Schools for Troubled Teens Work Only for the Willing
Sometimes all of the help in the world will not bring a drug addict around. Not schools for troubled teens, not rehab, not the tears of their mother nor the deaths of their friends.
“Right now, it’s tough love. I cannot continue funding. It’s not helping him.
“Once you’ve paid for nearly six rehabs, seen your mother distraught and frustrated watching her son waste his life with the abuse of drugs, they have to reach an all-time rock bottom that’s got no dependency on drugs.”
The quote above is from celebrity Chef Ramsay who has had to struggle with his brother’s heroin addiction for decades. Addicts are always extremely selfish. They will put the satisfaction for their cravings above all that they claim to hold dear and before all whom they swear that they love. Addiction not only ravages the mind and the body. It simply turns the user into an ugly cipher, a user and a deceiver. The friends that you see at an addict’s funeral are usually old friends, friends who had to turn away. Addicts have no real friends, just people that they share their drugs, needles and diseases with.
Isn’t that a lovely picture?
What teens absolutely do not realize is that their week-end parties and their “harmless pot” can turn them into somebody that they themselves would loathe. Someone that they would cross the street to avoid. And it doesn’t end until they have the guts to end it.
“They’ve got to have that self-belief that they’re strong enough to fight it.”
[…]
“Anyone using drugs anywhere in the world has a choice. It’s not a disease.
Related:
Relevant Tags:dependency, heroin addiction, rehabs, schools for troubled teens, strong enough
