[SpeedyJason]

Hey Savsy, I've just turned 18 and lived with my heroin-addicted father for a couple of years (my mom and sister were out of the picture at this time). I also am an addict and am working on building up my own clean time. I know exactly what you mean by things like this being triggering. When my dad was high, not only was that a MAJOR trigger but he liked to cuss me out a lot and that really doesn't help you when you're trying to stay clean... I couldn't move out either, I didn't have enough money nor was I old enough. I think you need to be emancipated/18 years old to get an apartment unless your parents co-sign or something like that. In canada, those laws might be different.

The only thing I found that helped me was just either hanging out in a totally different room than him and blocking them out and finding distractions like playing online games or looking through music. Or I would just try to stay out of the house as much as possible, but hanging with the few friends I had that didn't use. If you have one friend that doesn't use, stick by them, it helps a good deal.

Sorry, there really is no easy solution to it. You can look into emancipation but I believe that process takes a while.

Hope things go better for you soon,
Jay