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You are an angel. Thank God you and your family stepped up and love and care for those kids. Thank God you have the stregnth and the will and the patience to do the things you are doing for them. I don't even know you, but I'm saying a prayer to my HP right now to help you and those kids.
Just my opinion on the hitting bottom thing. I personally think that it is a chemical thing. But hitting bottom can also be a chemical thing. The pleasure endorphins are very strong and inviting. It takes a whole lot of bad things to produce the chemicals that they don't want. The bad has to be stronger than the good feeling. That's a whole lot of bad. I think if it were just a matter of deciding they are going to quit, then we wouldn't have the problems near as bad. I believe that most addics really want to quit.
Again, Bless your heart for what you are doing.
B