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Q&A: My girlfriend is a danger to herself and others help me?

Question by BEEFKAKE: My girlfriend is a danger to herself and others help me?
I recently found out my girlfriend is addicted to crystal meth. How do I go about getting a court to declare her a danger to herself and others so she can enter a state funded rehab center. We live in los angeles

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Answer by Eric
You’ll have to have law enforcement step in. She’ll be arrested and put on Prop 36 by the courts, where she’ll be mandated to attend classes and rehab.

Otherwise she can’t be put in a program against her will.

What you wrote “is a danger to herself and others” is the criteria for meeting a 5150 (72 hour psych hold). Drugs cannot be weighed there. If drugs are involved, it would be an arrest with a 5150 hold at the jail if shes suicidal.

Either way, it ends up being a criminal matter for the courts to help out with.

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Your input… I am collaborating on the opening of a recovery home (women who are becomming drug free)?

Question by lekkermeid: Your input… I am collaborating on the opening of a recovery home (women who are becomming drug free)?
I woud like to request if you can send me a few names you think would be suitable. Remember its a home a sober living environment.

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Answer by Misanthrope
No Poppy she wants ppl to give names for the sober living center.

I don’t really have a name that you could call the center… Maybe Survivors.

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Do you consider alcoholism a disease or a continual action of poor choices?

Question by : Do you consider alcoholism a disease or a continual action of poor choices?
Also, please state your reasons for your view point.

Random question out of curiosity. Please be respectful of other answers.

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Answer by Paul
Well, alcoholism has been shown to be hereditary, and more prone in some ethnicity than others. where bloodlines and ethnicity are the independent variable respectively.

From this i think I’d be safe in assuming Alcoholism is in some sense genetic. In that case it fits the profile of a disease, not a cycle of poor choice. However, the process of falling victim to alcoholism may be in part the result of bad choice, especially if you know you’re more prone to it.

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what’s wrong with me ? — should I be worried?

Question by TasteOfInk: what’s wrong with me ? — should I be worried?
My whole life I’ve never been able to speak up for myself, I always suffer in silence and I put everyone else before me. I’m 17, 10/29/08 my best friend killed himself, and idk why but it didn’t really affect me emotionally at all(I never talked to anyone about it). A couple weeks ago I moved from Michigan to Tennessee to get away from my mom and her dick boyfriend and I don’t even miss any of my friends or family. when i was 13 my stepdad (my dad ditched out on me before i was born and i have no clue who he is(and that doesn’t affect me emotionally either) and my stepdad got with my mom before i was 1 so he was always like my real dad) got addicted to meth and started getting really aggresive,he was constantly yelling at everyone and breaking evertying and he threatened to kill us several times, my mom finally ended up divourcing him and that didn’t affect me either. Not even a year after that my mom ended up getting with some asshole who was constantly being a dick to me just for his entertainment. she then had a kid with him even tho we were already struggleing with money. and none of that affected me either . About 6 months ago I started thinking about killing myself, which really confuses me because compared to alot of people my life is good, and at first i didn’t think anything of it but it was constantly getting worse, about 4 months ago I started cutting and once again I have no clue why, I just randomly get urges to do it and the more i ignore it the worse it gets and the the longer i wait the deeper i end up cutting, so I guess I do have emotions but… well I can’t really feel them. and also I remember almost nothing that happened in my life past age 14 but from what I’ve been told all of my cousins and my sister and step brother were constantly making me miserable. When ever someone ask me to list good qualities about myself i freeze because I can’t think of any. I have a lot of people that i chill with but I don’t have any true friends, i’ve had 3 good friends in my life, 2 turned out to be backstabbing ***holes who were just using me and the other killed himself. I’ve had a few girlfriends but i didn’t love any of them, I’ve actually never loved anyone, not even family, and that really disturbs me. I’ve had one person in my life that actually cared about me and tried to look out for me, my cousin, and he died of a heroin overdose exactly 3 years ago. He was addicted to heroin but he was still a good person and he looked out for me, he tried to make sure that I would never make the same mistakes as him, honestly that’s the only thing stopping me from turning to drugs, i know my cousin would be crushed. last year i spent 2 months in juvie because my mom called the cops and said that i threatened to kill her even though i could never threaten to kill someone, and then told me that i got what i had coming because i did bad in school even tho i tried my hardest i just could never concentrate on anything longer then 2 minutes. I’ve been like that my whole life and when i was going to school it made my life hell because of all the trouble i’d get in at home for failing classes. there were a few years in my life where i was really bad with my mom, constantly flipping out and cussing her out, I finally got it under controll last year but she still constantly throws it in my face and acts like I’m a horrible person even though i hated myself after every fight i got in with her. I’ve had a couple therapist, and I’ve been in an anxiety counselling group and idk why but i could never tell them about wanting to kill myself and cutting, i really couldn’t tell them any of my problems, I always feel like an ***hole when i complain about my life because there are sooo many people out there that have it so much worse then me. Sorry for all of the typing i know that no one wants to real all of that, i just got in sordove a trance when i started typing and couldn’t stop, half of those were suppressed memories i didn’t remember until i started typing, that’s why all of the events i put are in a completely random order

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Answer by ~Kay~
I didn’t even feel like reading your novel.. But by the length of your essay, yes you should be worried!

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How can we make binge drinking uncool with young people?

Question by Dario W: How can we make binge drinking uncool with young people?
It is a phenomenol problem, but for every problem there is a solution. What can be done to stop or curb this nefarious activity with our impressionable youth?
Jilly Cooper – grow up, will you?! You’ll be sorry one day if you get cirrhosis of the liver. Being young does not give you the right to be irresponsible.

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Answer by Kay
You can’t legislate stupidity. In other words, you can’t make rules that say you can’t be stupid. Many young people go out of their way to break society’s rules. It’s called expressing their freedom. Experiencing a tragedy brought on by binge drinking such as watching a friend die doesn’t always teach the lesson.

If you learn how to do it, publish a book. It will be a best seller.

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Whatever happened to the heroin-addicted twins who lived in the “Dr. Phil house” on his TV show?

Question by nicredible: Whatever happened to the heroin-addicted twins who lived in the “Dr. Phil house” on his TV show?
I haven’t seen them featured on any followup episodes since the intial one aired many months ago and I’m interested to know what happened to them, especially since I disagreed with Dr. Phil’s approach to treating narcotic addiction.

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Answer by Dee
I think one of them made it for a while and the other really didn’t try too hard. Ultimately in the end they both had a setback…I’m pretty sure that’s what was on the followup show.

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Psychologically speaking, is alcoholism considered a diseases or a result of a voluntary action?

Question by : Psychologically speaking, is alcoholism considered a diseases or a result of a voluntary action?

The way I see it, drinking alcohol is a choice because you are voluntarily putting it into your body and you have the choice NOT to do it. Being predisposed to it does not make it an involuntary act. I am predisposed to gaining weight and eating, I do what I can to eat right.

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Answer by minigroove
Disease.

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Q&A: Crystal meth addiction?

Question by invalid_screenname1: Crystal meth addiction?
A friend of mine has just told me that she has been using meth for 2-3 months. She says that she wants to stop and i believe her, however, she dose not want to resort to rehab yet. My question is is there anything she can do when she has an intense craving? Please just answer the question, i don’t need anyone telling me she needs rehab. i know that is a possibility but i want to a least give her a chance.

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Answer by jamie2769
just be there for her now that she is coming down. hold her, hold her hair when she pukes, provide the blankets for the shakes and the cool rags for the sweats….. its not going to be easy to do it alone….. best of luck to you guys.

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