I have reasons to believe my mother is abusing drugs. What do I do?
Question by Jencooki: I have reasons to believe my mother is abusing drugs. What do I do?
Hi.
I’m almost 16, but not quite (this is relevant if anyone suggests anything about the law), and I have an issue– my mother seems to be abusing drugs for the past 3 or so months.
She has been taking citalopram, buspirone, tranxene, ubiquinol, and more (I know she’s been prescribed citalopram and tranxenes– the others dont appear to be prescribed). Yesterday, I posted a similar question, and the only feedback I got is that she is supposed to be taking these pills. I know. I’m not an idiot.
Problem is, I have reasons to believe my mother is misusing them. The family has been broken apart severely since this summer (family members suing family members, abuse charges, etc etc) and my mother has been very depressed. For as long as I remember, she’s been depressed, but I haven’t seen her this bad in years. The last time she was this depressed, she attempted to commit suicide by swallowing a whole bottle of pills. She survived and this was never reported to anyone; hospital or police. It’s a miracle she made it.
Anytime she gets stressed or anxious, she takes one of the pills. I know she’s supposed to take a regular amount at certain times of the day, but she will take 2-3 at a time (when that is what her daily dosage is supposed to be) to get a quick fix. She’s failed to do normal parenting things, like drive her children home from school. When I ask her why, she says she “takes too many tranxenes.”
I’ve been looking through her “office stuff” at night, out of concern, and have found empty bottles of rum, needles, “ecstasy cigarettes” (I have no idea if these are really ecstasy, or if they’re legal), and bottle after bottle of pills– there’s no way she was given all the pills she has in her drawer for a month’s worth. She definitely has extra.
Since I noticed her problems, she has also started smoking again. She quit drinking due to alcoholic tendencies about a year ago, but I guess she’s started again. My sister is also an addict to pills– over-the-counter drugs. I know at least one of her medications are addictive, because I looked it up online.
So, to summarize, I found that she has:
– 5+ prescription medications, all in a surplus amount
– Needles
– Ecstasy Cigarettes
– Some strange pill that’s blue, marked “CDK” and full of pink powder (no one can seem to identify this– not even on online medication dictionaries. I found them hidden in the bottom of her citalopram medication.
– Empty bottles of rum
Since she started recreationally taking medications (which I have witnessed), she:
– Has lost 33 pounds and is now underweight, according to an adult BMI chart
– Can’t drive very well
– Is very fatigued, tired, etc
– Is unresponsive; when I talk to her, It doesnt seem like she has the capacity to listen and comprehend
– Doesn’t care about anything
– Offering me some and thinking it’s okay
I don’t know how “solid” this evidence is, but with my mother’s history of addiction problems to cigarettes and alcohol as well as the very intense, life-changing family problems of late, I think she could have a very serious and deadly problem.
What do I do?
I feel like, if I confront her, she will just get defensive and deny things.
Help! =[
I told my sister about it and showed her the drugs/empty alcohol bottles, and she rolled her eyes at me, saying that “we all have our own path to private destruction in this family, so leave her the fuck alone and leave me the fuck out of it.”
:/ No support!
I see a counselor/therapist and I told her about this. She just said it’s “likely” and gave me no other help than that.
No family is supporting me on this. Anyone I tell this to cusses me out, tells me to leave everyone alone, and to mind my own business… maybe because they’re either pill-addicts, alcoholics, or self-destructive people like she is.
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