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I appreciate your reply and that of others.  It has been a month or so and the situation has only worsened.  He has skipped school and slacked off so much in school (had straight F's last period)that he will be spending another year in 9th grade.  Definitely not the end of the world, but moving him one year closer to being able to drop out.  There is not a sane person out there that can tell me that life without a high school, let alone college, diploma is as beneficial as one with it. In addition, his world of drugs has expanded ten-fold.  He is adding more and more to what he will do.  Today he's angry because I took he cell phone away and he is threatening to try 8 bars.  He's depressed which is a system of drug addiction.  Do you think that this is still experimenting?  He has no regards for our family. It's hard to keep it at home when he only comes home to sleep at night.  For a while he was doing ok in an outpatient program that is designed to educate him on the dangers and help him to change his lifestyle, but that slipped when he was introduced to bars.

I weight the possibility that he may not hit 20 with the fact that you are alive and drug free after your stint and I wonder if your emotional wounds are worse than the end of life itself.

Time's fun when you're having flies.
--Kermit the Frog