Center For Discovery Long Beach ?
Hi there, I'm thinking of sending my 15yr old son here for substance abuse. Has any been treated here? If so how was your experience? Would you recommend? Or do you know someone treated there and was...
View ArticleHow Can You Tell?
How can you tell if your closed ones are abusing drugs? Among behavioral changes, deteriorating, and deteriorating financial conditions, which ones are good indications that your closed ones are...
View ArticleCan i stop my teen experimenting?
I have a teenage son who has been experimenting with drugs. He's being using marijuana, and it's becoming quite a regular occurrence. I worry that he is becoming psychologically dependent on it. I've...
View ArticleShould Family attend AA/NA meetings with addicts?
Is it beneficial for family or friends to attend NA or AA meetings with recovering addicts? I ask because I offered to go with a family member and they told me that it was not encouraged and that I...
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i am looking for someone to talk to online about my alcoholic husband
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I have dealt with addicts since I was a child my parents were addicts then I myself became addicted I overcame it and have been clean for 8 years but my husband has never been clean he has been on a...
View ArticleWanting to be helped
I know from experience that we cannot help someone that doesn't want to be helped. I feel that as far as family and friends are concerned, more with family especially if we are living with them, that...
View ArticleToo Late This Time- The Price of Denial
Today I watched a family say good bye to a loved one. Dead at age 23 from heroin, leaving behind a little baby girl that will never know of dad. It is a very sad thing to lose anyone, it is even worse...
View ArticleBad gifts for addicts
Everyone wants to make sure they give gifts which the recipient will love, but for people with addiction what they want can make it worse. Bad gifts include anything that can potentially worsen a...
View ArticleIrresponsible Dr. keeps prescribing to my mom help
I just need help I don't know what to do my mother is 100 lbs soaking wet and has horrible lungs and several heart attacks and emergency heart surgeries. She is not in good health at all however she...
View ArticleHow do you know for sure?
Someone in my life was prescribed adderall and/or Ritalin a number of years ago. This was a few years after she recovered from alcohol abuse. She lost a drastic amount of weight (not sure if this was...
View ArticleHow do you deal with a drug addict, whether it be family or a friend?
And do you know anybody who is/was an addict?I'm sort of going through a bit of an ordeal with an aunt to who are HEAVILY suspect is abusing drugs
View ArticleDo drug treatment programs include activities or lectures regarding family...
My brother Jeff checked into a drug rehab a week ago and I miss him. He says that he's doing just fine and that he's enjoying the activities and the lectures included in the program. I think he's in...
View ArticleWhy dont drug addicts want to go to rehab?
Just watching intervention on A&E and was curious. What do they have to lose? Why are they so adamant about not going to get themselves clean and sober?
View ArticleNot really sure what to do anymore.
Hello, I really need advice on my situation. I am 41 I am married and have 3 teenage sons, I also have a daughter who is grown and out on her own with my grandbaby and soon to be another grandbaby.For...
View ArticleI don't know what to do.
My wife of 21 years has been an addict for about 7 years now. I have tried so hard to help her. She has tried detoxing in a hospital, AA meetings, and a church program. Nothing has worked. She is an...
View ArticleI'm afraid of losing my brother...again
My older brother has been a heroin addict for close to 10 years now. He is 31 and still living with my parents. He entered a methadone program 3 years ago and has been sober since, with only a couple...
View ArticleToday I let go of a addict and his family that I love so very much,
Wow where do I begin. I've never had a addict in my life, never knew it was possible to fall in love with one, but I did.. A year and over $15,000 later today I walked away. I could go into story after...
View ArticleI Dont Know What To Do Anymore
My father has been a heroin/pill addict for pretty much five years now, and still is. He has been through rehab twice, for small periods of time, and has joined drug meetings and things like that. It...
View ArticleSupport Groups For Teens With Family Member Addicts
Hey! So, my father is a heavy Heroin/Pill addict and its really taken a toll on me. Ive always been interested in trying support groups, but i have a hard time finding ones for Teenagers with family...
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