Best Way to Keep My Kid From Doing Drugs.?
Question by Aaron B: Best way to keep my kid from doing drugs.?
Hi,
I am having my first child very soon, he can come any day now and I’m scrambling around frantic worrying about doing everything right. One concern that I just can’t seem to shake from my mind is drug use, quite a few people in my family have had issue’s with drugs and alcohol, myself included, I have been sober now for over a year and will never go down that road again, but now I’m terrified that the gene or whatever it is that drives members of my family into these addictions is going to get passed on to my son. My wife does not have this addictive personality and there is really only one member of her immediate family that has had any issues with addiction, so I hope that helps me tip the scales.
So Drug Use From My Group of Friends Has Pretty Much Screwed My Social Life…?
Question by crackerjacks12: so drug use from my group of friends has pretty much screwed my social life…?
Well im in kind of a shi**y situation where my group of friends who I have hung out with since i was kid (im now 20) have let their drug use get the best of them… I have done drugs in the past but I had the brains to get out of it while I could and I have not done any drugs other then tobacco and alcohol in 3 years… Well, its gotten to the point where they have moved on to hard drugs, and all they care about is getting high, and its gotten to the point for me that I can not even hang with them because I can not stand seeing them like that. I hated to leave my old group of friends behind, but i knew that I needed to. I eventually did make a new set of friends who were clean and the good majority of them had never even touched a drug. After a while though it went right back into the same routine for me because out of nowhere they began using drugs too.
Im just sick of this crap because I have lost too many people who are close to me… Some of my friends have died from drugs, some are in prison because of drugs, I have lost relationships because of drugs, and the rest are just wasting their lives away because of drugs. I really do not know what too move onto, because it seems to me that every time I get accepted into a new group of people, they all end up being your typical crack head…. im just really starting to believe that The entire youth of northern Illinois is completely screwed. I really need answers on what I can do, and how I can move on, because it seems every time I make progress in disassociating myself with drugs, it somehow finds its way back into the lives of my friends and my social life