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I will pray for you both, and if I may give one piece of advice. Tell her that only she and God can beat her demon, and the way to ask for God’s help is to pray to Him and ask Him for His help. I am not even joking about that at all. On her darkest day, she will see His light, and He will lead her back to the path and out of the woods. I apologize for the length of my post, I’ll stop it now.

I hope everyone here reads every word of chris37's post.

Chris, amen to every word, from a fellow traveler in "addiction." The cure is inside. Intervention of an outside source is in vain.

And for the Love of Pete, the kid is only NINETEEN!!

Consigning her to failure and soiledness this soon is ... sad. Pray for her and love her the best you can, whether it's propping her up a bit or letting her go to flail and learn, but always with love. That's the most important thing.

Thank you kindly, Finny.

What it boiled down to for me was how much did I want to be free?

I have experienced nothing worse in my life than being a literal slave to a chemical. In my case it was benzos ( xanax and valium and such).

To know what is like to wake up each day and before I eat, drink or even breath, I have to know where my next dose is coming from, or I am literally going to die from withdrawal, I mean actual death.

I was forced, by way of this prison I put myself in, to commit serious felonies in terms of acquiring and possessing these drugs illegally, or death.

That is truly Hell, and I wanted to be free more than anything in this world, and today I am.

Once you hit rock bottom, in my case it was running to of xanax and not being able to get more, all you can do is turn over, look up and start climbing.

And I did not make that journey on the first trip. it took falling back into the hole two more times before I finally got out.

The two things that stood out most about that time of my life was pain and prayer.

I couldn’t have done it without God’s help. He saved me by helping me save myself.