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[quote=Anonymous]Re: the garbage poster.

I kind of get feeling that way about a person who has become a truly hardened addict and there is little hope that they will ever pull out of it.  But the vast majority of heroin addicts are actually not in this category.  They are newer users and they can be salvaged way more easily.

The key is for the family to step in and step it up.  Rehab is not necessarily a better answer than staying in place with family that has educated itself on how to set boundaries and use appropriate strategies with the recovering addict. (Tough love as it is commonly understood is not one of them.)  Rehabs, despite their abysmal success rates, are increasingly becoming your tax dollars at work or your tax dollars being scammed depending on how you look at it.

My child freely admits and is thankful that I stepped it up to pull him out of the early stages of addiction.  There were missteps along the way, but in the end I learned what worked to get to a successful outcome.  My child had a big problem but was not garbage then and certainly not now.  He is super-motivated to make up for his lost time and is excelling at school while holding down a part-time job in IT.  He has big plans for his future, bigger perhaps than he would have had had addiction not intervened.

He has cut off all contact with two friends who have since fallen into hardened addiction that is so deep there is very little hope left.  As in they are in a methadone program so they can ensure a steady supply of opiates in case they can't score heroin on a particular day.  Garbage isn't the word I would use for them, but their lives are very bleak.[/quote]

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