
Families & Friends Of Addicts Support Group
Addiction affects more than just the individual. This community is dedicated to the families and friends of individuals suffering from any form of addiction. Mental health professionals are increasingly considering alcoholism and addiction as diseases that flourish in and are enabled by family systems. Family members react to the addicted person with particular behavioral...

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My nephew is a drug addict and I have some questions for anyone who wants to answer. I am assuming he is on heroin because of his behavior and actions. He has stolen from his Grandparents, used their credit cards, stolen checks from the checkbook (going 100 checks ahead so they didn't notice). Recently his grandmother got a call from Sears asking if she opened up a charge in Virginia (we live in PA). Whoever opened it up in her name charged $1500. He has torn this family apart trying to put everyone against each other.
This week he keeps stopping over his at his grandparents and telling them he needs to get some stuff out of his room (his mother and he have been kicked out for a couple months and he is not aloud over without her accompanying him).
I feel like he is trying to get in there again and steal some more things. Is this a common pattern with heroin addicts and can anyone tell me some more things to look for so I can save them from some more grief.
Thanks
This week he keeps stopping over his at his grandparents and telling them he needs to get some stuff out of his room (his mother and he have been kicked out for a couple months and he is not aloud over without her accompanying him).
I feel like he is trying to get in there again and steal some more things. Is this a common pattern with heroin addicts and can anyone tell me some more things to look for so I can save them from some more grief.
Thanks
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The families can only do everything possible to safeguard things like their checks and possessions, because if we turn our backs it will be gone. The drugs are in control. They do things even THEY don't think they will do to get the drugs. The drugs are in charge and I guess sadly, that is the bottom line.
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An old bf/addict of my daughter took the brand new ps2 that we bought my grandson and pawned it for drug money. Nothing is off limits.
It is terribly sad what we have to experience so that we don't get ripped off.
This could be heroin, but like I said, whatever the drug of choice is, the addict does what the addict will do to keep using.
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P.S....things to look for? ANYTHING that could be pawned for money, or traded for drugs.
I had another roommate only once who relapsed and took all of my TVs, my microwave, VCR and anything else he could get in his car while I was at work.
And then (this one always makes me chuckle a little because it wasn't someone I knew and the offering was, well, you'll see) there was a drug house in my neighborhood one time and I came home after a night shift at the restaurant to find a man in a car with the trunk open. He jumped out and proceeded to try to sell me a spare tire and an end table for $6. I just shook my head and walked away. Fortunately I moved out of the neighborhood not long after that.
There was a heroin addict that worked with my father in the metal shop. One day he was high and nodded out while over a table saw. The only reason he didn't fall on it was someone else saw him and caught him.
It doesn't matter the drug lying and stealing is all a part of the curse.
Tell him he can come over anytime with YOU there AS LONG as he's willing to do a drug test on the spot before entering.....that should keep him away!!
I would also call social services in your area and get him committed by a judge.
All you have to do is tell them everything he has done and a judge will have him picked up and put in a hospitol until court and he will be committed for 90 days to a rehab.
I had to do this for my baby sis to get her off Heroin.
That is what you and your family need to do if you want to help him.
Good luck!
Brenda