how drugs changed my life forever

I had a moment the other day after speaking to my son, remembering how i nearly lost him and he has turn his life around now. We have to go back 8 months ago when my son got set up for stealing $500 worth of crystal meth from his dealer and how two men with crow bars came from behind the wall and were ready to beat him up

My story goes back even further than that how a smart and intelligent young man got caught up in the drug scene and i didn't even know it.My son at the age of 18 got himself a good paying job in the banking industry, this kid was clever he could have been anything.Then 6 months later he life started to spin out of control before he could even blink.

Watching my son change was one of the most devastating times of my life, he lost his job 6 months later because he had gone on a bender. Four days later he decided to wake up and call the bank, but they knew and they sack him. He was starting to hit the drugs harder he got another job in a bank lasted 1 month, then another 2 months and then another 2 weeks.

Plus i was in denial i just wanted my son back, and as he would loss jobs i would give him money after money knowing it was going to drugs but i just wanted to help. My son would always say this is the last time i am getting of it dad, but my son became a compulsive lier. He would believe everything that was coming out of his mouth, if i saw a blue pen he would swear black and blue that pen was red.

It got to a point his mother threw him out of the house's and i would not see him for long periods of time, he would keep away because he was so ashamed. My mother always told me you always feed off your children if they where down you would be down with them. He even had to be omitted into hospital because he had overdosed on meth and i didn't know if he was going to pull out of it or not.It drove me to break down and i look in my son's eye's and said to him are you ready to die because i think i was preparing myself..

The day my life and his changed forever when he came home all shaken up, first i wanted to find those guys and with anger i said to my son that's the world you live in full of lie,s and deception. I felt sorry for my son for awhile as he realized how bad it had got and he personally had to apologized to everyone he hurt.

Crystal meth destroy's lives and changes peoples lives forever, you could say i was one of the lucky ones, my son spend over $60,000 on meth and had debt's up to his eye balls. My son is now 21 years old and has been clean for 8 months he has a great job, he has nearly paid his debt's off and is going to university next year. In the end it doesn't matter what you do, i always remember the three C's they taught me at rehab.

I didn't CAUSE it

I can’t CURE it.

I can’t CONTROL it

The only thing you can do for them is be there for them, they have to want to quit because it doesn't matter how many rehab places you take them to, it won't work.But it is a epidemic all over the world and the children have to be educated very young, my younger son went though it with us he is only 12 years old.My name is Nelio and i am a survive thank god and my heart goes out for all those people going though it.

take care and be strong