For Any Dual Diagnosis Bipolar Plus Heroin Addicts Out There?
We have a family member that is struggling with a “dual diagnosis” — bipolar disorder and substance addiction. Drug of choice is Heroin, but will take whatever is available.
As members of this person’s concerned family we’d like to know — from somebody who had the same problem — what helped you? This person is a late-aged teenager, has been through multiple residential rehabs (months in duration), only to return to home (to intensive outpatient, psychiatrist and personal counselor support, along with NA meetings) and do it all again. All of us in the family are ready to get off this roller-coaster of horror and the parents are ready to withdraw all support and let this young adult sink or swim on her own, as they’ve exhausted the family finances and fear for the rest of the families’ safety. This is a nice middle class educated family, not abusive nor others in the immediate family with addiction issues.
If you have been this teenager and are currently doing well, we’d love to hear from you — while we know every situation is different, we’re out of ideas. Honest and sincere suggestions would be deeply appreciated.
18 years and we’d love to have court initiated treatment (although currently in residential yet again by their own choice) but this person, when clean and even when using, is very intelligent and can speak quite logically to the court. No way to gain control because if incompetence…and we’ve tried the police and they can’t help either. They said “it’s illegal to possess drugs but not to take them” so if they “only” find her high, there’s nothing they can do. Jail would be a relief to all of us, but this person has never been caught.
We’ve been in the group support for the past year, but not currently. We’re kind of burned on on teaching tough love to the new folks and regardless of how tough we all are, she’s not better. I fear this person has lost the ability to live at the parents’ home and none of the rest of us will volunteer our home. We know what would happen. Robbed blind and drug dealers coming to the house.
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