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Originally Posted by Missy
Crack
Smoking
This time around it's been since November of last year, but it's been one thing or another for the past 12 years. This is just the newest phase, but this is the first time it's ever become a real problem. Since the beginning of this year, the two of them have burned through over $45k on the drug and have had to borrow and mooch money from everybody they can just to keep their house and car and food in their kids' bellies.
Less than a year on this particular drug doesn't seem like a very long time, but when they've already reached the stage where their young kids are running around fending for themselves all weekend while the parents are crashed out, or when their friends come over and leave the shit on the kitchen counter for the kids to find... it's far past the point that they need to get some help. And this is the same person who, up until a couple of years ago, I had as my role model for parenting. This is NOT them and they've turned into completely different people than they were even a year ago.
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From my understanding of crack...it kinda leads to a psychosis. They are more or less insane while they're doing it.
That just makes rehab all the more important. They need to detox and get it out of their system before they can even begin to seek therapy for the addiction itself.
I do withdraw my suggestion for calling CPS. Getting a family member or friend to intervene instead is a much better idea, if thats an option. My main point in that regard was to not make empty threats. If you say you're going to do something, follow through with it.
Its a horribly difficult thing to deal with, and I wish you the best of luck. Both of my parents were addiction to drugs my whole life. It's a shitty thing for any kid to have to go through. If I had to suggest one thing, it would be to find a way to get those kids out of there and into a stable, drug free environment. If my grandmother hadn't taken me away from my parents and raised me, theres no telling where I would be right now.