Parents should feel partly responsible . . . not necessarily guilty.
Keep in mind that there are many functional addicts.
Also there are many people with addictive personalities that exhibit a lot of the behaviors of the addict: Small mindedness, vindictiveness, intolerance, deception, but don't actually have a curent chemical addiction.
Many of them post here on GC. Just review the post histories and you will read some of them.
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Perhaps the most important point made so far.
And because of the way the presidential election was handled in Florida, I'm not a Jeb Bush fan at the moment. But, as a father who had a child with an addiction, I feel for him as a man. They tell you, during the rehab period, that parents should not feel guilty about their children becoming drug users. That's absolutely true -- but it's also impossible at least to some extent.
You just can't help wonder if there wasn't one more little thing you might have done to prevent it.
Usually, there isn't. But you still wonder.
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