Shouting the pain through her addiction. Juul Bos (21) from Someren was heavily addicted to ketamine. “I could no longer walk from the cramps and crawled over the ground. My parents saw me break.” Her mother started a successful talk group for parents of addicts with a fellow sufferer.
The addiction started with one pill XTC. Juul was 15 years old and went to her very first festival. “Nice,” she thought. “I am curious.”
The Corona-Lockdown shortly thereafter, ensured that everyone got home. Juul used drugs with girlfriends. More often and more often, until within a year she was also on her own at home every day at the Ketamine. “I even used at school,” she says about her then training as a nurse.
“I was going to hallucinate.”
“You really live in your own world. I was going to hallucinate.” She used drugs for every possible reason. “Drugs because it’s weekend. Or on Monday because the weekend was tough. Or I had worked hard at school.”
Ketamine
Ketamine is a painkiller and anesthetic for people and animals. It is also used as a drug. It usually occurs as a transparent crystal or white powder.
“It is terrible to see your daughter like that. You are powerless,” says mother Cindy Bos (47). “This makes you very old. I didn’t dare say anything wrong, otherwise she might start using again.”
Juul has been clean for a year and a half now. She went to a rehab clinic. She also had to undergo three bladder operations due to the consequences of her drug use. She works in the administration, but wants to become an experience expert to help others. “You don’t learn this from a booklet,” she says about her earlier supervisors, without their own experience.
Her mother came into contact with the 54-year-old Sonja Vereijken via social media. Her son was addicted to gambling and the drugs 3-MMC, also called meuw or cat. Together they focused the talk group Resilience on. The two want to help other parents.
“There is still a lot of shame.”
The group has been growing fast since its foundation six months ago. Eleven parents from Someren and surrounding villages were already present at the previous monthly session. Accessible talking in a living room atmosphere is the idea. “There is still a lot of shame,” says Sonja. “That of ours does not do that, parents lie. While there are two children in the clinic.”
Juul has already had a session as an experience expert. She told her story for the club that her mother co -founded. “That was very nice to do. Parents asked for hours. Very good that my mother does this,” she says, with a smile of pride.
Resilience holds sessions monthly. You can register or request information via This e -mail address. The location of the meeting will only be reported after registration.