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<blockquote data-quote="Ephchap" data-source="post: 84228" data-attributes="member: 27"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: goldenguru</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The old adage "You can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make it drink" applies well to treatment in my opinion.</p><p></p><p></div></div> </p><p>I do agree with that, but only to a point. With my son, he'd have never even found the water if we hadn't "nudged" him. In the end, he agreed to the treatment, but we had to "nudge" him in the right direction.</p><p></p><p>I also agree that if they don't want to be there, that all the treatment in the world won't help. However, when they are still getting high, they are only concerned with their next high, not in getting treatment. Sometimes if they are minors, in particular, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself (and doubt my son would have lived through the drugging) if I hadn't done everything humanly possible to get him into treatment to save him from himself.</p><p></p><p>In my son's case, the 10 month stay at the dual-diagnostic facility helped. Initially he really didn't want to be there (though he had agreed to it, knowing it was that or jail), but through it all, he somehow took to everything he was being taught. I feel it saved his life.</p><p></p><p>Deb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ephchap, post: 84228, member: 27"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: goldenguru</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The old adage "You can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make it drink" applies well to treatment in my opinion. </div></div> I do agree with that, but only to a point. With my son, he'd have never even found the water if we hadn't "nudged" him. In the end, he agreed to the treatment, but we had to "nudge" him in the right direction. I also agree that if they don't want to be there, that all the treatment in the world won't help. However, when they are still getting high, they are only concerned with their next high, not in getting treatment. Sometimes if they are minors, in particular, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself (and doubt my son would have lived through the drugging) if I hadn't done everything humanly possible to get him into treatment to save him from himself. In my son's case, the 10 month stay at the dual-diagnostic facility helped. Initially he really didn't want to be there (though he had agreed to it, knowing it was that or jail), but through it all, he somehow took to everything he was being taught. I feel it saved his life. Deb [/QUOTE]
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