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So I've been friends with this guy since we were teenagers, I dated his cousin who was more like a sister to him for several years and we're all still close friends.
He's been going downhill for a while now, it started years ago with weed which was fine but over the last few years he's gotten into pills and I don't even know what else. The thing is he should know better, his family is full of drug addicts, we've seen first hand what this shit does to people and he's had to live through it, yet he's still going down that path.
Last time he came over he was fucked up on something, lethargic and just looked like a fiend, his girlfriend was with him and they kept like picking at each other, like meth heads do, kinda like monkeys grooming.
I don't know if he's shooting up pills or into something worse but I want to stop it. The problem I'm having is his personality, he's temperamental and likely to just deflect any concern about his drug use and if I push it he'll just get pissed and bail, should I try to do some sort of intervention? His cousin is the only member of his family that will be any help, the rest are junkies or alcoholics, we're all broke twenty somethings that can't afford to put him through some rehab.
Any of you have experience with this shit?
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>>18533722
Keep in touch with him, establish trust and talk about other stuff with him, but don't discuss his addiction. When the time comes that he wants to quit, he will come to you first for help. He will certainly wake the fuck up at one point when he gets a heavy crash and sees you are the only sober person around that cares about him.
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Grab him by the shoulders, look him straight in the eye, and say he needs to fucking stop. Maybe not that far but it's time to get him helped because you can gamble on him having an accident and living through it to come out a changed man, many people who OD just die
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>>18533722
I'd suggest you, and related friends, try to spend some quality time with him, take him out of danger-spots for his drug use. Make sure you disable him from any chance to do, but if he tries to do it in your presence stop him from doing so.
If you both have a trust relationship explain that you're concerned and you want him to tell you his view on the thing. Make sure you don't put it as a simple concern, but more like a serious health issue that could end his functioning life.
Once he tells you what he is using make sure you both do a minumum research on the physical and mental impact of it's use. Make him confront the fact that he's destroying himself and will soon destroy those around him and that you're there to help him stop.
t. had to personally deal a similar not-so-serious situation a couple of months ago
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