My brother is 31 years old, the middle child of 7 children. For the last year 12 years has been addicted to heroin and crack.
He has been in prison, stolen from family, lived on the streets, had overdoses where he's almost died, been physically violent towards our dad, missed the first 6 years of his children's lives, almost lost his leg......the list goes on.
He abd the whole family have been to hell and back. Parents have paid for residential rehab 3 times, which all failed.
He and his ex partner had twin girls 6 years ago who weee born addicted to heroin. They were placed in my parents care. Their mum got clean and won her children back with my parents support. The twins and their mum now live next door to them. My brother has put drugs first for 6 years and missed out on their lives.
However, the last six months he's been off the drugs and on a methadone programme. He has tested negative of all drugs at weekly appointments for all that time. Mum abd dad have sorted him with a flat and a small car and he has a job delivering pizzas. He's managing so far to pay his bills. This is the best he has ever been.
And to top it off he is now building a relationship with his beautiful twin girls.
Am I wrong to be incredibly proud of how far he has come?