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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 170681" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>I wish I could get a drug screen ordered on difficult child. I'm sure he has alcohol on board more often than we know, and I know some of his old friends text message him a lot. He may be getting stuff we don't know about. He's very limited in his mobility, though - no license, no job, stays home and isn't allowed to go out with old friends. Dealers could bring stuff to the house when we aren't home, however.</p><p></p><p>We won't know if the court will order counseling and/or testing until possibly this fall. The preliminary hearing has been done, and we have the pre-trial conference next week but apparently that's a minor thing (? this is our first time in the court system so i'm still learning). Our attorney said the suppression hearing won't be until fall. With difficult child's change in attitude I don't know anymore if I want to fight the charges, but we may not win anyway. </p><p></p><p>I'm still persuading husband to insist on outpatient counseling for drugs/alcohol for difficult child. I think husband is partly worried about confidentiality, and is still partly in denial - may not want the open acknowledgement of the problem that enrolling difficult child in the program would bring. But difficult child needs it! I don't like the victim/illness model of addiction and in fact much prefer the approach of Rational Recovery, but difficult child still thinks he can live on caffeine drinks and tobacco and generally unhealthy ways and everything will be perfectly fine, and he needs someone other than his mother to tell him that's not so. When he went to college last fall he lived on energy drinks and chew; I think the constant use of stimulants was a first step into his drug use. He says pot helped his panic attacks, but he also used it daily for the high; and cocaine certainly wasn't for panic attacks, it's just the opposite.</p><p></p><p>I agree that the 100 ibuprofen in a few days is scary. Very. I told him he could bleed out (GI bleed most likely), using it like that, but he doesn't believe me. He just grabs anything at all when his preferred medications aren't available. Tylenol is much worse, I know. I don't usually have it in the house.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 170681, member: 2884"] I wish I could get a drug screen ordered on difficult child. I'm sure he has alcohol on board more often than we know, and I know some of his old friends text message him a lot. He may be getting stuff we don't know about. He's very limited in his mobility, though - no license, no job, stays home and isn't allowed to go out with old friends. Dealers could bring stuff to the house when we aren't home, however. We won't know if the court will order counseling and/or testing until possibly this fall. The preliminary hearing has been done, and we have the pre-trial conference next week but apparently that's a minor thing (? this is our first time in the court system so i'm still learning). Our attorney said the suppression hearing won't be until fall. With difficult child's change in attitude I don't know anymore if I want to fight the charges, but we may not win anyway. I'm still persuading husband to insist on outpatient counseling for drugs/alcohol for difficult child. I think husband is partly worried about confidentiality, and is still partly in denial - may not want the open acknowledgement of the problem that enrolling difficult child in the program would bring. But difficult child needs it! I don't like the victim/illness model of addiction and in fact much prefer the approach of Rational Recovery, but difficult child still thinks he can live on caffeine drinks and tobacco and generally unhealthy ways and everything will be perfectly fine, and he needs someone other than his mother to tell him that's not so. When he went to college last fall he lived on energy drinks and chew; I think the constant use of stimulants was a first step into his drug use. He says pot helped his panic attacks, but he also used it daily for the high; and cocaine certainly wasn't for panic attacks, it's just the opposite. I agree that the 100 ibuprofen in a few days is scary. Very. I told him he could bleed out (GI bleed most likely), using it like that, but he doesn't believe me. He just grabs anything at all when his preferred medications aren't available. Tylenol is much worse, I know. I don't usually have it in the house. [/QUOTE]
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