Just how prevalent is this oxy addiction thing among our young adults in top privates?
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Anonymous
Well, you keep telling yourself that. Just keep you head in the sand and all will continue to be fine. After all, it's someone else's fault. |
Anonymous
Wait, I thought you were blaming the children who were stupid enough to be born to parents who served them alcohol? |
Anonymous
Good Lord, Ok just keep making excuses. Or are you an enabler? |
Anonymous
+1 NP. Sounds to me more like the PP using all caps is desperate for what s/he is yelling to be true. Pathetic. |
Anonymous
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On DCUM, there's always a reason why a misfortune was your fault -- particularly if it's a misfortune related to your income and/or your choice of parents. It's one of the basic DCUM beliefs. Like,
1. It's hard to make ends meet on $350,000 per year. 2. My way of doing [whatever] is the right way, and everybody ought to do it that way. 3. Any misfortune related to your lack of income or your choice of parents is your own fault. |
Anonymous
And every movie out of Hollywood has adults getting high and drunk. Anyone can get addicted! |
Anonymous
Half of those people having nightly wine are addicted also. A drug is a drug and it does nothing good to your brain. |
Anonymous
Citation please. |
Anonymous
At a pain management clinic? Or a regular physician practice? |
Anonymous
It is how the brain works. If you drink wine every night for two years and then stop all at once you will go through withdrawal. Why because you have changed your brain chemistry. So you were addicted to a drug. Same as if you were smoking cigarettes every day. Also if you drink wine every night to get a buzz and you have kids then you are parenting your child constantly when you are buzzed. You may not reach the level of addiction where people drink 2 bottles of vodka a night and can't get up to go to work and end up losing their jobs. But all drugs and alcohol give a temporary high that changes the brain. Alcohol and drug use and abuse is more on a spectrum of how much damage it is causing your brain and life. If you are drinking nightly you are on that spectrum and causing more damage than you can admit. |
Anonymous
Thanks for that citation from the published research of your butt. |
Anonymous
Oh God, us too. This is nearly our exact story, except my brother became addicted at much younger (while AT that vaunted private school), has a family, and my parents are both still alive and enabling him. What is especially tragic to me is that my mother is stuck in this endless loop of trying to identify what/how things went wrong. Now that I have my own kids I'm also terrified this will somehow happen to them. |
Anonymous
| Private school = lots of money; lots of money = drugs. |
Anonymous
You sound like my alcoholic in law that lashes out at everyone because they can't face the truth. Trying to rationalize your wine cellars filled with 100's of bottles of a liquid drug. |
Anonymous
I will limit myself to the question asked, which went to families with resources. If a family has money, the quickest and surest route to recovery is to take the child to an accelerated detox place. There are two I know of, one in Richmond and another in Michigan. Can get URLs if interested. It costs about $5000 as I recall. It ends with a Vivitrol implant that needs to be changed approximately every two weeks. There are local Vivitrol providers but not sure if they do the implants; however, if you have money some extra trips to Richmond won't break you. It is highly recommended to have the implants in for at least a year. The accelerated detox is not covered by insurance typically, but the implants should be if not the procedure for implanting. Then have the child attend NA meetings very regularly, certainly at lest once a day in the beginning. These are usually open so you can check a couple out beforehand so you can check out the culture. It can vary widely among meeting places. One thing to check out if you can is the extent to which they rely on volunteers and the extent to which they actively recruit newcomers to volunteer positions. Volunteer work can be a critical component in getting the child invested in NA. NA is free, but it can be really helpful for users from all walks of economic life. If you have reason to believe your child has turned to drugs because of abuse or other mental health problems, aggressively pursue therapy with a therapist your child clicks with. Initially, you might want to do twice a week. I would not do a knee jerk into an expensive rehab. The failure rates are very high, even at the very high end ones. Many say they do dual diagnosis but their actual view typically is that all psychological problems are caused by drugs. Maybe if you are talking a hardened long time user, but pretty much wrong for most teenagers. As a result, if your child has mental health problems their method of addressing them will be group therapy with the general rehab population. Even at expensive places, your child would be extraordinarily lucky to get individual therapy once a week, and even then it is probably with a drug counselor, not a real therapist. The one exception I have found is Reunion in San Diego, which allows for a large number of hours a day of therapy. It no longer seems to offer a residence option (really just a house--all therapy is off site). That would mean accompanying your child to San Diego and renting a place for the duration of treatment or, if money is really no object, hiring a sober companion to go with your child. |