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How does one behave when they first start experimenting with prescription pills? Generally does it make them pleasant to be around?
Background: My 20 year old son is smoking pot and drinking (no concrete evidence but he is honest about it and says he does). I have an 18 year old son in recovery from chemical substances and is doing well. I don't like the fact that my younger son is exposed to this behavior and I talked to our older one about it.
Anyway, my 20 year old son had had some friends over a few weeks ago (all of legal drinking age) and were drinking when I walked in the door. That in itself wasn't alarming (they didn't appear to be intoxicated) but they quickly got up and went outside - as if they were hiding something. The next day I found a small mirror by the back door and earlier found it in the basement where my son spends some time. Well, because of my younger one I am hypersensitive to drug behavior - even though my 20 year old son's behavior (the way he relates and responds has been pleasant) I felt something wasn't right so I checked his text messaging (he doesn't pay the cell phone bills) and sure enough I saw prescription drug talk. Most of it was asking him for some Vicodin and Adderall.
My husband and I decided that in order for us to pay his college tuition (he attends locally) he would have to agree to random drug tests and would need to see a drug counselor for an assessment. He had a MAJOR fit and refused and said that I was crazy and that he doesn't have a problem. He claims he exchanges other drugs so that he can get his pot for free. He says he likes pot.
Is it possible for someone to use prescription drugs and appear to be fine for quite some time? My son seems happy most of the time. Am I crazy?
Note: I've had some talks with him, even played a video clip from a newscast I found on-line about the dangers of prescription drugs so that he could overhear it and he still minimizes it. The film was from a newscast addressing teen addiction and the deaths of two young women. He told me that that was because these girls took too many and inferred that he wouldn't take that amount. I told him it starts somewhere.....
Just wondering......
Background: My 20 year old son is smoking pot and drinking (no concrete evidence but he is honest about it and says he does). I have an 18 year old son in recovery from chemical substances and is doing well. I don't like the fact that my younger son is exposed to this behavior and I talked to our older one about it.
Anyway, my 20 year old son had had some friends over a few weeks ago (all of legal drinking age) and were drinking when I walked in the door. That in itself wasn't alarming (they didn't appear to be intoxicated) but they quickly got up and went outside - as if they were hiding something. The next day I found a small mirror by the back door and earlier found it in the basement where my son spends some time. Well, because of my younger one I am hypersensitive to drug behavior - even though my 20 year old son's behavior (the way he relates and responds has been pleasant) I felt something wasn't right so I checked his text messaging (he doesn't pay the cell phone bills) and sure enough I saw prescription drug talk. Most of it was asking him for some Vicodin and Adderall.
My husband and I decided that in order for us to pay his college tuition (he attends locally) he would have to agree to random drug tests and would need to see a drug counselor for an assessment. He had a MAJOR fit and refused and said that I was crazy and that he doesn't have a problem. He claims he exchanges other drugs so that he can get his pot for free. He says he likes pot.
Is it possible for someone to use prescription drugs and appear to be fine for quite some time? My son seems happy most of the time. Am I crazy?
Note: I've had some talks with him, even played a video clip from a newscast I found on-line about the dangers of prescription drugs so that he could overhear it and he still minimizes it. The film was from a newscast addressing teen addiction and the deaths of two young women. He told me that that was because these girls took too many and inferred that he wouldn't take that amount. I told him it starts somewhere.....
Just wondering......
i talk to these people., just promise to take a 1/2 hour or so and look thru their life from the first post.. i have a lot of friend that are right where you are. i do this every day of my life, help people that are on these pills. i have been on pain meds for a long time. i am an expert.
so is Bobinmain... he is a man you can trust..
this is life and death.
u r loved
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