I think my brother's taking drugs again! help!
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Meat Pao has the best advice.
But before any organization will step in, you will need the consent of your brother. (Only the police do not need the consent of your brother.)
Therefore you will need to talk to him, about himself wanting to help himself. Once he is agreeable, they will help.
I think there is a list in the last page of the Straits Times every day.
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I used to work in an NGO providing services to inmates in DRCs and prisons. I remembered about 6 years ago, MHA legislated that all non-government halfway houses and drug rehabiliation facilities are compelled to report anyone who receives voluntary treatment at their services to CNB. I don't think things has changed. so don't be mistaken that the identity of your brother will be kept confidential if he goes to one of these services. On the other hand, reporting him to CNB and subsequently having him sent to a DRC is not beneficial in my opinion as DRCs do not provide any significant treatment. They only deal with the symptoms, by locking up the users. The only community treatment provider in Singapore I am aware of is CAMP at IMH, www.camp.org.sg. You could try contacting them to get advice. You do not have to identify yourself.
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good luck. is your brother having problems? try getting him to share( counsellors can do that) then giving him family support to deal with them.
dont mind me hor. i just thinking aloud.
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Parn better just fark off.
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Most people take drug becos of influence by friends. They are mainly curious about it at the first time and wanna try it.
All first timer, safely to say, will think its no harm - just trying. But they can get hooked on the very first try and thats it... hooked.
TS, i sure u read some advices here (minus the idiotic Parn) just follow what they say.
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Originally posted by jgho83:
Most people take drug becos of influence by friends. They are mainly curious about it at the first time and wanna try it.
All first timer, safely to say, will think its no harm - just trying. But they can get hooked on the very first try and thats it... hooked.
TS, i sure u read some advices here (minus the idiotic Parn) just follow what they say.
Orh....I know le....you just want TS all for yourself.No need to be jealous about it, I'm not interested in fighting over TS's attention.
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Originally posted by mancha:
Meat Pao has the best advice.
But before any organization will step in, you will need the consent of your brother. (Only the police do not need the consent of your brother.)
Therefore you will need to talk to him, about himself wanting to help himself. Once he is agreeable, they will help.
I think there is a list in the last page of the Straits Times every day.
I agree with meat pao too. first, he must desire himself to kick the habit. going to the police would meant a "jail term" and they will hold him longer.It is important for him not to go back to his "old friends" if he really want to kick the habit but unfortunately our society are never forgiving to them. This may often lead him back to his old ways and old friends.
There are some companies that will offer thm a job after their term but it will heavily depends on themselves to kick the habit. I know it is hard to kick the habit once you are in but there are "miracles" . And it is only themeselves who can make the miracles.
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Originally posted by gUms:
Tell him that you guys know his taking herion, if he dont stop it NOW! you will call the cops.! simple. Make sure he throws all his drugs n pipes, spoons in the trash infront of the whole family.
And tell him . If he wants something good to keep his mind off herion! Ask him to look for marijuana.... Im serious.... Its a herbs and afterall you dont want him hooked to the chemical junks That doctor give.
Fark CHEMICALS!!!!
oh please, marijuana is not the answer ! please, if u ain't 420 please do not give stupid suggestions like that.
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Originally posted by huzane89:
My brother took drugs before, and was caught and sentenced. This was like 6 years ago. Now, he is recently married and it was his wife who brought my attention to this matter. I did not believe her at first as I see my brother as being normal when i see him.
But 2 nights ago, i woke up at aroun 2am(which i rarely do) to go to the toilet. I saw him sitting at the living room with his head down. I guess he was startled and looked at my direction. I was shocked when his eyes were red. And not just the eyeballs, it was like even below the eyes. It's as if there were blood right underneath his skin at that area like someone being possessed in the movies. And he looked at me and asked me where i was going in the most 'high' that i've ever seen a person.
I wanted to tell my parents abt what i saw, but i just couldnt. I couldnt bear to tell them. When this happened the last time, my mum fainted and cried for 3 weeks and my dad just sat silently in one corner of the house. I couldnt bear to see them go through this again.
I tried searching for actual evidence with his wife but we couldnt find anything. however, there is this bag that he carries around with it at ALL times. When he's not looking, i would check in it and found syringes. Those that were from my mum's. My mother's diabetic and she's realising that she is having shortages of syringes for her insuline shots.(she bought it on a 3 months basis).
When i looked into his trash basket, i would see tissues that has blood on it. His wife told me it's the blood from his nose.
When it's pay day, he would be in the toilet for at least 3 hrs. His usual bathing routine is 1 hr. When he get's out of the toilet, he would sit at the living room.
This morning, when i was in the toilet, I saw a piece of plastic that was stuck at the toilet window. It was the plastic of my mum's syringe and inside it contains a small portion of blue coloured liquid and white powder.
Can anyone advise me further on what i should do now?
depends on people.
first ask if he is having a lot of stress. be nice and show real concern.
I was thinking, prehaps your brother is undergoing a lot of stress. Being someone like him, who is in jail before, wife needs money, mother is sick, job being low pay and other factors, might create overwhelming stress on him. Being human, he need to find ways to destress, and people have shown him the way that is to do drug abuse.
Drug abuse do give people a high and fun feeling. And is really able to temporily realise his pain and escape from reality. However, the withdrawn symptom is difficult to cope, but dose can reduce to decrease its independence. Taking 90%, 60%, 40% ... Codeine or smoking can be a good replacement to kick the habit. If he got balls, just stop 100% and take the full blown of the withdawn symptoms. He will be alright after a few days.
He know that taking drug is wrong. But he cannot help himself.
Try to show care and concern, rarer than reprimand, engage him to do positive activty like exercising or ... something. But can quite stubborn.
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Get him to sit down and watch Requiem For A Dream, it might just help.
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Take drugs with him, then you'll find out why he's taking them. It is freaking HIGHHH
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i advise him to be locked inside a room, until he really stop thinking or depending on the drugs, let him out and then, strip him off from having cash to buy drugs by only allowing money to buy a meal or something. When he ask for money to buy things, find out what is that first or accompany him to buy. Give him a curfew too and also u have to threaten him that u will call the police if he were to take drugs again.
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Lolx i think as a sister, hmmm
give him a cold water bath
if he can tahan that good
cannot tahan suay