When you're 15 drugs are *extra* bad, m'kay?

Fletch,

You stopped going?

His school is supposed to be good, and his best friend attends it ~ maybe we should look into one closer to home if he doesn't clean up his act.

His mother has also said she won't buy him a car when he turns 16 in 8 months if she can't trust him to be responsible.

Well, it took me a LOT to finally even THINK about quittting!

I'm happy you are doing well. Keep it up :-)

As many of us have bitched about in the past - none of the details you put in the profile (ICQ, email, etc) -are actually visible to anyone (other than moderators, probably)..

You may want to bug someone about that, as our bitching never helps. ;>

As for your bro, I have no useful advice. I had a 16 year old friend of mine go down that road.. Pot and booze led to heavy coke and other shit.. It took him hitting rock bottom and WANTING to stop to get him to stop, nothing else seemed to work.

Kind of like Christopher when he called his mom a whore and all his friends beat the crap out of him at his intervention. Rock bottom. ;>

Cheers,
Backov

I have a 15 year old girl cousin, who just was too out of control.

They sent her here: http://www.vpp.com/teenhelp/scl.html

She doesn't get to return for a year. They actually had to keep it a secret and arrange for her to get kidnapped to get her there, so she wouldn't run away when she found out. She was dabbling drugs among other things, but mostly behavior issues.

I was legal guardian for my 15 year old sister (at the time) for two years once, it was hell. Teenagers are wicked. Years later both my sister and girl cousin have confessed to doing things in my house I would have strangled them for.

Good luck with the kid. I wouldn't want to be a teenager again for anything.

Yeah, I dont like praying at the end of each session.

And I surely dont like holding hands in a big circle with a bunch of people who gave up alcohol for religion.

They confuse sobriety with the 'way of the lord' too much.

I need an Atheist AA .

hahahah

note: no I will not discuss how an Atheist Alcoholic is better than a Jesus Fearing alcoholic!

Understood. I know a few atheist AA and NA'ers and it IS a constant problem for them -- but the program still works for them - and on they go.
Some people need the "support group" aspect.

Did you find other support groups or get sober on your own?

I'm much too repectful. We can discuss religion elsewhere.

must be nice to grow up rich............ private school, buying the kids a car..........

wonder why there's a drug probelm? Maybe he's had EVERYTHING given to him.................

just a thought but 99% of all the drug addict users I know are from situations like that.

Who are his best friends? What do they do? Why is he in boarding school?

This is a really stupid comparison, nothing close to the same situation, but this worked on my 15 year old brother, they have such strange minds...

Last April he was diagnosed with diabetes. Already developed to the stage where he needed to take insulin, check blood levels, eat the proper foods, etc.

As a football player and wrestler, built like a mother, he obviously ate a lot of food. My family all have huge sweet tooths. He loves candy, ice cream, etc.

So, he comes to visit me for a couple weeks this past summer. I didn't know much about diabetes, but had a general idea of what should and shouldn't be done. So, my brother, genius that he is, thinks he's getting away with murder since there's no parents around.

Haha, little shit must have forgotten that I'm a HELL of a lot harder on him than my parents have ever been.

Repeatedly, he'd stroll into the living room with Mountain Dew and Snickers in hand thinking that would be his lunch. I don't know how many times I had to bitch at him about eating right, no junk food, etc.

I finally got sick of his shit. Looked him in the eye and asked if he wanted to stay in beautiful San Diego, go to ball games, beaches, etc, for the next two weeks. Of course he said yeh. I basically said if he didn't start eating right, cutting all the crap, I would buy him a ticket for a redeye to Chicago without thinking twice.

He drank Diet Pepsi and ate cheese for the next two weeks.

I agree.

When I was 15-16 I worked damn hard for my money. No way in hell was I going to smoke or inject it.

Isn't that even worse???

This was exactly what popped into my head. If Requiem for a Dream won't convert him into a straight edger, I don't know of anything else that will...

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm lighting up my joint

whats Requiem for a Dream ?