My 22 year old nephew is an active drug addict( Heroi-)....ripping his family ap!


Question: My sister,his mom, is hurting but at the same time protecting... he has been at 2 rehabs in Boca Raton and Detox at home, but goes back to using. We are afraid he is going to die. No one can help..Can you?any suggestions????


Answers: My sister,his mom, is hurting but at the same time protecting... he has been at 2 rehabs in Boca Raton and Detox at home, but goes back to using. We are afraid he is going to die. No one can help..Can you?any suggestions????

Make him live in an after care sober living home. He can carpool with people to A.A. meetings. If he has been to rehab twice, you would be waisting your money sending him again.

If he needs another stint at rehab, send him to Michael's House in Palm Springs. I have been to rehab twice and that one was a great program. It's very structured

I would also take him to a psychiatrists and try to get to the bottom of why he is self medicating. Drugs users can be "addicts".. addicted to drugs and that's why they use. Or, like me, I was self medicating my bipolar disorder... and addicted to drugs. Getting on pharma medication helped me get and stay sober.

have you tried an intervention i know it isnt easy but sounds like some restriction need to be made.... unfortunatly it is hard to help someone who doesnt want to help themselves. im not saying give up but make it harder for the person to get away with it. i mean even if they go to jail (i know this isnt nice but ) atleast they will have to get clean and will have to be checked on by the government all the time.

as for the family i pray that all willl be fixed and yall stick together

I suggest you watch the A&E series "Intervention". It is also available "ON DEMAND". If your cable provider offers that service. It gives incredible insight to drugs users and the families they hurt. Even though given expensive treatment most go back to using. He obviously can't stop using when put back in the same environment with the enabling sister and mom, friends and community. This is a very expensive habi and he will more than likely in up in jail. He'll only stop when he is good and ready and the enablers stop giving him a soft place to land.

i agree with leah, you, your sister, and mom need to have some kind of restrictions, (the harsher the better) i know it's going to be hard. but if ur family don't go through with this, it'll only make things worse. btw, i'm not 100% sure, but if u guys can keep him out of reach of hero- for about a month he should be fine. lock him up somewhere. it should help. but be aware that people who get addicited will harm themselves if they can't get any drugs. this will sound kinda inhumain, but tie him down if u guys have to. GOOD LUCK!

How about spiritual warfare? That is getting some Christians to pray about the demons that are attaching themselves to him and keeping him in bondage?

Look up Setting the Captives Free, Celebrate
Recovery Workbooks and the Life Recovery Bible





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