Please take me as I am. I am sorry for all the trouble I have caused and I want to give it another try. Loved-ones often overlook the evidence of drug use. They may ascribe things to 'a difficult time', nerves, growing pains, work troubles, illness or other more palatable shortcomings. The discovery of unequivocal proof of drug use may be devastating.
Reactions vary from rejection and hostility to even further denial of the problem.
With time, patience and understanding, most of these tensions can be overcome and previous harmonious relationships restored and even improved. The majority of addicts by this stage have deceived people around them and some have committed robberies or other schemes to generate income for drugs. Few of them are proud of it, but some try to justify such behaviour. Society, they say, has placed them in the untenable position of being addicted to a drug which is illegal. A small number of addicts first received narcotics in the context of medical or dental treatment.