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      Any advice gratefully received! My 16 year old son is making my life hell. He has been spiralling out of control for 2 years now; it’s a nasty vicious cycle of substance misuse and mental health issues. He was arrested and sentenced to a years probation in April this year for carrying an offensive weapon and threatening someone with it. He was on Xanax when this occurred. Since then his drug use has escalated; he’s taking an eclectic combination of anything he can get but lots of prescribed anti anxiety drugs (that obviously aren’t prescribed for him!!). He has a social worker, a probation officer, a youth worker, a drug counsellor and sees a psychiatrist under CAMHs. His drug counsellor has ended their sessions as she feels she has ‘come to the end of the line’ with him; he was offered rehab but refused and out right states he will not stop taking drugs as he likes it/needs it. He has told the psychiatrist that he needs to take the drugs as he has suicidal thoughts/thoughts of harming others and anxiety; CAMHs are unable to make a mental health assessment due to the nature of his drug taking. He has dropped out of school/college, refuses to work (I’m pretty sure he’s dealing), lays about all day in bed and goes out all night. He has no respect for me and I have no control over him at all. Meanwhile Me and my 3 younger daughters are treading on eggshells waiting for the dreaded call from either the hospital or the police. Police have been out to my house several tines, he has stolen from me, smashed doors in, been aggressive, left drugs lying around, keeps us awake with his music and erratic sleep pattern, and generally has an adverse effect on all our lives (which he of course refutes). I have some professionals telling me to get him sectioned and others saying he does not meet the criteria. Life is a daily struggle; I feel like I’m in a nightmare but sometimes I see a glimmer of my baby boy still there – I just don’t know what to do for the best

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