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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is your mother? Also, what happened to your sister, what pain is she trying to numb with the drugs?[/quote]

“Blame the parents for everything” pp has entered the room. Because it’s never normal teenage social anxiety leading to experimentation leading to much more.[/quote]

She’s not blaming the parents but she most likely was raped at some point.[/quote]

Get help for projecting horrible things onto anonymous people on the interwebs. [/quote]

Statistics is your friend.

There is a huge chance she has trauma. Addiction is a disease in response to something underlying, perhaps she is bipolar or schizophrenic but [b]my $ is on trauma.
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You, my lady, are the one projecting.[/quote]

Oh good. Pp has diagnosed a complete stranger and recommended trauma therapy.  Ruling out so many other causes, like untreated depression and anxiety or bad choice of friends.

DCUM never fails to disappoint. [/quote]

What do you think is causing anxiety and depression.

About 70% of addicted adults have trauma in their past.

Just playing the odds.[/quote]

Cite for that 70% figure? Oh wait, you pulled it out of your butt.

You’re playing a dangerous game with strangers’ lives. [/quote]

https://imprintnews.org/child-trauma-2/when-trauma-slips-into-addiction/32462

https://www.gatewayfoundation.org/addiction-blog/trauma-and-addiction/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051362/

https://www.silvermistrecovery.com/2018/09/2019-guide-the-link-between-childhood-trauma-and/

https://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/resources/making_the_connection_trauma_substance_abuse.pdf

https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/publications-archive/brain/addiction-brain

https://www.scranton.edu/faculty/morgan/PDF/Thoughts%20on%20the%20Interaction%20of%20Trauma,%20Addiction,%20and%20Spirituality.pdf

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Most of these are ABOUT trauma and asserting a link of unspecified magnitude, and at least two have the link going in the wrong direction you're trying to prove (the share of people with trauma who became addicted, not the share of addicts who had trauma). Nobody is denying there's a link between trauma and addiction. What's dangerous is assuming that every addict, including people you've never met like OP's sister, have trauma like rape (your speculation) in their past. That Mayo link shows a lot of other potential reasons, like depression and other mental illness, friends, and even just trying a highly addictive drug (OP's sister is on cocaine, so that's a smoking gun right there).

What's at stake is OP's sister getting the right kind of treatment right out of the gate. She needs an ADDICTION therapist, who can recommend a trauma or other specialist as needed.[/quote]

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