My brother took drugs before, and was caught and sentenced. This
was like 6 years ago. Now, he is recently married and it was his
wife who brought my attention to this matter. I did not believe her
at first as I see my brother as being normal when i see him.
But 2 nights ago, i woke up at aroun 2am(which i rarely do) to
go to the toilet. I saw him sitting at the living room with his
head down. I guess he was startled and looked at my direction. I
was shocked when his eyes were red. And not just the eyeballs, it
was like even below the eyes. It's as if there were blood right
underneath his skin at that area like someone being possessed in
the movies. And he looked at me and asked me where i was going in
the most 'high' that i've ever seen a person.
I wanted to tell my parents abt what i saw, but i just couldnt.
I couldnt bear to tell them. When this happened the last time, my
mum fainted and cried for 3 weeks and my dad just sat silently in
one corner of the house. I couldnt bear to see them go through this
again.
I tried searching for actual evidence with his wife but we
couldnt find anything. however, there is this bag that he carries
around with it at ALL times. When he's not looking, i would check
in it and found syringes. Those that were from my mum's. My
mother's diabetic and she's realising that she is having shortages
of syringes for her insuline shots.(she bought it on a 3 months
basis).
When i looked into his trash basket, i would see tissues that
has blood on it. His wife told me it's the blood from his nose.
When it's pay day, he would be in the toilet for at least 3
hrs. His usual bathing routine is 1 hr. When he get's out of the
toilet, he would sit at the living room.
This morning, when i was in the toilet, I saw a piece of plastic
that was stuck at the toilet window. It was the plastic of my mum's
syringe and inside it contains a small portion of blue coloured
liquid and white powder.
Can anyone advise me further on what i should do now?
depends on people.
first ask if he is having a lot of stress. be nice and show real
concern.
I was thinking, prehaps your brother is undergoing a lot of
stress. Being someone like him, who is in jail before, wife needs
money, mother is sick, job being low pay and other factors, might
create overwhelming stress on him. Being human, he need to find
ways to destress, and people have shown him the way that is to do
drug abuse.
Drug abuse do give people a high and fun feeling. And is really
able to temporily realise his pain and escape from reality.
However, the withdrawn symptom is difficult to cope, but
dose can reduce to decrease its independence. Taking 90%,
60%, 40% ... Codeine or smoking can be a good replacement to kick
the habit. If he got balls, just stop 100% and take the full blown
of the withdawn symptoms. He will be alright after a few
days.
He know that taking drug is wrong. But he cannot help
himself.
Try to show care and concern, rarer than reprimand, engage him
to do positive activty like exercising or ... something. But can
quite stubborn.
