My best friend got hooked on dope for about a year now. Actually, both of us started to take dope when we were during our junior years but fortunately, I got out from this vile habit thanks to my parents. However, my best friend is still on that stuff and it is gradually taking its toll on our friendship. I’m really afraid and guilty right now since I’m the one who urged him to try it out.
I feel that it is now my duty as his friend to help him recover from this addiction. Now, I would like to know if you guys can show me any program or treatment that can help my friend lead a clean life again. Thanks guys.
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The support and structure is good but its up to the individual.
Truthfully though, healing only takes place in a mentoring situation, one-on-one and not among a group of people rehasing and living in the past, trying to outdo each other with stories from the “Crazy Old Days”.
Drug rehab programs work only when the person concerned is sincerely committed to get rehabilated. The person really has to feel from the inside that he/she wants to quit. Under such circumstances, he/ she has a better chance. Otherwise it is useless. I have seen and expereinced such case in my own family.
First of all, I’d like to congratulate you for overcoming your own addiction. Since you came from that dark path, I guess you can also imagine what your friend is going through right now but if you really want to help your friend, you must first find it in yourself to let go of your guilt trip. Second, you must realize that it is not entirely your duty to help him for he must also be willing to help himself to completely recover from addiction. As for the treatment programs, there are a lot that you can find by just searching for it on the net. So I surmise that you won’t really have a hard time in finding an effective treatment program that is suitable for your friend’s needs.
man that is totally up to the person in them. (sorry to say)
He will only quit if he wants to. Any 12 step program is good.
Yes if you follow it.
A person can go to meetings, see counselors, or enter an inpatient rehab 50 times, and if they are not ready to quit, then they won’t.
I was addicted to Meth. When i was ready to quit, i locked my self in the house for a month. After 2 months of being drug free, i started seeing a drug counselor. I have been drug free for over 4 years now. I would not have it any other way.
Do not beat yourself up. I was urged to try it, by my then boyfriend. He may have introduced it to me, but i was the one who kept doing it. All you can do, is be supportive. Let him know thay you are still his friend, and that you will be there to help him out, to the best of your ability, when he is ready to get off of it. You cannot let yourself be taken advantage of either.
Offer to take him out, and do things together. No drugs allowed. Remind him, and show him, that there are better things in life than getting high.
When he is ready to clean himself up, be there for him.
So many people just wrote me off, and said that i would be another statistic. My sister,however, did not. She was there for me when i got sober, and all the way through it. By the time i got sober, i had a lot of things i had to fix. She was there for me the whole time. I could not have turned things around the way i did, if not for her.
I wish you and your friend the best. I congratulate you on getting sober, and i hope that your friend does the same..soon.
Yes, drug rehab programs can work. It is good to seek professional help and support for quitting dope. As you well know, it is by no means an easy process. Going on a drug rehab program improves the chance of success and reduces the chance of ever taking it up again.
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