If you or someone you know is addicted to meth and seeking treatment, let me first congratulate you for making the decision to chose life over death. Finding the right treatment program is healthy for your recovery. It is "very important to ask questions" when talking to admissions of treatment centers. Do not go to the first treatment center that sounds good.

I would first attend a few support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or a local church recovery group. You can just sit and listen, you do not need to talk or give anybody any information about you. But remember that closed mouths don't get fed.

Most places offer many forms of meth treatment such as inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, detox facilities, halfway houses, and sober living homes.

Inpatient treatment is where you can reside at a facility under supervision and counseling from certified professionals.

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Our Guest Bloger today is Kelly Miller. Kelly's specialty as a counselor is helping parents who are having to deal with teenage alcohol and drug abuse.

RELAPSE AMONG TEENAGERS

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My son has been in a destructive relationship for 6 years. They eventually got married last year and have been living with my husband and myself for the last three years. I would do anything for my son; I have had one son killed at the age of sixteen and after that I pretty much let Jason do what he wanted to his detriment and mine. I feel like a lot of his problems stem from the fact that his father died when he was nine and his brother was killed when he was twelve. He was a great kid; active in school and very outgoing until about 15. That is when it all changed. My husband tried to warn me but I would not listen. I should say that this is my children's step-father but he was there from the time Jason was ten so he was more than just a step-father; by all intents and purposes he was his dad. It seems that when he turned fifteen; he got in with the "wrong" crowd-drinking and pot. We took him to counseling and he could con the counselor into believing anything. It was all our fault; he was doing nothing wrong. I even tried to put him at Vanderbilt for inhouse treatment for drugs but they told me pot was not an addiction. Now years later he is paying for this. He has three beautiful children by two different women and is now in a relationship with another girl. She has a special needs child and I am afraid this is not a relationship Jason can handle. His former wife is causing all kinds of problems and will not let him nor us see his child unless it is at her home. Jason tried to kill himself in January and went to Rolling Hills for inpatient treatment. He came home a different person. Like the Jason of old. I know he is not ready nor needs a commitment at this time but that is where he is headed. If someone has any input for me or any suggestions; please feel free to let me know. I don't want to allienate him but I feel like this is going to happen when I talk to him. Yes; I have been an enabler for years. Making excuses and giving money to him to help make it.I think his only addiction is pot and destructive women.  He was not brought up this way. I always tried to live my life so my children would not know how it was to live with parents who were addicts and destructive. My parents were alcholics and would fight daily. My children never saw that side of them because they had quit drinking by the time they were born so they only remember the best of them. I thank God for this; however where does this destruction come from. Is this a hereditary thing that I could do nothing about or am I to blame for this wonderful person growing up to be suicidal and  only happy when he is miserable?

One of the most striking health effects of meth addiction is the change in the physical appearance of meth users.

An emaciated look and rampant dental disease manifesting as decayed, discolored and broken down teeth and inflamed gums are associated with methamphetamine use. In short stretches of time, sometimes just months, healthy teeth turn a grayish-brown, develop extensive decay, and reach a state of such decay that causes them to be unsalvageable and require extraction.

Many media reports have provided details about a distinctive pattern of unchecked tooth decay among methamphetamine users. Described variously as blackened, stained, rotting, or crumbling teeth, the association of this pattern of dental disease with methamphetamine addiction has earned it the media moniker meth mouth.

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Kelly Miller will now be a regular guest blogger on our site. This first article is EXCELLENT, and adds a new dimension to our writings altogether!

Ken P.

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I Do Know that anything that I tell/e-mail you, You Can Not relay to the patient. I do know that that is a HIPPA violation. 
Ok, with that being stated as Pre- knowledge and Fact, I shall go on. 


Hello and good morning and thank you,

My name Red, Blue's partener for 11 years and would be wife. He is a new patient in your Amazing program. I have heard nothing but good reviews.  
 I'm e-mailing in regards to things that Blue said before he left to go admit himself into rehab. He made comments like I'm going to go mess with  people's heads. 
  I have recently gotten my third DWI,  His son recently started acting up and got sent to Military Academy, his father got really really sick and then he died in December while Blue was holding his hand, and he does not handle Death well, about five years ago his best friend ever Rick died because he was drunk and got into an accident in the middle of the morning and died because of it. 

 He has been using alcohol and prescription drugs as an excuse since this all started happening to be a complete and total, hit Rock Bottom, alcoholic, black- out drunk, prescription drug abuser. 

 Here is a little of what I've learned about BLUE over the past 11 years, this is just FYI information that you might need to know about BLUE before you begin his treatment.  He does not like authority, he does not like being told what to do, he does not being yelled at, BLUE despises cowboys he doesn't really like horses, he hates country music, BLUE Is A City Boy,,, BUT BLUE Is Also A Marine! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 He is generally not a very Bad man but right now he's got psychological problems from being there when his father died he has depression,  anxiety, loses his patients and control forgets where he is, forgets where he has been, and forgets what he did the day before, he cannot sleep, he uses alcohol as a vice to try to get away from it but it doesn't help any of it, we've been trying to tell him for the past at least three months. 
 We love Our Boy BLUE very much and we are all scared for his health and safety and we do appreciate you and your team taking him on. 
Please keep me posted on his progress. Only after,  with his permission and you talk with BLUE about me, please do not push him on the issue, Let him bring My name up. 
Thank you. 
RED :-)

The Gap Between the AA and the Al-Anon Programs

          Survey data about membership in 12-step programs is available only from Al-Anon, as none of the other world service offices gather such data. Recent figures show a disturbing trend. Cooperation, based on the percentage of Al-Anons who were referred to Al-Anon by members of AA, was at an all-time high in 1996 (38%), but in the short nine-year period ending in 2006 that figure had dropped to only 08%. Some guess that this is because people on both sides seem to be regarding meetings held “over there” as “in the enemy camp.”

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In Praise of Lois and Bill Wilson’s only child 

Today's post as well as the next few will concern the cooperation between AA and Al-Anon. Figures from the past 12 years of surveys done by the Al-Anon World Service Office indicate that the percentage of new Al-Anons referred by AA's has declined steadily from a high in 1995. This is of deep concerne to me, as AA and the AA friends I made during the years of my own recovery played a HUGE role in that process!

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I am sitting at my desk on Christmas day at Tallgrass, listening to Christmas music and thinking about the past year. There are many thoughts going through my head. The one thing that really is apparent to me is that I am so grateful for the gift of sobriety. As Rylee (2.0) barks to at the door to be let in, the thought of the many people who have been touched by Tallgrass, goes through my head. The one that has had the biggest impact is of course, my dad. He passed away in September and is at the big meeting in the sky. I think back to the hundreds of faces of people who have spent time at Tallgrass and wonder how many are clean and sober today, enjoying the holiday’s, as I am able to. I think of the ones who were lost as a result of this disease. Adam, Matt, Mike, Troy, Rob, Prescott, Brian, and whoever else I am not aware of. Then I picture the hundreds of people who are sober and clean today, far too many to mention here.
I am blessed with a loving family, caring friends, a wonderful job with great co-workers and a God that has been with me everyday of my life whether I knew it or not. My life has been greatly affected in a way that would never been possible if I hadn’t received the gift of sobriety. So I would just like to say thank you to every person who has touched my life as a result of God’s gift called Tallgrass.

May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sunshine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields.

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