Originally Posted by
litehorse 
I sure wish i had found this place before so many decisions may have been different - but who knows how things would have been
I pushed my daughter into a very expensive detox when she wasn't ready. I did that within 48 hours of discovering her addiction. She was clean from her drug of choice for about six months but still drinking and smoking weed. She went back down the predictable path.
While she was detoxing, a friend OD'd from the same drug of choice.
After getting an education in all this, I can look at like I prevented her from her bottom and prolonged it, or that my actions saved her life at that time, especially given her friends OD. I choose to look at it as both and I'm very glad I'm better informed now. I'm also glad that she's in recovery just for today, and that it was all her doing, not mine.