Step brother may be using meth
I recently went home for mother's day and saw my 41 year old stepbrother. I hadn't seen him in 9 months since the death of my stepfather. Anyways, he was 60 pounds thinner, his face was sunken and dry and he was having an abscessed tooth and got antibiotics from the local clinic. Those signs all point to meth addiction. I do know he was addicted to herion in the 80s and he said he cleaned up. I don't really know that much about my step-brother as I don't seem him but once a year, but it concerns me that he could be an addict. Especially around my mother who lives alone now. He doesn't work much because he has "vertigo" and he has diabetes and hepititis C from his drug use years ago. Could all his symptoms be a sign of those deseases or of meth use? His 18 year old son recently got busted for pot and is in front of the judge this week. I care about them because they are family and I wonder what I can do, short of confrontation -he walks out the door when confronted about anything.Advice?
Answer:This is a very delicate matter. I think that your step brother can be an addict of meth, seeing the symptoms you explain in your question. And I tell you: ask for help and advice in a support group. Also, you personally can only support him, pray for him and give him love, cause he won't change himself if he really doesn't want it, though he have all the help in the world. But the Holy Spirit can make him to see his faults and to want change and ask for help. You trust in the Holy Trinity to do His work in your step brother and in his son.
yeah alot of people that kick heroin, turn to meth, I don't know why, but my cousin whose only 24 does meth and her man do it it , and he kicked heroin. I don't think you can do anything, the person has to want to change, but until then, you should always be there for them in other ways, like love and support. Thats what I do, with my cousin.
Find a support group somewhere
pray for them. give them love