Prayers up!
IF she is addicted this is beyond your ability to help her as it will take professionals to get her off the pills. This is a drug you can not stop using cold turkey once addiction has happened as it can bring on seizures doing so. My wife is a 28 year user and I'm a 19 year user both of us use for medical need under our doctors supervision.
Find out what strength they were. Most common is .25 and .5mg but can be as high as 2mg per pill. The .25 and .5 mg are oval in shape with a divider in the center. A 2 mg pill can have 2 or 4 sections. The less pills and smaller dosage she's been taking the easier to get her free of it. Xanax is similar to Valium BTW.
Prayers up and good luck.
Prayers for you.
It must be scary for you guys.
Your little girl in trouble.
Isn’t xanax about like a valium? Seems like a small deal for the cops to get worked up over... but they do love the war on drugs.
Maybe taking her to a physician and getting a prescription for it would help? A lawyer would know.
Father, touch this girl's heart with the warm and loving memory of her infant security ... bathe her in desire to return, in Jesus' name, Amen
Prayers up, PigRigger. I have teenagers, too. Unnngh.
May our Lord strengthen your family and guide your steps.
I don’t want to be nosy, but has she said WHY she is doing this? I HAVE ro take it and I hate it.
Regardless, please accept my prayers that your daughter comes to her senses and realizes that it is not a good thing to let chemicals take over yout mind. May G-d work to change her heart and her mind and give her the peace and strength she seeks without the drugs.
PigRigger, I pray that you and your family find enough strength and resolve to get you through this difficult time.
Dear Pigrigger,
Don’t despair....God is with you.
I had a xanax addiction myself, but by the grace of God I never was caught with it. I have self-esteem issues as well, but I can tell you that God has delivered me and He can do the same for your daughter.
Lean on Him and don’t let go!
I will pray.
God bless you,
Jodyel
Here’s some info you might need to know. Generally the drug stays active for roughly 6-8 hours. I’ve gone as long as 12 hours a few times forgetting to take a dose and my body reminds me real quick. If she goes 24 hours without a pill then seizure I’m just guessing isn’t likely. If at about 8-12 hours from last pill she becomes real uptight and restless then yea definately an addiction issue. If she’s with you and that happenes get her to an ER.
Prayers lifting my FRiend, for you all.
May God share His strength with all of you, and bring you through this difficult time.
Your daughter has a bona fide problem and needs professional help as well as prayers. If you don’t get her into treatment now she could face a lifetime,possibly a short one, of ongoing and worsening addiction. I don’t mean to frighten you but young adults today are more in danger of dying from a drug OD than a car wreck. Please get on the internet and look for what is known as evidence based drug treatment in your area. It doesn’t have to be expensive rehab. Frequently outpatient care is very effective but the key thing to remember in this case is that the problem doesn’t go away overnight. Your daughter may well require supportive care for months or even years. But addiction is a serious chronic illness and requires this type of approach if your loved one is to get better. Prayers and good luck.
Prayers for you, wife, daughter, and family.
Prayers sent.
Having had a child with severe mental health issues, I know how painful it can be to have a child go down a path you were not expecting. Please know that it is possible to get through this.
Prayers up—
Prayers for you and your family.
I have no children, so take my advice with a grain of salt. My guess is that your daughter’s self-esteem problems are precisely due to the crowd she’s with. Helping her recognize this through some leading questions (helping her come to the conclusion herself instead of you telling her straight out) might be an effective way. Getting her to tell you all the bad results (including this latest one) of her association with this crowd may also be effective.
Throughout this current bad experience, no matter how bad, think about the silver lining: it might be just the thing she needs to hit rock bottom and turn her life around. However, only by recognizing the situation and the opportunity (you already are dealing with the bad results of the situation, so what do you have to lose?), would you be able to utilize such a bad situation for something good.
Also during this period, you need to help protect your own attitude and your wife’s to come through this in decent shape: you are probably under tremendous stress, and the temptation is to stress out over things you can’t control, such as the outcome of the situation. It’s tough while you’re going through it to try to think only about the things you CAN do, and stop the useless stress that’s on your shoulders regarding things you CAN’T control, and leave those up to Jesus. Who knows, maybe your daughter when she sees that there is finally a situation that you and your wife can’t protect her from, she might take some responsibility for herself instead of always relying on you to clean up her messes. At the end of the day, she is becoming a young adult, and will have the power to make more and more decisions on her own, good or bad. Let’s hope this is the worst one for a long, long time.
I join you in prayer again. I read in a good book (How Faith Works by Reverend Dr. Price) that faith works better if you speak in the present as if you have already received what you are praying for. Best wishes.
Prayers on the way..
God Bless
Prayers your way. Seek out a Celebrate Recovery group for you and your wife to attend.....it can help you more than I can express here. It’s the Christian equivalent to Al-Anon and Nar-Anon.
I also meant to add that others have offered excellent advice regarding your daughter. You need help too at this point so that you can help her which is why I recommended CR. It, Al-Anon and God have helped me greatly to understand and deal with my adult son’s ongoing alcohol problems.