She is sick with the disease of addiction, you are no better than her

she wasn't worried about her kid, she was worried she won't get another dose. Social services should drop by, because by the looks of her I suspect the child isn't taken care of properly.

It’s part of the addiction. Addicts and alcoholics lie about everything. They lie when the truth is better. It’s only after a lot of therapy,in whatever form you use. You will eventually come around and realize lying doesn’t help you. I had an addict who would snort a line and walk in my office and tell me he hadn’t. He was a good person clean. Problem is he couldn’t stay clean. I eventually fired him after offering the help he needed. He got fired 4-5 more times before he finally got it together. I am a recovering alcoholic and addict. 38 years now.

She couldn’t pay a thing on her court ordered fines, but somehow had enough money for drugs. 🤔🙄

@@nancya5876 yes, because she's a helpless drug addict who needs to get high every day or will go into withdraw

As someone who has overcome intravenous heroin and methamphetamine addiction, I can confidently say that people don’t choose drugs over their children, they choose their children over drugs. Drugs are emotionally addictive, psychologically addictive, and most importantly physically addictive. Your body, mind, and soul, are all literally dependent on the substances to function properly, and without them, a whole raft of medical complications can, and do, arise during the withdrawal process. And some of those complications can become permanent maladies.

My dad was an addict and alcoholic, and he was extremely abusive, he bragged about the monster he was. He left when I was 8, almost 9, and went into court and terminated his rights to me. He told them he didn't even want visitation, and as far as he was concerned he had no daughter. I was dead to him. He would quit jobs to get out of paying child support, or fired for violence. Finally the judge asked what if he was ordered to pay $5 a month for me (they was very familiar with him because of all the times he was arrested) and he looked at the judge and said absolutely not. That $5 was a pack of cigarettes I was robbing him of, or money towards his addictions, and I definitely wasn't worth that, he never got out of the partying phase. He died 10 years ago from an accidental overdose after he was partying and mixed a bun h of drugs and alcohol together. I was 12 weeks pregnant with my daughter. She's my world, and I couldn't ever imagine putting anyone or anything above her.

I know everybody is different, and not at all saying that's the case for everyone struggling with addiction, but my dad did. He bragged about the monster he was proud of it. He had no desire to change and get clean. Some people do choose drugs over their kids, and my dad was one of those people.

​@@hannahjuarbe1984You deserved so much better Hannah. I hope you know that. What a sad excuse for a man he was. As sad as your story was the ending put a smile on my face. I bet it's made you the best mother. ❤

@@superme63 I'm going to respectfully disagree- to a point. I acknowledge the disease aspect of addiction, I understand how certain dormant genetic inclinations are awoken in certain people when they choose to do certain drugs, and how this sends their brains into intermittent chaos, which results in their lives becoming a mess. Hence, drug addiction. This is all clinical fact. What I don't acknowledge is this idea that the disease of drug addiction robs a parent _entirely_ of the capacity to make choices, _bad or_ good. Indeed people do recover- because they choose to. And until they've commit to recovery, regardless what mental, emotional, or physical grip addiction has on them, every addict, in my opinion, is choosing drugs over their children. It's the choice they're making _until_ they find the wherewithal to make better ones. I've got pretty intimate experience with drug addiction, via family and otherwise, I've never been okay with the concept of "the emotional, psychological and physical parameters of addiction rob adults of the capacity to choose", which seems to be what you're suggesting. I feel every addict in recovery is a testament to the power of choice, just like every addict in a body bag is. Sometimes addicts make admirable choices, sometimes they make terrible ones. Even in the depths of addiction, everyone has agency. It's how recovery is possible at all.

Good comment. Does that mean she will completely detox over 2 days? Or will she be still be craving drugs to get over the detox?

@@MsShandy111 depends on the drugs she is addicted to but the physical withdrawal to the addiction will actually just be getting started after 48 hours. The anxiety of knowing what’s ahead, is really bad… really, really bad. If you’ve never experienced it, you won’t ever understand it and if you have, you never forget it. If you have ever experienced real fear, then imagine that feeling intensified to the point where you think death is a good option but you have no way to end it. It will probably take months to get to the point where you are ok physically but you will never ever be normal again. Don’t do drugs.

That's OK.. My coworkers don't understand when I blurt out "You are at the 36th District Court" repeatedly and I'm in the deep south.

@@WonderWhatHappened my family doesn't understand when I yell pre-trialllllllll

😂

“I got to get it together”.

@@WonderWhatHappened my kids get confused when I get upset at them I blurt out, "SWEET JEEESUS!" in an angry black woman's voice.

Yeah probably not. She's pretty clearly on meth, which people don't really OD on. People OD on heroin.

I wonder if cps is involved, if not they should be

For these people, kids only serve 2 purposes: an excuse for avoiding jail; and second, the extra welfare check.

🤩

Young people too. 😁

Nah, it's more fun to make fun of them by faggy ambulance chasers.

First guy looks like Chumlee from Pawn Stars

Thank God that judge made her go now! Likely saved her life and protected her sons!

I second that thought!

@@NicolaMaxwell what’s funny is I can’t think of anytime that I had a client go off of ssri’s, but I just dealt with people when they first got in trouble and were starting treatment. I was usually just at an entry point in the system.

@@alexalexander1772I think you mean, Tardive Dyskinesia?!? That’s the name of the condition to which you are referring to in the original post.

@@alexalexander1772what kind of “clients” do you have, if you don’t mind me asking, of course asking in a general nature.

@@Emm325 I was d&a counselor for low level/ first time drug offense who were primarily government employees. Generally young guys smoking up or drunk driving. I spent a few years just do assessments and writing recommendations during PSI phase. Once they see the judge they’re moved to some else’ desk. I ended my career running groups in prison and reviewing parole paperwork.

@@Emm325 you’re write about the spelling. Unless there’s a red line I rarely notice.

Well said!

I live for my afternoon before work nap! Couldn’t function without it!

Always enjoyed my afternoon naps, when not at work. My ex (28 years) never understood. My grown kids enjoy their naps, just like their father. She still doesn’t understand and ribs them about it.✌️

Naps refresh & revive. Studies have shown that we benefit greatly from naps & in fact naps were probably an integral part of life throughout most of human history. Most animals take a rest during their awake period. And most people's circadian rhythm includes a sleepy spell around 2 pm. Because jobs don't allow humans to be human, we get through by pounding espresso & energy drinks, then eventually have heart attacks. I'm so glad I have the option of honoring my need for a nap. I'm self employed in construction & can just go sleep in my truck for a few when I need to. When I had an office job, we had a nap couch that we were allowed to use

Nap when needed! 😇👍