I Finally Knew the Truth

These last emails from M, the last ones before I took proactive action to being him back to the US and put him into rehab, finally made the situation, and its seriousness, clear to me.

This is the rest of M's story...

what happened beyond what you know from the other day, is that this
afternoon everyone was drinking and havin a merry old time and i was
miserable, as you can imagine being an alcoholic surrounded by drunk
people. i went into the bathroom, opened the medicine cabinet and
happened to notice a bottle that said "ether" on it. i took some huffs of
it, and they smelled it in the bathroom. they asked if it was me and i
lied and lied and lied and told em i didnt do it and didnt know what it
was. eventually they went in my room and smelled it and said that my room
smelled then smelle dmy breath and said it smelled. they said ive lied to
them too many times and betrayed their trust to many times and that they
will drop me off at the train station tommorrow and they never want to
hear from me again after that. i just dont want to deal with this in this
country. please PLEASE bring me home. its all i ask.
thank you


here is the letter i propose sending to d tell me what you think. it
sucks sending this to them now though cause theyre on vacation. just
email me back asap.

well this is going to be a further dissapointment, but today i yet again
did something stupid and my father and m said they dont want to deal
with me anymore. everyone was drinking and having a merry old time and
iw as miserable cause im an alcoholic who wasnt drinking and was
surrounded by people who was. i went into the bathrooom and huffed a
chemical called ether. they smelled it and accused me and i lied and lied
and lied about it, until they went in my room said they smelled it and
then smelled my breath and said they smelled it. i realize this is a very
dangerous chemical, but i really need some help. i want to come home and
go to a place called camp recovery that my mother talked to me about this
summer. i know this is dissapointing but i just know that i cant recover
properly here and the following reasons are enough to make it make sense
for me to come home: 1.) my father and m do not want to hear from me
ever again; 2.) if i do inpatient rehab here (which strikes me as
necessary) then i wont be able to get credit for this semester anyway
cause ill miss a month of school; 3.) i doubt there are any rehab programs
here that are as well suited to me as camp recovery seems to be; 4.) im
already unhappy here and with this last thing i dont see any wayfor me to
ever be happy here and if im to overcome my addiction problems i think
there has to at least be the possibility of me being happy wherever i am.
i know this is horrible news for you, but i NEED help and this country is
just not the place for me to get it. i know that anything i do here wont
be effective and if i have to do this here i have no desire to even try.
i need to be in a place im comfortable with methods of recovery
specifically measured to my problems and my personality. not some
sterile, inhospital rehab program thats hashed out by the government.
please take this seriously, and resend me my flight info (as you guessed i
lost it) so i can reschedule my flight and get to the us and get help.
thank you and i hope you can enjoy your vacation.