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My Father & Step Mom are Crack Addicts!

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Hello everyone, I am new to this site and actually telling ANYONE about this problem I am having with my father and his wife. I have ALWAYS been very close to my dad, I was alwasys a daddy's girl, he was my best friend. Almost 2 years ago I foudn out that my dad was smoking crack, because his wife and him were fighting and she called me and he thought that she told me so he called me back and told me that he was doing it. I hated myself for a while cause I knew he had been acting weird everytime we went to visit them, he was seeing things, thought people were trying to kill him and heard people outside his window. Oh before I go any further I was pregnant while all this was happening around me...anyway so he told me what he was doing. This all happened also after my uncle died from a Brain Annarism (spelling ?) he was a crack addict also and the doctor said he died because the DRUGS (there was many of them he did) made his BP go up and down all the time so it rubbed a blister on that place at the bottom of your neck. We were up there one night and my dad actually brought his crack pipe out and showed me and lit it, it smelled like brunt hair and chemicals to me, which in my dads right mind he would not have done that around me when i was pregnant. He has had times, twice that I know of, where he has came to my house when he was high thinking his wife was trying to kill him, the first time he came and stayed the weekend and was clean while he was there, they moved down the road from us after losing there home cause of there addiction. One night he RAN, yes he RAN to my house at like 4 in the morning in his boxers. Telling me that his wife was trying to kill him, that there cat that is in there house, turned into a rocwiller dog. Anyway to make a long story short, my dad is not the same person he used to be he doesn't come around unless he needs money I have only gave him around 100.00 but can't afford to give him much at all. My aunt has gave him money and bought food since he has no job and his wife works for Dollar Tree. THis drug has changed my dad SOOO much, he doesn't even come around to see his grandson. I need help, in trying to figure out what to do, his wife also does this, he told me one of the reasons they do it is because "she goes down on him when they do it" Is that soemthing you tell your daughter? He tells me that he is getting off it but has to do it on his own and for me to bear with him, but he isn't getting off it. Can anyone give me any advice, or atleast something i can said to him to make him think abuot not doing it anymore.
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Your dad isn't in his right mind. I'm glad you're aware of this when he says and does some of the things he does. If you give him money or food, that makes you an enabler. You're giving him what his addiction needs. I know you love him and are worried sick. Most addicts on crack HAVE to hit bottom or be institutionalized for a while in order to clear their mind of the effects of the drugs. It's a terrible soul-stealing drug.
Stay strong, keep loving your dad, but don't help him in his addiction.
peace....
Have you tried to talk to your dad about going to a detox center for a week? Maybe doing out-patient? Tell him that you are willing to help him in everything that involves getting him clean, but you will not help him while he is using. Be firm about that, because he will try to wear you down.