Ibogaine Africa

Information for parents, friends and family of substance abusers

About addiction

Heroin addiction

Suspecting that your child is using drugs

What do I do when I suspect or know my child uses drugs

Safeguarding your children

Identifying drugs

 

"As we grow up in a dysfunctional system, we develop survival behaviours that in the end leave us powerless and spiritually bankrupt. We give up our own reality in order to take care of our parent's or the needs of the family system. Suddenly life is about becoming caretakers, being stars, heroes and heroines, being lost children, being perfect, being the problem or the rebel or the scapegoat, being our parents parent, being little parents. So we survive by trying not to be “there”.  We develop a dependency on things outside ourselves to the point of self-neglect. We learn all the defences in order to cover up the pain of being shamed, alone and self-ruptured."

Don't abandon - support!  Don't tell - ask!  "You may strive to be like your children, but seek not to make them like you.  For life goes forward, not backward."

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