I have hardly heard from my cousin in over 15years.Last week I hear she was on a daytime TV show asking for help because she is19weeks pregnant and addicted to crack.So I manage to get in touch with her and my auntie and I here the show was shot over a month ago so now she is over23weeks pregnant and still doing crack.I want to help her and have spent all week texting and talking on the phone trying to give her emotional support without lecturing but nothing has changed.Im not loaded with cash so can't afford to send her to a posh rehab place and the hospitals can't seem to help(or so she says!)She wants to come and stay with me and my mum but im worried that my mum is in no fit state to be looking after a crack addict and also I hear the drug is so strong she would steal all our stuff just to buy more crack.How do I help her?She says she needs to get away from her boyfriend (The controlling drug dealing crack smoking coke snorting father) What can I do?What r symptoms when stopping?
2007-02-23 09:04:03 · 2 answers · asked by Chaka Demus N Pliers 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
your best bet is try to get her in a home somewhere,im sorry but it would be a mistake to try to take her in,i have had some dealings with a situation where a person did get off crack,you very seldom see anyone do it and stay off it// it is a horrible addiction,they have hallucinations,say things that is out of character(to say the least),sometimes physically ill
,it takes a long time for anyone to get off of it i have seen only one person capable of getting off and staying off and that was because they accepted God and through Him they are clean today and teaching Sunday school,but in the post you have written it will only cause you and your mom hardships unbearable,try a home for unwed mothers or something of that nature but i would certainly encourage you to get help or rather let her get help from professionals...........good luck
2007-02-23 09:29:19 · answer #1 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well really all you can do is try.
its all up to her.
let her know they drug test babies when there born to see if the mother has been using, an dif they baby comes out witrh drugs in its system they baby will be put into foster care or adopted.
send her to rehab because that is what she needs if she is always around it, also try and move her away from whre crack is, somewhere like a better neighborhood, or far away from anyone she knows sells
also she will get moody and waaaay mean and freek out once sheis off of it, but good luck!
2007-02-23 09:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by aww lovee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋