Drug Alcohol Help Q&A for Parents: Is Your Child
Struggling with Alcoholism or Drug Addiction?

My 40 Year Old Daughter Is an Addict. I Don't Know What To Do Anymore.  
My 40 year old daughter has struggled with drugs and alcohol for many years, since she was 20. I just don't know what to do anymore. There was a period ...

My Drug Addicted 21 Year Old Daughter Is Spiraling Out of Control  
My 21 year old daughter has been shooting up painkillers and now is doing Meth. She has been having drug problems off an on since she was 14. She has a ...

My Son Is Addicted to Drugs and Is Stealing, Selling, Lying and Ripping People Off. 
My 17 yr old son is addicted to drugs. He steals from us and his own grandparents. He steals from his own friends homes. He has been caught selling, My ...

Nephew Addicted to Pain Meds, Debilitated w/Depression, Downward Spiral of Joblessness 
My 23-year-old nephew is the product of an extremely toxic home resulting in persistent medical complaints since childhood. These appear to be emotionally ...

Alcohol Relapse 
My 23 yr old son has be sober for 22 days after going through a horrific experience of delirium tremens. Most days appears to be doing well until today....

My Son Is a Drug Addict: Help Please I Am Begging!! 
My 19 year old son is addicted to drugs and is an alcoholic! He moved out about 2 weeks ago! I know he is by law an adult but he is in no way shape or ...

My Son Has Relapsed and Is Probably Going to Prison now. I Am Terrified 
My son is an addict. He has done pot, lortabs, bath salts. He was arrested for breaking into a car, and got drug court. He relapsed, got two months ...

My 26 yr Old-Step Son Is an Alcoholic and We Seem Not To Be Able To Help Him.  
He almost died 9 months ago with alcoholic poisoning and alcohol induced hepatitis and . was in the hospital for 6 weeks and went to rehab for one week....

My Drug Addicted Daughter Hospitalized and Won't Quit.  
My daughter is 24 years old and has 2 beautiful girls; ages 13 months and 4years old and they have different fathers. She married out of high school and ...

19 Year Old Daughter Is Smoking Marijuana. Her Behavior and Personality Changed Dramatically! 
I have been suspecting for quite a while that she was on something, because she changed a lot. She used to be caring, loving ... now she turned into a ...

I Urgently Need Help For My Daughters Alcohol Addiction 
My daughter is at the end of the final stages of liver disease. She was in hospital but was caught with alcohol. They have thrown her out and told us she ...

My Daughter's Alcohol Dependency is Complicated By Borderline Personality Disorder 
My daughter is 32 years old and has struggled mentally since about the age of 11. She always was more of a problematic child, with a 'make me' attitude ...

My 19 Year Old Son Got a Prescription for Marijuana and He Has No Illness. How Do I Handle This? 
What do you do when your 19 year old son says that there is nothing wrong with pot? And doesn't acknowledge he has a problem? My son was kicked out of ...

Parents Don't Agree About Letting Daughter Move Back Home. She Has A Drug Problem and Refuses To Get Help 
My husband wants to allow our almost 20 year old daughter to move back home. My 14 year old daughter and I do not want her to move back. She has a drug ...

18 Year Old Daughter Is Doing Cocaine and Left Home 
My daughter is 18 years old. She has gotten in 3 car accidents with 3 different cars in a matter of 8 days. I asked her if she was doing drugs because ...

What To Do With an Alcoholic Son? 
My son went in the Navy in 2007. He recently got out after 4 years of a 5 year term. He went to alcohol treatment twice, including a 30 day treatment ...

My Daughter is Committing Suicide a Little Every Day Due To Her Drug Addiction. How Can Anyone Handle This? 
I know that I enable by giving her rides, mainly to keep her from where we live in senior housing, I give her food (cooked, so I know she eats, and she ...

My 19 Year Old Son Says He is Addicted to Smoking Pot and is Depressed. He Says I Don't Help Him and I Should Have Known What He Was Doing. 
My son is 19 and for the past 2 years has suffered from depression made worse by smoking pot daily. He was on medication for less than 3 months but stopped ...

My Daughter Now Buys Suboxone Off the Street 
I am so beside myself, I am drinking because I am so sad, I am not much of a drinker but I am so sad and so scared. I have an only child, daughter who ...

My Drug Addicted Daughter Relapsed From Heroin Again. Should I Pay Her Rent If She Agrees To Get Treatment?  
My daughter is 22 and has been using heroin on and off for 3 years. A few months ago she relapsed and I agreed to pay her rent while she got intensive ...

Both Of My Sons 20 and 23 Are Addicted to Drugs. One Son I just Found Out Tonight Is Shooting Up. Is There Any Hope For Them To Recover and Have a Future? 
We live in an awful neighborhood. We moved here 5 years ago. I am pretty sure both of my sons starting trying drugs then. Now they are both in jail for ...

Is It Wrong That I Paid For My 20 Yr Old Daughter's Methadone Treatment While She Is in Inpatient Rehab?? 
I told my story here before (My 20 yr Old Daughter is Addicted to Heroin. I Want to Help Her But She Has to Also Want to Help Herself. Where Do I Start?...

Punishment and Grounding For My Drunk 17 Year Old 
My 17 year old came home drunk and I don't know how to punish him for this kind of behaviour. He does know that it certainly isn't acceptable. I also have ...

My 29 Year Old Daughter Is Addicted to Vicodin 
My daughter is addicted to prescription drugs mainly vicodin. She gets them from my husband who legally gets them from his doctor because he has a disease ...

My Drug Addicted 27 yr Old Step Daughter is Destroying My Marriage.... 
Brief summary: We will call my step daughter Angel. Angel's birth mother died of AIDs when she was 3yrs old. I met her father soon after ... we joined ...

My Drug Addicted Son is Out of Control and Blames Me (Mom) for Everything. 
He had been doing so well with a great job. But relapse came. I don't know if it was having money to buy drugs, or the stress of working long hours (a ...

Just Want To Talk - It Never Stops Does It?! My Son and His Addiction To Pain Pills 
I've been reading these pages for a couple of months and realizing things are pretty bad. No local help that doesn't involve Jesus and church and my face....

My Daughter Is Shooting Crystal Meth and Is Tweaking. What Can I do? 
My daughter is 21 years old and she started using drugs 2 years ago. When I noticed a change in her behavior it was followed by excuses. Come to find out ...

We Just Discovered Our Daughter Has a Drug Problem. What Do I Do Now? 
My husband (let's go with John) and his wife (let's go with Jane) got divorced about 13 years ago. They had a daughter together (let's go with Susan). When ...

My 18 Year Old Daughter is Addicted to Pills and Keeps Stealing Money From Us. What Are My Options to Get Her Help? 
She also steals anything she can get her hands on to pawn for money. I won't take her to other family members homes so we don't have to worry about her ...

Can Drug Use be Cyclical? 
Why would my daughter's pot use increase to a ridiculous level once a month at all costs to excess despite any consequence? She is 27 and I feel desperate ...

My Son is a Heroin Addict. I Can't Stop Crying.  
I awoke to feel the deepest lose of my life, again. I think a little piece of me dies every time I see him. He has been an addict for 10 years. My son ...

Adult Children (Using Marijuana Daily) and Interference from a Grandparent 
I have two grown sons, one graduating from high school and one in college. Both are using marijuana every day. When I initially found out, I tried communication,...

26 Year Old Son Addicted to Weed Can't Control His Temper 
I have a 26 year old son living with me, he is badly addicted to weed. He had to come back when work stopped and he could not afford his rented place. Most ...

Is My Daughter a Drug Addict? 
I think my 18 year old daughter is a drug addict. She has become friends with a lot of older people that use drugs and recently has befriended a drug ...

Saving My Daughter from Drug Addiction? 
My daughter is 18 and for years has tried to save her dad from addiction now she is one and I don't know how to save her. Please let me know where to turn ...

My Son Has Admitted to Being an Alcoholic But Thinks He Can Conquer The Disease Without AA 
My son seems to blame pride for not wanting to go to AA meetings but pride is going to cause him to lose his precious family. He's been to a few AA meetings ...

My Son is Addicted to Marijuana - It Seems To Be Asorbing his Entire Life - How Do I Handle This? 
My son smokes as much marijuana as he can get his hands on. From first thing in the morning until late at night. He does have a few challenges which ...

Our Son is Using and Selling Drugs: Want to Help But He Won't Talk to Us 
My son went to visit friends and never called or came home. We got in touch with him and he was so casual talking and asked us what was wrong. I told him ...

How Can I Trust My Alcoholic Son Again? 
My 22 year old son, who attends college while living at home, has had a terrible drinking problem since turning 21. Drinking a quart of vodka, all alone,...

My 17 Year-Old Son Comes Home Drunk Almost Every Week-end. Where Can I Find Help? 
I believe he is smoking marijuana. Drinking is becoming a more serious problem. Almost every week end and sometimes during week days, he comes home drunk....

My Son is a Drug Addict. We've Done All We Can To Help. What's Left? 
My drug addicted son has lost his whole family - wife and kids. He has no job, been to jail (probably going back), or is going to take his life - if someone ...

My 25 Year-Old Son Has a Drug Addiction Causing Him to Lie and Steal. What Do We Do? 
We threw him out of the house for lying to us. He stole from his best friend. He will not admit he has a drug problem. Do we take his car away, phone, drive ...

" My Alcohol Addicted Daughter is Getting Worse - How Do I Handle This? I Am a Single Mom."  Not rated yet
I have 3 kids, 2 boys and 1 girl. My daughter 20, living with my ex-husband, back in the province, is so much into alcohol. Whenever her friends ask her ...

My Son is Addicted to Marijuana. How Can I Help Him See the Destruction He is Leaving Behind?  Not rated yet
My Son is 24 years old. He started smoking pot in his teens, the rehab place told us he had to be using other drugs in order for them to help.

Since ...

My Daughter's Boyfriend Is Addicted to Drugs. But She Doesn't See How Toxic He Is For Her  Not rated yet
My daughter and her boyfriend are in their 20's and have an infant daughter together, her boyfriend is an addict. They live nearby and are ALWAYS in need ...

Not A Big Enough Drug Addict  Not rated yet
I have written in here before. I have been seeking help for a long time. I finally kept a promise to myself and went to a Narcotics Anonymous Meeting....

My Son is an Alcoholic. What can I do?  Not rated yet
My Son calls me in the middle of the night drunk and rambling about things that aren't true. He tries to cause trouble among the family with lies. He makes ...

What Do I Do With My 20 Year Old Daughter Stuck on Meth?  Not rated yet
My daughter is a mother to a 7 month old girl, and is in love with a 37 year old whom is a womaniser with 4 other women, all with 7 or 8 month old babies....

How Do I Tell My Drug Addicted Daughter She & Her Boyfriend Are Not Welcome at Christmas?  Not rated yet
My daughter has been on drugs for the past 9 years. We have tried over and over to help her but she has just burned everyone who's tried. She's lost three ...

My 24 yr Old Daughter Is a Drug Addict and We Don't Have the Money or Insurance to Get Her Help  Not rated yet
Just yesterday, my daughter pretended to break into our house, busted her Father's safe open and stole his prescription. He got a text from the pharmacist ...

How Can I Make My Daughter See That Alcohol Is Taking Control of Her Life?  Not rated yet
My 33 year old daughter and 4 year old grandaughter moved back in with us because she said she was finding it hard to "make ends meet". I was fine with ...

How Do I Help My Drug Addict Daughter and 18 Month Old Grandbaby?  Not rated yet
My 26 year old daughter is a drug addict. She has been kicked out of every shelter and free rehab in town. She is now living in an apartment that her sister ...

Is My Daughter Doing Drugs?  Not rated yet
My daughter is a meth addict. To most people she seems fine now, but since I have never used drugs or been around anyone who does until now, I am constantly ...

27 YO Son Can't Find Work, Will Probably Move Back Home: I Suspect He Has Drug Addiction  Not rated yet
My 27 year old son was laid off 2 years ago, and other than small jobs here and there, is unable to find full time work. His unemployment has run out....

My Daughter Drinks Too much and Now My Granddaughter Has a Drinking Issue as well.  Not rated yet
I don't know what to do. My daughter has two daughters. One has just graduated and left the home. The other one now 16 I think has an alcohol problem....

18 Yr Old Son With a DUI Conviction Coming Home From College To Friends Who Encourage Drinking and Such  Not rated yet
How do I handle this situation? My son was arrested 2 days before going away to college. His friends here at home are HUGE partiers. My son has been ...

My 24 Year Old Daughter Is Addicted to Meth & Zanabars, What do we do ??  Not rated yet
My 24 year old daughter (Toni) is addicted to Meth & stays up 3 weeks at a time doing meth & then takes Zanabars to sleep!! She has 3 children, she lost ...

I Think One Of Our Boys Could Be Heading For His 3rd DUI, a Felony In This State  Not rated yet
One of our boys, at age of about 18 was arrested along with one of his friends at the time for breaking and entering. At the age of 21 while living with ...

Our Daughter Has a Problem With Alcohol and Has 3 Small Children. What Do We Do?  Not rated yet
Our daughter moved in with her boyfriend 4 years ago when she was pregnant with her 3rd child. He is an alcoholic who drinks every night after he comes ...

My 22 Year Old Daughter Is Addicted To Alcohol  Not rated yet
My 22 year old daughter graduated from college in May and moved back home. She has struggled with depression in the past and I discovered after a couple ...

My 40 Year Old Daughter Is an Alcoholic and Is Losing Her Family. What Can I Do?  Not rated yet
She has had a drinking problem for a couple of years but now it is out of control. She was in rehab at a county rehab for 8 weeks. She got out last Thursday ...

How Do I Help My 18 Year Old Nephew Get Into Treatment With No Insurance?  Not rated yet
My 18 year old nephew overdosed a few days ago for the third time. He admits to smoking pot everday but goes on benders where he drinks, and takes both ...

I Can Get Help For My Adult Daughter For Her Addiction But She Will Not Talk To Me. How Do I Get Her To Talk To Me?  Not rated yet
I can get help for my adult daughter but she will not talk to me. How do I get her to talk to me so I can help her. I have a contact who can get her into ...

My Huband Wants To Take a Leave of Absence From Work and Go to Arizona to Be With His Alcoholic Daughter To Try To Help Her Stop Drinking.  Not rated yet
My stepdaughter is 25 years old and lives in Arizona. We live in Minnesota. My husband wants to take a leave from work and go live there with her. I ...

Sober Living Home For My Heroin Addicted Son  Not rated yet
My son has been addicted to drugs for 8 years. His latest, over the past 3 years has been Heroine. He has been very willing to go into inpatient treatment,...

19 Year Old Step-Son Seems To Have A Drug Problem  Not rated yet
My 19 yr old stepson thinks its ok to do drugs once in awhile. I have found pipes and empty beer cans in his room. When confronted, he doesn't understand ...

My Son Wants To Fit In So He Lies About Marijuana  Not rated yet
Can my sons school expel him for saying he "dropped his bud " to a friend? My son is 15 he has a hard time making friends, he got suspended for telling ...

How Do We Handle Our 18 Yr Old Son Who Drinks and Drives? He Already Got a DWI.   Not rated yet
Our son is 18 and he goes to parties every weekend and drinks. 2 days after he graduated he was in a serious car accident. Someone else was driving, she ...

My 24 Year Old Son Is Addicted To Marijuana and Refuses To Get a Job. How do I Handle this?  Not rated yet
He did not finish High School as he constantly "wagged" school. He is very bright. His two sisters are both studying university courses and also hold good ...

15 Year Old Daughter Has Had a Few Drinks Because She's Upset  Not rated yet
My 15 yr old daughter has tried drinking and smoking. The first time she drank it was jack and now the second time was brandy. She drank the brandy on ...

Feeling I've Lost My Way With My Drug Addict Son  Not rated yet
My 10 year plus drug addicted son is a solitary user and lives with his dad - but due to stealing money from him is not allowed in the house when he is ...

25 Year Old Druggie Step-Daughter Is Ruining Our Life At Home. How Do We Kick Her Out?   Not rated yet
My 25 year old step daughter is a renal patient so she goes to dialysis 3 days a week. She did have her Moms kidney, but it died after 10 years due to ...

My 23 Year Old Son Smokes Pot, and It Is Making Him Lazy and Disrespectful   Not rated yet
I am a single mom trying to take care of my family. I lost my husband about a year ago, before that my son was unemployed and collected unemployment. Since ...

My Daughter and Boyfriend of 6 years Are on Heroin. What Can I Do to Help Them?  Not rated yet
My daughter and boyfriend do heroin - they have 2 young children. For about 5 years they moved to a place where they were involved in a methadone clinic,...

My Daughter's Drug Addiction is Sooo OUT of Control. The Whole Family Is at a Loss, What do we do?  Not rated yet
My daughter Christine is almost 23 years old, she is a heroin addict for almost 3 years. She has been in rehab 3 times, the last was this past May. The ...

How Can I Help My Addicted Daughter Age 44 from 2000 Miles Away?  Not rated yet
My daughter has been on methadone for 16 years, started drinking 6 months ago, lost her job, will lose her apartment this month .... feels like I abandoned ...

Adult Married Son Might Be Using Prescription Meds  Not rated yet
Several years ago, our son had an issue with using prescription meds (not his own) and we all thought that was completely over with.

Yesterday, I realized ...

My Sister's Son Is Drug Addicted and Totally In Control of His Parents  Not rated yet
My sister's son is 18 years old. From the age of 10 years we noticed that he was very much demanding and want to fulfil his demand by all the means. From ...

My Daughter Is in Rehab and We Have Custody of Her Children. Now She Wants Contact What Do We Do?  Not rated yet
My 37 yr. old daughter lost custody of her two children. The 4 year old is going to be adopted and we have the 15 year old with us. My daughter is in out-...

My Drug Addicted Son Is Out of Control. How Do I Handle This?  Not rated yet
My son is 34 years old and lives overseas, thus I am very far away from him. I can't be sure that he is using cocaine, but all signs are there and some ...

My Son Has A Marijuana Addiction: How Can I Help Him Now That He's Returned From Rehab?  Not rated yet
Hi, my son has had a marijuana addiction for years now. It wasn't till 3 months ago that he was arrested for possession of marijuana And was forced by ...

My Drug Addicted Daughter Leaves Her Small Kids at Home While She Does Her Drugs  Not rated yet
I have a 37 year old daughter who is doing crack ... she leaves the house about the same time every day and gets home at 4 or 6 in the morning. I have ...

My Drug Addict Son Just Called To Say He Lost Another Job (Third in 3 years) and Wants Money  Not rated yet
My youngest son has been battling addiction for 5 years (Rx, cocaine, GHB). He was in a relationship for many years but now lives alone. He believes he ...

My Daughter's Addiction to Alcohol Is Out of Control. If She Is of Age Can I Still Get Her Treatment?  Not rated yet
My daughter who is 21 has hit her third major depression in march. She started going out drinking heavily. She turned 21 and is now out of control, she ...

My Eldest Son is Addicted to Weed and Maybe More. What Do I Do About Him In My Will?  Not rated yet
I have three children two boys and a girl. My eldest son is addicted to smoking weed and maybe more I just don't know. He gets jobs then loses them because ...

My Drug Addicted Daughter Loves Her Drugs More Than Her Kids. How Do I Handle This?  Not rated yet
My daughter is addicted to opana and so is her boyfriend. They lost custody of their children who are 1 and 3 months old. The boyfriend's parents have ...

My Daughter Abandoned Her 6 Month Old Baby to be an Alcoholic   Not rated yet
Last year my daughter who was 28 and had a 6 months old baby, met a man who was an alcoholic and became an alcoholic herself. She abandoned her little ...

I Just Found Out My 20 Year Old Son is Addicted to Heroin. Help! I Can't Stop Crying.  Not rated yet
My son has been shooting heroin for the past 3 months. I found his needles and confronted him and now he is in rehab. He says he was trying to quit but ...

My Daughter Is Disrupting Our Home Even Though She's Been Sober For 6 Months  Not rated yet
Our 25 year old daughter moved back into our house recently after completing 6 months of rehab for alcohol and drug addiction. She continues to be sober ...

I Know For A Fact My 15 Yr Old Daughter is Drinking and Is Using Drugs of Some Sort BUT She Denies it.  Not rated yet
She won't admit it, totally denies it. She lost her cell phone and when police called me they asked if I knew she is getting stoned and drunk. They sent ...

Can I Protect My 19 Year Old From Failure  Not rated yet
I have written before about my 19 year old son's drinking problems. He has had 8 drinking related arrests in the last 15 months. FINALLY he is on probation ...

My Drug Addicted Daughter Is Out Of Control.  Not rated yet
I have a 32 year old daughter who has been using meth/cocaine for several years. I can't be sure exactly how many years I just know she has lost custody ...

My 17 Yr Old Son Smokes Weed Everyday & Comes Home Higher Than a Kite. Basicially He Is On Another Planet  Not rated yet
My son is 17 & for awhile had turned over a new leaf but now he is right back into smoking weed & he seems very addicted to it. We just had a fight about ...

18 Year Old Son Relapses on Drugs After Dating a Stripper  Not rated yet
My 18 year old son has relapsed by snorting bath salts or synthetic cocaine. They are legally sold in smoke shops but are worse than meth. Previously he ...

My Son is 20 and Ever Since the Age of 14 Has Been Stealing From the House for Drugs  Not rated yet
My son is 20 years old and ever since the age of 14 has changed from a lovable likeable bright lad to someone we don't even recognise. He started mixing ...

My Son Has a Drug and Alcohol Problem and Is Very Depressed and Out of Control. What Can I do?  Not rated yet
My 21 year old son has a drug and alcohol problem and is deeply depressed and out of control. What can I do ... I am afraid for his life?

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How To Confront My Son Whom I Think Is Addicted to Pain Pills?  Not rated yet
I just found out today that my son may have an addiction to pain pills, but I'm not sure since he may be getting them for his wife whom I know has a problem....

My College Kids and Their Friends Say They Cannot Become Addicted  Not rated yet
Please respond to these College kids defence for the use of drugs and alcohol. My son, daughter, and many of their college friends go to the hookha bar ...

How Do I Approach My 39 Year Old Son About His Out of Control Behavior  Not rated yet
My son is 39. He is drinking excessively, taking pain pills, maybe cocaine and is also prescribed Welbutrin. He has had a few episodes of "partying" lately ...

My 26 Year Old Son Smokes Pot All Day Long!  Not rated yet
My 26 year old son continues to smoke pot all day long! He spends the majority of his money on weed and lives pay-cheque to pay-cheque. He is never late ...

My Son Has Gone Into Treatment For His Alcohol and Marijuana Addiction, But He Tells Me Its Not a Good Place. What Do I Do??  Not rated yet
My 25 year old son is an addict,(alcohol/weed). Apparently its gone on for years, but I just found out over the last 6 months the depth of his addiction....

My Drug Addicted Son Is Out of Control and Not In His Right Mind. I Don't Know What to do?  Not rated yet
My son has been an addict for some time. He is 27 years old. More recently his drug of choice has been Xanax. He went from doctor to doctor to get more ...

My Son is Abusing Drugs. I'm Afraid Something He May Overdose  Not rated yet
My 21 year old is a senior in college and is abusing drugs. He smokes pot regularly and now I have discovered that he is also using clonapaxem, oxycontin ...

At A Loss Of What To Do Regarding My Son's Drinking and Irresponsible Behavior  Not rated yet
I have written before about the current demise of my 19 year old son and his bad decisions to drink and the severe legal consequences he has had to deal ...

Parents Who Host Alcoholic Parties, Are They Preventing Binge Drinking and Alcoholism?   Not rated yet
As a parent I am totally against drinking/drugging for under-aged children and have enforced the law with an iron fist. To my disgust there are parents ...

How Do You Stop Worrying? My Daughter and Her Binge Drinking  Not rated yet
My daughter is a binge drinker. She has been this way for 3 years. It started out slowly, socially drinking, and then she become sad because of a break ...

My 15 Year Old Daughter Tested Positive for Meth, Runs Away Chronically. What Can I Do at Home?  Not rated yet
How do I as a Parent handle a 15 year old who is in-between run aways, and was recently tested positive for Meth? How can I convince her how bad this is ...

My 22 Year Old Son Lives at Home and Admits He Is an Alcoholic.  Not rated yet
My son is 22, lives at home, works, and is taking on-line classes. We found out several years ago when my husband and I came home from vacation that he ...

My Drug Addicted Daughter (27) Is Out Of It Again  Not rated yet
She started at 16 ecstasy, then to heroin and got clean for a year. Had several car accidents and now for over 4 years has a oxy/xanax problem she can'...

How To Kick Your 22 Year Old Son Out Of The House Because of His Black-Out Drinking For Weeks At a Time?  Not rated yet
My son drinks to get fully loaded and to pass out. He does this for 4-5 days and then takes a break and detoxes at a hospital. He then stays sober for ...

We Just Discovered Our Daughter Is Taking Methadone Treatment for Oxycontin Addiction! Can She Be Successful?  Not rated yet
I discovered prescriptions for methadone in my 29 year old daughter's apartment. We were devastated!! My husband and I waited 2 days to get over the shock ...

How To Change My Son's Mind About Drugs??  Not rated yet
My son at 17 started smoking pot. We talked but he never listened. At 19 he was stopped by Police, and was found to be DUI by alcohol. Six months later ...

How Do You Know If Your Son is an Alcoholic?  Not rated yet
My son is 21; college student. He is hard working and works two jobs steadily to earn money for his education. The partying atmosphere at college has ...

My Daughter is 28 and Out of Control. Using Hard Core Drugs and Living Without Any Responsibility  Not rated yet
I need help and advice so badly. My daughter is now 28. She lives with me but spends most of her nights with her boyfriend. I have spent the last 6 ...

Should My Daughter Stay With Her Heroin Addicted Boyfriend?  Not rated yet
My daughter's boyfriend was just arrested for possession of heroin. She claims she had no idea he used heroin. I desperately want to believe her. He ...

My 20-Yr Old Son Is Home For The Summer and Has Been Using and Selling Cocaine. We Want To Send Him For Help But Are Afraid He'll Say No. How Do We Handle This?.  Not rated yet
He started experimenting with drugs when he was 19, and we think he started hard core using cocaine and selling this semester -- at about the same time ...

My Alcoholic Son Is Out OF Control, How Do I Handle This?  Not rated yet
My son is married, has 2 children living at home, his wife is there also. My son quit drinking for 3 years and then his older brother passed away in front ...

No Where To Turn  Not rated yet
My daughter started out saying that she was smoking pot for medicinal purposes. She was diagnosed with Epilepsy and a possible Auto Immune Problem. At ...

My 20 yr Old Daughter is Addicted to Heroin. I Want to Help Her But She Has to Also Want to Help Herself. Where Do I Start?  Not rated yet
I have had problems with her "Bad" choices since high school. Not just drugs, the friends she chooses to hang out with, she is lazy, not stable, has no ...

Do We Keep Allowing Our 40 yr old Alcoholic Son to Stay in Our Home?  Not rated yet
Our son has been accepted into a rehab program. He says, when he is sober, that he wants this. He has completed the physical to go in. However, he was ...

My Drug Addicted Daughter of 34 is Still Refusing Help   Not rated yet
She went in treatment internal and external detox and rehab 7 times in the last 10 years. We spend a lot of money trying to help her, in good places where ...

19 Year Old Son Won't Admit He Has a Drinking Problem  Not rated yet
My son just completed his freshman year of college. His "fun" started before a year ago before he graduated high school when he got his first public intox....

My Fear is That My Daughter is Addicted to Pain Killers  Not rated yet
I know for a fact that my 23 year old daughter is snorting pain pills. She is not aware that I know. We as a family are going to confront her this weekend....

My 19 Yr Old Step Daughter Has a Baby and Smokes Pot . Refuses To Obey House Rules   Not rated yet
19 yr old female returned home with baby after boyfriend physically beat her. Now boyfriend has returned and she sneaks him in house after parents are ...

Who Can Help With a Son who is Alcoholic and Increasingly Violent?  Not rated yet
Son is 40, alcoholic for 22 years, physically violent, living with parents who are in their mid-seventies. Dad has heart problems, mum has multiple health ...

I Don't Think the Treatment My Daughter is Getting for Her Addiction to Painkillers is Working. What can I do?  Not rated yet
My ex-husband was an alcoholic for over a decade before he died of the disease. I've seen the ups and downs. My daughter who is in her 30's became addicted ...

We Need Help Talking to Our Drug Addicted University Going Son  Not rated yet
WE usually do not talk that much about this. We just found out what he is drug addict. He is 21 year old and now he is missing his university classes. We ...

My Daughter is on Crack Cocaine  Not rated yet
My 38 yr old lost her husband last sept. We have come to find out that she started using the drug since then. Of course it could have been longer as the ...

My 25 yr Old Son is Snorting Drugs. Should I Call the Law For Him to Get Help or Should I let it Run Its Course?  Not rated yet
My son gets drugs from his cousin. He was snorting oxy and suboxin. I have heard that he is now snorting heroin. He lives in south-eastern Indiana.

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My Son Has Been Drinking a Bottle of Vodka Almost Every Night. I Know He Smokes Too  Not rated yet
My Son has been drinking a bottle of Vodka almost every night - I know he smokes the other stuff as well and I been told he take other people prescriptions ...

16 Year Old Daughter In Love With a Drug Addict. What do I do?  Not rated yet
I am not sure how to approach this scenario as a parent. My beautiful, bright sixteen year old daughter has been seeing a boy her age who has been known ...

My Son Has a Drug and Alcohol Problem. He is 25 How Can I Help Him?  Not rated yet
My son is 25 yrs old and has a drug and alcohol problem . He is in complete denial. He uses all his money from centrelink to feed his habit. He is injecting ...

My Recovering Addict Son is Living in a Halfway House. How Much Help Should I Give?  Not rated yet
He called today asking me to bring him advil for a toothache. I'm certain of the toothache. I was hoping the halfway house would give him access to a low ...

My 22 Year Old Son's Alcohol Abuse is Out of Control, But He Doesn't Think He Has a Problem. Should We Make Him Move Out?  Not rated yet
My 22 year old son has a 10 month old baby and he is embattled in a difficult custody case over him. His ex girlfriend (they broke up shortly after she ...

My Daughter-in-Law Called Telling Me My (step) Son Has a Drinking Problem and Needs Help  Not rated yet
My daughter-in-law called begging that I keep her confidence and not tell anyone yet, including my wife, about his increasing use of alcohol. She revealed ...