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I think social services will take my children

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MysteryPill · 03/12/2018 16:35

At the weekend I went on a very rare night out, the children were with my DH. I had a lot to drink & was horrifically drunk I also had a steaming cold. I don't remember much but a friend offered me a nasal spray "to help with my cold" - I took it a nd the whole table laughed - it was coke. I can't believe I was so stupid I'm the most straight laced person ever when it comes to drugs. Never seen them, never even smoked.

I've felt awful all weekend and my heart has been racing. Today I went to the hospital and had to have an ECG. I obviously told them what has happened because I thought I was having a heart attack. Are social services going to be informed \ take my DDs?

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PotteringAlong · 03/12/2018 21:33

Definitely report it to the police. It completely makes the point to all authorities (who will not be removing your children at all) as well that this was completely against your will.

beeefcake · 03/12/2018 21:52

Op I think you may be over thinking this, paranoia is a side effect from cocaine.

You need to think about it objectively:

How would the hospital know you have children unless you told them in which case

You had no children in your care

The hospital are aware it was an accident given they have advised you it can be in liquid form

So would they really have good reason to involve social services? Even on the tiny possibility that they did, what reason would SS have to think thank you are an unfit mother and your children would be best places somewhere else?

Try not to be so hard on yourself, it happened. You should be able to trust your friends when they offer you medication. You are not at fault.

Does your husband know? Do you think you might feel better if you told him?

CallMeOnMyCell · 03/12/2018 21:58

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flapjackfairy · 03/12/2018 22:01

Oh bless you. You are blaming yourself and beating yourself up over something that was not your fault at all. You are not stupid or naive.
Your so called friends are appalling . So sorry you are having such a tough time as a result. Take care and please tell your dear husband for support, x

Santasushi · 03/12/2018 22:02

This was a friend??

JustHereForThePooStories · 03/12/2018 22:03

Coke issue aside, do people really share nasal sprays?!

anniehm · 03/12/2018 22:12

Social services even if they are informed are very unlikely to even contact you, it takes a lot of repeat offences and for your kids to be danger for them to be removed - they weren't with you nor were put in danger

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Schuyler · 03/12/2018 22:15

Please calm down. I doubt they’d even make a referral. You were drugged, you didn’t do anything. Take it easy.

StealthPolarBear · 03/12/2018 22:16

What the hell is wron with your friend

Shriek · 03/12/2018 22:21

OP. You are now reassured right? You have everyone on here saying your fears will not happen. It doesn't seem to be helping you, nothing more we can do.

Report them and chalk it up to experience, no children have been harmed, clearly.

Ss, well, you can tell them till you're blue in the face that some parents are very wrong, take drugs, abuse their dc, but they don't take the DC away. Don't know what more anyone here can say.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 03/12/2018 22:23

Fuck your so called friends off for a start. They certainly can't think much of you or your children. Heaven forbid what if something had happened to you and your children had been left without a mother.
I don't want to make promises but I really can't see the already understaffed and over worked ss taking children away because their parents "took" drugs once on a night out. Plus you were honest with the hospital so its not even like you tried to hide anything. And you didn't deliberatly take it anyway. Surely that should be classed as a type of assault forcing illegal substances into someone's body.

hiddeneverythin · 03/12/2018 22:28

Definitely not

AjasLipstick · 03/12/2018 22:34

How would cocaine masquerade as a nasal spray!? How would you think snorting white powder was a "nasal spray"??

VeganCanBeFabulous · 03/12/2018 22:42

Cocaine can come in the form of a nasal spray. It is used in ENT surgery quite regularly as a pain killer and as a vasoconstrictor to prevent bleeding.

LearningToDrive · 03/12/2018 22:44

@AjasLipstick you can dissolve coke in a water based liquid and use it in a nasal spray. Jeez, google it before being so judgemental.

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 03/12/2018 22:49

SS do not take children away purely for a one time cocaine use - intentional or unintentional.

There would need to be a much deeper, ongoing, level of concern for your children's wellbeing first.

Please try not to panic.

ThatOneHurt · 03/12/2018 23:01

Why would anyone waste an expensive drug by dissolving it into water?!

That just wouldn't happen.

MrsTommyBanks · 03/12/2018 23:07

You are not going to have your children removed.
Put this behind you, and stop counting these people as friends.

HauntedPencil · 03/12/2018 23:13

I'm no Tony Montano but i believe a lot of your questions on the methodology of cocaine use can be cleared up with a quick google.

AjasLipstick · 03/12/2018 23:20

Learning Judgemental?? You're the judgemental one with your little face.

I asked a question.

Shriek · 03/12/2018 23:46

Actually, read what you wrote again Ajas obviously judgemental, much.

Drogosnextwife · 03/12/2018 23:56

SS prob won't even be informed and your kids definitely won't be taken away.

incallthebloodytime · 04/12/2018 00:21

Yeah the paranoia is awful OP

I was not spiked but forcefully co-erced into taking on one occasion by someone... I spent half the night panicking on the phone to the Samaritans that I'd lose everything as a result and was a terrible person

It lasts a few days. Let it pass... and don't trust these friends again. Kids will be fine. They were safe, they are safe...

nocoolnamesleft · 04/12/2018 02:15

They are no friends. But I guess, in fairness, one should concede that cocaine has a long history of use for ENT problems, although these days that is obviously rare and highly regulated, and they were being irresponsible fuckwits.

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