How to Cope With a Teen's Meth Addiction

Accepting and learning to cope with a teen's meth addiction can be difficult. When you discover evidence of drug addiction and try punishment, some teens become even more defiant and rebellious. Magnify this type of behavior because of altered behavior caused by the meth addiction and you have a serious problem. Here's what to do if your teen is obsessed with meth and you want to save your child.

Instructions

• 1

  Avoid blaming yourself. The disease of addiction does not discriminate, so you are not responsible for your child's meth addiction. Make every effort to maintain the proper perspective as you cope with a teen's meth addiction by allowing him to be accountable for his own choices.

• 2

  Maintain open communication even as you cope with a teen's meth addiction. If you establish effective, open communication, it will come in handy when you start to develop a plan of action.

• 3

  Get help for your teen as soon as possible. Find a third party experienced with meth addiction to assist you with initiating the recovery process through an intervention or other technique. Families are usually way too emotionally involved to really help the situation on their own.

• 4

  Help your teen arrange her new life and daily routine after treatment to avoid triggers that can result in a setback of treatment. You and your teen need to completely redesign a new drug-free life. Working with a trained professional can help.

• 5

  Find support for yourself as your teen recovers. Contact the methamphetamine addiction website online to find the resources you need for yourself and your teen before it's too late.