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[quote=Anonymous]You cannot have your 16 year old daughter stealing controlled stimulants and selling them onward to other students. God knows what she's doing with the proceeds. Presumably she's not putting the money in a 529 and saving for college.

You have a big problem. Your daughter is on the edge of destroying other children's lives and getting into some serious criminal problems herself.

You need to have a serious talk about the drugs and how they allow people with ADHD to function. They are prescribed to people with ADHD for a reason. Your brain works differently. You need them if your daughter wants a roof over her head. Selling such drugs is an extremely serious criminal offense. She is of the age where if a DA wants to pursue it she could be charged as an adult and looking at years of jail time. If anyone she sold the drugs to gets hurt or commits a crime, that's on your daughter. And even more charges.

She is on the edge of catastrophe.

Fortunately, it's pretty easy to dole out discipline and consequences to teenagers these days. You take away her phone. It's gone for at least a month. You take away any access to money, and whatever cash you do give her, she needs to show receipts. Her non-school hours are now under strict supervision. Her only way out is to rebuild trust. She's probably using herself, so tell her one more screw up and she's off to rehab. She's looking at a month of suck. It's up to her how things go from there.

Sorry. Better to be a hard ass now, then a lifetime of this crap. You do not want a child going down this road. But the phone and her access to it is a remarkably convenient disciplinary tool. Use it.

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