<p>You may want to see what the procedure is to get your son a leave of absence. His grades may place him on probation and that could be a factor. </p>
<p>I would encourage you not to take the bait about “bad parenting.” My parents are depression age and one had a storybook hard childhood. Like tons of other people around the world who’ve actually had rough lives, they have never used/ abused drugs and became successful, hardworking adults. </p>
<p>I agree with many of the other posts that, right now, I would be trying to get my kid into rehab, inpatient if you have the funds. And I agree that unstructured, unsupervised time is the enemy. </p>
<p>I don’t think this is a ■■■■■. I figured it’s probably a regular who posted under a new name for privacy’s sake. But the one thing I always think about this kind of thing is that it may be helpful to someone in the future. Cc threads come up pretty frequently when I do internet searches and I do think there’s a lot of combined wisdom here.</p>