Dealing With a Family Member With a Drug Addiction.. Help!!?
Question by smaceroni: Dealing with a family member with a drug addiction.. help!!?
OK my sister has been addicted to Ambien for about 4 years now. She has through detox and rehab twice and hasnt gotten better. She is still very much addicted and supoosed to be going into another detox/rehab. She has been supposed to go nor for 2 weeks but everyday comes up with new excuse or chickens out. I have been supportive or encouraging but now its getting hard for me to be that way cause it hard for me to believe that she is actually going to go. She gets mad when I try to give her “tough love”. She gets mad that my parents and I never went to some type of counseling to learn about her problem. She says that since I have never been addicted I dont know what its like. I understand that, but it doesnt take a rocket scientist to know that its going to be pure hell to go through detox and rehab and stay clean. I just dont know what to do or say to her anymore. Has anyone been in this situation? What should I say or do? She is 34 and Im 26
Best answer:
Answer by Shelby
You need to call the show INTERVENTION.
Answer by Dana
my family has a history for drug addiction. from experience the best thing that you can do is have an intervention with her friends and family. Make some calls and get as many people who care about her together and have a surprise intervention. have everyone prepare something to say and it might even help to have everyone pitch in for rehab (if need be)
hope everything works out for your sister
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