First I would like to tell Brandon how happy I am that he admits he has a problem and is getting help. Hopefully you are still receiving help. I have 4 sons, all grown men now.My oldest son died a year ago of a drug overdose.I am so proud of Brandon's family showing the courage for an intervention. I too had the chance to have an intervention done for my son,but I didn't. I let him talk me out of it. He BEGGED me not to go through with the intervention. Said he knew of the place that he would have to go and said"Mom, I just can't go. They won't leave you alone until they break you."Having gone through many emotional roller coasters with him I was afraid. He convinced me he would not be able to take the pressure. You have no idea the guilt I live with everyday now. He would probably be alive now.It hurts so much when his 7 year old daughter cries and asks why I can't bring her daddy home.He has 5 children all of whom are struggling in life right now. I always used to tell my son how afraid I was that one day I would get the call he had overdosed. he always would say"I know what I am doing Mom.That will never happen to me".The sad part is that my other 3 sons use drugs also and I still don't have the courage to do anything but encourage them to stop. Losing their brother wasn't enough to scare them into stopping.They tell me the using has stopped and I want to believe them but----So Brandon(my deceased son has a son Brandon)and family keep up the good work. Stick together and love one another. You are in my prayers.

I congradulate Brandon on admitting he has a problem. Thats the first step to being cured. You have to want help, help won't seek you out. Stay strong, Brandon beat your monkey by kicking the habit. If you need a high go to the local amusement park in your area and ride a roller coaster. Play the boardwalk or amusement park concessions stands that should empty your pockets for the money to buy drugs. Get high on life not drugs. Think of how you would feel if you had to go to the morgue to identify your mother or father. Or your own child think of that pain an it may change your mind. My applause to you for taking the first step to recovery. After you kick the habit move from where you are to not see the same people or places where you may have "scored" the drugs. Have faith and you can do it you still have people in your life who love you let that be your strenth. I will keep you in my prayers.

First I would like to say I really enjoy your show.
I too could relate to your show today and I don't know which way to turn my husband have a drug problem which caused us to become seperated after 35yrs of marriage and fighting hard to keep my house which I found out he was taking the money to buy drugs and we was 2yrs behind before I found out because he would pay all the bills and did not want me to talk to any one calling the house about any bills i worked to buy the household furnishing and the food and clothes for the kids and after our kids got grown I was the one who would help my unmarried daughters support their families I never had to worry about the household bills because at one time that just the way he would have it.but after 35yrs. that now changed because he got real heavy into drugs and when i would confront him he would say I did not know what iwas talking about or he would just stay gone for two to three days at a time it got so bad with him demanding that I give him money for a bill he forgot he told me he had paid the week before that I started to check with the companies just to be told that they having been receiving any money and that we were in forclosure and my telephone went off and and that we had a shut off notice for the pse.g bill that I told him he to get help so he had decided to leave instead . so by the grace of God I had received a small settltment and I was able to catch up on the bills. but then he got sick with colon cancer and my daughter begged me to take him back which I did he had the operation and chemo treatments and I thought all was well and he decided to retire from his job with the firedept after 26yrs of service with a nice pension and promises of doing the right thing and he didn't want me to pay any bills. but one day I came home from work and the telephone was off and I begin to get the funny feeling like nothing was getting paid once again so I decided I better call all the companies to see if the bills were being paid just to be told that they weren' we had just filed our income taxes and I made up my mind that he would not get hold of this and that Iwould have to pay what I could to get some kind of agreement with the different companies so I could try to catch up, well when he found out that I had got the tax return and I had put it in my account to pay the bills he turn my furnance off cutoff my water and gas ripped the telephones out the wall I had to go to the police department because if it was just me and the home is one thing but one of my daughters who happened to be slow and on ssi.lives in the home and he was collecting $450 a month from her, so after me and her kids had to leave the house to take baths else where and my grandkids freezing one night I had to have him out because there was no way I was going to give him any money anymore from income tx, my paycheck or from daughters ssi. then I said I would let him come around to see the grandkids who he claims he loves and what did he do he takes my w2 form off my night stand and file the taxes and said he thought we going to file joint and that he would give my half, well when it came I asked for my money and the lies started all over again but you better beleive you can stick a fork in me Iam done for good. I still talk to him but he knows right now he could not sleep in this house not less he got the help he needs. because he wants his family back you could see it in his eyes but it just not in the heart. right now he is letting drugs control his live and I understand its a sickness but the cancer was one thing this is something manmade and I don't feel like living his lies anymore pretending that one day it will alright when I know it won't until he seeks out the help I can't give him. His friends and I do mean his best friends have came to me because
they noticed a change in him his not wanting to be around them and always looking to borrow money on or about the 5th of every month after he receives his $4000. pension check he's broke and they know he's not helping me with any bills so they are concerned so they just left him alone and at times I use to feel sorry for him but without the help I can not help him but may somebody else could get through to him thats what Iam praying and to see that young man on your show today brought tears out that I've been holding in about my problems with how drugs destroyed my family and how my daughters are crying because of their dad drug problem and they feel they can no longer believe in the man they once knew as their rock. What is left for us to do but pray for change or someones help Iwish Icould get him to talk to someone about a treatment center but he his stuck in denial. Thanks for your show today.

I know where brandon's family is coming from we have the exact same problem with my stepson Matt who is 26 years old ever since his teen years he has been in and out of trouble drugs alcohol prison parole you name it he has been to a place called options three times in the last year my side of the family has tried to help him bent over backwards and gave him a place to stay and he messes things up we my husband & i have helped him but he lands a job gets paid and goes on these binges and never has any money left to save he has three daughters by three different women i know deep down inside he really loves these little girls but he really doesnt know how to be a true father to them i honestly think he uses options as an escape to run away from things he has always stated what he really wants out of life he needs help from some other outside source away from wichita kansas he is very smart in a lot of ways but when he uses cocaine meth alcohol he is very selfish and all for himself and expects everyone to be there to pick up the peices when he falls he has hurt a lot of people he has stole from his dad me and his halfbrother all i want for christmas and the new year for him and my family is for him to get the real help he needs and to be a real father in his little girls lifes i wish i could afford to have us be on your show but i dont have funds for that i really truely love him and care about him and i just have these worst nightmares that one of these days we will receive a knock on the door telling us to come identify the body i watch your show almost everyday and i know you give really good advice maybe you can help us thank you for listening and i look forward to hearing from you