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I saw Dr. Keith Ablow's show about the parent's intervention for their drug abusing children. It really hit home. In fact my story is almost identical to the post by Valerie. My daughter is 46 years old. She is addicted to Meth. She lost her 16 year old son 9 years ago, and that began her downhill slide. She lies, steals, is currently homeless. We have tried to help her, to no avail. I even had her committed to a psychiatric ward, and she had court ordered treatment. she did not do it.
We would like to do an intervention, but everything I have looked into was terribly expensive. Treatment is almost non existant in my area. The waiting lists are so long, that even when we got her to consider in house treatment we were unable to get her into a program.
Any suggestions I would appreciate.

Dr. Keith I need help or Intervention 911. I desperately need help and recovering from my disease of addiction (heroin/crack). I am a 38y/o AA male that lives with his mother. At one point in my life, I was doing very well (Manager at AT&T). Then I tried to be closer to my siblings and things went downhill from there on, just trying to fit in with them. I desperately need assistance, I have tried many times in the past to recover, but my family demands does not allow me the chance to do so, PLEASE HELP!

My husband and I have been married for 33 years and are parents of an addict who we love so much. We convinced (well, almost forced)hime to attend rehab in July. We are back to square one! Worry, guilt, terror, exhaustion - we have it all. Yes, we worry about him dying or living his life in jail. He was raised very morally and always had a very kind and gentle personality. What do we do next? We are desperate. Oh, just to mention, my husband is a lawyer and I am a stay at home mom.

Intervention 911. I am his wife, not his mother. He is 53 years old. There feels little difference emotionally, especially after 40 years of true love. I have been dying with him every day for the past 4 years and still do even though he has been living on the streets for the past 6 months. He refuses to die alone and I don't know how to give up on him. Is there really life after an intervention if one were to truly seek it? Does the cruelty of all that has transpired ever leave the memory? What is really more horrific, the addict or the tsunamic destruction he has left in his path? He cries for help when he is clean and screams and accuses when he is high. Please help before we both bleed to death.

I just wanted to say that your Intervention-911 really hit home with me as I too have a daughter that is & has been TOTALLY addicted to Meth. The bummer about this show is that I didn't get to see the entire show as there was an emergency interuption on the station that I watch you on. The first part though with the woman & her daughter hit home sooo hard, I actually cried with the Mother. The difference between them & I is that my daughter is 31, soon to be 32. She has had meth in her life for the past 7-years. She got married 7-years ago to a meth abuser, We did not know that at the time, we just knew that there was something bad about him that we didn't like but could not figure it out until after they were married. She lost custody of her son about two years ago, she has been evicted from every single place that they have lived. I keep thinking that she will hit rock bottom one day but, at the same time I am very afraid of what that bottom is going to be since loosing her son didn't do it. She has had a lot of personal problems in her life & claims that the meth helps her to deal with the pain. I really don't know what to do either! She lies, steals, very manipulative, we have actually witnessed her go off the deep-end a few times. Now my husband, her step Dad doesn't even want her around as we are unable to trust her. Do you have any suggestions for me?

Hello Dr Keith,I have just watched your show on interventions for two people .I am also a parent of two addicts and I think that there are some support groups for parents taht need daily support for what they are going through.I am a member of a group called Families Anonymous and I have gotten my life back after addiction in my family.I think that when a parent has to face this problem we go through it with just more then feelings of love we blame ourselves for how our children turn out,we as parents don't teach the kids our kids to use but we feel responsilbe because they pick up the drug.