re: Anyone have a family member that threw their life away with drugs?

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They steal from family members that care about them that makes it hard to keep helping.

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By “helping” they are enabling. If you want to help an addict you can’t give them anything. My brother in law is going through this right now. He’s young, but he’s smart as hell and recognized he had a problem. At just 21 years old he went to his parents and asked to be checked into rehab and is following through with the programs. He’s moved to Texas where he’s in a halfway house now and we were told we can’t give him anything because it just enables him. They set him up with a short term place to live and a job and after that he’s on his own. I guess we’ll see how that turns out.