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- sarahfailin0
My (recently) ex-gf is struggling because her two younger brothers who live in Indiana are using it. One of her brothers (20) has been a user for years and he steals things from the house-- the other brother (17) keeps a padlock on his bedroom door. Now the 17 year old brother is starting to do it too, and it's just so tragic.
Right now her dad is dying of cancer, her mom is on H too, and is an alcoholic. The dad has always been a drunk and an abuser. But with him dying things are really unraveling and all her family is flying off their hinges. She's safe in California and living a productive life, working a job that will only give her so much flexibility with her family. She of course doesn't want to share the extent of her problems with her employer.
She wants to fly back to Indiana and interject herself into her family's situation, see her father through his dying days, and try to get her youngest brother off of heroin before it's too late. I am telling her that there's only so much she can do, and she can't take 3 months to try to fix her family that seems determined to destroy itself. It's amazing enough that she got out of there alive and in good mental condition herself.
There's only so much you can do, even for your family, and there's little you can do to get someone else to stop using a drug like heroin.