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<blockquote data-quote="docwatso" data-source="post: 726523" data-attributes="member: 22683"><p>Mom of a 26 year old heroin addicted son. His problems began around age 13, when his father committed suicide. He began smoking pot and eventually switched to selling it by age 16. Probably around age 16 he started taking pills. He barely graduated high school and dropped out of his first semester of college after meeting a meth addicted girl that he got pregnant. The baby was born and the mother pushed the baby in his stroller in front of a car. The baby then entered the foster system but is cared for by her grandmother. My son then started stealing from my husband and I (by then I had remarried). First it was three guns out of a gun collection we inherited. Because we were able to retrieve the guns, we did not charge him. That was the first of many enabling mistakes. After that, he stole checks out of my checkbook and wrote himself checks in the amount of $6,000 dollars and cashed them. Again, we should have charged him. Because we didn't, the bank would not refund the money. He continued to steal cash from my purse until we finally threw him out of the house. He went to jail several time for petty theft. He went through three cars we bought him, either wrecking or trashing them or selling them for drug money. Then my husband and I moved out of state for job transfer and he was homeless, living with one friend after another. After six months he called and said he wanted to join us in CO. He drove out there and I helped him detox from methadone. For two years he held a good job and did well while living with us. Then all of a sudden he decided to try heroin. It has been straight downhill ever since. He hooked up with another meth user girlfriend and they left the state for a vacation and were caught in KS with meth and heroin and were arrested. Stupidly, I signed on his bond. He jumped bail and I am out $12,000 dollars. That was the last straw. He is hiding from the police somewhere in Kansas but I am finally finished with him. I just cannot do this anymore. So all of you who are dealing with sons or daughters heading down the path my son took, please do not enable them like I did. It just makes things worse. I did it out of love but it was a mistake. My son never had love for me. He just used me until I was used up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="docwatso, post: 726523, member: 22683"] Mom of a 26 year old heroin addicted son. His problems began around age 13, when his father committed suicide. He began smoking pot and eventually switched to selling it by age 16. Probably around age 16 he started taking pills. He barely graduated high school and dropped out of his first semester of college after meeting a meth addicted girl that he got pregnant. The baby was born and the mother pushed the baby in his stroller in front of a car. The baby then entered the foster system but is cared for by her grandmother. My son then started stealing from my husband and I (by then I had remarried). First it was three guns out of a gun collection we inherited. Because we were able to retrieve the guns, we did not charge him. That was the first of many enabling mistakes. After that, he stole checks out of my checkbook and wrote himself checks in the amount of $6,000 dollars and cashed them. Again, we should have charged him. Because we didn't, the bank would not refund the money. He continued to steal cash from my purse until we finally threw him out of the house. He went to jail several time for petty theft. He went through three cars we bought him, either wrecking or trashing them or selling them for drug money. Then my husband and I moved out of state for job transfer and he was homeless, living with one friend after another. After six months he called and said he wanted to join us in CO. He drove out there and I helped him detox from methadone. For two years he held a good job and did well while living with us. Then all of a sudden he decided to try heroin. It has been straight downhill ever since. He hooked up with another meth user girlfriend and they left the state for a vacation and were caught in KS with meth and heroin and were arrested. Stupidly, I signed on his bond. He jumped bail and I am out $12,000 dollars. That was the last straw. He is hiding from the police somewhere in Kansas but I am finally finished with him. I just cannot do this anymore. So all of you who are dealing with sons or daughters heading down the path my son took, please do not enable them like I did. It just makes things worse. I did it out of love but it was a mistake. My son never had love for me. He just used me until I was used up. [/QUOTE]
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