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<blockquote data-quote="worried sick mother" data-source="post: 664333" data-attributes="member: 19069"><p>My son will be 23 soon, he has never been to treatment for drugs. He has been getting treatment for bipolar 2 disorder which I really don't think he has nor does he take the prescribed medication. They diagnosed him with bipolar 2 and never ruled out drugs. Up until the past few weeks and him wrecking his car and getting a DUI not for alcohol we didn't know if it's really bipolar or drugs, now we know for sure he uses drugs. Just don't know the extent of his addiction . I shouldn't have been so naive , if drugs are mentioned he goes completely off, that should have been a big red flag that it's drugs. He uses this bipolar diagnosis as a crutch and says that he just takes a Xanax (not prescribed to him) occasionally to calm himself down. The only reason he is even telling that is because they did a blood test when he got the DUI and I'm sure he knows it will show up in his system. He seemed completely normal yesterday. He slipped up and said something about a Xanax bar in a text to me. I had never heard of this so I googled it and it sounds like Xanax bars are very abused and addicting, it's compared to heroin. The counselor said he may have bipolar and may be treating himself but we can't know until the drugs are ruled out. My sons girlfriends mother sent me a message and told me that they are both messed up on something every time she sees them. She is not very involved or helps with anything with my sons girlfriend the way I am. </p><p> Alanon in my town is not very organized or have a leader but that's been about a year ago, I will try again and hopefully it's improved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="worried sick mother, post: 664333, member: 19069"] My son will be 23 soon, he has never been to treatment for drugs. He has been getting treatment for bipolar 2 disorder which I really don't think he has nor does he take the prescribed medication. They diagnosed him with bipolar 2 and never ruled out drugs. Up until the past few weeks and him wrecking his car and getting a DUI not for alcohol we didn't know if it's really bipolar or drugs, now we know for sure he uses drugs. Just don't know the extent of his addiction . I shouldn't have been so naive , if drugs are mentioned he goes completely off, that should have been a big red flag that it's drugs. He uses this bipolar diagnosis as a crutch and says that he just takes a Xanax (not prescribed to him) occasionally to calm himself down. The only reason he is even telling that is because they did a blood test when he got the DUI and I'm sure he knows it will show up in his system. He seemed completely normal yesterday. He slipped up and said something about a Xanax bar in a text to me. I had never heard of this so I googled it and it sounds like Xanax bars are very abused and addicting, it's compared to heroin. The counselor said he may have bipolar and may be treating himself but we can't know until the drugs are ruled out. My sons girlfriends mother sent me a message and told me that they are both messed up on something every time she sees them. She is not very involved or helps with anything with my sons girlfriend the way I am. Alanon in my town is not very organized or have a leader but that's been about a year ago, I will try again and hopefully it's improved. [/QUOTE]
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