Letters to the Editor
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Sometimes, little can be done but to wait
This is not a popular opinion, but I believe that oftentimes a parent of a young drug addict can do nothing but wait for the child to grow up and out of the addiction.
I was in a similar situation as Nic when I was in my early twenties in college. I was a drug addict, though not as extreme as he was. For years I was hooked on prescription medications pushed by a greedy doctor.
What got me out of it wasn't a revelation, a program, or a mentor. It was time. I just had to mature into my mid twenties before I had the intellectual abilities to break the addiction.
This seems to be more common in men. It has been proven time and again that boys mature slower than women, and some boys mature very slow indeed. Should any of these slowly maturing boys get sucked into the vortex of meth addiction, not much can be done but wait.