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As a mom I've been watching my son go down and down each year with his Drug addiction. Up to now I've been coping but not lately, he's at his worst and I'm scared that if he doesn't get the help he needs we are going to lose him? I pray a lot and cry a lot too. I don't even know what drugs he's into at this time.? Think his choice of drugs has been changing?. Lately he looks so sickly, lost a lot of weight, is nauseous all the time so asks for a lot of gravol, could this be from not eating or is there something in gravol that can give a high? He has sores and is always scratching, has red eyes, relates that he isn't able to sleep, and looks very disconnected when we do see him? Apparently he has been to the hospital, but there is such a long line up because of the Covid19 crisis and its variants,, that he sits and waits and waits in a roomful of other people, and leaves before he can be seen by a doctor? We have gone all the avenues to try to give him advice and to help him, but no matter how gentle we try to approach the subject, I think he is taking it as a rebuke so he withdraws and we don't see him for a long time? What makes it worse, he never has a working phone and can't be reached, so we have to depend on him to make contact. or try to get someone else to find him to pass on any messages we have? Thanks for listening-
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