I know someone addicted to pain meds and smokes pot & does other stuff to keep his pain addiction level when he cant get pills. He has addmitted to a psychiatrist and a Judge as being homicidal. He is due in court soon for vandalizing a car in walmart parking lot because of his anger isssues. He has also held my sister and I hostage for an hour as he freaked out and admitting to being homicidal again. He has injured himself to go to the hospital to get pain meds but I guess he is red flagged and cannot get anything from them but tylenol. He may be going to jail for the vandalism and my sister is worried her son is going to try and kill himself or someone else to steal stuff to sell to pay the fine to keep from going to jail. What can we do? We don’t know who to talk to about this and we are frightened for either situation. He has 3 young children as well that are in harms way. A drug buddy comes over and gives himstuff to keep him going and there are 3 young girls there. What or who can we talk to??
I am not qualified in psychiatry, law, or anything else. However, I think the obviouis answer is “Call the Police”. If there’s drugs in the house, he’ll get arrested. Getting him away from the little girls is the most important thing. Meanwhile, keep your distance.
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Welcome to the SDMB, amber66.
The General Questions forum is for questions with factual answers. Since this is more of an advice and opinion question, it belongs in our IMHO forum. I will move this for you.
Moving thread from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion.
Stop throwing bricks of text at us?
Also, we’re not the police. If this is real, report it to them & it will get handled.
If its not, report it to them & it will get handled.
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Get everyone you care about as far away from that maniac as possible, as soon as possible. He’s a problem looking for a place to happen.
He falls into " may cause harm to himself or others" and there are minor children involved. I don’t know what state you are in, but in many states “harm to himself or others” is grounds for involuntary committal. When minor children are involved you should be able to get them removed from his custody.
Some places to start: call a mental health crisis line and explain the situation. They should be able to give you local information on resources in your area. Discuss your options, and be sure to ask about things like restraining orders.
Call the police: do this if you are genuinely concerned for the safety of yourself, your sister, and the children. Make sure you emphasize that minor children are involved and the time factors involved.
If, at any time, you feel that you are in immediate danger, get away! Don’t screw around, get out. Then call 911.
Good luck. Be safe.
If he’s addicted to reefers I’m afraid he is beyond hope.
Yep, once they start in with injecting the marijuanas it’s pretty much hopeless.
Ring child services if he is really that erratic. The police might make things worse, they aren’t good with handling those with emotional difficulties, especially if Black.
If he has drugs in the house with children then this seems pretty simple: Call the cops and have his ass taken away.
You claim he admitted to a judge and a doctor that he is homicidal. He must have been arrested to go before a judge. Why did the judge release him? Seems there is more to this story that you are not telling us.
This. Never mind why he’s doing the things he does. Never mind his problems. Go. Change your phone number, make your official address a PO Box at a Mail Boxes Etc (do those still exist?). Just disappear as much as possible.
That marijahooney rots your brain. Gets to the point where you can’t tell what’s real and what is just some bullshit story.
I already did!
Definitely call CPS. Law enforcement may not be able to do much without probable cause of a specific crime. CPS may be able to act on an assessment of the overall situation to at least protect the kids.