Addicted with a stubborn mentality.

[Instantly]

My friend is addicted to a drug. The problem is he refuses to open up and share anything about his problem. I don't even know what kind of drug he's addicted to. Whenever the topic is opened he says one thing:

I know what I am doing is wrong, I hate it and I want to stop. No one can help me, I know what I should do and I know the whole process I should follow. The problem is in myself, I should force my self to quite but I am unable to do that now. I don't want anyone's help. No one can help me, I know everything there is to know about this life. I know more than anyone that will ever try to help me, specially you (because I never done drugs).

He has one idea in his head now, he wants to run away. He wants to travel away from his state and start a fresh life where, in his mind, he will not meet any close friends. He will stay alone until he cleans himself.

How can I help a person with such a mentality? I can see him suffering and being extremely sad solely because of this. He wants to leave his family and friends and block everything only because he wants to run away from this. I have no idea what's the best approach to take in this situation. Any guidance will be much appreciated.

[Sordid Saint]

He doesn't feel like he will be able to stop, so like he said its gonna be really really hard for him until he is in the mentality to be able to stop. There's not much you can do really until he wants to help himself. I feel a lot like him

[Instantly]

Honestly, I don't know what the drug he's using is, but out of signs he dropped for me, I am assuming it is something he smokes (not injects to his body).

I have one major problem regarding his mindset to run away: He has an internship abroad about two years ago. He traveled to another country and lived for 2 months alone there. Since it was only for a short amount of time he didn't create close friendships and didn't find anyone to give him his drug.

He has this idea stuck in his head that 'he did it once and it worked'. I try to explain that 2 months aren't enough, that had he stayed more he would have met many people and he would have found people to give him his drug which means he's not technically running. I try to explain that the real solution is to help himself wherever he was.

The first thing I am trying to do now is to get him to feel that it's ok to tell me exactly what he is taking so I can know how serious the situation is.

[VictoriaGotaSecret]

Honestly, I don't know what the drug he's using is, but out of signs he dropped for me, I am assuming it is something he smokes (not injects to his body).

I have one major problem regarding his mindset to run away: He has an internship abroad about two years ago. He traveled to another country and lived for 2 months alone there. Since it was only for a short amount of time he didn't create close friendships and didn't find anyone to give him his drug.

He has this idea stuck in his head that 'he did it once and it worked'. I try to explain that 2 months aren't enough, that had he stayed more he would have met many people and he would have found people to give him his drug which means he's not technically running. I try to explain that the real solution is to help himself wherever he was.

The first thing I am trying to do now is to get him to feel that it's ok to tell me exactly what he is taking so I can know how serious the situation is.

Any drug can be smoked. Weed can be eaten, drank(in tea), or smoked. Heroin can be sniffed, injected, or smoked(off of burning tin foil through a straw in the persons mouth). Coke is the same, meth is injected(most of the time). He could also be doing pills. So really if are curious to know what he's using you'd have to ask because the list is almost never ending, also look at his mouth for more than normal yellowed teeth or at his body for puncture wounds from needles, anything that you thing is irregular about his use of his nose. I'm sure for how to see signs of pills.