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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a different perspective-

Found our S was using pills that turned into heroin use. We had no idea. I was a SAHM and involved in my kids lives. He hid it well, grades were good but slowly started to isolate and had mood swings which signaled something was wrong. Found out about 5 weeks later just how bad things were. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

We sent him right away to an out of state rehab and he started to get help. Though I am very private my H felt comfortable sharing with close friends and family what was going on. I did not agree but understood that is he was coping.

Turns out once he reached out to others, to tell them what was going on in our family, people literally came out of the woodwork. It seemed like every single person we knew had been affected in some way by addiction. A relative, close friend, sibling...it was so prevalent, scary and really shocking as everyone hides behind this false front that all is well.

Some of our friends that shared with us really shocked us as they were the ones we thought were totally together. It did give us a sense of comfort to know we were not alone and it instantly gave us a group of people with whom to share when we were going through some really rough days.

That was 3 years ago, it was a bumpy ride for about a year (3 rehabs) but today he is back in college and will graduate in about a year. He is applying for dental school and has a wonderful gf who has been so supportive. He has adopted the 12 steps and attends meetings 4 times a week religiously.

We have supported him every step and it was not always east though these meetings he has met what he calls true lifelong friends who have his back and don't judge.

He is a great kid who got lost in the jungle of addiction. It happens to the best of them and recovery IS possible.[/quote]

He made a conscious choice to use drugs.  He did not get lost in the jungle.[/quote]

NO you are wrong, your ignorance is astounding. He started off with a sport injury and was given oxy.  He took it only a few days and [b]unbeknownst to us went to get more[/b] (and was given more by dr). The rest is history, it was a quick and furious downward spiral very very fast. When he could not get enough money he was sold/offered heroin.
To reply to another question, he was in private but don't kid yourself it's EVERYWHERE. I can honestly say at his rehab about 70% were just like him, well to do, white privileged, successful families, NOT the picture you expect to see for heroin addiction. It was extremely shocking to me first since I knew nothing about "the drug world" but mostly who it is affecting most.

I want to reiterate to all parents out here, we had NO IDEA. With many kids, you see signs in our sons case, he maintained everything quite well until it was a full blown addiction then we started to see cracks in the veneer. I do not wish this upon anyone but do be wise, be smart and aware. He was the last kid I thought this could happen to, and many others have echoed this same refrain. Top student athlete, had everything going for him.[/quote]

NP here.  Don't kid yourself, your son could have and should have stopped taking oxy after the initial medical need (his injury) ran out but he did not.  He didn't because taking it felt good to him and he could get away with it.  I highly doubt he was in the grips of addiction by the end of his first Oxy script, or his second.  You don't need to demonize people who see most drug addicts for what they are - people who chose to chase a high, and chose the wrong drug.[/quote]
She didn't say he was "in the grips of addiction by the end of his first Oxy script, or his second." She said it was a quick downward spiral after that. Two oxy scripts can indeed set a person on a rapid path to addiction. I'm sure you're right that he took it because it felt good. I'm not sure what your point is.[/quote]

The point is this kid [b]chose[/b] to get his second script of oxy and he [b]chose[/b] to do whatever he did after that to get high again.  He wasn't hapless, it didn't "just happen" to him and he wasn't "lost in a jungle" at that point, there were poor choices this kid made and all of you who choose not to acknowledge personal responsibility in many cases of addiction is fueling the problem.[/quote]

You have very little understanding of addiction. What exact purpose do you think hammering "bad choices" does? Addiction is obviously more than just an issue of choice. If it were that easy nobody would be an addict. And we wouldn't see addiction rates skyrocketing in parallel to the availability of highly addicting drugs. The opioid and crack crises did not happen because people suddenly lost willpower en masse. They happened because those substances became widely available and are very addictive. [/quote]

You are unable to accept that your precious snowflakes chose to get high on the wrong crap and now they are addicted.  Much easier to say it's not their fault.  The same poor parenting that got your kids into the situation. [/quote]

Wow. Ok.

The fact is, you're making a circular argument.  Nobody denies that addicts start out taking drugs because it feels good, and then thereafter lack the willpower to just stop.  If it didn't feel good and did not erode willpower, it wouldn't be addiction.  We know that.  And I don't see any evidence that there's a sudden epidemic of bad parenting (as opposed to the sudden availability of highly addictive and highly available drugs). [/quote]

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