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<blockquote data-quote="Smithmom" data-source="post: 743086" data-attributes="member: 23371"><p>I'm so sorry. But as you know, as painful as it is, there's nothing you can do to save him. We all live with this reality every moment of every day. The key to stress reduction is to accept this. I repeat the AA prayer to myself as a mantra. But more importantly, yes, stress can kill. We need to save ourselves. In my experience that can only come by letting go of the idea that we have control, that there is anything that we can do.</p><p></p><p>My son is doing 9.5 in federal prison. I choose to see this as a gift to me. He is alive when many of his friends have died. Heroin or any number of other drugs he used over the years could easily have killed him. And he did come close. Prison is horrible. No nice words for it. Nothing good about it. But his chances of being alive at the end of his sentence are very significantly higher than if he were not there. Would I feel the same if it were life? I don't know. But life is still life. </p><p></p><p>You are trying to convince him to give up drugs and go to prison. You are applying logic and reason. Your son, an addict, is refusing. He doesn't see or accept the logic. Can you convince him? What's the chances? Sorry to say, you know the chances here. Logic and reason tells you that. Please save yourselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Smithmom, post: 743086, member: 23371"] I'm so sorry. But as you know, as painful as it is, there's nothing you can do to save him. We all live with this reality every moment of every day. The key to stress reduction is to accept this. I repeat the AA prayer to myself as a mantra. But more importantly, yes, stress can kill. We need to save ourselves. In my experience that can only come by letting go of the idea that we have control, that there is anything that we can do. My son is doing 9.5 in federal prison. I choose to see this as a gift to me. He is alive when many of his friends have died. Heroin or any number of other drugs he used over the years could easily have killed him. And he did come close. Prison is horrible. No nice words for it. Nothing good about it. But his chances of being alive at the end of his sentence are very significantly higher than if he were not there. Would I feel the same if it were life? I don't know. But life is still life. You are trying to convince him to give up drugs and go to prison. You are applying logic and reason. Your son, an addict, is refusing. He doesn't see or accept the logic. Can you convince him? What's the chances? Sorry to say, you know the chances here. Logic and reason tells you that. Please save yourselves. [/QUOTE]
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