son in trouble[/u]
Let me be blunt, I am desperate parent. My son's life hangs in the balance and I am terrified and looking for help. About six weeks ago I went in to my son's room to get him for diinner and found him passed out on his floor with cocaine on his desk, he overdosed. I had no idea he had been getting into drugs so heavily and he spent a week in the hospital because he damaged his heart tissue from his heavy drug use.
His doctor at the ER gave him a prescription to Valium 5MG and suggested we seek treatment from NA. I started taking him to meetings but this didn't seem to help. One morning I woke up and he wasn't in his room, only to come home later that day high on crystal methemphetamine and hallucinating from the drug which was scary for the whole family. That was the final straw, and we sought outside help for treatment.
My wife and I took our son, to a local psychiatric teen center inipatient program for drug users. He spent a week there inpatient and this was helpful. He met with a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with major depression, general anxiety disorder, and schizephrenia (this might be temporary from drug use though). He is on multiple medications that were prescribed by this doctor. Our son went into outpatient because the insurance would not pay for inpatient anymore. He began to fail again, when he comes home he always returns to drug use and begins talking about suicide and acts like he doesn't care about his life at all.
Our family is very scared. Our son is a heavy drug user and inpatient therapy, NA, even being arrested have not stopped his destructive behavior. We even tried a local state run program but he ran away and they would not keep him by force, so we feel we are out of options. I am desperately seeking any advice, I feel like I am failing as a parent. I don't know if a program is the right option because of my son's mental health issues. He even took a lightbulb down from the ceiling in his psychiatric hospital room, broke it in his sheets and cut his arms up. They had to tie him down with leather straps and give him thorazine and keep him in isolation for two days The staff said it was gruesome, violent and bloody and when we visited him it was bandaged up and he was in a daze from the heavy medication. We are so frightened, and don't know what to do this is tearing us up inside.
My company's insurance doesn't want to pay for any more inpatient but I feel this is the only place he is safe. He is 17 right now and will be an adult in eight months and this worries me too.
Please help![/u]
