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Should I clean his room at home while he is in the hospital?

My son lives with my mom. He has been into drugs for awhile, but its gotten much worse lately. Last night I went to my mom's (she's on vacation) because my son (26 years old) called saying he needed me. I stayed on the phone with him because he was in a panic. He had doubts it was really me on the phone with him and wanted me to tell him stories about when he was young.
When i got there I discovered he had severly injured his finger on the attic door when he thought someone was up there. He believed a fly had laid eggs and was living in his ear. He also believed someone was framing him, the CIA was in on it, and that they were purposely putting look alikes of people he knew around him to mess with him. He was unable to hold still, complained of pain in his head, and kept jerking his body around.
He said he'd been taking opiates like oxys, fentanyl, and that day done meth.
He wanted to go to hospital so i took him. They gave him a big tranquilizer to finally knock him out because other drugs hadn't worked. He's been there since last night and vitals are fine.
Should I clean all the paraphernalia out of his room? Isnt it slightly easier for a person to start to recover from illegal drug use if they dont come home to a bunch of drug related things in their room? Would I be overstepping?
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It would be very caring for you to clean his room. And yes, I think getting all of the drug paraphernalia out of his room is a good idea. But I think it's going to take more than that to get him off of that chemically and psychologically addictive stuff. It's going to be important to find some recovery help for him very soon. He'll soon be having withdrawal symptoms and will need some professional help to get him off of the drugs in a safe way. In combination with that, he'll need counseling to get to the pain he's covering up with the drugs. If the underlying issues aren't addressed, he'll just go back to using. Most importantly, he's going to have to want to turn his life around. If the willingness isn't there, all the doctors and therapy in the world aren't going to do any good.

Best of luck with this.
morrgin · F
@PhoenixPhail he was totally willing to go to detox and they have beds open but now all he cares about is getting blue pill
@morrgin So long as he's on the road to recovery, even if it's just the beginning of the road, it's the right road.

You said he was totally willing to go to detox.
Is he now not willing? 😳