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Advice on possible drug use

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CrepuscularCat · 19/04/2023 17:35

To cut a long and painful story short, my eldest grandson is staying with us for a while after yet another falling-out with his mother. He's 19, and frankly immature for his age - he works and earns a decent wage, but seems to have no interests other than going out drinking and playing on his X-Box.

I was cleaning his bedroom today - I know, I know, he's old enough to do it himself, but that's another argument, and one part of the reason he fell out with his mum - and I came across several small clear plastic envelopes, a couple of which had small circles of blue paper in them about the size of my little fingernail, like thin blotting paper.

I'm vaguely familiar with acid tabs, being a child of the 60s, but does anybody have an idea what these things might be? I'd like to have some idea before I confront him. He already has form for drinking to the point of dribbling idiocy - at least, I thought it was the drink, now I'm worried it's something worse.

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Northernsouloldies · 19/04/2023 21:49

Could be acid tabs and they are class A. He definitely doesn't want caught with those.

WakeMeUpInspring · 19/04/2023 21:54

Acid microdots.

Northernsouloldies · 19/04/2023 22:28

I remember micro dots as being small black and hard, they looked a bit like cig lighter flints.

CrepuscularCat · 19/04/2023 22:53

Thank you so much for your replies. I wish I could say that I can't believe he could be so stupid, but he doesn't have a good track record, to be honest. I love him dearly, but he can be incredibly hard work.

So, what to do next? Without wishing to sound selfish, his granddad and I are both in our late 60s, and we rather hoped the more difficult parenting decisions were behind us. His mother can be somewhat volatile, and if I tell her she'll escalate straight to DEFCON 1, and their already fragile relationship will probably never recover.

We'll just have to bite the bullet and attempt to have a civilised conversation with him, and hope he listens for once. Unfortunately, he knows everything and we're just ignorant oldies who were never actually young, so wish us luck!

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Northernsouloldies · 19/04/2023 23:15

Definitely something you n Dh could live without. If he doesn't want your advice. It's his situation to live with but definitely no Class A in your house. Good luck. Ex user of various for 20+yrs. I know what I'm talking about.

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