Losing my best friend

[December]

So one of my very close friends has been doing drugs and smoking for awhile, but it never really bothered me because he was still the same person and everything and has always been there for me. However, he has addictive tendencies and started doing heroin and despite trying to quit both on his own and with counseling he can't stop. He's not himself anymore, he hardly talks except to say how much he hates himself and wants to stop using by can't. I feel like I'm watching him die because he honestly just seems to be wasting away, and it terrifies me because I care about him a lot, but I just don't know what to do.

[HOLEinyoursoul]

Maybe you should tell someone? Like, idk, if all else fails you might wanna bring a higher authority. I really hope it doesn't come to that. Tell his parents? My friend went to rehab for cocaine and came back ok :) i hope everything turns out ok

[December]

Thanks so do I. His mom already knows because she caught him and he also got arrested because of it. I'm really hoping they'll get him some help, because he's just not himself and I just want him to be okay again. Im glad that your friend is okay now too

[Dimitri]

Pending his age, 18- he will have to go through counciling programs and AA meetings, this also pends on where you are from I know it is mandatroy here in Ohio.

[Ace007]

this is a very sad to hear, your best friend is on drugs.......he needs help..... from a counciling programs......or good family around him.....

[staying_alive]

Pending his age, 18- he will have to go through counciling programs and AA meetings, this also pends on where you are from I know it is mandatroy here in Ohio.

AA? Is that a term for all drug rehab programs or just alcohol? Heroin addiction is a tad more serious than alcohol addiction (though by no means is alcohol addiction a joke).

To the OP - Dimitri is likely correct in that your friend will either be mandated to go through rehab, whether by his parents or the government, and he likely won't have a say in it if he's under 18.

I feel terribly for your friend as he realizes that he fucked up and wants to change that, yet the physical addiction is too overpowering. These are the stories that anyone beginning to use a very dangerous substance (during the "Wonder Days") should hear. Good luck to you and to him, I hope everything works out.

[December]

Thank you :)

He does have to attend NA meetings, which is like AA but for narcotics abuse. I'm not sure what else is going to happen or what else they'll put him in, but he is seeming a little bit better now, if only in that pieces of his old self are coming back through every now and then

[Fluffy]

I recently lost a Best friend of mine too I used to go up to my dad and his girl friends house every other weekend (till his GF kicked him out) But before she kicked him out id go to their neighbors house where i met two kids who became my best friends one of them was kinda of grouchy and the other was a str8t A student when my dad got kicked out of his house i didnt see them for like 1 or 2 and last saturday i went out to eat with my dad and he told my that my friend who had Str8t A's got kicked out of his house and is doing ectasy so i had my dad drive me up to LA and had my friend go counsling too so so far hes bein clean for bout a week

[Pancakes]

I would ask someone too talk to him and if all else fails I would go too an higher placed person to do something