My cousin is an addict -- Xanax and weed and God knows what else. He's from the north Atlanta suburbs which gave Plano in it's heroin epidemic days a run for its money or maybe even exceeded it back about ten years ago. He lost a half dozen friends before he was 20, and he spent most of HS as a baseball star, not a burnout in the druggy crowd.
He's been in and out of sobriety ever since and he me a chick in rehab, they clicked, and, marvel of marvels, it worked. They'd been together a few years and both of them stayed clean through all that time. Like me he's kind of a space cadet, and she managed his life, and he is about to get out of juco and move on to real college, and then, she up and died the other day. Not drugs -- fucking congenital heart defect.
Other than encouraging him to get to as many meetings as he can bear to attend, is there anything to be done to help my cousin? He's gone up from Atlanta to Long Island to grieve with her family.....I would suggest in six months to a year some kind of Outward Bound type vacation maybe. Fucking life, man.