How were you stopped from doing drugs/alcohol or how did you help your kids stop?

I started using drugs and alcohol when I was 13 years old I quit about the age of 22, no one did anything to stop me. my parents were too involved with their own misery. and I just decided to quit on my own. I smoked cigarettes for years and have quit for almost 2 years now. I am 45 years old, I think if parents care what their kids are doing is the most important thing. they need to be involved or at least give a damn,

We divorced when my daughters were very young. I got custody of my youngest daughter when she turned 16. Before she turned 17, she had taken drugs, skipped school, very promiscuity and even had threatened suicide. She was heading down the wrong road fast. I researched and found a school in Utah that was just what she needed. It was a lock down facility. Complete academic facility with athletic, medical programs. They also had 2 group counselling sessions a day, an individual counselling session a week, A drug and alcohol rehabilitation program and a parenting support/training program.

It was not cheap, but with help of family and outside support were able to arrange it.

Although it was not easy for her or anyone in the family, she now thanks me for doing it. The program helped her overcome the issues and helped me learn how to support her. She now has a daughter and she is a great mother.

properly, i imagine that factor comes at a diverse time for diverse human beings. on the on the spot you're kinda stuck in that awkward age - you're halfway between 10 and 20. i assume I first began to sense more suitable like a grown-up than a baby at round 16 years previous. You get your driver's license, college receives steep, more suitable individual-like habit and judgements are anticipated of you. I remember it become confusing for me to settle for that i become extremely "grown-up" till faster or later I in basic terms style of realized - you should strengthen older, yet you do not ought to strengthen up. embody each and every of the great issues about being presented to the fellow international. You get to make your own judgements, stand on your own 2 ft, and also you're in basic terms truly wiser than you've been the day before...yet stay youthful on your heart :)

Volunteer at homeless shelters. See for real some affects and offer them solutions. Then college campuses. Good luck.

I just stopped. I knew if I kept doing it I'd ruin my kids life, I've been sober 20 years. My kids never did it. My mother drank and it was very hard on me. So I was never going to do it to my kids.

a person has to want to make their own changes is the main thing to remember

but if a kid can say no to cleaning his/her room they can say no to drugs.

i hope you dont live in qld.australia, cause the government is offering needle pushes $110.00 to attend seminars on how to be a clean needle pusher..what is this world coming to.