My two younger brothers have been smoking meth, need info/advice

[Legerity]

For anyone familiar with meth addiction what should I prepare for? I tremble to think it could come to that but if my brothers choose unwisely I want to be ready for whatever might happen. Any pertinent info regarding neurotoxicity, ect would be appreciated.

It's not too hard to recognize if somebody is tweaked all the time, especially if you know their general personality. With heavy use there's obvious signs like more manic behavior, weight loss, erratic sleep patterns, etc. But addiction to any substance can create noticeable differences in a person's behavior.

But I know it's also possible to use it without really being noticed. I'v tended to binge a lot but if I'm on smaller amount it's not really noticeable.

Regarding brain health some people suggest certain supplements although I'm not really a big fan of that I don't think they ultimately make much of a difference. But you can research this if you are interested.

If you just pay attention without being overly paranoid you may be able to get a decent idea of how well your brothers are doing.

 

[moonyham]

Your friend sounds like a fucking good cunt bro, looking out for your younger brothers and all that. Make sure you let him know that.

 

[moonyham]

And my advice would go something like this: Look, drugs are generally ok. But, theres a couple drugs you just shouldnt touch. Heroin, crack, and meth. They are poisonous, addictive, and will not help your life in anyway.

Try and make them realize with analogy's to games/aspects familiar in there lives. They are young but not stupid.

 

[OnTheMountain]

Your brothers need rehab

 

[QuasiModo]

The both of them havent tweaked since around the time this thread was made and I had a conversation with them about it. Thank you all for the replies and council while I was fucking flipping out.

 

[yuhhhhh]

i'm sure most of us who started using drugs or drinking at a young age wish that we could have those years back to do things that kids do. they have their adults years to experiment with drugs if they want to so personally i wouldn't be advocating any drug use at this point. the fact they aren't continuing to use meth is great, i'd hate to see kids that young get involved in something that terrible, but dude these kids are too young to be even eating acid/mushrooms and smoking weed. my suggestion is to stop encouraging any kind of drug use. stop taking these kids to raves for god's sake. i realize you can't control what they will do but you can at least not encourage or even enable it. i was in a "drug community" as a kid also and now half my friends are dead.

just my opinion.

 

[Snarky91]

Yes, these kids are pretty young. Their brains are still developing. A lot of what you experience in childhood will affect you for the rest of your life. I think you definitely have a moral obligaton to intervene. I disagree with a lot of the replies. This is not about maintaining open lines of communication and what not. It's much more serious. If these kids were even a few years older it would be different. They're too young to understand the long term damage their actions could end up causing them. Therefore, it is your personal responsibility to do whatever is in your power to make sure they don't use any drugs, at least until they're more mature and nearing the end of adolescence.

 

[QuasiModo]

Yeah I wish I could persuade them to put all partying on hold until they are of age but as we all know prohibition does not work. I have never personally given them anything harsher than weed and I didnt start them on the good green stuff anyways. Thanks for the advice but I'm much more confident in my ability to help educate them than I am in my ability to interdict their drug use entirely. Thanks.