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How many of our difficult child's will be moving to Colorado?
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<blockquote data-quote="rubyq" data-source="post: 561315" data-attributes="member: 15530"><p>No, none of my family has any substance abuse issues. I have a lot of first hand knowledge, I was addicted to heroin before I was out of my teens. That experience with addiction is what motivated me to take an active role in the harm reduction movement, which is basically the idea that addicts shouldn't have to quit using in order to be protected. Needle exchange programs operate on this premise. The idea is to expose addicts to these services they otherwise would have been afraid to reach out to because so many of them say "if you aren't clean we can't help you." So if we can get to them, even if they aren't ready to quit, we can still teach them how to be safe, test them for HIV and Hep C, refer them to other services, etc. And then when the addict is ready to quit *(which often times happens much sooner when they do have access to these programs) we can help them get clean.</p><p></p><p>I accidentally came across this forum and reading these posts broke my heart knowing that I put my family through these same things. I thought maybe my experience as a wild child allows me to help them, so maybe my experience helping them could help their parents to help them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rubyq, post: 561315, member: 15530"] No, none of my family has any substance abuse issues. I have a lot of first hand knowledge, I was addicted to heroin before I was out of my teens. That experience with addiction is what motivated me to take an active role in the harm reduction movement, which is basically the idea that addicts shouldn't have to quit using in order to be protected. Needle exchange programs operate on this premise. The idea is to expose addicts to these services they otherwise would have been afraid to reach out to because so many of them say "if you aren't clean we can't help you." So if we can get to them, even if they aren't ready to quit, we can still teach them how to be safe, test them for HIV and Hep C, refer them to other services, etc. And then when the addict is ready to quit *(which often times happens much sooner when they do have access to these programs) we can help them get clean. I accidentally came across this forum and reading these posts broke my heart knowing that I put my family through these same things. I thought maybe my experience as a wild child allows me to help them, so maybe my experience helping them could help their parents to help them? [/QUOTE]
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