was going to smoke pot. We had to call the police several times, once when she threw all the glass drinking glasses on the wood kitchen floor and broke them and another time when she kicked me as I was on the garage floor trying to keep her from getting the car keys. [/QUOTE]
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