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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 704852" data-attributes="member: 15801"><p>Thank you for all your comments. My son has shown he can survive on the streets but it doesn't help him. It will eventually get him to rehab but our experience is that is not enough.... going to rehab to get off the streets is not a commitment to recovery at least for my son. The one time we feel that rehab really helped and he seemed committed to recovery was when he himself realized his drinking had gotten out of control and he needed detox.</p><p></p><p>So my hope at this point is first that he somehow pulls his life together, gets a job, and he is right and once things are going right he wont need to drink. Ok so I doubt that will happen... hopefully he will get a job and start getting his life together but I think drinking will remain a problem. The other hope I have is that he himself will realize how bad the drinking is getting and will ask us for help again. I think that is possible because he has gotten to that place before. The third option is that it will get really bad and unliveable for us and we will have to kick him out. We will do that if he starts stealing from us, gets really disrespectful and certainly if there's s any violence or threats of violence. Or if he is doing illegal stuff here.... At this point he is old enough to drink and pot just became legal here.</p><p></p><p>At this point I don't have a moral stand on drinking or smoking pot. It is not a moral issue for me. I have no problem with people doing it who can do it moderately. The problem is my son can't but he has to figure that out.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Right now it is a bit of a waiting game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 704852, member: 15801"] Thank you for all your comments. My son has shown he can survive on the streets but it doesn't help him. It will eventually get him to rehab but our experience is that is not enough.... going to rehab to get off the streets is not a commitment to recovery at least for my son. The one time we feel that rehab really helped and he seemed committed to recovery was when he himself realized his drinking had gotten out of control and he needed detox. So my hope at this point is first that he somehow pulls his life together, gets a job, and he is right and once things are going right he wont need to drink. Ok so I doubt that will happen... hopefully he will get a job and start getting his life together but I think drinking will remain a problem. The other hope I have is that he himself will realize how bad the drinking is getting and will ask us for help again. I think that is possible because he has gotten to that place before. The third option is that it will get really bad and unliveable for us and we will have to kick him out. We will do that if he starts stealing from us, gets really disrespectful and certainly if there's s any violence or threats of violence. Or if he is doing illegal stuff here.... At this point he is old enough to drink and pot just became legal here. At this point I don't have a moral stand on drinking or smoking pot. It is not a moral issue for me. I have no problem with people doing it who can do it moderately. The problem is my son can't but he has to figure that out. Right now it is a bit of a waiting game. [/QUOTE]
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