I wonder how open the rehab authorities are about this information.

Most families with a molester in them (who likely hasn’t been turned in) are so twisted up in denial and guilt, I can see why it’s almost impossible to unravel a dope habit with that sort of dysfunction in the family. Getting the family sober enough to even confront the deeper issue of why the kid is a dope fiend — especially when many families are comprised of never-married, impulsive / low-IQ people.

Solutions: mandatory familial abused therapy if you want your kid to go to rehab instead of federal prison, death sentences for heroin dealers, or a US-military open war on mexican cartels. Or the liberal idea of supplying users with clean heroin (aka sweeping the abuse and the problem under the rug).

Check out the new documentary “Narco Cultura” to see how drug dealing and murder are being glorified by Mexican thugs in LA and Mexico

Certainly looks like a duck.

It just happens.

http://www.hamsnetwork.org/neuroscience.pdf

Nixon’s silent majority, on whom every conservative secretly relies upon to take back the country ever four years, is either retired on a golf course in Florida or living on disability checks in an opiate induced stupor in the remnants of small town America.

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/11/dire-problem-and-virtual-option.html

I hope your co-worker succeeds in his efforts to recover. You are a good soul, to drive him to work every day. That sort of thing helps enormously! One can work and be a productive member of society while on methadone maintenance, but logistics are difficult. Also, methadone (and by implication, former heroin usage) is a source of shame. Your supportive behavior might be the crucial factor in turning your co-worker’s life around.

Other countries, even very poor ones like Burma, have different attitudes about heroin addiction treatment and rehabilitation than the USA. I wrote about it a little, here: Forty days of food, shelter, prayer, Bible study and devotional singing

This is the reality no one wants to talk about: cheap calories have enabled the reproduction of millions of people incapable of living in an advanced economy.

Parents divorced when he was 10 yo. Raised by his father (mother alcoholic but is now dry)who openly smoked pot in front of him and older brother. Father later introduced sons to snorting Percocet pills around the age of 16. Both sons quit school at 16.

The father and older son receive SSI and are on methadone along with elder son’s girlfriend (they have a 2yo male child).

The kid I work with has a few things going for him. He has no children and lives with the recovering mom and has a wealthy maternal uncle that helps out. The uncle takes him to mass every week and forces him to work on his property every weekend for compensation of all the things the kid has stolen and pawned. The kid is a hard worker, curious, and has a good sense of humor.

The kid’s social circle is made up of people on methadone. I keep telling him he needs to become a shut-in for a year or two socially b/c hanging out with junkies, even recovering junkies, is no good. All they talk about is smack.

The long term plan is for the kid to be weaned off of methadone by late Autumn and then enter a rehab clinic after Christmas or new year to coincide with the time of winter job layoff (kid is a mason tender or a laborer for bricklayers). Time will tell.

I did not know that a methadone clinic was within 5 miles of my home. And I also learned that methadone users love Saturday because they receive a take home shot of the drug as the clinic is closed on Sunday. The users must have a little lock box for the Sunday dose and usually they take that dose almost immediately to receive a better buzz. But then they have nothing for Sunday and go through withdrawal until their Monday morning dose.

Last Saturday I parked near the clinic and viewed the people entering for about 15 minutes. Only 2 blacks out of approx. 50 whites, lots of tattoos on both genders, women were overweight with exposed bra straps due to prevalence of tank tops and halter tops. A lot of the women were still in pyjamas and slippers, getting their methadone fix and then going back to bed.

Most of these people would be better off dead. Mao Tse Tung was right about this subject.