Posted on 02/02/2015 12:28:23 PM PST by rfreedom4u
My daughter will turn 19 this month. She is our fifth child. She has also been the most worrying to us as she started using drugs a long time ago. She said she first smoked weed at age 12. Since then she has gone on the try many other drugs to include meth, cocaine, pills and LSD and a few others I can’t name. Last year she was in intensive care for 8 days. She has also been in jail about seven or eight times and gone through rehab twice. She is currently living with her mother and I at home but things are getting very tense. She broke up with her boyfriend and says that the stress of breakup makes her want to go get high and chill with her friends. Her friends are not true friends as they are also on drugs. Every time she hangs out with them she stays wasted for a couple days and I had to take her to the ER twice due to overdose on alcohol. Add to all this she has been beat up several times and raped twice that she has admitted to. When you add into this chaos the fact that my wife suffers from a mental illness which is made worse with stress it gets even more chaotic. Now I am at the point where I will soon have to make the choice of allowing my wife to be hospitalized because of her mental illness or I put my daughter out because of the strife she is causing. We’ve offered her all the help in the world and she continues to go on binges and tell us that what we offer won’t help. The last time she got wasted she told us all to “Go f***” ourselves. That night she left the house and was brought home by the police when they found her walking down the highway. As a parent I love my daughter endlessly. But I don’t see how (or why) I should continue to allow her to destroy the rest of the family. But at the same time I feel guilty for what I am considering. We can’t force her into treatment as she is an “adult” and I’m afraid that she will either end up in prison or dead. All this started I believe because she started smoking weed. The weed lowered her inhibitions and resistance and she started doing other drugs. So I truly believe that weed is a gateway drug and should never be legalized. If someone needs it for medicinal purposes they should have to go to a pharmacy for it just like we do with other prescription medications. It hurts me to do it, but I think I may be evicting her from the house today when I get home from work.
“He brings us to the end of ourselves so that we cry out to Him.”
That is truth and wisdom.
I was an atheist when I was younger, because everyplace I look for God, I do not find Him. Every time I ask God for this or that, I do not get it.
But that was just the folly of youth, I didn’t understand some things very well.
When I was at truly the edge of death from withdrawal symptoms so severe that they can and do kill, I prayed to Him, because I really needed help.
And he answered that time by giving me His strength to overcome this, and I know that it was His, because I had none.
I literally could not even stand up or speak or even write.
And yet somehow I endured this, it was absolute Hell. It took 3 months for me to even fall asleep, and another 3 months for my body to return to normal.
Unfortunately, because I am a stupid man who forgets things easily, over the next 3 or so years I backslid two more times where I messed around with the same damn drugs thinking oh I can control this...
But a voice reached through to me and asked me Chris, you know where this road ends, don’t you? And yes, I do. I would rather step in front of a moving train than go back to that place, and I definitely do not want to step in front of any train, so I stopped myself finally for good.
And now I know that sobriety is the ideal state of mind. I want to think clearly about things. I do not want to have blank spots in my memory where I cannot even remember large chunks of anything that happened. That seems like a really stupid way to live to me now.
They are currently legal and don't need any support.
Feeble dodge; I have the guts to state for the record that I support the continued legality of alcohol and tobacco (whether or not they "need" it) - do you have the guts?
She already quit her striping job that we found out she had. She is currently unemployed and not very employable. No diploma or GED.
Yep, you fixed it good and you are only one notch below the islamofacist that would kill to try and prevent it. You as much said so by saying we should kill all drug dealers, I can give you copy and verse if need be.
Chemical weapons would be a more accurate analogy. Both the British and the Japanese used these types of chemical weapons to bring China to it's knees.
Why is one legal and okay, even in the bible, but the other, which is a plant that grows wild in vacant lots, so horrifically predictable and dangerous that you are willing to usurp an individual's very freedom to force your "wisdom" to correct that individual's life? You are morally out of line regardless of whether it is alcohol, pot, cocaine, or any other drug.
Diogenese, if YOU had been around when I had my alcohol problem and tried YOUR cure, you would have STOOD IN THE WAY OF THE LORD and denied me the powerful connection I found because of the challenge He presented to me -- not you, Dio, but ME. You are also advocating doing the same to others, to stand in the way of how they deal with challenges in their path before God, and to which ONLY God holds the answer.
You are presumptuous, morally presumptuous. TEND TO THE BEAM IN YOUR OWN EYE before you will create hardship and strife for people you presume to be morally "helping."
Here's another person equating guns to narcotic drugs.
I know jail or prison sounds terrible and for most men it is. However, female prison is a bit different and might get her attention, she definitely needs intervention.
In other words, the point went over your head. Sorry, i'll try to make it simpler next time.
The war on murder is a failure because we still have murders. That is your logic applied to the war on murder.
You as much said so by saying we should kill all drug dealers, I can give you copy and verse if need be.
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Oh yes. Please do. Please post the reply where I said that.
(crickets)
Can’t do it? You were wrong? Well sport-o. Let me help you out.
“We should kill all drug dealers”
~Responsibility2nd.
No one is spared from troubles in this life. God designed it that way so that we would turn to him. He brings us to the end of ourselves so that we cry out to Him.
You promote drug usage. You can twist and dodge all you like, but it is apparent to everyone here that this is what you are doing.
Oh, man ... God bless you. Amen.
Here come the delusions of omniscience.
Or did you mean "everyone here in DiogenesLamp's cranium"?
You are SO right....
Hence the legalization push...
One more thing to keep the people stupid, lazy and dependent...
Yeah, it’s a big conspiracy and I believe it.....
You are either lying or a special class of stupid.
You are a fn nut, you are promoting killing drug dealers, glad you said it in your own words, Now is that legal drug dealers”doctors” or just the illegal ones?
And it is equally apparent to everyone here that DiogenesLamp is bearing false witness.
So you're OK with equating marijuana with opium, even though they're not even chemically or pharmacologically related.
I expect that if tobacco was banned its use would go down, but it doesn't follow that my support for the continued legality of tobacco is a promotion or endorsement of tobacco use.
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