>>I love him enough to try and save him from himself.(if that makes any sence(sp?)

Of course that makes sense! You can let him have his way, and let him sink deeper and deeper until he self destructs, or do the things that are difficult both for you and for him that may be able to save him. Hopefully things will turn around for him and if so he will appreciate what you are doing now sometime down the road. He may even thank you for it when he looks back.

>>He's also in a drug counceling session once a week. It's a group session with other kids that are in the same kind of trouble he is.

Keep your eye on that but I don't think you should necessarily worry. A big part of drug counselling is usually things like identifying triggers and learning to stay away from people, places or situations that remind you of the "good" part of doing drugs. It is really important not to associate with the same people which often means dumping all your old friends and finding new ones. If they teach you how to stop doing drugs and then send you out to the same environment you were in before it doesn't matter how determined you are, you are in real danger of relapsing.

In programs I've been in for depression with other people with drug problems they won't allow people who leave the program to come back and visit the people they made friends with in the hospital for that reason.

I would hope that the group program that your son is in understands this and takes that into account with whatever they are doing. Group therapy can generally be very positive. I am sure they realize the possibility of trading one group of "bad apples" for another and have some sort of plan to prevent that.

I'm not saying you should necessarily just sit back and ignore this but I don't think you should worry unduly about it, as group drug counselling is common and it can work. Just keep your normal attention on it. If it is possible to talk to one of the counselors about the program and bring that up maybe they can calm your worries as well.

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