I found my son who is 32 living with me passed out on the toilet with empty syringes under him. He denies he is doing anything but have found syringes before. He is very convincing with his lies. I told him to get help or move out. He is moving. I am scared for him and now my safety....I just don't know what to do...help
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I understand. You wanna know he's safe and don't want to feel you're enabling him but also don't want to feel like you abandoned him. If it helps any at all, I think you did the right thing. My own father was a heroin addict. It doesn't change or get better, ever. All that happens is they get better at hiding it. He will have to come to an end of himself before he owns up to the fact he's an addict and needs help. My own father never stopped until he abandoned our whole family, a second family he started, and then was arrested for bank robbery. Eventually he did stop and get clean, got counseling, church accountability and help setting up a new life in Jesus. He later reconciled with his grown kids and died of cancer. Before he died he told me heroin and families don't mix. He also told me it was an escape. He'd tell himself he was there with his son, but he was high so he wasn't really there but was escaping.
Do you have a church or religious community, maybe a counselor you could get solid advice from or Al Anon group?