My Dad is an addict and a criminal. What can my family do ?

Question by cantslowdown1: My Dad is an addict and a criminal. What can my family do ?
My Dad has always been an addict and a criminal. Whether it was crack, alcohol, cocaine, or Oxycontin.. he has always been on something. His main problem has always been alcohol, however. For my entire life it has always been a huge issue. My parents have always fought over it and it has just become so tiresome.

On top of the alcohol, he has also been addicted to Oxycontin for over five years. So right now he is abusing both. He has been in and out of jail his entire life, but has never done serious time. He once forged a doctor’s signature in order to receive pills. He also has no license anymore after it was suspended for driving under the influence.

He was once the manager of a very big telemarketing company and my family bought a big 4 bedroom house in Florida in the mid 90’s. However, problems with alcohol and other things led my mom to leave him and caused us to losing everything we had. They in the late 90s and early 2000s my parents were on an off and eventually got back together in 2002. They’ve been together since they were 15.

My Mom was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and my Dad is still up to no good. Still drinking, still doing pills, still causing stress to everyone and I have had enough of this. It has become so tiresome and monotonous already that something just needs to be done. My Mom doesn’t want to be with him anymore but we’re not sure what options we have. Last week my Dad took the car somewhere and my sister called the cops hoping he would be arrested, but he got home before anything happened.

I don’t think he would go to treatment, and even if he did.. we wouldn’t be able to afford it. He doesn’t work and my mom is on disability. If my Mom simply kicked him out, he wouldn’t just leave and would cause a huge scene and refuse to leave and my Mom just doesn’t need that stress on her right now. My Mom is just tired of everything and needs to get away from him for good. We just don’t know how to make that happen.

Best answer:

Answer by tomato1
wowww im really sorry.
i think the best you guys could do with him is
send him to try and recover if he refuses to go den try and make ur family distance urself from
him u and ur family dont need to take dat from him.

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