My son is 21 in June and first went to rehab aged 15 …. reading your post brought a tear to my eye i have felt like that so many times with him too …..
Addiction is an illness – while abusing they are not the person you really know …the substance abuse changes them and that is all they can think about that is their only priority how to get their next fix
I received that late night knock on the door 3rd October 2013 at 2am my son had been run over while walking in the road … he suffered severe brain trauma, broke both his legs an arm and his neck in two places he went through 10 hours of life saving brain surgery and was in a coma for 9 weeks and against all the odds he made it and despite early opinions he can walk, talk etc has learned to do everything again ….. including substance abuse so i feel your message HOW CAN THEY KEEP DOING THIS TO US? but they dont see it as doing it to us they make a decision to abuse again usually because they can no longer fight off the urge and then they are enveloped in the whole thing again
I know if my son had been anybody else i wouldve walked away years ago but something inside me just keeps hoping one day he will sort himself out ….. before the addiction takes him for good x