Crystal meth?

Question

My sister is using meth,she has two children and doesnt take care of them.My parents that care of her daughter and her son stays with his father,they both have different fathers.Anyways My family and I have tryed everything to try and get her help.She never goes through with anything.We tryed putting her in treatment but she just sighs herself out. Anyone know what else we could try.Please help before it's too late!

Answer 1

it's up to your sister now. she's either gonna hit rock bottom then change, or die.

Answer 2

It's very difficult to try helping someone that doesn't want to help herself. The only thing I can suggest is having an intervention with her, your entire family (including the children) and a social worker so she knows what will happen to herself and her family if she does not stop the addiction. I would say at this point to leave her very little choice---either get help or she will lose her children and everything she cares about. If this doesn't cause her to wake up, I am afraid nothing will. No matter what the outcome, those children should not be with her at all. So sorry you're going through this.

Answer 3

Crystal meth it prepared for smoking but have you ever seen people make fun lighting a substance on a spoon? Crystal meth needs to be boiled so that it can be injected into your blood stream which makes it meth.

Answer 4

I can tell you this from experience, my dad was like this when I was a teen. You have to give her options, go to treatment and stay until you have completed it; or else we won't have anthing to do with you. Don't allow her over to your house, don't give her any money, don't help her out in any way. She will have to hit rock bottom, where she doesn't have anything or anyone. Once she hits rock bottom, there is no where else to go but back up. Once we did this to my dad, he successfully completed a treatment program and has been sober for 8 years. He still attends NA & AA meetings all the time, at least every 2-3 days! It is a struggle for him still, but after she has decided that she wants to get help, you all have to be there to support her 110%!! Good Luck, and I will pray for her!!

Answer 5

Call Children's Services first (they can help with insurance with the daughter's day care and and counseling). The kids have to be a priority right now because your sister is NOT in her right mind.

Your sister has to WANT the help. Set firm boundaries as far as visitation and appropriate, acceptable behavior. If she's a thief for her drugs, call the cops AND Children's Services to keep them appraised of her situation. Rally the family around this! Don't take her garbage or manipulations. An active addict will say or do anything to manipulate the situation to their favor. Call the police if she gets violent or steals, or brings drugs around.

She needs to know that there are non-negotiable consequences for using. She also needs to know that she's loved and needed.

I hope she gets help and sticks with it. She probably feels empty inside, and that she's not worth it. Tell her she IS worth it, and the family will support every positive step she makes, and there will be extreme consequences for every negative. Tell her you'll get a permanant (as long as she's using) restraining order to keep her from the family and the children if she continues with her outrageous behavior. The family needs to take care of itself first if it is to be of any help to an addict when that person decides to stop killing themself, and their family.

She has to get sick of her behavior and the life meth ahs given her before she does something about it. You can't do anything short of an intervention with a qualified professional, and even then it is still her choice as to whether or not to take the help. Call your local mental health agency to connect you with that type of professional, as well as a support group for the family.

CMA - Crystal Meth Anonymous.
AA - Alcoholics Anonymous (lots of recovering addicts attend AA meetings when there are no other addiction fellowships in their areas)
Alanon - for the families of the addict or the alcoholic.

It's not easy, it's gonna suck for a looong time, even after she decides to get help. She's gonna have great days as well as very, very bad ones. But, she can do it.

Take it from someone who knows (sober since 4/28/2002).

PS: Give her my best, and tell her she's not alone.

Answer 6

i'm sorry youre having to go thru that. honestly there is not much you can do except call the police on her. The recovery rate from meth is about 2% success rate. Odds are terrible. If you can't get her locked down away from it all, perhaps sharing some knowledge might help. there is a lot of info online about how people look who use meth, how it affects theirs brains and it's some serious scary stuff. i know i sat and watched a friend of ours try and try and try and he's currently clean 3 months now but i can't even count on that to stay that way. becuase it alters their mind so much they are generally so deluded about it you can't even teach them how bad it is. But if you could keep her away from it for about a year - there's a good chance of healing and recovery. good luck my friend. it's hard to watch and know that you can't do it for them. i hope youre in time to convince her to do for herself

Answer 7

well she has to want to help herself, make her face the consequences for her decisions, tell her you love her regurly, and pray alot much she has to want to no one can make her.
addictions have alot to do with self esteem as well she probably needs some counselling as well, when a person gives up an addiction studies show that those who have a hobby or something else to replace the addiction in their lives are more likely to suceed.

Answer 8

This is about the deadliest drug on the street and highly addictive. The children are what's important. Your sister will do what she wants to do, regardless of how hard you and your family try to get her cleaned up. I suggest getting legal guardianship of both of them, if possible.

Answer 9

you cant make her get clean she has to want to do it herself. as far as the kids go they dont need to be around that. try to get custody of the kids and only allow supervised visitations. who knows, maybe losing her kids will wake her up and make her realize the time she lost with them and the hurt she has put them through. my sister just lost her kids because of the same thing. she finally realizes what she did and is now suffering the consequences of her actions. she will never get her kids back.

Answer 10

Your sister has to WANT to get herself clean. Forcing her to do so will not work. You need to talk to her about this situation (I understand that this may be fruitless since it's hard to reason with a drug addict) that she needs to get clean for the sake of her family and children as well as herself.

Answer 11

maybe an intervention, it has probably a 50% success rate. Every seen the tv show its hardcore