I have the feeling that my niece is doing drugs?

Question

She is 16 years of age, for the past 2 days she has been sleeping all day, has a hard time getting up and with a headache, she says that she has sensitivity to the light in her eyes. she also doesn't want to eat and feels discussed by the thought of eating, she says that she is not anorexic, maybe she has a sickness, but i have a feeling that she is doing drugs, this happened to her 2 months ago and its back again. is there a type of drugs that she could be consuming that makes her feel this way?

Answer 1

meth could put you under for a couple days once you stop a several day run.

Answer 2

alcohol.pain pills.pcp.lsd.the list goes on and on. maybe take her to a doctor.if shes on drugs then it will be in her system. get a urine sample done.thats what my parents did to me.

Answer 3

The drug that makes you sleep all day is alcohol that would also explain the headaches and not liking the light in her eyes as well as not wanting to eat.

Take more note of who goes out with and where she goes.

Also teenagers do like to sleep at that age.  

Answer 4

yes the name of that type of drug is amphetamine or street names (crystal meth, meth, ice) it makes you stay up, not eat food at all, loose lots of weight, most people try drugs around the age of 15-17 for their first time.  they cannot sleep while they are still high on this drug but the high is over, they will sleep anywhere from 8-14 hours

Answer 5

Could be the come down or withdrawal symptoms from a powerful drugs, or it could just be migraine headaches which can have all the symptoms you just described.

Answer 6

DONT TELL HER PARENTS shell hate u

Answer 7

Definitely take her to the dr. right away. I told my son I was taking him to a dr. and he threw a fit and said he wasn't going. If she resists then definitely suspect something. Take her anyway, take the dr. aside and tell him you want a urine test done to detect any drugs. My son was using meth, it was a long hard struggle but we got him off of it. It's important that you find out right away. Don't second guess yourself.... find out right away. If she's not, don't beat yourself up over it, you love her enough to check her....  

Answer 8

Sounds like Methamphetamine. Watch for sudden weight loss, and rings/bags under her eyes. Also look for an appearance that reminds you of dryed fruit ( the kids call it "looking sucked up"), not bathing/washing hair, sweating when it's cold, hands shaking, skin picking ( nervous habit of picking at the skin until it bleeds, usually on the face) and obssion with taking things apart/doing things to excess(is she just cleaning her room [normal behavior], or is she scrubbing the walls with soap and water, and cleaning the corners with a pair of tweazers?). Also, things to watch for when comming down off the drug are; deep depressions, sudden out bursts of anger, or sudden mood changes.

Does she go from normal to strange and back to normal, in less than 24 hours?

Does it happen on a regular basis? (Every Friday? After she gets money? Once a month on the same date? This may coincide with someone else getting paid at the same time every month)

Good luck with this, I hope and I pray that it is just teen angst, and not anything more serious.

Answer 9

Are you guys serious? That's a hangover if I ever did hear of one. You might want to stay up tonight and see what she's up to.

Answer 10

ok i am a drug user and it's probably coke or to much weed

here why

coke you get real hyper but then you crash down

weed you smoke too much the night before i like to call it a weed over , usually light sucks a little with both and you usually wake up with a real had headace...or she is...hmmmm growing..look shes a teenager our sleeping patterns and bodys are ****** up right now

Answer 11

It sounds like some type of pill to me.. Prescription pain pills are popular. And the headache could be her body withdrawing from it (yes, even if you only take it ONE time and its strong, you can experience w/d)

Are any of her friends into this type of thing?

Answer 12

What makes you think she's doing drugs?  Just some random feeling??  Because I have migraines to where I don't want to eat, my eyes are sensitive to the light, & I lay in bed all day.  Besides, she's 16... that's what 16 year olds do.  They could sleep for days on end w/ o ever getting out to bed but to pee.