...not only about my son, but about many other things. As a lifelong church attendee, I have given up on going anymore. Like some god gives a crap about the likes of my son ~ or me. I meant by "all I had" was prayer" that it is about the flimsiest of "protections", because as it is often said about heroin, "you never see an old heroin addict" and I fear for him so much with little to do to protect him.
As for knowing what to do, I have *no* clue what to do. This week my son got out of jail and is back home. I am beyond scared he will go back to his use. The penal system completely ignored his addiction issues and instead are concentrating on the law violations he did ~ that they all know he did to keep up his habit. I was completely open with the court about my concerns and they just pretended this was not the issue.
I do somewhat understand the law and why this was so ~ as well as the seriousness of admitting the drug issue as far as the rest of his life is considered (no ability to secure student grants, background checks for work and housing, etc), but I am still baffled as to the fact that everybody knows why these things occurred yet are not directly addressing them. If they truly want this behavior to stop, then why not address them? At this time there is no direct drug charge that would be on his record and unless I am not understanding something about The System, records, and such, then why not?
At any rate, I am beyond putting ANY trust in prayer. Seems to me that it is a placebo that does not work, however this is all that is left when there seems not to be any other things to do with an adult who I have no way to control.
Cat in Seattle
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