Well, of course, your son has no reason to be scared of meth. So it's a choice--even when he's in the gutter, sobbing for enough to keep him whole another hour. But it's just a stage, right? Boys will be boys.
No, it's not a stage, it's a drug -- you know, those things that make you high to cover up the feelings you don't want to feel? When he gets out of his prison camp, he will have a lot more to cover up. Go read the post from a graduate who still has PTSD.
How many therapists are there at the school? Wonder what they talk about all those hours with the kids, since no one is addressing any real issues?
Tell us, how many therapists. How many times a week does he see the therapist. Does he receive family therapy, to improve the situation when he comes home? Is his therapy confidential, or do they share that info with his family rep? Program therapy is not therapy, I've lived through both and know the difference.
He'll return to the same environment---only if nothing changes at home. Hence the seminars.
Please tell me you didn't just say that. It's sad people like you are put in a position of authority over other people's children. Seminars... please.
Dad the fact is, you're right on. YOU know he needs help. You're intelligent enough to be searching, and continually learning. And it sounds as though you recognize that he can eventually choose to change or not, stay healthy or not.
Coercion. Remember that word, it's important. His son chose nothing, not when he pisses, when he eats or even looks out the window. His son doesn't even know what it feels like to be able to make a series of choices throughout the day anymore. When he gets out of the program and realizes all the 'tools' they taught him only work in the program, he will be in for a rude awakening.
I support good programs
Not sure what you're doing in a WWASP thread then.
including the WWASP programs I have experienced personally.
Which one did you send your kid to, and for how long?
Remember, they're independently owned, and not all of them look alike.
None of them look like what parents think they do. They have NO idea, but like I said, we put on a great show for you. Parents are paying for a circus, for all of us to put on the show they want to see.
There's a wide variety of kids and approaches; personally investigating this will bear out the truth of what I say.
No, the truth is you support an abusive program that turns out kids with more problems than they went in with. THIS is the truth.
The best thing you can do is what you're doing: be aware of the certain death of meth,
It's great he got proper drug treatment and addressed the issues that caused him to do it in the first place so he doesn't get back into meth when he gets home. Oh wait...
keep informed, and participate in every step of his program--wherever or whatever it is.
Unless he breaks the home contract, then you should send him back to the program. Or when he turns 18 give him his exit plan and kick him out on the street. This is what WWASP teaches parents to do.
Yes, what a great program -- WWASP destroys families for a pile of cash, very admirable group of people.