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He is Ramping up Please give me Strenght.
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 722038" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Every time you feel yourself falter and want to give in and let him stay, imagine him in the comfort of your home. With the drug needle in his arm. Dead from the overdose. </p><p></p><p>Why? Because all you will do by allowing him to stay in the nice warm comfortable home you provide, with the food and the television and all the luxuries, is to give him easier access to the drugs that will kill him. He won't have to struggle to pay for food, or shelter. He will have all the money he steals from your purse or accounts or gets from pawning things he stole from you. He will use use every cent of that to buy drugs and every single time he gets high he runs the risk of killing himself. </p><p></p><p>So you keep that image in your head. Your most precious son, dead in your comfortable home. </p><p></p><p>Ask yourself how that is reducing harm in ANY way? Then scoot your son out of your house to go and live with the choices he is making. When he has to live with the reality of his choices, he has a far greater likelihood of actually wanting to get clean.</p><p></p><p>Oh, when he starts promising school and expecting that to be ABRACADABRA? Tell him that you want him to prove it to you. Show you a semester of school with perfect attendance and good grades and no drug use, and then you will DISCUSS him coming home. Not that he can come home, that you will DISCUSS it. He has promised so much and not followed through for so long, now he has to put his money where his mouth is before you will do anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 722038, member: 1233"] Every time you feel yourself falter and want to give in and let him stay, imagine him in the comfort of your home. With the drug needle in his arm. Dead from the overdose. Why? Because all you will do by allowing him to stay in the nice warm comfortable home you provide, with the food and the television and all the luxuries, is to give him easier access to the drugs that will kill him. He won't have to struggle to pay for food, or shelter. He will have all the money he steals from your purse or accounts or gets from pawning things he stole from you. He will use use every cent of that to buy drugs and every single time he gets high he runs the risk of killing himself. So you keep that image in your head. Your most precious son, dead in your comfortable home. Ask yourself how that is reducing harm in ANY way? Then scoot your son out of your house to go and live with the choices he is making. When he has to live with the reality of his choices, he has a far greater likelihood of actually wanting to get clean. Oh, when he starts promising school and expecting that to be ABRACADABRA? Tell him that you want him to prove it to you. Show you a semester of school with perfect attendance and good grades and no drug use, and then you will DISCUSS him coming home. Not that he can come home, that you will DISCUSS it. He has promised so much and not followed through for so long, now he has to put his money where his mouth is before you will do anything. [/QUOTE]
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