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<blockquote data-quote="recovering doormat" data-source="post: 271429" data-attributes="member: 5941"><p>We were in a similar stage with our 16 yr old several months ago. We requested a juvenile probation officer for supervision and he thought it was a joke, and quickly moved up the ranks to probation, then home arrest (ankle bracelet, a joke). We got a sympathetic judge to order him to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for a diagnostic program and detoxing. He was there 6 weeks and should have gone to another Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for long-term dual diagnosis treatment but my exhusband insisted on bringing him home. He is doing okay now, not perfect but much better than before, getting home instruction two hours a day and attending weekly sub abuse counseling with a really good social worker who gets him (we were lucky). He is terrified that we will "send him away" again, and if he fails two or more drug tests he could get sent for inpatient substance abuse treatment.</p><p> </p><p>I totally agree with cutting off his money, don't give him rides, he gets food, a place to sleep, and medical care if he needs it; anything else he has to earn. A social worker told me that if I gave my son any cash at all that since I know he was smokign weed, I could have been charged with neglect or abuse for giving a drug using kid money to buy weed. It's hard to do but as I learned, the hard way, we dragged out the unpleasantness by not making his life hard enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recovering doormat, post: 271429, member: 5941"] We were in a similar stage with our 16 yr old several months ago. We requested a juvenile probation officer for supervision and he thought it was a joke, and quickly moved up the ranks to probation, then home arrest (ankle bracelet, a joke). We got a sympathetic judge to order him to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for a diagnostic program and detoxing. He was there 6 weeks and should have gone to another Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for long-term dual diagnosis treatment but my exhusband insisted on bringing him home. He is doing okay now, not perfect but much better than before, getting home instruction two hours a day and attending weekly sub abuse counseling with a really good social worker who gets him (we were lucky). He is terrified that we will "send him away" again, and if he fails two or more drug tests he could get sent for inpatient substance abuse treatment. I totally agree with cutting off his money, don't give him rides, he gets food, a place to sleep, and medical care if he needs it; anything else he has to earn. A social worker told me that if I gave my son any cash at all that since I know he was smokign weed, I could have been charged with neglect or abuse for giving a drug using kid money to buy weed. It's hard to do but as I learned, the hard way, we dragged out the unpleasantness by not making his life hard enough. [/QUOTE]
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