do i contact my drug addicted sister in rehab?
363619
SHE IS YOUR SISTER YOUR MOTHER AND FATHERS CHILD YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD SHES PART OF YOUR D.N.A. SHE IS FAMILY. WHY WOULD YOU ABANDON HER WHEN SHE NEEDS ALL THE HELP SHE CAN GET. DON'T LEAVE HER, PUT YOURSELF IN HER SHOES, AND THINK ABOUT IT. THANK YOU
1066931
Any addiction is a choice, just as getting treatment is also a choice.  You need a support group to help you deal with your daughter's addiction.  AA and Al-anon can get you started.  It's your daughter's choice to get clean, and stay that way. It's your choice to look for the help you need not to get "played" by your daughter or  enabling  her to continue using excuses, although it sounds like you have begun to see the light after 15 years.  I have experienced the same problem with my son. It's heart breaking, but sometimes you just have to let go and let God deal with them.  Learning to over come the guilt feelings is the hardest, but with help you can do it.  Guilt, either real or self-imposed is a crippler, it keeps you from moving ahead and growing, and does nothing to heal or help, or make the right decisions.  You can find AA listed in the phone book or most churches host AA or Al-anon, they can guide you in the direction you need to go for your self and your daughter.
238366
Unfortunately, most people addicted to crack have to hit bottom before they realize how screwed up their life has become. You're either really happy (when high) or really miserable (when straight) there is no third direction. Eventually it will devour everything in her life including her friends, family, job, material things etc. I think the best thing you could do for her is spend as much time with her as you can and do normal things, taking long walks, go to the movies, go to the beach or lake and try to maybe do some things at home with her. These things will keep her away from the bad element and will also show her that you can have fun without the drug.
639878
If you think you're doing well with your aunt, then stay with her. Make decisions that will benefit and help you. As for your brothers in Michigan, there's alway email, snail mail or telephone to contact them and still have some sort of communication. I know that your Mom and Dad doing drugs is not a good thing not only for them but for you as well, so why not talk to them. Encourage them to have a better life free from drugs. Be an influence to your family by doing the right things. I know you can do it. Just handle the situation with an open mind and heart.
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I think this is all about finding the right set up for you sister.  There is no one solution that will work for everyone and you have to find the right one.  I know of an organization that might be able to help you.\n\nOn their website they say:\n"Obviously, choosing the right drug rehab is absolutely crucial to a successful rehabilitation. The ultimate goal of a drug rehab is to enable the individual to live a life free from the effects of drugs and therefore not going back on them.\n"Under the right circumstances, with the right treatment program, we have seen much success with the various programs we refer.\n"Full drug rehab is only possible with a full commitment from the addict, which the programs we have researched work hard to obtain."\n\nI urge you to try again, see if these guys can help.  They are very into connecting the person up with the right organization and really finding out what is happening with that individual.\n\nTheir website is at:\nhttp://www.addictionhelpservices.com\nPhone: (877) 554-7308\nEmail: info@addictionhelpservices.com
347749
I knew a Heroine addict, she recovered after 30yrs of abuse. She is still recovering through a Methadone Clinic, she attends meetings 2x a week.  I don't think anyone really recovers, I think you grow stronger from getting beat down to the ground so many times, at least that's what happened to my friend--after having lost everything, including her morals she found Jesus, and found a better way to deal with her recovery.\n\nTough Love is the best thing for drug abusers.  Don't be mad, just practice tough love, if he comes around, with some half-baked scheme to get money--SHUT HIM DOWN immediately.  My girlfriend, ended up getting caught shop lifting after everyone stoped lending her money.\n\nGood luck...*!*...
917782
Can't throw out your own sister in the streets.Is she alcoholist?
88083
I know you don't want to hear it, but GO TO A MEETING! I don't know what kind of addiction your talking about, but to get off on the "right-foot", you need to know, your not alone with your problem. You need "their support", as much as they need yours.Addiction is a pain in the ass, but it can be conquered. You have to stay clean, and build inner strength.
601041
try her fan website and email them and tell them about your sister'd condition and ask if they could possably arrange a meeting or something like that
413387
Please remember she is sick, she suffers from a disease in the center of her mind. Drinking is but a symptom of her disease, it is just the tip of the iceburg. There is a imbalance in her. There is hope! Take her to a detox center, let her take a week to get over the effects of th alcohol in her system, she needs to stabalize, then to recognize her condition. If she can understand that she is powerless over alcohol, she can start a life long journey, one day at a time, to permenent sobriety. A A is the only way she is going to learn the tools she needs to do this. You need to get help as well, Alonon is were you need to be, to learn your tools to recovery. A A was wrote by two people in 1939, since then over two million people have recovered thru this program. 120 different self help groups have been formed using A A principles. A A is in over 100 countries, and has published millions of books, they are very cheap to buy. These numbers are growing every day, it must be doing something right. What do you have to lose? Try it. Remember she is sick, and you would not pinch the I.V. line keeping her alive at the hospital, right?
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This problem has more than one dimension. It is a spiritual as well as a physical problem. The fact that you are reaching out to get help is encouraging. If your situation was hopeless or near hopeless you would be asking where you could score instead of how you can stop relapseing.\n\nDefinitely get into a drug treatment problem. The physical part of your problem demands a physical solution. This is most likely the strongest addiction you could have. In some cases a sudden withdrawal from drugs is in and of itself life threatening. This is not to say you should hurry out and get more cocaine. The problems with that approach are that it is not legal and there is no way to monitor the dose.You must get help and stop immediately because the purity and strength of what you are taking cannot be easily determined. \n\nIn no way does does addressing the physical aspect of the problem indicate you are spiritually weak . God is interested in results and there are effective treatments available.  \n\nMake your request known to God (even though He already knows) and then expect positive results. He is certainly willing and you are willing. What a powerful combination but you must not be double minded. Believe immediately that you have received your request and then don't waver. Wavering is when the trouble begins. \n\nGod bless you . You can see that there are people all over the place that are concerned. You have my prayers.
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awww .. u can't make her stop sweetie.. im sorry.. Drug addiction is like a disease.. it changes your mums way of thinking.. My sister was a drug addict and she left her 4 children in our care. But after a few yrs she realised what the drugs were doing and she eventually gave them up  and got her kids back.. Let your mum,know that u love her no matter what,  and that u want to be with her all the time. Hopefully that will help her give them up so she can be with you. Your mum loves you very much Im sure but the drugs have a hold on her just now  :)
533526
Honest advice, run away.  You might be able to help her, but it's going to be a long and very tuff road, that most families surive, much less friendships.  If you try it, you may get burned yourself, bad.  Do you have kids?  Want them to get exposed even maybe to any of this?  They need a fix, they will kill their mother for one, a old friend from 12 years ago isn't anything.  The drug is their only friend.
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she would see things differently, only people she can really talk with semi-honestly are those that are addicted as well. Every thought and action she would have would be related to getting high. It is the only reason she gets out of bed. And should she not use then she is sick so sick worse than you could hopefully imagine. That is for startes....
547726
GO see your sister see if she agrees that her drug problem,or the people it attracts,endangers her kids(she may).She may also agree that you should take her kids for their protection.\nDon't wreck your relationship with your sister it may come in handy in protecting her kids.\nAs for your sister being on drugs not much you can do but point out that you think she is destroying her life,what she does or responds is up to her.
232632
go to a local rehab and talk to them
510572
Let me start by saying I am truly sorry about your loss. I have never gone through anything that horrible, and I don't know how you can even talk about it this openly. It takes true courage to come out and ask for help. Hopefully you will find it. This is my advice, don't think about it as your fault. If you sent her a letter that said how much you loved her, then clearly she didn't do what she did because of something hateful that you said, because by no means is that at all hateful. If she was an alcoholic and a drug abuser, then that is probably the reason. She might have been drunk, she might have been high, you can never really know for sure, but I know for a fact that she did NOT commit suicide because of you! Now, all you can do is remember all of the good times that you had with her, and forget the bad things. Ask her for your forgiveness. Yes, I know that she's not here anymore, but she will always be with you. So talk to her and make sure that she knows that you love her and miss her with all of your heart. And again, I am deeply sorry for your loss, you have my most deepest sympathy.