Hello, I'm new here, I really hope this is the correct place to post, if not I'd be grateful for some directions to the correct place!
I'll try to keep this as short as possible. My husband was a heroin addict for several years - he started taking drugs as a teen after a member of his family was killed and he struggled to cope. He got clean a few times and had relapses, but has now been clean for four years - including around two or three on methadone. He's now off the methadone but still regularly goes to counselling and narcotics anonymous.
I'm sure many of you will recoil in horror at the mere mention of heroin, had I not met my husband there's a good chance I'd have been the same, but my husband is a good, loving person, and he's tried so hard to put his past behind him.
Getting to the point, I'm pregnant with our first baby, and we're both thrilled. Yesterday however, I bumped into someone who knew about my husband's past and she basically told me that I should expect my baby to be taken into care and that social services will be 'all over me like a rash'. For me, the heroin issue was put to bed a long time ago, and I was so thrilled at becoming a mum, I had not even considered this. Is there any truth in what she says? My husband is not the sort of person to harm his own child, but I have not been able to get her comments out of my mind and am worried sick now.
It might be worth mentioning that I myself have never taken drugs of any kind (I've never even smoked a cigarette).
Any advice would be much appreciated or even a nudge in the right direction? I'm struggling to find any information online.
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anon321 · 08/11/2009 09:21
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