I understand that, last night you knew that your son had somewhere to stay but as you say the problem hasn’t gone away. It sounds like you have put up with this for years, I can’t begin to imagine that. My son has been away in a city for the last few years living in a room in a big shared house where he was able to hide his habit until last Christmas. He has only been here with us since lock-down. When he first came back we didn’t know he was back on heroin – which was really stupid and naive. We organised him a flat near to us, and then found he was increasingly hard to get hold of, with him making excuses for us not to pop round. Then of course I realised, I’d been here before. The flat ended up as a tip, so we cleaned it out and handed it back, that’s when he came to us. He doesn’t want to be here, we are just the last option, he has gone 7 weeks without heroin, and I am scared if he leaves us that will be the end and he will never be free of it.
I think with a younger child in the house it must be so much harder and you have to make decisions differently and keep yourself sane for their sake as well as your own. I can see why you’d be thinking about moving house. Lock-down must have been so difficult for you and your family, I hope you get some respite.