My friend got arrested and I'm glad he did.

[kx250rider]

It's tough to be in a situation to watch that happen to a friend or relative. I've seen it happen with alcohol leading to joblessness/homelessness with friends, but not so bad as drugs + addiction + dealing = bust & jail. I think you have a great attitude about it, and I hope he does come clean, and see that there is another way when he gets this all handled. I doubt based on what you said, that this friend would ever, EVER change on his own. There are some people who just won't listen, and have to learn the hard way. My wife has a friend who is in a downward spiral from a horrible marriage, and we thought that with a little help, she could get herself on track. She was broke, and couldn't just leave the husband. We gave her a free apartment for a few months, on the condition that she would get help, and get rid of the no-good husband and his no-good family, which is what she SAID she wanted to do. She and her husband, and his two brothers; all in their 50s, were living at home with their mother, and using drugs and getting in trouble all the time, and pulling my wife's friend down along with. Sadly, she's throwing all the help in the garbage, as we found out that she has not only told the husband where she's staying (putting US in harm's way), but she is saying she's going to take him back. I had to go serve notice on her last night, which is NOT what I wanted to do on Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend.

So the moral of the story is that someone in any situation with addictions, or with close relatives with addictions, can be volatile, and often they have to crash all the way down before they'll even see how bad a spot they're in.

Charles

 

[CoBra666]

yep, once u hit rock bottom theres only one way to go ^^ i guess u could stay at rock bottom too, but thats not very moral raising

 

[RADAR]

My Ex Training Partner is heading that way, He has a GF who introduced him to Crystal Meth, well last week he called me and was ready to start back working out, now he has had a weight problem all his life ,so he was bragging how good he looked, well i can honestly say he finally lost the fat,but his eyes were sunk in and so were his cheeks and neck, actually to me he looked like a halfway walking corpse,and he told me he couldn't wait to do a cycle, the thought that passed my mind was a "HELL NO!" I'm not going to have one thing in helping him finish killing himself!I wish he would get caught because he sure will not listen to me.

 

[misguided03]

I'm a recovering heroin addict. Lart you couldn't have done anything to make him get clean that's the sad thing about addiction it takes the addict deciding they need something new and be willing to go to any lengths to get it.
The saddest part is most addicts will not ever get lasting sobriety regardless of rehab or jail. Addiction is much more then just doing a drug it becomes a entire lifestyle and prison is part of that and has just as much drugs as the street does.
To break the cycle of insanity requires changing everything including the way you think.
Most drug addicts are good people but once they are enslaved by the drugs / alcohol they become different people.
He will get out and will most likely be worst off then before prison. We call jail / prison a burger and nap break in between rounds of insanity.

 

[misguided03]

If you would like to write him you can always look him up in the corrections database. If he was just busted he will be at county jail go to their website and check around there. If he gas been sentenced look for state prison website use name to track him down.

 

[chewyxrage]

Coke is super over rated but yet such a powerful drug, in numerous ways. Your friend does need to be in jail. Hopefully it only is a year or so. That's long enough to sit there and realize all the mistakes you've made and hopefully be a changed person when he gets out.

I just saw one of my good friends from back in the day (highschool) and he told me he's going to rehab in 2 weeks. He was drunk as shit, told me that he did X for four months straight. Every single day. That shit is insane.