I am afraid I have to look at it as a loss. He has told me there is nothing I can do about it. I have hinted about intervention, and he just looks at me with knowing grin as if to say "it's not worth trying." It doesn't seem that there is a lot of help out there for meth addicts and their families.
I think what got him going on it was what someone here mentioned earlier, a tool for weight loss. He was never very heavy, but had low self esteem. Then when he got hooked, he wanted it, and now he does not want to give it up.
He was a bright, good looking young man. Now he under the drug's control, very thin, and full of anxiety.
He apologizes to his mother and I. Says we were great, etc., blah, blah, blah. It's like a long, tragic goodbye. We still wonder what we could have done differently.
Sorry 'bout the downer.
If any here are not very familiar with the drug, you will be. I came up in the 60's and 70's, the acid/heroin days, and I don't think the damage they did will come close to what meth will do.