Damn Drugs

I'm so sick of drugs and what it does to individuals, especially those close to me. Just when we think things are getting calm all hell breaks loose yet again. In the past 8 weeks we learned my niece, the child I raised, is an heroin addict. Twice during these 8 weeks she has taken a car that DOESN'T BELONG  to her to go get heroin and once during this time my 5 year old nephew, her son, was reported missing to the police. My 5 year old nephew was taken to a crackhouse by his father and left unattended so the father could do god knows what. C was gone 36 hours and since the father didn't take him while he wanted to shoot up heroin, no harm was done . What the f***? C is 5 years old!!! 5 years old. As far as I know she hasn't been seen since SUNDAY. She asked to use her mother-in-law's phone and hasn't been seen since. Neither has the car.

The paternal grandmother is enabling J and K's behavior, so the car was not reported stolen. I'm afraid we may need to contact Children Services and have the kids removed from their care at this time. We are trying to give her the benefit of the doubt and tried having faith in her but once again heroin is winning. Since I live 100+ miles away I'm leaving that call to my brother and sister-in-law because she is their child. And those are their grandchildren. I love K so much and those babies, I just want what's best for them. Would being in foster care be less stressful than living with drug addicted parents? The chance of the kids being seperated has been the reason for our reluctance to call weeks ago and there's always the possibility that this might spiral out of my families control. Or send my niece further out of control. Perhaps the kids being there is what is keeping her from getting worse.

The kids deserve stability and sober parents.

I'm angry that drugs are more important to my niece than the children she brought into this world. I'm angry she used in the first place. I'm just angry.

With my M-I-L being so sick and her own dad finally getting over being so sick, this couldn't of happened at a worse time. But is there ever a good time?