distance has been my best bet so far...i felt guilty at first and my older brother who was very deep into drugs also blamed me and said i abandoned them, at the time i literally had no one, no family, no friends,except for one.. i was so alone, and i felt trapped, when i moved away i wrote my mom a letter and my best friends parents gave it to her a few days after i left, i did not tell her to her face i was leaving her, i did not want to have to see her cry and beg (her usual drug and drinking habit)
the worse thing was, she turned to our neighbours for help, but she planted her drugs and booze and pipes bongs etc in MY bedroom and told them it was me, and they freaking believed her, im like "look at her, she doesnt even see straight, look at me" and they said "you need god dear, he will help you through your sickness" it fumed me so badly that was another part of why i dont speak to her...she allowed random men into her home at all hours, WHILE her 18 year old daughter was asleep! a few times someone even knocked on my bedroom door asking if i had a light, it was a disgusting mess, my brother informed me when i went to visit him last summer that after i moved away, a gang came in and beat her because she took their money and they destroyed her home, killed her dog.... and i only could think to myself "what if i had been there, i could have been hurt or worse"