Cocodmol addiction

Your son sounds like he needs to go to a detox centre and rehab to get the help he really needs. Some gps (one of mine included) refuse to believe that people get an addiction to this poison. His body needs a break from this stuff before he does some real damage to it. People die from this stuff. Some stories I have read over the years truly are shocking. I have a son who is an ice addict so I can totally relate to your dilemma.

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please understand that it is too difficult to make a correct diagnosis of your son, based on a thread, however, I have to point out that according to what you have written I would surmise he is suffering from severe depression, and as such the need he feels for the drugs is extremely symbiotic. I urge you to get your son to a psychiatrist, go through your or his GP, please do this asap.

I am sorry that I cannot be any more help here, but I do assure you that if you are able to act on this advice your son will get better.

Good luck Jo, to your boy as well!

David.

I'm going to try to take a life view from a distance at this - all the pills, issues, circumstances seem from what you've written, are a vicious cycle that seems inevitably to be heading toward destruction. You both talk, I assume, and I imagine the conversations seem to go round in circles. But conversation, building friendship and importantly trust is crucial in the first instance to sorting this. No matter how complex any device, problem or mechanism, everything can be broken down to it's siplest component.

I think the root reason is why do we go off on these benders? It goes for depression too. And why do a vast majority of ex prisoners re-offend? Is it because they go back to exactly the same routines, ruts and habits? I think part of the answer is a total change of scene and habits - it's what occupies (or doesn't) the mind, and I bet a bored mind is a destructive one. the root cause is boredom. I speak from experience.

I've been there. I'm not an ex con, but have suffered bad depression, an ex 64 N+ per day person (now on a substitute program) and if I stop to analyize for one minute, stop, think about what I'm doing and why. I made my comparison of depression as an unpenetrable dark sky - and a change of thought pattern can offer a chink of sunlight - and once you see that chink, that's what to aim for.

Replacing negatives with positives; and with out sounding like a hippy, balance. Nutrition, exercise (and I've sworn at people who've said that to me), those are key. I suggest you two need to change your environment immediately for a few days at least; you two and no-one else.Take what you need and have a f***ing good chat, and I guarantee that the first issue, aired, will be "neither of us likes where we are at the moment" Agree on that, then you can make a plan. Brainstorm. Where you are now and where you want to be, and then how to get there.

t's amazing how that energizes the mind (and I know I'm in danger of patronisation, I don't intend that, I just have experience). Break ups, alcoholism...Keep it simple if you can - mind, body and soul. I don't do religion in any way, but that feeling of change, wanting to breakout - and massively important - MUSIC.

I don't know what to say; but I hope you feel it helped in the tiniest way.

I wish you well,

Rich