I am here because of my 25 year old daughter. I found out she was an addict when she called me as she was checking herself in to detox. That was last April and it has been a bumpy road since then. Before I knew she was an addict, I thought she was depressed or bi-polar because I knew something was wrong. I just never thought she would use heroin. For a few years, she was able to keep herself going, working and taking some classes…not exactly thriving but passing through life. After her first half-hearted attempt at detox, she led me to believe she started intensive out-patient but she had stopped going after two days. She wasn't working and had resumed her active addition. So, she was scrambling for money. Things were very bad at that point and that is when she stole money and jewelry from me for the first time. I knew she wasn't working the program, but I didn't know how bad things were (I had not yet realized that she had stopped outpatient or that she had stolen from me…)Luckily, she somehow had enough sense to realize that she needed help at that point and she got herself into a 30-day program in August. Then I found out what had been going on, and I just felt very lucky that things turned out the way they did. Since i didn't know, I had left the problem squarely in her hands. It didn't become a problem between us. It stayed HER PROBLEM. She realized that she needed more help and decided to move into a recovery house over two hours away. She was doing well for about a month there until she came home to visit. She wound up relapsing and over-dosing. Again, she was lucky to be with a friend who called 911. And I am grateful that the experience made her learn a lot about herself and her addiction as well as the risk of overdosing. She went back to the recovery house and really started taking it more seriously. She is in an outpatient program, goes to meetings, and she is working full time. She doesn't even want to come home to visit, so we are meeting "in the middle" for Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant. I am feeling very thankful. I do attend NarAnon meetings and I am working on myself. I thought I would try this online program as well because I like writing and I can be shy in person. So thanks for listening.
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