The best way to deal with an addicted son

When I found out that one of my sons was using drugs, I was surprised and pained. Not only was confusion my companion from this moment, but fear for him and his future almost killed me. How will he face his family, his family, and the society in which he lives?

This history was not lost on my mind, and my memory did not erase it, so I decided to confront the problem, and try to find a quick and effective solution .. until I knew that the decision is the most important step for treatment, then search for a specialist, and then exert effort and money so that my son returns to his normal life.

For the family of an addict, the recovery journey is the most difficult and painful in their lives, as they do not have the slightest experience of what they should do about this disaster from their point of view.

The beginning of the painful experience from now on will be the real ordeal in the life of that family, which has nothing but to follow the medical institution in which it trusted and take the opinions of specialists, and before all this, seek the help of God.

But there are common mistakes made by the addicted son/daughter family without realizing that falling into them may deepen the problem and result in more serious effects than the symptom itself.

We monitor 10 mistakes that the family makes in dealing with an addicted son:

Ignore the problem:

Treating the son/daughter as being in his teens, in which curiosity is an essential feature, and that the son will be fine when he matures and grows up.

Do not leave this at home:

Indifference to the risk of leaving painkillers, sedatives, and narcotics in easy-to-reach places is one of the most common mistakes.

Taking care of one of them at the expense of the others:

To spend all your time worrying about your child who has a drug problem, and ignore the rest of your children who try to make their choices as good as possible.

Excessive unconsciousness:

Continuing to give your son money without awareness, or that your son spends his money on drug use as far as you know and does not do anything, and the one who pays the price for that is the mother who does not know that one of her children has now become addicted because he is "spoiled".

Delayed confrontation:

Whenever you are late in confronting your abuser, you will pay the price of this exponentially, because it does not need all this trouble, just make the first decision to confront ... and then strive to solve the problem from its beginning.

No to isolation:

One of the worst feelings that you may convey to your son/daughter is to deal with the logic of isolation from people and society just because he fell into the clutches of drugs and addiction, be careful not to isolate him psychologically or socially.

Do not justify him:

Justifying the addicted son in front of his family, especially his sisters, results in them feeling indifferent towards the wrong actions they do without feeling the danger of the abuse problem.

 

Psychotherapy:

Once your son enters a recovery program, you should be aware that attending psychotherapy sessions helps him a lot to recover properly, as leaving him at this stage is like a setback that may bring him back to square zero.

Return to the same environment:

To be satisfied with the first stages of addiction treatment, and to be happy with the return of your son to a life that seems normal, without completing the treatment program, and falling into a trap that is one of the most serious problems, is to make him the same environment in which he fell into drug abuse and addiction.

Communication is better than cure:

After going through this painful experience, do not leave your children without real communication, talk with them, share their problems, their private lives, so that no one is a new victim in the ruthless world of addiction, so communication is better than treatment.