Topic : 12/19 Generation Rx

Do you have children? It doesn't appear that you do. Ask your parents what they would do to you if you were using drugs and stealing from them.

I called the police on my child as well! Since his drug use he has gotten violent. He did attend rehab and is continuing therapy. His violent behavior has gotten better. 

He too has run away from home, he has also had his "girlfriend" in our home at 3 am while we were sleeping. Oh, I called the police on her too and at any time that she chooses to contact him again, I can have her arrested as well!

What's a parent to do when their child does not respect them? I had one of 2 choices. 1, Call the police and let them mediate or 2 smack the crap out of my kid for being such a smart mouth and end up in jail myself? I know I did the right thing by calling the police.

In September 2004 I started using crystal meth. At first I did it once a month then every weekend then i was doing it every few hours. I loved the feeling and the whole experience. I did it with my boyfriend whom I married in December of that year. At first we had no problems. Then I started getting violent toward him, we were stealing from his family and our relationship started falling apart. We decided to quit together in June 2005. We put down the pipe and decided that we would not pick it up ever again. We didn't experience any withdrawls, relapses, and our relationsip began to improve. I found out in late July that I was pregnant. We were so releaved that we had quit when we did. We realised that our baby could have suffered for our bad choices. We were content about the direction our lives were going. We felt as if we were pulled out of a deep hole that was just getting deeper. We were lucky to have realised what drugs were doing to our marriage and what they could have done to our potential future family. I am sharing this story for parents who have kids involved in drugs. I was 18 to 19 years old at the time. Now I feel like my life has gone further than it would have if I hadn't hit rock bottom. I want you all to know that there is hope. Dr. Phil said on his show that he's never seen this happen in 30+ years. But it did happen to me and I'm glad to be one to tip his scale.

Hi sept.

Again, thanks for sharing. I think we should leave it as is and let you continue to work through this without the burden of my continued curiousity. I admire your spirit, lol:

"He doesn't repsect me right now and until he does he will not get any privileges from me."

Good luck. You're fortunate he is still into his studies.

You're quite a tiger: calling the police on his girlfriend was brilliant, lol. We ought to put you in charge of preventing irresponsible pregnancies.

As tough as you are I feel compelled to ask you to sort out the following:

"He says the way I raised him was 'fake'. That was his reason why he did drugs. He also says I raised him to be someone he doesn't want to be."

Also, to what does he attribute his anxiety disorder?

Do you understand that this girl Christine, is a joke? Drinking 2oz of cough syrup a day will not do anything for you. The body builds up a resistance to DXM and as a result she was probably just drinking cough syrup for attention. She is/was an irresponsible person who couldn't be content with her life so did what she needed to do to obtain it. Her coming out onto national T.V. talking about her vaunted drug problem? Bullshit. Sorry, but thats not a drug problem. Ingesting 500+ mg of DXM a day would be a drug problem. But this is just rediculous. She was ingesting ~200ishmg of DXM. Barely enough to produce an effect on a lightweight, muchless someone who does it everyday.

You parents need to brush up on your facts.

Okay,

Clearly, you have no children, or know of anyone with a drug problem. Cough syrup may seem harmless to you...And it is when used to suppress coughing. However you have no right to decide that this isn't a serious problem for this girl. She believes that she needs it.

It is a  "drug problem" for her. SHE HAS A PROBLEM. People become addicted to all kinds of things that appear "harmless". The addiction is her belief that she needs it, the medicine isn't physically addicting, it is mentally addicting to her.

Sex isn't physically addicting either, nor is food. But there are plenty of sex and food addicts out there. Marijuana isn't psychically addicting , yet heavy users need to smoke pot everyday to function.

There was a time when people believed sniffing glue was harmless and that it was OK to drink and drive. There were even ads in magazine promoted the use of cocaine. Several scientists claimed that cocaine was non-addictive.  Wow... Looks like they were wrong.

Cough medicine may not be as harmless as you think... Don't be so naive.

Have you tried rehab? Have you checked to see if there are any state funded drug programs for teens in your area? Call your city council man or check with his attorney about  drug diversions programs instead of house arrest.

And the 60's and 70's were so much better?  Back then it was almost impossible for a teenager NOT have a job or help out at home and people found plenty of time to use drugs. 

It doesn't matter where you live, in suburbs, the country, or under a bus, drugs are available every where.

At least now we have the knowledge and resources available to help our kids. Rehab was unheard of not to long ago.

What color is the sky in your world? It must be nice to blame your parents for everything. God forbid you should ever have to take any personal responsibility for your behavior. What accepting that our parents do/did the best they can and rest is up to us?

Tell us all how to be perfect parents, since you're an expert on raising perfect children.