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<blockquote data-quote="PatriotsGirl" data-source="post: 654918" data-attributes="member: 15796"><p>It affects everyone differently. My daughter's face would break out but her teeth are still perfect. She lost a TON of weight and didn't care what she looked like anymore. She always looked dirty and sweaty. Meth is HIGHLY addictive. I read that it makes people feel the best they have EVER felt in their lives. Why wouldn't they want to take it?? Then it wreaks havoc on their lives. Meth is SO destructive and they are dangerous when they are high. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>My daughter started using from a boyfriend. By the time I knew about it, she had been tossed out of school and we were at our wits end at home. Even after I found out, I thought I could get her in to a rehab - she was under 18. Wrong. Still over the age of medical consent. So at age 17, after dealing with two years of hades with her, I found a pipe in her room. I then gave her the ultimatum of rehab if she wanted to live at home. She said sayonara and lived on the streets for a few years. A few short rehab stays during that time but <em>nothing</em> could draw her away from it. Then she got pregnant. Then she got arrested for a fight with the boyfriend. I jumped on the opportunity and contacted the courts. I told them she was pregnant and a drug addict. They asked what I wanted them to do and I said <em>help</em> her. And they did. They drug tested her at her court intervention program and she tested positive. They locked her up immediately and she was locked up for the duration of her pregnancy. She had her baby in the hospital, but a police officer was right outside the door at all times. We took the baby home and they took her back to jail. It was devastating! After she had the baby, we thought she changed and she did - she was in mourning after falling in love with her baby so we let her come back home to raise her baby and get on her feet. She did great for a while until she got a job through a friend and that friend relapsed. It didn't take long before she relapsed, too. It went on for months, we suspected something was going on but she was being drug tested by probation and was passing them. We let her stay even after she was acting evil again, because of our grandson. She didn't like what she was doing and hated herself for it. She has since told me that she would pace the bedroom upstairs crying out to God to help her because she knew she could not do this on her own and she was too ashamed to come to us. Well, He answered her prayer all right. Her next probation meeting she tested dirty and they put her back in jail. During the two months she was in jail, she was writing rehabs on her own trying to find a program that she could get in to. Her probation officer told me about an outpatient program - it was outpatient but close to our house. I told her that was a joke. She then sent me a link to a residential program that was Christ centered. I knew this was the one - this was the right program. They picked her up on December 22nd and I was right - this rehab is not only the best thing to happen for her, but for me as well!! She is healing, our family is healing and my daughter and I are closer now than we have ever been in her entire life. Yesterday was four months for my baby girl. She has another six until she graduates and even after that, her plans are to move to one of the graduate houses on site for an undetermined amount of time. She sent me a letter the other day that asked me to thank her probation officer. She said the ministry is more than a rehab - it is <em>home</em>. <3 We have temporary custody of our grandson but he will be joining her there in about a month. </p><p></p><p>I am telling you our story because there IS hope!! After my daughter's relapse, I lost all hope. But it took an honest desire for her not to want to be a slave to a drug anymore and the right rehab. The rehab she is in does not believe in tossing out their clients to the street when times get tough. Matter of fact, they have had women leave and Granny (who founded and runs the rehab) will drive down the street and talk them into coming back. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> They know that the addiction is a family disease and we have co-dependency classes every other Saturday after visitation. They have an exit plan for every woman that graduates, but I can tell you that a LOT of women choose to stay after graduation. Many become staff members themselves.</p><p></p><p>So it is going to take her wanting to be clean, the right rehab and divine intervention. Until then, my suggestion is to take care of YOU. Don't stop loving her. Be supportive in guiding her to rehab but do not enable her addiction. This is a hard and blurry line. I had to turn my back on my daughter for a while. But thanks to the wonderful program she is in, it has come to light the reasons that made her use in the first place and she has been working on those issues. There are so many wonderful, beautiful women there that are addicts. I love them all. I pray your daughter has clarity to see that there IS a better life away from meth...it IS possible....</p><p></p><p>(((HUGS)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PatriotsGirl, post: 654918, member: 15796"] It affects everyone differently. My daughter's face would break out but her teeth are still perfect. She lost a TON of weight and didn't care what she looked like anymore. She always looked dirty and sweaty. Meth is HIGHLY addictive. I read that it makes people feel the best they have EVER felt in their lives. Why wouldn't they want to take it?? Then it wreaks havoc on their lives. Meth is SO destructive and they are dangerous when they are high. :( My daughter started using from a boyfriend. By the time I knew about it, she had been tossed out of school and we were at our wits end at home. Even after I found out, I thought I could get her in to a rehab - she was under 18. Wrong. Still over the age of medical consent. So at age 17, after dealing with two years of hades with her, I found a pipe in her room. I then gave her the ultimatum of rehab if she wanted to live at home. She said sayonara and lived on the streets for a few years. A few short rehab stays during that time but [I]nothing[/I] could draw her away from it. Then she got pregnant. Then she got arrested for a fight with the boyfriend. I jumped on the opportunity and contacted the courts. I told them she was pregnant and a drug addict. They asked what I wanted them to do and I said [I]help[/I] her. And they did. They drug tested her at her court intervention program and she tested positive. They locked her up immediately and she was locked up for the duration of her pregnancy. She had her baby in the hospital, but a police officer was right outside the door at all times. We took the baby home and they took her back to jail. It was devastating! After she had the baby, we thought she changed and she did - she was in mourning after falling in love with her baby so we let her come back home to raise her baby and get on her feet. She did great for a while until she got a job through a friend and that friend relapsed. It didn't take long before she relapsed, too. It went on for months, we suspected something was going on but she was being drug tested by probation and was passing them. We let her stay even after she was acting evil again, because of our grandson. She didn't like what she was doing and hated herself for it. She has since told me that she would pace the bedroom upstairs crying out to God to help her because she knew she could not do this on her own and she was too ashamed to come to us. Well, He answered her prayer all right. Her next probation meeting she tested dirty and they put her back in jail. During the two months she was in jail, she was writing rehabs on her own trying to find a program that she could get in to. Her probation officer told me about an outpatient program - it was outpatient but close to our house. I told her that was a joke. She then sent me a link to a residential program that was Christ centered. I knew this was the one - this was the right program. They picked her up on December 22nd and I was right - this rehab is not only the best thing to happen for her, but for me as well!! She is healing, our family is healing and my daughter and I are closer now than we have ever been in her entire life. Yesterday was four months for my baby girl. She has another six until she graduates and even after that, her plans are to move to one of the graduate houses on site for an undetermined amount of time. She sent me a letter the other day that asked me to thank her probation officer. She said the ministry is more than a rehab - it is [I]home[/I]. <3 We have temporary custody of our grandson but he will be joining her there in about a month. I am telling you our story because there IS hope!! After my daughter's relapse, I lost all hope. But it took an honest desire for her not to want to be a slave to a drug anymore and the right rehab. The rehab she is in does not believe in tossing out their clients to the street when times get tough. Matter of fact, they have had women leave and Granny (who founded and runs the rehab) will drive down the street and talk them into coming back. :) They know that the addiction is a family disease and we have co-dependency classes every other Saturday after visitation. They have an exit plan for every woman that graduates, but I can tell you that a LOT of women choose to stay after graduation. Many become staff members themselves. So it is going to take her wanting to be clean, the right rehab and divine intervention. Until then, my suggestion is to take care of YOU. Don't stop loving her. Be supportive in guiding her to rehab but do not enable her addiction. This is a hard and blurry line. I had to turn my back on my daughter for a while. But thanks to the wonderful program she is in, it has come to light the reasons that made her use in the first place and she has been working on those issues. There are so many wonderful, beautiful women there that are addicts. I love them all. I pray your daughter has clarity to see that there IS a better life away from meth...it IS possible.... (((HUGS))) [/QUOTE]
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