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Living with a child coming off drugs

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What are you going through?

The journey towards life without drugs or with managed use is your journey too. Unless you take the difficult decision to ask your child to leave or find another home for them, you will be there on their journey, but you will also be on your own. You will have your own symptoms and setbacks, feelings and fears. Like your child you will have successes and moments of despair. And like your child's journey, yours will have key moments and stages.

I didn't know how to broach it. I thought he was on something, but it isn't the kind of thing you ask on a third date

 

To find out about these key stages in your journey, and some practical strategies for getting through them, click on the different points in the chart below: