boyfriends’ mother addicted to morphine and other prescrption meds?
Sunday, March 14th, 2010My boyfriends mom has been addicted to morphine for 30 yrs and takes 40 meds a day. Her husband, mom and siblings did an intervention 15 yrs ago and they no longer speak to her. Her sons, now 28 and 30 are fed up and scared to have an intervention because they don’t want to lose contact w/ thier mom. ONe son is in Iraq for now and the other is just so fragile I think because he really doesn’t have ANY family other than his mother and at the moment. How can I gently explain to my boyfriend that he needs to get his mother help? I don’t trust her at all, i’ve known her for 4 yrs and she’s stolen, lied, cheated and every other thing u can imagine an addict does. She falls asleep randomly with food in her mouth and cigarettes in her hand. She’s a crazy and I don’t know how to deal w/ her or my own boyfriend when it comes to this situation, he’s soooo protective over her.
She’s taken major steps in hiding her alcoholism from my sister and I but the unavoidable happened.
she would be dead in five years.